Eight JVS students will be advancing to the State SkillsUSA Competition in Columbus to be held in April. These JVS students earned this honor by receiving top ratings in the North Central Regional SkillsUSA Competitions held recently at the Ohio Carpenters’ Joint Apprenticeship & Training Center (Richfield), Medina County Career Center (Medina) and Ohio Technical College (Cleveland). The JVS students advancing to the next level of the competition are listed by school district below:
FIRELANDS
Logan Ramsey, Carpentry senior, received a gold medal in the Teamworks event
MIDVIEW
Jared Wendell,
Engineering Design Technology senior, received a gold medal in Architectural
Drafting
NORTH
RIDGEVILLE
Mark Lengauer, Carpentry junior, Darren
Lightner, Heating & Air Conditioning junior, and Caleb Roberts, Masonry
Trades junior all received a gold medal in the Teamworks event; Alex Jutte,
Carpentry senior, earned a silver medal in the Carpentry event; Julie Taylor,
Collision Repair senior, earned a silver medal in the Automotive Refinishing
event
WELLINGTON
Jessica Davis, Carpentry junior,
received a gold in the Customer Service event
In addition, many other students will be
travelling to Columbus in their straight-to-state competitive events not held
at the regional level.
Also, a special
congratulations to John Pando, Industrial Electricity junior from Amherst, and
Veronica Haught, Public Safety junior from Midview, for organizing and presenting
the Awards Ceremony at the Regional event. They did an outstanding job as Regional Officers!
SkillsUSA is a career-technical youth
club comprised of students, teachers and industry, working together to ensure
that America has a skilled workforce.