<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/2021/phillip-picquet-alumni.php" dsn="news"><title>Community college served as “springboard” for Perkins County superintendent </title><item_date>01/19/2022 10:28:17 AM</item_date><author>Heather Johnson</author><image><img src="/news/files/picquet.jpg" alt="Phillip Picquet "/></image><thumbnail><img src="/news/files/picquet.jpg" alt="Phillip Picquet "/></thumbnail><summary>The man who thought a higher education wasn’t in the cards for him is now encouraging others to go on and pursue college degrees. 

Phillip Picquet is the superintendent at Perkins County Schools in Grant. He has spent a lifetime building up a career in the field of education, but it’s not the profession he had envisioned for himself originally.</summary><featured>true</featured><tags><tag>Academics</tag><tag>Alumni</tag><tag>MPCC</tag><tag>NPCC</tag></tags></item>