Mid-America Technology Center SkillsUSA student, Emma Birch, a Horticulture student from Noble, brought home the Silver Medal in the Customer Service contest at the annual National Leadership and Skills Conference in Atlanta, GA.
In addition to Birch’s big win, MATC placed in four other contests on the national level. Dusti Grossnicklaus, Extemporaneous Speaking, 5th place; Tristen Fleck, Lydia Moore, and Ashlyn Ward, Engineering Technology, 8th place; Maisy Lewis, Barbering, 11th place; and Kylee Field, Esthetics, 22nd place.
SkillsUSA is a national student organization that improves the quality of the nation’s future skilled workforce through the development of Framework skills that include personal, workplace and technical skills grounded in academics.
Reports indicate that nationwide, SkillsUSA serves more than 331,000 students and instructors annually.
