SkillsUSA Massachusetts News

We're coming home with 59 medals in 31 competitions

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:16:00 GMT

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:

Patrick Hanas

Franklin County Tech
Action Skills, Silver

Daniel Boulay

Diman RVTHS
Architectural Drafting, Bronze

Andrew Alvares

Diman RVTHS
CNC Milling Technology, Gold

Rachel Fonseca

Greater New Bedford RVTHS
Collision Repair Technology, Silver

Julie Thompson

Plymouth South High School
Commercial Baking, Silver

Justina D’Amato, Lindsay Melanson & Nicole Onaian

Blackstone Valley RVTHS
Community Service, Silver

Amber Fellows

Cape Cod Tech
Dental Assisting, Silver

Michael Lavy, David Kelly & Ivan Yu

Minuteman RHS
Engineering Technology, Silver

Hector Andujar, Erin Cobb & Sharoline Galva

Whittier Regional VTHS
Entrepreneurship, Gold

Allyson Pereira

Bristol Community College
Food and Beverage Service, Gold

Heather Conley, Cassandra Gauron, Brittany Pomales & Nancy Robbins

Whittier Regional VTHS
Health Knowledge Bowl, Bronze

Sara-Hope Dunnebier & Vanessa Valcorba

Diman RVTHS
Health Occupations Professional Portfolio, Silver

Katherine Tamayo

Greater Lowell THS
Job Interview, Bronze

Kelly Carreiro

Diman RVTHS
Job Skill Demonstration A, Bronze

Christopher Shelton

Assabet VRTHS
Major Appliance Technology, Silver

Rob Lowell

Cape Cod Tech
Marine Service Technology, Gold

Robert Dougherty & Alexander Segala

McCann Technical High School
Mechatronics, Gold

Alyson Aguiar

Greater New Bedford RVTHS
Medical Assisting, Gold

Jessica Candido

Diman RVTHS
Nurse Assisting, Silver

Aaron Gralnik, Indianara Kuhl & Victoria MacMillan

Minuteman RHS
Occupational Health and Safety – Multiple, Silver

Rachaelle Read & Kjerstie Lindelof

Upper Cape Regional
Occupational Health and Safety – Single, Bronze

Michelle Soto

Diman RVTHS
Practical Nursing, Bronze

Christina Estrada

Blackstone Valley RVTHS
Preschool Teaching Assistant, Bronze

Evangelia Kostopoulos

Rindge School of Technical Arts
Principles of Technology, Bronze

Ross Cardoza

Greater New Bedford RVTHS
Residential Wiring, Silver

Brian Joseph & Christopher Hansen

Minuteman RHS
Robotics and Automation Technology, Gold

Kaitlin Hogan, Ronny Stocker, Stephen Tello & George D’Amelio

Shawsheen High School
TeamWorks, Silver

Becky Rowe, Alice Ofria & Allison Walsh

Minuteman RHS
TechPrep – Science, Technology and Math, Bronze

Christine Nasiatka, Rebecca Lorion, Alison Hamel, Michelle Bills & Alexander Rheinbolt

Montachusett RVTHS
Total Quality Management, Silver

Sara Grimaldi, Kristin Euchlre, Jeanna Tinney & Benjamin Bethoney

McCann Technical High School
Total Quality Management, Silver

Congratulations!!

State House Luncheon pictures online

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:53:00 GMT

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Our members in the news, June edition

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:08:00 GMT

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!

2008 Advisor of the Year

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:58:00 GMT

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!

WorldSkills Welding Participation

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 00:39:00 GMT

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.

Final details about Advisor's End-of-Year Celebration

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:48:00 GMT

Dear SkillsUSA Massachusetts Advisors,

This is coming to you as a means of providing final details for the 2008 Chapter Advisor’s End-of-Year Celebration and National Conference Planning Meeting.

As per our calendar of events and previous communications, the event is scheduled for Thursday, June 12th at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel. The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. And will conclude at 7:30 p.m. This meeting is critical…since this will be the ONLY distribution of plane itineraries, hotel reservation and national conference information. Be certain that you are present.

If your Chapter is not going to the National Conference, we STRONGLY encourage you to attend to celebrate with us another fantastic year for SkillsUSA Massachusetts. This event is always a great time with good food, good friend and good fun!!!

This year, our end-of-year celebration is “Going Green”—with a theme of “Recycle Your Memories” as we look back on a great year and continue our eco-friendly activities.

This means you can attend dressed casual and if you are willing to support the theme of the evening you can wear your best representation of our eco-friendly theme of recycling by wearing organic cotton T-shirts with clever sayings and designs get the message across. There will of course be prizes for the best representation of our theme!!!

We do need to get an accurate head count so…please email Karen Ward at kward@sersd.org to let us know of your Chapter’s attendance and the number who will attend (Chapter Advisors only)

We're back

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:58:00 GMT

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.

SLSC2008 on WCTR-TV3

Wed, 28 May 2008 18:36:00 GMT

Our 2008 State Leadership and Skills Conference was featured on Worcester WCTR-TV3 on May 2nd, 2008. Here’s the news segment that aired:

Member News Roundup

Mon, 26 May 2008 23:54:00 GMT

News about our members from around the net:

Whittier senior from Haverhill brings home coveted award – Michael Young beats out 25 other vocational students from across the state Michael Young, a SkillsUSA member, recently earned the honor of being named the recipient of the Walter J. Markham award.
Kansas City, here they come (Yarmouth, MA – Cape Cod Regional Technical High School)
Tech Students head to national competition (Salem, MA – North Shore Technical High School)

State Conference pictures uploaded

Sun, 25 May 2008 03:32:00 GMT

After spending many days wading through 4,800+ photos taken by our photographers, they’ve picked the cream of the crop (pun intended) and uploaded them to our flickr account.