Alumni
Brian Mayo has always enjoyed taking things apart and putting them back together. Today Mayo is SCC’s 2021 Outstanding Alumni North Mankato campus honoree. After graduating from St. Peter High School in 1995, he enrolled in the Machine Tool program at South Central College (then South Central Technical College). While attending college, he worked at APT Machining and Fab – the family business owned by his parents.
After graduating in 1997, he continued to work in the family machine shop, becoming head of the CNC department, which at the time had five machines and two employees. In 2005, he took over operation of the CNC division and moved it to its current location in Kasota, MN. Brian and his wife Maegan purchased the CNC division from his parents in 2008 and purchased the machining division in 2015.
“The skills I learned at SCC has allowed me to do what I enjoy, and this has allowed me to create a successful business,” said Mayo.
Katrina DeYoung-Harper questioned her decision to go back to school. At the time she was facing many struggles, challenges and uncertainties about her future. Fast forward just over a decade later and she found she was SCC's 2021 Outstanding Alumni Faribaults campus honoree. DeYoung-Harper is a graduate of South Central College’s Professional Nursing program in Faribault, earning her Associate of Science degree in 2008.
She was selected to receive the South Central College Faribault Campus Outstanding Alumni Award due to her undying dedication to the nursing field and the Faribault community. Katrina was a recipient of several South Central College Faribault Campus Foundation Scholarships that, as she put it, provided not only the much needed funds but also the validation for her efforts to go back to school after some time away.
Following graduation from South Central College, Katrina went on to earn her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She worked as a Registered Nurse at Northfield Hospital before becoming a public health case manager for Rice County. While not currently in direct care nursing, she works for Genevive as a Care Coordinator helping the elderly find the services they need. She has also been involved with the Hope Center, Health Finders Clinic and has been a mental health support group facilitator.
View Katrina’s Acceptance Speech on YouTube
