Two members of Rend Lake College’s Applied Science and Technology Division will be honored this year for their dedication and service to the RLC community and students. Nominated by their peers, Ricky Robinson and Eric Knapp are both of the computer science program and have been invited to attend the statewide awards banquet later this year. The full-time Outstanding Faculty Excellence Award winner is Ricky Robinson, Computer Networking Professor. He helped begin and develop the Computer Networking program at RLC. In 1998, Robinson came to RLC from Continental Tire the Americas to work with electronics. Robinson has also become an integral part of the Criminal Justice program, helping to incorporate computer classes with a cybercrime certificate. Every semester he logs five or six courses, seeing hundreds of students every week. The Part-Time Teacher Excellence Award winner is Eric Knapp of Tamaroa, a computer science instructor. Best-known as the Introduction to Computers instructor, a class that nearly all general education students take, Knapp is a six-year veteran of the halls in the Advanced Technology Center. Knapp graduated from RLC in May of 2008 and returned the following year to teach part-time in Computer Maintenance and Introduction to Computers. Every semester, Knapp teaches three classes, mostly to students planning to graduate and transfer to a four-year university. He says he’s happily surprised by the nomination. Robinson and Knapp will join other community college outstanding faculty members from across the state at the Illinois Community College Trustees Association Awards Banquet on June 5th in Schaumburg.