Sunday, April 21, 2013

Seniors Star in Robins Awards

By Jordan Groff

 

The Robins Awards Ceremony was held Saturday night in the Tagart Student Center at Utah State University. The awards featured seniors from the many programs offered at Utah State and started at 7:30 p.m.

The award ceremony presented awards such as researcher, scholar, athlete and man and woman of the year. These awards were given to teachers, advisers, athletes and students at the university.

"This was a great way to congratulate people for their accomplishments," said Hannah Blackburn, the host of the award ceremony and senior at USU. "Seniors won many of the prestigious awards tonight. Including Man of the Year and The Bill E. Robbins Award."

Seniors like Christian Orr were thrilled to be nominated at this event.

"It is deeply touching just to be nominated for The Bill E. Robbins Award," Orr said. "He is a personal inspiration for me and we have many similarities. It is great just to follow in his footsteps."

Orr helped raise over 3,000 dollars for his community and also lead his team to a first place victory in a cooking competition for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

"I have done what I can to help others," Orr said. "Win or lose the award, I am happy to have helped others and come so far."

Steven Gould, double major of finance and economics and winner of the Man of the Year award will be graduating in a couple of weeks.

"It's an honor and extremely humbling," Gould said. "There are so many great people here at Utah State and to be honored among them is incredible."

Orr and Gould hope to continue to progress as they graduate and move on to work or continue their education.

"I hope I can be what the University wants and what they represent," Gould said. "I am blessed to have job opportunities and hope to give back to USU throughout my life."

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