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The ADDY Awards… it’s the world's largest advertising competition with over 50,000 entries
annually. Pittsburg State University student, Zack Waggoner personally took home four ADDYS
for several pieces of his work. Zack Waggoner-“Yeah, I mean to take home
one is enough and you know to win four it was just kind of like you know you finally,
it was kind of a good realization of okay I did do something worthwhile and it was really
nice and to get that recognition from not just one person which was Crystal all the
time. She said you know you have a chance but to get it from an organization and communities
coming back it was really gratifying.” As for what Zach loves about Pitt State, it’s
all about the little details around campus. Zack Waggoner-“It’s just fascinating to
just, the small things Pitt State cares about. Like the lighting around campus. I mean I’m
sure a lot of people don’t but it’s really beautiful at night. Like you can just wonder
around, it’s really peaceful in the summertime. It’s just like they, it seems like they
pay attention to details that most universities around here don’t and you know as a designer
that’s really cool when you realize they do care about the student enough to know that
they’re looking outside of the stuff that they have to deal with.”
Of course winning four ADDYS takes a lot of time and determination and Waggoner has some
words of advice for others. Zack Waggoner-“I think that basically whatever
you put your mind to you can do as long as you put your mind to it. You know coming from
a high school graduate that had no idea what he was going to do and pretty much the biggest
slacker ever. I came out of it okay so you know, smarter people than me I can’t even
imagine but you know. Yeah I just really think that my philosophy in life is whatever you
put your mind to, you can do it and that what I live by, that’s what my family lives by
and I hold myself to it.”