Turner College and TSYS School Students Recognized at 2026 Scholastic Honors Convocation

Several Turner College and TSYS School students had impressive showings at last week's 2026 Scholastic Honors Convocation on CSU's main campus.

Taking home awards from the Turner College were:

Accounting Award - Pruthviraj Guduru

Finance Award - Joseph Holder

Management Award - Rebecca Darko

Marketing Award - Teigan Pepit

Management Information Systems Award - Keir Etchison

MBA Award - Robert Jimerson

MSOL Award - Rachel Jenkins

Student of Excellence Award - Drew Ashton

Picking up awards from the TSYS School were:

Software Systems Award - Nicholas Cleplensky

Web Development Award - Camille Ahumada

Games Programming Award - Conner Mathisen-Weitzel

Information Technology Award - Jennifer Jackson

Cybersecurity Award - Judson Whiteside

Graduate Cybersecurity Defense Award - Yogesh Botcha

Graduate Applied Computer Science Award - Dheeraj Kolla

Graduate Cybersecurity Management Award - Rahul Raj

Student of Excellence Award - Elijah Starkey

Turner Business congratulates these hardworking students on their impressive academic achievements.

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