As a young boy growing up in Plymouth, England, Chris Soothill imagined joining the army or navy someday. Those dreams were dashed after he was diagnosed with a visual impairment. But life had other plans.
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The path to success doesn’t always follow a straight line. Sometimes you have to take a detour or stop at a crossroads. At least that’s been Kati Maas’ experience.
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Rhonda Carson expected to spend the bulk of her career at a local bank. The Forsyth Tech alumna, who earned an AAS degree with high honors in Information Systems in 1998, was convinced that the bank – where she had already begun working the year before – offered a range of opportunities she could build her career on.
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Stepping Up To The Future

The crowd can barely suppress their excitement as Forsyth Tech’s class of 2015 enters Winston-Salem’s LJVM Coliseum on May 7, 2015. Five hundred graduates in royal blue gowns and mortarboards make their way, single file, to reserved seating on the Coliseum floor. They’re bursting with anticipation, but also with pride, joy, satisfaction and even a touch of trepidation. But like the spectators, they’re mostly excited. Noise evaporates into stillness among the grads, family and friends, faculty, staff, administrators and VIPs in the room when commencement starts. Later, guest speaker Governor Pat McCrory comments on the buoyant mood lifting everyone’s spirits: “I have never seen so many smiles at one time. Your parents, your brothers and sisters, your sons and daughters, and your neighbors are so proud of you,” he tells the graduates, beaming himself. Then he repeats what his father told him when the future governor graduated from Jamestown’s Ragsdale High School in 1974: “Now, I want you to fulfill your potential.”
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All in the Family

When Tim Lasley was in high school, he worked part time at Wilson’s Garage in Pfafftown and became a volunteer firefighter at Pfafftown’s Vienna Fire Department. Little did he know that both workplaces would lead him to Forsyth Tech and that all three places would occupy a central role in his life.
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A New Crop

A hay dummy wrapped in white plastic – proxy for a farm worker – gets shredded in an instant by a spinning power takeoff shaft transferring power from a tractor to another piece of equipment. A few minutes later, the ground rumbles when a tractor is tipped over, crushing a hay dummy sitting behind the steering wheel.
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All roads lead to work at Forsyth Tech. Partnerships with local employers and community organizations are key tools the college uses to provide students with the most productive educational experience possible that will usher them into the workforce.
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In April of this year, Herb Burns, Forsyth Tech’s chair of Design Technologies and program coordinator for Digital Effects & Animation, visited Washington, D.C., at the request of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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What do women want? Well, if they’re Forsyth Tech students, a lot – beginning with empowerment opportunities, help locating childcare, and counseling when the going gets rough. The Shugart Women’s Center at Forsyth Tech is a place where they can find advocacy, referrals to local agencies and information to help them reach their goals.
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Providing our students with the best possible education has always been the primary objective at Forsyth Tech. So when the college received a $2.5 million Title III grant in 2014 from the U.S. Department of Education, it immediately launched a program to improve academic success for students.
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