NHTI Concord Honors 50+ Students for Academic Excellence

NHTI–Concord's Community College recognized more than 50 students across academic disciplines and campus roles at its annual awards ceremony on April 30.

Janice Chase received the Christa McAuliffe Excellence in Education Award. Karen Chingwangwe won both the Resident Assistant of the Year Award and the President's Award. Cooper Navarro and Aiden Boule each earned two honors.

Engineering students recognized included Kiley Veator for first-year architectural engineering, Andrew Spaulding for second-year architectural engineering technology, and Baxter Curry for senior mechanical engineering. John Hancock and Jim Long won mathematics awards. Information technology students Langston Bellington and Christopher Brown received freshman and senior awards.

Liberal arts honorees included Quinn Edwards for creative nonfiction writing, Mark Avery for research writing, Lavender Rose Nann-Laliotis for fiction, and Joy Foreman for poetry. Quinn Bellemare earned the English Department's Most Outstanding Writer of 2026 Award.

Early childhood education students Laura Woods, Angela Proodian, Mackenzie Nadeau, and Katherine McKelvey received awards for academic excellence and education leadership. Visual arts students Katherine Lemay, Cameron Anderson, Catrin Dylingowski, and Jesse Morrison won exceptional performance awards.

Emma Bernard, Aiden Boule, and Adrienne Dorr received athletics honors.