Congratulations to Rebecca Dobbins for her many academic achievements. She has just been accepted into the associate of science in nursing program and is very excited about it. She is currently working as a phlebotomist at the Greenwood Medical Lab.
During high school, she was a runner-up for the Lilly endowment scholarship as well as for a scholarship from the Johnson County Community Foundation; with these scholarships in hand, her college classes were fully funded.
As a student at Ivy Tech, she has also earned numerous honors. She has been a Dean’s List student as well as having been inducted into Phi Theta Kappa. She also received the first Sandy and Bill DeMichieli Nursing Scholarship, which provides funding for 100% tuition for up to two nursing students each academic year. She has also been selected for the IVYlab psychological research lab to be the assistant research manager.
Upon graduation from Ivy Tech, Rebecca plans to enroll at IUPUC to earn a bachelor of science in nursing. Her larger goal is to have her own practice, in which she can “give more care and do less paperwork.” She is also interested in helping people who are planning to donate an organ.
Rebecca is married to Jeff Dobbins, a carpenter whose business is custom woodworking. She and Jeff have a 2 ½-year-old son named Aidan Mannix.
Rebecca commented:
Anyone who feels like they can’t do what they really want to do needs to figure out what’s keeping them from it and then do something about it. There’s nothing holding you back from success if you really have a passion for it.
For the first time, I feel like I can be the person who I really am. Since coming to school at Ivy Tech, I feel that I’m fulfilling my purpose.
Ivy Tech is proud of Rebecca Dobbins.