Jun 27, 2008
We’ve just returned from the Awards Ceremony at Kemper Arena, and we are extremely proud to announce that our contestants earned 59 medals in 31 competitions! Follow the link to see the list of our medalists:
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Jun 14, 2008
Allyson Pereira, our 2007 National SkillsUSA Championships Silver Medalist and 2008 NLSC contestant, recently graduated from Bristol Community College summa cum laude while being honored as the valedictorian of her class. She will be continuing her education at Johnson & Wales University to earn a bachelor’s degree in baking and pastry, with a minor in management. Ultimately she plans to earn a master’s degree in education so she could teach culinary arts to vocational students. Congratulations, Allyson!
State medalists and Minuteman students Darren O’Neil and Jake Shearer, both of Wayland, MA, were recently featured in the Wayland Town Crier
Diman students and SkillsUSA members Hina Naveed, Monique Botelho, and Zachary Sinkevich were recently featured as three of Diman’s Top 10 in both The Fall River Spirit and The Herald News. All three competed at our State Leadership and Skills Conference. Naveed and Botelho earned medals, while Sinkevich served as a local chapter officer. Naveed will be attending College of Staten Island with a pre-med major in biochemistry and eventually become a Pediatrician. Botelho will be attending Bristol Community College with a major in Nursing and plans to obtain her bachelors degree at UMASS-Dartmouth. Sinkevich plans to earn a bachelor’s degree in finance/business administration and to continue to earn a master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA).
Shawsheen students and Mass. SkillsUSA Championships Medalists’ got Skills. The feature in The Billerica Minuteman talks extensively about the TeamWorks competition and provides a brief glimpse into what will be expected of Shawsheen’s TeamWorks team at the nationals level.
Greater New Bedford medalists from our state competition were featured in a recent article in the New Bedford Spectator
SkillsUSA, our members and their many accomplishments were mentioned in graduation ceremonies across the state. Here’s a couple: Whittier, North Shore Tech, Shawsheen Valley, McCann, Minuteman, and Worcester Tech. Congratulations to our members who are graduating this year!
Jun 14, 2008
We are proud to announce our 2008 Advisor of the Year, Sheila Fox. Mrs. Fox has worked at Southeastern for almost twenty years. During that time, she has taken on the challenge of many after school activities such as SADD, Community Service Projects and of course, SkillsUSA.
Sheila has been a SkillsUSA Advisor for nine years and has had three State Officer Candidates and has worked with a Candidate for National Office as well.
Sheila works with students in the areas of OCC and Food & Beverage, she has had many medal winners.
Sheila’s students put it best:
Mrs. Sheila Fox symbolizes what a true hard working woman is. She never gives up on her students and always teaches them how to work out their problems.
Sheila Fox exemplifies what a true SkillsUSA Advisor and educator in career and technical education stands for.
Mrs. Fox will represent Massachusetts at next year’s National Leadership and Skills Conference as our nominee for the National Advisor of the Year Award. Congratulations!
Jun 14, 2008
The American Welding Society and SkillsUSA’s international welding technical committee would like to share their plans for selecting the international welding competitor for the 2009 WorldSkills Competitions in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They have established a Web page that contains “an inside look at the Weld Off, the first competition following two years of nationals, to narrow down the list of candidates.” The Pre-Weld Off will be using the same prints and instructions, so if advisors want to get a jump-start on this important event, please visit the AWS’s Weld-Off website. For any questions, please feel free to contact the committee chair, Ed Bohnart by telephone at 920-290-0283 or by e-mail at erbohn(at)weldinged(dot)com.
Jun 02, 2008
There was an explosion and fire in the electrical room at our datacenter in Houston, TX on Saturday which knocked down three surrounding walls. Our web hosting provider was ordered to turn off their backup generators, which cut power to over 7,500 servers in the building. We’re now back online after 24×7 efforts by our host.
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