Young Alumni Award | Grand Rapids Community College

2025 Winner: Darrin Mayweather

Chef Darrin Mayweather, Grand Rapids Community College’s (GRCC) 2025 Young Alumni Award Winner, was at a pivotal crossroads in his teen years, facing the choice between getting a job or going to bootcamp. Mayweather started working as a dishwasher, not realizing this choice would open doors for his future career in the kitchen.

Read about Darrin

About the Young Alumni Award

The GRCC Young Alumni Award will be awarded to an alumnae or alumnus who is under the age of 40 as of Dec 31 in the year submitted. This award recognizes an outstanding alumni who have distinguished themselves at this stage of life through:

Exceptional accomplishment in their chosen profession.
Exceptional community or civic service.
Exceptional service in support of GRCC.

The Young Alumni Award was created in 2021 and will first be awarded in 2022 to recognize GRCC Alumni identified as being outstanding in their professions and to present such alumni to current GRCC students as examples of exceptional achievement and hard work.

The nomination deadline for this award is December 31, 2024.

Young Alumni Award Nomination Form

Nominator Information

First Name

Last Name

Phone Number

Is the nominee aware that you are submitting this nomination?

Yes

Nominee Information

Please fill out the form with information regarding the person being nominated.

For which award are you nominating this person?

Distinguished Alumni Award

Young Alumni Award

First Name

Last Name

Phone Number

Reason you are nominating this individual for the award:

GRCC/JC Class Year

The individual nominated will be notified of their nomination and asked to provide a resume and other supporting materials, should they accept the nomination.