ATLANTA — Alvie Coes, III, a Funeral Service Education student at Ogeechee Technical College, has been named as the Technical College System of Georgia’s 2011 Student of the Year. The award was announced during a banquet honoring the system’s top students and instructors at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Atlanta on May 26. Coes competed for the top student honor as part of the system’s annual Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) program, which recognizes the best students at each of the state’s 26 technical colleges and one Board of Regents college with a technical division.