For the first time, a technical college has back-to-back winners of the Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Instruction. At a ceremony Thursday night in Atlanta, Lanier Technical College’s Dr. David Byers, winner of the same award in 2014, passed the torch to Lanier Tech’s Christian Tetzlaff, who was named the 2015 winner. Tetzlaff was one of nine finalists for the award.