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Each award included a certificate and monetary gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awards winners were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Charles Bailey<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Meghan Smitherman<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>James Copper<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Samuel Bender<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>William Dingler<\/strong><br>Outstanding Junior in Aerospace Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>William Turner<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Joseph Brown<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Lance Knipper<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>John Klepzig<\/strong><br>Outstanding Junior in Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Williams Werner<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Christian White<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Benjamin Jones<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Benjamin Sparkman<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Jon Wetzel<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Ronald Wade<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Abrian Abir<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Elijah Callender<\/strong><br>Outstanding Junior in Mechanical Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trenton Henderson<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Samuel Pankratz<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Jacob Hale<\/strong><br>Outstanding Senior in Aerospace Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Luke Stanley<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Mykenna Horchak<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Veronica Jeon<\/strong><br>Outstanding Senior in Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alexandra Defilippis<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Eilish Stanek<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Konnor Porter<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Matthew Sharp<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Danfen Chen<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Connor Shelander<\/strong><br>Outstanding Senior in Mechanical Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Noah Robison<br><\/strong>Outstanding Senior in MABE, Mark Godbold Scholarship Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Walker McCord<\/strong><br>Aerospace Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Colin Basham<\/strong><br>Biomedical Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ryan Spencer<\/strong><br>Mechanical Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Award<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jake Childs<\/strong><br>Department Service and Academic Excellence Award<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 5, MABE honored its outstanding juniors, seniors, and graduate students during a virtual awards celebration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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