Winter Tech students will receive gold medals at the SkillsUSA National Tournament

HAVERHILE – Witter Tech Superintendent Maureen Lynch wants to congratulate students on winning several home gold medals at the SkillsUSA Leadership and Skills Conference last month.

Eight VitT Tech students and seven colleagues attended the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Atlanta, Georgia from June 20-24. Students from all over the country, who won gold medals at regional conferences earlier this year, have the opportunity to compete nationally.

Chloe Simard, Melissa Giuseppe, both from Haverville, and Julia Walsh from Salisbury, all of whom have studied health support for the 2022 class, have won gold medals for their project of “expanding the heat” of health care on the streets. As part of the project, they made special blankets for local children’s hospitals.

Superintendent Lynch “Congratulations to all the students who competed and to our entire SkillsUSA chapter.”

Noel Allen, a 2022 class student from Salsbury Cooking, competed in the restaurant service competition.

Jaydin Craig, a medical student from Harvard, was elected Massachusetts State Officer for the 2022-2023 school year.

Craig served as a national delegate with Ryan Link, a 2022 class member who has studied Advanced Manufacturing. Craig and Link represented White Tech by voting for national officers.

At the conference, the Winter Tech Chapter won the Gold Level 2 Award and one of the 24 SkillsUSA Chapters in the country, earning outstanding technical skills.

The Witter Chapter was recognized as a model of excellence for a number of projects honoring Haverwell’s first responders on the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Senior manufacturing students made custom key tags for all first responders, carpenters made American flags for fire and police chiefs, Masonry students donated donations to the Haverhill Fire Museum, and bakers baked cakes for all in attendance. Memorial service at the Harvard Fire Museum.

Silas Smith, a junior at Haverhil Masonry, and SkillsUSA Chapter author Marisa Behl, a high-income student studying health care at Georgetown, received the award and represented White Tech.

“This Excellence Model Award, in particular, was very positive and included more than two students selected to represent Witter. It feels like every white student is back with gold, ”said Jane Moskevitz, SkillsUSA consultant and cooperative health educator.

Students and counselors are excited to begin preparing for SkillsUSA’s next school year.

Moskevitz added, “Although the school year is just over, it is time to start preparing for the coming school year. The plan for the 2022-2023 school year is to work diligently with our student leaders to continue to reflect our SkillsUSA Framework.

About SkillsUSA

SkillsUSA is a non-profit partnership established in 1965 to strengthen our country’s skilled workforce. Guided by employer interests, SkillsUSA assists students in developing the necessary personal and workplace skills and with academic-based technical skills. This SkillsUSA framework helps every student succeed in work and life and close the skills gap where millions of positions are not filled.

With the SkillsUSA Championship Program and Curriculum, employers have long proven that schools are teaching related technical skills, and with SkillsUSA’s new certification process, you can now assess how many employees are ready for work. SkillsUSA has an annual salary of more than 366,000 members nationwide. The alumni added 427,432 last year. Since 1965, the nonprofit has served nearly 14 million members.

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