{"id":1739,"date":"2017-06-16T18:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T18:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2017-06-16T23:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T23:01:09","slug":"tstc-in-waco-skillsusa-students-honored-at-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"TSTC in Waco SkillsUSA Students Honored at Luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"

(WACO) \u2013 Several Texas State Technical College in Waco students and faculty members were honored Friday with a fries and hamburger lunch before departing this weekend for Louisville, Kentucky to take part in SkillsUSA\u2019s 53rd annual National Leadership and Skills Conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

TSTC in Waco will send 41 students to the conference which brings together more than 6,000 high school and college students nationwide to compete in contests ranging from automotive technology to welding from June 19-23 at Louisville\u2019s Kentucky Exposition Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully we are going to bring home some medals,\u201d said James Matus, TSTC statewide SkillsUSA manager.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marcus Crespin, 21, of Victoria will return to the conference to take part in the Residential Systems Installation and Maintenance contest which he won the national gold medal for in 2016. Crespin is a Computer Networking and Systems Administration major scheduled to graduate in August.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI know what I\u2019m capable of,\u201d Crespin said. \u201cI\u2019m hoping for a bit more competition to test the skills I have.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The national conference will mark Boyd native Logan Moore\u2019s last work with TSTC. He graduated in the spring with an associate degree in Culinary Arts and will give up his SkillsUSA state presidency after the conference.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moore, 21, finished sixth in last year\u2019s SkillsUSA Restaurant Service contest which he will take part in again this year. He has practiced for the contest in recent days with TSTC Culinary Arts faculty members.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m ready to compete and improve on what I did last year,\u201d Moore said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Moore is eager to collect pins from SkillsUSA delegations. He said he was successful last year getting pins from all 50 states and U.S. territories and hopes to repeat the feat this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The TSTC students qualified for the national conference by placing first in SkillsUSA\u2019s Texas postsecondary competitions held in the spring in Waco.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group is scheduled to return to Waco on Saturday, June 24.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on SkillsUSA, go to skillsusa.org.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information on Texas State Technical College, go to tstc.edu.<\/span><\/p>\n

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