East Penn School District: Emmaus High School Students Qualify For SkillsUSA State Competition

Emmaus PA

18 February, 2022

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Press release from East Penn School District: February 11, 2022 East Penn School District / District News / Emmaus High School Students Qualify for SkillsUSA State Competition Lehigh Career & Technical Insitute students earned 45 top-three finishes last week (Wednesday, Feb. 2) during the SkillsUSA District 11 Championships at Allentown's Agri-Plex. The annual competition pitted LCTI students against their peers from Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School, Career Institute of Technology, Monroe Career & Technical Institute and Upper Bucks County Technical School in more than 50 contests of skill ranging from advertising design to welding. Sponsored by local businesses, the championships are an opportunity for students from the region's high schools to apply what they've learned in school to challenging scenarios that mimic the demands of a 21st-century workplace. They also serve to expose the larger Lehigh Valley community to the value of career and technical education. LCTI students walked away from the daylong competition with 12 first-place, 19 second-place and 14 third-place finishes. Each of the first-place finishers secured a berth at this spring's SkillsUSA Pennsylvania State Leadership Conference in Hershey. SkillsUSA Council Executive Director Andy Hammer announced the championship award winners Monday (Feb. 7, 2022) during a virtual ceremony. The Emmaus High School LCTI top finishers are below. Ryan Gaughan, 1st: Graphic Communications Print Technology/Graphic Imaging Kayra Hanchard, 2nd: Health Knowledge Bowl (Team of 4) Health & Medical Sciences Christopher MacDonald, 1st: Commercial Baking Commercial Baking Cody Pfleiger, 1st: CNC Milling Specialist Precision Machine Tool Technology Logan Roth, 2nd: Diesel Equipment Technology Diesel Medium & Heavy Truck Technology Michael Schmaldinst, 1st: Collision Repair Technology Auto Collision Repair Technology This press release was produced by East Penn School District. The views expressed here are the author's own.