MNTC Students Place at National Contests

Moore Norman Technology Center students traveled across the country this summer to compete in national student contests and represented their school, and their state, well.

There are five national student organizations that MNTC students, and thousands of students across the U.S. participate in including: Business Professional Students of America (BPA), Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA), Family, Career & Community Leaders of America (FCCLA), SkillsUSA for technical and engineering students and DECA for business and entrepreneurship students.

National skills contests take place at convention centers across the United States in order to accommodate the large numbers of participants, instructors, teachers, judges and skills performance needs.

Students are judged by industry experts on their knowledge, skills and abilities and professional conduct in a specific contest area. Most have gotten to the national level of competition by earning first through third place standings in district, state and regional contests.

MNTC student winners and competitors are listed below by skills organization, place contest was held and specific contest.

BPA (Reno, Nev.):  Teresa Dukes, 1st Place, PC Troubleshooting & Servicing; Dukes, MS Network Administration; Catherine Hennesey, Administrative Support Concepts; Zac Jennings, JAVA Programming; John Craig, Daniel Jupe and Clay Miller, System Engineer Team and Chloe Roby, Database Applications.   

DECA (Atlanta, :  Cody Bennett, Amanda Ewing and Ethan McGill, School Based Enterprise; Sarah Ewing, Chapter Membership Campaign; Chad Noah, Mycha Sewell and Lindsay Malicoate, Chapter Awards Program.

HOSA (Dallas, Texas):  Summer Davis, Master Level, Kaiser Permanente; John Ruston, 2^nd Place, Nutrition; Kelly Conley and Jamie Rogers, 3^rd Place, Career Health Display; Guigin McAnally, 3^rd Place, Medical Math; Kristi Smith, Medical Terminology; Nicole Williams, Pathophysiology; Christopher Grajeda, Physical Therapy Aide; Kailee Sexton, Medical Spelling and Christian Soto, Personal Care.

SkillsUSA (Kansas City, Mo.):  Ashley Clark, 4^th Place, Prepared Speech; Aaron Hilterbran, 4^th Place, Ad Design; Craig Lawson, 4^th Place, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration; Chad Campbell, 8^th Place, Industrial Motor Controls; Andre Pineiro, 8^th Place, Ad Design and Dylan Beardshear, Computer Maintenance Technician.

Justin Phillips, a second-year student in Computer Aided Drafting & Design will serve as a State SkillsUSA Officer this school year. Phillips is a senior at Westmoore High School and just completed his service as State Parliamentarian for SkillsUSA.

For more information about MNTC, or the full and part-time Career Majors available, visit www.mntechnology.com or call 405-364-5763, ext. 7260.