On March 20th, CTE students from SkillsUSA teams at Columbia-Greene Educational Center in Hudson and Rensselaer Educational Center in Troy competed against CTE students from Capital Region BOCES, WSWHE BOCES and Champlain Valley Educational Services at this year’s Regional SkillsUSA Competition
Held annually at Schenectady County Community College, students practice and train for months for the opportunity to enter competitions that demonstrate their technical, academic and leadership abilities. Teachers and staff assist with coaching and preparing students to be ready to compete. In addition, SkillsUSA members work on fundraising projects during the year to raise money to pay for competitions and participate in community service activities.
The contests can be directly related to a Career/Technical Program, such as Carpentry, Commercial Baking, Crime Scene Investigation and Cosmetology or academics such as Related Technical Math. Students can also enter competitions that test their leadership skills such as Job Interview, Prepared Speech or Job Skills Demonstration.
We’d like to recognize our students from both CTE Centers who placed in the top five in their competition:
1st Place:
Lauren Mercer (Cosmetology Senior) – Lansingburgh
2nd Place:
Aizlyn O’Connell (Prepared Speech) – Catskill
Nancy Mainville (Job Skill Demo) – Averill Park
Stephanie Mangene (Nurse Assisting) – Averill Park
3rd Place:
Allyssa Rippel (Cosmetology Senior) – Chatham
Hethar Scutt (Cosmetology Junior) – Taconic Hills
Daphne Luckfield (Job Interview) – Ichabod Crane
4th Place:
Johnathan Padin (HVAC) – Greenville
Keaton Pedersen (Related Technical Math) – Catskill
John Gambino, Neil Malone and Dan Naegeli (Crime Scene Investigation) – Hudson, Cairo-Durham, Ichabod Crane
Cherish O’Connell (Restaurant Service) – Chatham
Jared Kwarta (Welding) – Ichabod Crane
Kira Russell (Nurse Assisting) – Troy
5th Place:
Anthony Marshall (HVAC) – Brunswick
Jy’Quan Stewart (Prepared Speech) – Rensselaer
Best of luck to all our SkillsUSA competitors headed to this year’s New York State Championship in April!
SkillsUSA is a national membership association serving more than 340,000 high school, college and middle school students who are preparing for careers in trade, technical and skilled service occupations, including health occupations, and for further education. SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. SkillsUSA helps each student excel. SkillsUSA empowers its members to become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens. SkillsUSA improves the quality of our nation’s future skilled workforce through the development of Framework skills that includes personal, workplace and technical skills ground in academics.
