Congratulations to the SkillsUSA delegations who received medals and helpful evaluations from experts in select technical fields at the 49th Annual National Leadership and Skills Conference in Kansas City, June 24–28.
At the conference, about 6,000 of America’s most talented career and technology education high school students showcased their skills in various technical competitions.
The four gold medalists from Maryland were:
- Ashley Koepping, medical assisting, Center of Applied Technology South, Edgewater
- Alondra Herrera, nurse assisting, Frederick County Career & Tech Center, Frederick
- Daniel Beck, principles of engineering/technology, Worcester Technical High School, Newark
- Amanda Ross, T-shirt design, Thomas Edison High School of Technology, Silver Spring
From Illinois, a team made up of Marshall Farthing, Stephen McKracken, and Nicholas Messina from the Fox Valley Career Center in Maple Park was awarded a gold medal in the community service competition.
Check out the winners from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands on the official listing provided by the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference, here.
Also see our coverage of the Maryland state-level competition, here.
In terms of state-team champions, we considered the number of gold medals won at the high school level for all career and technical competitions. Massachusetts led the country with 12 gold medalists at the high school level, followed by Texas and Ohio, which each had 11. Then, Florida and Missouri each had seven high school gold medalists, and Pennsylvania had five.
New Jersey tied Maryland with four gold medals for the state’s high schoolers, and then Georgia, Kansas, and New Hampshire had three each. Every state and Puerto Rico won a few medals, except for North Dakota and Alaska, but 17 states that won medals received no gold medals at the high school level.
Maryland was one of only a few states in the country that had only high school medalists, as the national competition was also open to college and post-secondary students and teams.
