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title: Hocking Designers Earn Top Honors In National Challenge
description: "Hocking College’s Fashion Design & Retail Merchandising program is celebrating two standouts: Fatmata Feika (grand prize) and Courtney Cole (runner-up) in the Catalyst Brands LLC × Fashion Scholarship Fund Design Challenge."
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# [Hocking Designers Earn Top Honors In National Challenge](https://hcpress.hocking.edu/editions/hocking-designers-earn-top-honors-in-national-challenge)

 Written by [Hocking College Communications](https://hcpress.hocking.edu/editions/author/hocking-college-communications) | Oct 1, 2025 4:19:00 PM

Hocking College’s Fashion Design & Retail Merchandising program is celebrating two standouts: Fatmata Feika (grand prize) and Courtney Cole (runner-up) in the Catalyst Brands LLC × Fashion Scholarship Fund Design Challenge.

Winners receive scholarship support and the opportunity to have their designs sold in JCPenney stores. Feika, a program alumna, is now pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design at Kent State’s School of Fashion. Cole is a current Hocking student in Fashion Design & Retail Merchandising.

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