Six Grafton BVT students win medals at Skills USA
Six Grafton students were among the winners representing Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School in the annual SkillsUSA Massachusetts District V Competition.
On March 16, 218 BVT students had an opportunity to test their vocational-technical competency by competing with other trained career and technical education students from six vocational high schools during the first of three SkillsUSA competitions.
Grafton’s winners included:
- Gold: Noelle McDonald, Carpentry
- Silver: Stephen Bayreuther, Mechatronics; Baraka Consuegra, Mechatronics; Juliana Errara: Medical Math; and Owen Mathieu, HVAC/R
- Bronze: Sophia Yitts, Restaurant Service
The competition allows students to demonstrate their vocational-technical education, skills, and knowledge with SkillsUSA employment and trade tests. Successfully demonstrating their knowledge in their career technical area of study, employability skills, and safety, student-competitors from BVT proudly claimed 33 gold, 37 silver, 32 bronze medals and swept 11 categories.
Seventy-seven students will advance from districts to compete amongst the most talented vocational-technical students in the Commonwealth at the SkillsUSA Massachusetts State competition held at BVT in late April. An additional 28 students will go directly to the state competition, and 25student delegates will represent BVT.
