Bates Technical College.

KBTC, the public television station owned operated by Bates Technical College, in Tacoma, Wash., added three Emmy awards to its existing collection of awards at this year's regional Emmy awards held in Seattle. The documentary "We Are Them: The Words of Rachel Corrie" earned Best Documentary and Best Writer awards for writer and producer Daniel Kopec, executive producer Jennifer Strachan and videographer and editor Christopher Sherlock. The trio also won Best Historic/Cultural Program/Special for "Full Focus: Might in Flight." The first production explored Corrie's controversial writings and correspondence chronicling her seven weeks in Palestine. Corrie, a 23-year-old college student from Olympia, Wash., was killed by a bulldozer in 2003 in a small border town in Gaza while trying to defend the home of a Palestinian family. "Full Focus: Might in Flight" tells the story of Mel Schulstad a World War II-era bomber pilot who completed more than 40 combat missions. The idea to tell both stories was conceived, written and produced by Kopec, who felt that both accounts spoke to the difference just one person can make in the world. These Emmys are a first for the college and the station, which serves over 200,000 households weekly with commercial-free educational and cultural programming.