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The mission at H.C. Wilcox Technical High School is to help prepare students for the future with the motto - "thinking critically - the best tool a student can master."
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Wilcox Students Compete at SkillsUSA - 20 Are Headed to Kansas City for Nationals!
April 14, 2014
On Friday, March 28, 2014, seventy-six Wilcox Tech SkillsUSA student competitors competed in the 37th Annual CT SkillsUSA Leadership and Skills Conference at A.I. Prince Tech in Hartford in a variety of leadership and trade events. An at awards ceremony held that evening at the John Lyman Center of Performing Arts on the campus of SCSU, forty-five of those students were recognized for finishing first, second, third or in the Top 6 Medalist category for their respective events. Twenty of those students (*) will now move on to compete in six categories at the national level in Kansas City, Missouri on June 23, 2014 to June 28, 2014. One student is also slated to receive the Presidents Volunteer Service Award for completing 250 hours of community service in the community. The list below shows the students who are now Kansas City bound as well as other students who placed second, third and Top 6 in their events as well as our newly elected CT SkillsUSA State Officers and our chapter Ambassador who was selected for going above and beyond what is expected in order to make our SkillsUSA chapter a success.*Wilcox Tech SkillsUSA Results: 1st Place Winners - Kansas City Bound: Chapter Display - Jessica Gavilanes, Amanda Wallace and Mia Dupuis; Quiz Bowl - John Cyr, Jose Reyes, Devon Kenney, Emmanuel Cordero, and Parker Shoneck; Community Service - Rachel Betts, Alan LaBreck and Bryonna Geiste; Opening and Closing Ceremonies - Alysa Chenkus, Alyssa Sinclair, Amanda Gaedeke, Bryonna Geiste, Kathryn Mazzucco, Delaney Ruiz and Brianna Vece; Graphics - Kathryn Keene; Extemporaneous Speaking - Erin Fitzgerald; Presidents Volunteer Service Award - Samantha Zajac
1st Place Skill Connect - Connecticut Only Contests; Kyle McShea: Electronics Technology; 2nd Place Winners: Alysa Chenkus, Alyssa Sinclair, and Bryonna Geiste - Outstanding Chapter of the Year; Andrew Hoffman, Carpentry; 2nd Place Skill Connect - Connecticut Only Contests: Eric Ciskowski: Electronics Technology; Samantha Simler: Commercial Baking; 3rd Place Winners: Ronald Kogut: Carpentry; Haley Lewis: First Aid/CPR; Aleida Aquino: Nurse Assisting.
Top 6 Medalist Winners: Samantha Simler - Skill Connect Culinary Arts; Nicholas Gambardella - Skill Connect Electronics; Lexi Hines - Freshman Leadership; Deanna Tommasino - First Aid/CPR; Diana Godinez - First Aid/CPR; Anna Malek - First Aid/CPR; Christofer Soto - Collision Repair; Gary Yeung - Manufacturing; Ken Quartuccio -Electronics; Tylil Simpson - Cosmetology; Elisa Vazquez - Culinary Arts; Alexia Jandreau -Graphics; Naomi Rivera - Graphics; Rachel Betts - Extemporaneous Speaking; Matthew Schiopucie - Carpentry; Dan Daly - Customer Service; Kaelyn Johnson, Mikayla Raccio, Kevin Munoz and Keila Vazquez - Health Knowledge Bowl;
2014-2015 CT SkillsUSA State Executive Council - Elected State Officers: Erin Fitzgerald, Bryonna Geiste, Garrett Puckett
Ambassador's Award (Awarded to the individual who goes above and beyond what is expected): Alysa Chenkus.
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