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PARIS Despite fewer choosing to participate, 12 Oxford Hills Tech School students competed at Maine’s SkillsUSA 2021 Conference, held virtually this year. Three students won gold medals, five silver and four won bronze medals for their entries.
Oxford Hills Tech School’s state SkillsUSA 2021 medalists. From left: Madisyn McAlister, OHTS Director Paul Bickford, Mackenzie Denbow, Kelly Whittemore, SkillsUSA advisor Fred Steeves, Thomasina Lester, Lucy Tardiff, Kacie Record, Graphic Design Instructor Virginia Valdes, Alexia Fasano, Alden Timm, Advanced Communications Instructor Rob Benica, Payton Sherbinski. (Missing from photo: Adam Angevine, Megan Mitchell.
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“Normally we send more than 40 students and the competitions are held in Bangor,” said OHCHS’ SkillsUSA Advisor Fred Steeves.
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PARIS COVID-19 may have changed how students are able to approach their education, but almost a year after the virus shut down schools and continues to plague in-person learning, Oxford Hills Technical School student Thomasina Lester remains in firm control of hers.
Thomasina Lester holds one of the many robots she has built as a preengineering student at Oxford Hills Technical School in Paris.
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It helps that her education has been in a variety of settings and that she has worked part time her junior and senior years for an online tutoring company, Fiveable.
“I became a teacher’s assistant with Fiveable after using it for my own exam prep for AP exams,” Lester, of South Paris, said during a Zoom conversation. “I used to study for my AP world history exam at the end of my sophomore year.