Gwinnett County Public Schools teachers Pintu Thaker and Lauren O’Connor were honored this summer by the Georgia Association of Career and Technical Education for being leaders in their field.

Thaker, a career and technical education teacher at Meadowcreek High School in Norcross, received the 2021 Georgia Business Education Association Teacher of the Year award, while O’Connor, a career and technical education teacher at Paul Duke STEM High School in Norcross was named the Georgia Marketing Education Association’s 2021 Teacher of the Year.