The Henderson County School Board recognized numerous students who have recently won first place in various competitions at the state level.
One of the competitions, SkillsUSA, is a competition for skills learned in career and technical units across the state.
According to Chad Thompson, assistant superintendent, there were 48 competitors from Henderson County High School and 21 of those were first place winners.
J.T. Payne, the principal of Henderson County High School’s Career and Technical Education unit, said HCHS competitors had nearly double the number of first place and top three finishers of any other school in the state.
Dalton Inge, a faculty adviser for the SkillsUSA competition, said many of the students will travel on to the national competition this summer in Atlanta.
Finally, Henderson Mayor Brad Staton presented all the SkillsUSA winners with the city’s Community Spotlight award for the month. The Community Spotlight award recognizes residents who have made a significant contribution to the community.
Staton said that HCHS not only has one of the biggest CTE units in the state, “but we obviously have one of the best.”
Here’s a list of all the winners:
Kentucky State Leadership FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) Conference
- Miley McAtee, Henderson County High School, First place in Culinary Arts
KFWC (Kentucky Folkstyle Wrestling Committee) Middle School division 1st place
- Eve Hawkes, AB Chandler Elementary School, First place
- Serenity Rivera, North Middle School, First Place
HOSA Future Health Professionals State Leadership Conference
- Suniyah Tramill, Henderson County High School, First place in World Health and Disparities
SkillsUSA State Champions
- 3D Visualization and Animation: Lars Galante, Akwin Rivera
- Audio Production: Allie Green, Miley Duncan
- CNC 3-axis Milling Programming: Wyatt Holland
- Computer Programming: Cash Chandler
- Firefighting: Rylan Trigg
- Internetworking: Brady Galloway
- Interactive Application and Video Game Development: Carter Siewert, Eli Schmidt
- Photography: Nate Gold
- Quiz Bowl: Zoe Mills, Brett Haley, Sydney Siebe, Ava Zigler, Lily Jones, Deacon Kitchens
- Tactical Response: Mattie Sohne, Landon Gish, Andrew Hendrix, Tanner Parrish
- Technical Computer Applications: Sawyer Wolfe
