Moultrie Tech SkillsUSA Students
Honored at State
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Moultrie Tech’s SkillsUSA members competed in the 2009 SkillsUSA State Conference in April. Pictured, front row, left to right, are MTC Moultrie Campus students Monica DePerro, Ruby Martinez, Yesenia Reyes, Victoria Singletary and Paula McReynolds, and Heather Lee of the MTC Turner County Campus with Shalene Brown of the MTC Tifton Campus. On the back row, left to right, are MTC Tifton Campus student Carly Gravitt, Linda Mathews of the MTC Turner County Campus, Mary Bell and Craig Harper of the MTC Tifton Campus, William Brown of the MTC Moultrie Campus and Phillip Tillery of the MTC Tifton Campus. Not Pictured are Greg Peterson of the MTC Moultrie Campus, Shane Smith of the MTC Tifton Campus and Brantley Williams of the MTC Moultrie Campus. |
The Moultrie Technical College SkillsUSA student organization competed in the 2009 SkillsUSA State Conference in April with three students qualifying to compete at the national level in June.
SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled work force.
Twenty-four students and six advisers attended the event and 15 competitors from Moultrie Tech brought home medals. One student, Yesenia Reyes, a Medical Assisting student from the MTC Industrial Drive campus in Moultrie, was elected to a state office and will begin her tenure in June.
MTC SkillsUSA chapter adviser and construction trades instructor Jason Edwards said, “These students represented Moultrie Technical College well, and I am proud of each and every one of them.”
Students who placed in their respective competitions are Heather Lee, second place in Job Skill Demonstration A; Carly Gravitt, second place in Job Skill Open; Yesenia Reyes, second place in First Aid/CPR; William Brown, third place in Carpentry; Paula McReynolds, first place in Esthetics; Brantley Williams, third place in Industrial Motor Controls; Ruby Martinez, first place in Medical Assisting; Greg Peterson, first place in Plumbing; Linda Mathews, second place in Preschool Teaching Assistant; Shane Smith, third place in Welding; and Monica DePerro, third place in Medical Terminology.
Martinez, McReynolds and Peterson are now eligible to compete at the SkillsUSA National Leadership Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, in June.
The Health Knowledge team of Mary Bell, Shalene Brown, Craig Harper and Phillip Tillery received second place honors while all of the MTC Medical Assisting students who competed at the conference placed in the top three of their contests.
Along with Edwards, MTC Skills USA advisers Peggy Wilson, Elizabeth Peace, Donna Waters, Robin Kern and Ubaldo Gonzalez also attended the conference with the students.
