Skills USA Takes over Olympia

            By Kiersten Robbins, OHS Torch reporter

            Many Bloomington Area Career Center students are competing in Skills USA, a career student organization that has students compete state-wide in specific career skills, on April 21 through April 23 in Springfield.

            BACC is taking a total of 75 students with them to Springfield, 4 from Olympia. The Olympia students preparing for Skills USA are: seniors John McCain, Adam Gaither, Kiersten Robbins, and Chantelle Clemmons.

            This will be John’s 2nd year competing in Skills USA. Last year he competed for his Fire Science class, winning state and placing 4th in nationals. This year he will be competing in opening and closing ceremonies, a job demo for Fire Science, and skills in Nursing Assisting.

John said, “For Fire Science I am describing a SCBA and going over parts and showing how it works and putting it together and taking it apart.”

First year student Adam is competing in Digital Media in T-shirt design and pin design. He is using the same unique design for both the shirt and the pin.

Adam said, “We are making the designs already in class. I am going to have my teacher, Mrs. White, give me some feedback on my design to hopefully improve it.”

Many students are very anxious about going to skills. They would all like to qualify for nationals by placing 1st or 2nd in their skill category.

All students are perfection their skills to be the best that they can be. Good luck to all the Skills USA competitors.