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Quincie Loy
Lillia Diez
Anika Carr
GRAHAM — Three high-achieving students are Alamance Community College’s recipients of 2024 state excellence awards sponsored by the N.C. Community College System.
Academic Excellence AwardQuincie Loy of Mebane is a senior at Eastern Alamance High school with a 4.0 grade-point average. While earning her high school diploma later this spring, she will also be awarded an associate’s degree through the free Career and College Promise program.
Loy is a recipient of ACC’s Academic Excellence in Sociology Award and English Department Award. She is a member of the National Honor Society and the National Scholars Honor Society. At Eastern Alamance, she serves as captain of the golf team and swim team. At the college, she is president of Sigma Psi, ACC’s social and behavioral science club. Loy has already received her acceptance to Wake Forest University, where she aspires to attend law school.
Dallas Herring Achievement AwardLillia Diez of Greensboro enrolled at ACC while homeless but persevered to earn her GED. Despite extreme personal struggles, she excelled in the college’s Automotive Systems Technology program. Even before completing her studies, Diez was hired by Cox Dodge in Burlington, becoming the company’s first female automotive technician.
Diez is currently working toward her associate’s degree, including the Automotive Service Excellence certification and master technician status. She is simultaneously working on a degree in fire protection as a second career option.
Governor Robert W. Scott Student Leadership AwardAnika Carr of Mebane earned an associate’s degree with high honors in the spring of 2023. She is currently continuing her education at ACC while applying for transfer to a university nursing program.
Carr has been recognized by ACC as the recipient of the Academic Excellence in English and Academic Excellence in Chemistry awards. As an officer of the Martial Arts Society, Carr organized and taught a women’s self-defense class in collaboration with ACC’s Women in Industrial Science, Design, Engineering and Manufacturing club.
Carr is also a community volunteer for the N.C. Collegiate Hunger Challenge. Her commitment to that organization has led her to organize the Feeding Hungry Minds AmeriCorps VISTA initiative, the ACC food pantry and EZ Meals and Fresh Produce Bags projects for students in need.
The N.C. Association of Community College Presidents created the Governor Robert W. Scott Student Leadership Award in 2004 as a way to recognize student leadership on a statewide level.
