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Tara Turley: Student of the Year Award Represents Possibility for Adults Returning to Education

March 29, 2017

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Tara Turley, a single mother and electrician who employed her skills to assist her flood-ravaged West Virginia community, received ACE’s 2016 Student of the Year March 13 at ACE2017.

In her acceptance speech, Turley said the award “represents all the hardworking men and women that I stand next to every day in the field, it represents all the ones I stood in the unemployment line with not so long ago, and most importantly, it represents possibility.”

Watch her full remarks below:

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