Skills/Ag students win state awards

NEWS RELEASE
February 5, 2010                                                        Contact: Frank Murray, 542-4835

Columbia Basin College students in automotive, welding, nursing, and agricultural science collected awards at two state contests recently.

At Lake Washington Technical College in Kirkland, CBC students took home 15 of the 24 medals awarded at the SkillsUSA Club Winter Conference. The following are the CBC winners:

 Mason Ortiz 3rd  Job Demonstration Automotive                
 Jeremy Zohn 3rd  Job Demonstration Welding
 Angela Combs 2nd  Job Demonstration Nursing
 Carmen Quinn 3rd  Extemporaneous Speaking Automotive
 Taryn Sanders 2nd  Extemporaneous Speaking Automotive
 Mason Ortiz 1st  Extemporaneous Speaking Automotive
 Bethany Rawls 1st  Extemporaneous Speaking Automotive
 Thomas Verret 3rd  Prepared Speech Automotive
 Robert Garcia 2nd  Prepared Speech Automotive
 Mason Ortiz 1st  Prepare Speech Automotive
 Eduardo Enriquez 2nd  Job Interview Automotive
 Bethany Rawls 2nd  Job Interview Automotive
 Carmen Quinn 3rd  Job Interview Automotive
 A.J. Spaniel 1st  Job Interview Welding
 Taryn Sanders 2nd  Job Interview Automotive

At Walla Walla Community College, three CBC students qualified for the National Post-Secondary Agricultural Students (PAS) contest. Kinbri Sipes and Emily Tobin qualified in Ornamental Horticulture and Katie Westfall in Equine Science Specialist.