{"id":524563,"date":"2016-08-15T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T23:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=524563"},"modified":"2016-08-16T17:51:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T22:51:55","slug":"kc-presents-eastman-with-inaugural-blue-ribbon-medal-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=524563","title":{"rendered":"KC Presents Eastman with Inaugural Blue Ribbon Medal of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Kilgore_College-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Kilgore_College-1-200x158.jpg\" alt=\"Kilgore_College\" width=\"200\" height=\"158\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-524564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Kilgore_College-1-200x158.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/08\/Kilgore_College-1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>KILGORE &#8212; Kilgore College celebrated what&#8217;s termed a long and distinguished relationship with Eastman Chemical Co. by presenting the company the inaugural Blue Ribbon Medal for Student Success Aug. 11 at summer graduation. According to a news release, Eastman was chosen for the award because of its 10-year partnership with KC in the development and continued advancement of the Process Technology and Industrial Maintenance Technology programs at KC.  Additionally, Eastman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partnership and generosity has enabled the creation of KC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newest workforce development program in robotics, Instrumentation and Electrical Technology, which will begin this semester, according to the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; Kilgore College celebrated what&#8217;s termed a long and distinguished relationship with Eastman Chemical Co. by presenting the company the inaugural Blue Ribbon Medal for Student Success Aug. 11 at summer graduation. According to a news release, Eastman was chosen for the award because of its 10-year partnership with KC in the development and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=524563\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KC Presents Eastman with Inaugural Blue Ribbon Medal of Excellence<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":524564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 07:08:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524565,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524563\/revisions\/524565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/524564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}