Apollo Award

The Apollo Award, given each year since 1966, is presented by the St. Petersburg College Alumni Association to the outstanding associate degree graduate. Winners are chosen for their leadership, scholastic standing, community service, honors and awards.

	2019 Apollo Award Recipient: Lorena Hmelas Hmelas will receive an AA degree in Business Administration and Management and currently has a 4.0 GPA. She has served roles in the Student Government Association as Vice President, Historian, Public Relations and Senator. She served as a member of the International Student Club, Latinos United, Phi Theta Kappa, Women on the Way and was a Student Assistant in the Associate Provost’s office on the St. Pete/Gibbs Campus. Her accomplishments include the 2017 & 2018 Servant Leadership Award, 2017 Certificate of Completion of the Management and Supervision of Campus-Wide Student Government Association Skills, and a 2017 Letter of Recommendation from Then-SPC President Dr. Bill Law for her achievements in managing a budget that exceeded $239,000 and devotion to the Student Government Association. Hmelas served her community as a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, and through the Student Government Association, she collected food, books and toys for people in need and helped many homeless children learn to read and develop a love of books. She volunteered through Student Life and Leadership and Women on the Way to organize events and fundraisers. She plans to transfer to the University of South Florida to eventually earn her master’s degree in Global Business. Her goal is to find a career that will combine both business and the different languages that she speaks, such as working at the UN or NATO. “Without St. Petersburg College, I wouldn’t be where I am today and who I am today. This school has changed my life positively in so many ways, and what past year has taught me is that if I really want to accomplish something, I just have to work really hard for it.”

Applicants must have:

• Graduated from SPC December of 2019 or will be graduating in May of 2020
• Minimum GPA of 3.25
• Demonstrated leadership qualities
• Been involved in college activities
• Participated in community service

Completed Application:

An application is complete and eligible for review when you have submitted the following documents.

• A completed online application (click the “Apply Now” button below to access the application)
• At least one, but not more than three, typed letters of recommendation
• An official, sealed copy of your SPC transcript. To order your transcript, please visit: https://go.spcollege.edu/transcript. For faster delivery, request that the transcript be mailed to our address listed below. It can take a week or more to receive the transcript, please order it early.

Mailing Address
SPC Alumni Association
c/o St. Petersburg College Foundation
PO Box 13489
St. Petersburg, FL 33733-3489

To apply for an Apollo Award, please click the “apply now” button below. Applications for the 2019-2020 academic year will be accepted starting January 1, 2020. The deadline to apply is Thursday, February 6, 2020.

NOTE: Before you officially apply for the Apollo Award, we suggest that you select the ‘Apply Now’ button and download the questions to the application. Save your answers to a Word document and then transfer them into the application. Once you start the application, you will not have the opportunity to save the application and return at a later date/time.

Apollo Award Recipients

1960 – 1969 1966 – William A. Neron 1967 – Harvey R. Johnson 1968 – Elizabeth Ann McGee 1969 – Rory Anne Stott	1970 – 1979 1970 – Linda W. Lyons 1971 – Connie Baxter 1972 – Michael McGarry 1973 – Jeff Starr 1974 – Walter Moon III 1975 – Barbara Lasater 1976 – Christine Tsotsos 1977 – Jerald Carlson 1978 – Pamela Ann Moser 1979 – Carol Lynn Smith	1980 – 1989 1980 – Stephen Charles Luben 1981 – Patricia M. Carroll 1982 – Diane Sue Fleming 1983 – Darlene Louise Barr 1984 – Tonya Scott Amankwatia 1985 – David Michael McKalip 1986 – Stephen Robert Cooley 1987 – Carl Henry Heidenreich 1988 – Hazel Ann Creveling 1989 – Penethia “Psalms” Mack	1990 – 1999 1990 – Gregory H. Elam 1991 – Alfredo E. Barquin 1992 – Anne Marie Ertsgaard 1993 – Michelle Ruth Piccione 1994 – Joseph Hale 1995 – Jon Derek Lawler 1996 – Linda Diane Chase 1997 – Margaret Mary Revette 1998 – Robert Antonio Wright Sr. 1999 – Novelle Burney
2000 – 2009 2000 – Matthew Jay Stinson 2001 – Lee Palmer 2002 – Anthony Michael Priestas 2003 – Xudan Chen 2004 – Rode Louisa 2005 – Jean Barritt Welch 2006 – Aeisha Y. Perez 2007 – Kaitlin Dawn Reif 2008 – Adam Goch 2009 – Melinda Thackrah	2010 – 2019 2010 – Samantha Mitchell 2011 – Nhi Do 2012 – Alistair Glover 2013 – Brandon Fong 2014 – Oldrin Bataku 2015 – Amy Bhatt 2016 – Courtney Kent 2017 – Theodore Martin, Jr. 2018 – Joey Bower 2019 – Lorena Hmelas