TCD state winners will go to National SkillsUSA
For Immediate Release: April 22, 2010
Contact: Kathy Rosenwinkel, 630-691-7572
(Addison, IL) – Ten Technology Center of DuPage (TCD) students took first place in six contests at the recent 2010 Illinois SkillsUSA Leadership and Skills Conference, some in team efforts. The students are now eligible to compete in the National SkillsUSA championships this June in Kansas City, MO. Thirty-three additional TCD students placed among the top ten in their respective contest divisions.
TCD placed 1st, 2nd, and 4th in the Carpentry division: Kyle Silberhorn (Lombard), first; Angela Johnson (Carol Stream), second; and John Drover (Westmont), fourth. This is the first time a female construction student from TCD placed among the top three.
Four Cosmetology students and their models swept the top four places in the Nail Care contest: Tuyen Vo of Glendale Heights (model Brianna Black), first; Susan Le of Addison (model Dora Olivares), second; Evelyn Rios of Glendale Heights (model Andrea Torres), third; and Alexandra Guillen of West Chicago (model Alyssa Tomasek), fourth.
For the second year in a row, a TCD team took first place in the Crime Scene Investigation division: Lindsey Larson (Downers Grove), James Janus (Warrenville), and Erik Ekstrom (Westmont). Other first place winners from TCD include graphic communications student Jonathon Scruggs (Wheaton), residential wiring student Kyle Harrington (Winfield), and multimedia team Meredith Davis (Carol Stream) and Christopher Dorsano (LaGrange Highlands ) in the Video Product Development division.
Others placing second in the state were Nevin O’Connor of Naperville in Culinary Arts and Brian Payne of Warrenville in Collision Repair. Additional third place state winners were Tony Sommerio (Hanover Park) in Culinary Arts; Marie Panizales (Carol Stream) in Cosmetology; Ray Honore (Westmont) in Automotive Service Technician; and the above-mentioned team of Meredith Davis and Chris Dorsano in TV Production.
Over 1,000 participants from high school CTE programs around the state competed during the annual three-day event. SkillsUSA is a national organization serving high school, college, and professional members who are enrolled in career and technical education programs. The organization promotes education, leadership, and citizenship through its activities and competitions at regional, state, and national levels.
TCD students win state Microsoft Web design contes
For Immediate Release: April 20, 2010
Contact: Kathy Rosenwinkel, 630-267-4066
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A two-student team from Technology Center of DuPage was the Grand Prize winner for the state of Illinois in the Microsoft® “bliink” Web design contest. Andrey Danilkovich of Bloomingdale and German Fomin of Villa Park created the winning design using the Microsoft® Expression® suite of software tools to showcase the contest theme: “I Imagine a Green Future.”
Calling themselves Team Life Design, Danilkovich and Fomin developed a site named “Our Green Future” to inform people about changes and actions they can personally make to positively affect the environment. They each won a Zune video media player, a $300 cash card, and a trip to Washington, DC on April 24-26 to receive their award, sightsee, and observe the Microsoft Imagine Cup US Finals (college level competitors). Both students are seniors from Glenbard East H.S. in Lombard enrolled in TCD’s Computer Information Systems program.
“Bliink” is a Microsoft-sponsored Web design contest for high school students encouraging them to dream big and express their ideas while building their technology skills. An internal panel of Microsoft judges reviewed all entries and turned the top ten percent over for review by a second panel of judges including educators, professional Web designers, employees and artists. Judging criteria include: creativity/original ideas; content and clarity; organization/navigation; and visual presentation/design.
In announcing TCD’s win, contest organizers stated: “Your website was creative, innovative, and generally excellent. The judges were impressed with your work.”
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