Paducah's Challenger Learning Center Recognizes 2017 Challenger Champion May 18

MEDIA ADVISORY - NOT FOR PUBLICATION: Paducah, KY (05/10/2017) — Paducah, Kentucky (May 10, 2017) - Paducah's Taylor Young has been named the 2017 Challenger Champion and will be recognized for this honor next week at the Challenger Learning Center on the campus of West Kentucky Community and Technical College.

Taylor, who recently graduated for The Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science on the campus of Western Kentucky University, will be honored during a special, invitation only celebration May 18 at 4 p.m.

The Challenger Champions was created three years ago to honor outstanding individuals who have attended the program during their childhood and then gone on to support the center as they got older.

The media is encouraged to attend the celebration.

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West Kentucky Community and Technical College (WKCTC) has been recognized as an Aspen Prize Top 10 Community College each of the four times the Prize has been awarded by the Aspen Institute and has twice been named a Finalist with Distinction for providing students with strong job training and continuing higher education opportunity, for achieving high completion and transfer rates, and for providing strong employment results for its graduates.