The following Lehigh Carbon Community College students were inducted into Alpha Omicron Alpha, the college's Phi Theta Kappa chapter, the national honor society for two-year colleges, during a March 19 ceremony in the college's Lisa Scheller-Wayne Woodman Community Services Center, on the college's main campus.

The following Times News area students were honored:Albrightsville: Marcia Goldstein.Andreas: Allison Pedersen.Bowmanstown: Ashley Troxell.Coal Township: Amanda Manning.Germansville: Rachel Steele.Jim Thorpe: Katherine Ott, Dominic Pompa and Jeannine Viola.Lehighton: Maeann Brougher, Joey Roetz and Alyssa Smith.New Ringgold: Leah Pashley.New Tripoli: Heather Shook.Orefield: Jessica Simpson and Kendall Strampel.Palmerton: Amy Beltz, Tracy Creed, Casey Garner, Christian Guzman, Hannah Hans, Maria Martinez, Cheyenne Mckinley and Rhonda Miller.Slatington: Alicia Buckno, Jessica Faenza and Travis Kunkle.Summit Hill: Amy Gardiner.Tamaqua: Taylor Banditelli and Daisy Valentine.Walnutport: Katie Kuntz.Weatherly: Leeann Woodring.Phi Theta Kappa is the only nationally acclaimed honor society serving two-year colleges, which offers associate degree programs.To be considered, a student must be enrolled in an associate degree program, have completed at least 12 credit hours of coursework, have established a minimum grade point average of 3.5, have established a record of academic excellence as judged by the faculty, and be of good moral character and possess recognized qualities of citizenship.