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Salina Tech students earn SkillsUSA medals
The Salina Journal
Students from Salina Area Technical College brought home 10 medals from the statewide SkillsUSA competition in late April.
The Kansas competition is typically held in Hutchinson, but because of COVID each school’s team competed on its own campus, with judges either in-person or monitoring students were via webcams.
Students who win gold medals qualify to compete in the national competition, which is usually held in Lousiville, Kentucky. This year, as with the state event, students will compete on their own campuses. The national event is scheduled for mid-June.
Salina Tech medalists were:
Record-setting class of 2021 graduates from Salina Tech
Families and friends gathered at Tony’s Pizza Events Center Saturday afternoon to watch the second graduation inside the building that day, celebrating the Salina Area Technical College’s graduating class of 2021.
Salina Tech leaders and faculty celebrated 137 students that ranged in age from 17 to 51 and came from all over Kansas and beyond.
President Greg Nichols said they were unsure for a time whether the event would happen in person, and thanked all staff and students for enduring the past year before introducing the commencement speaker, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Brent Campbell, a senior ordnance officer with the 235th Regiment of the Kansas Army National Guard.