Published February 23. 2023 06:06AM
By LOU WHEELAND
Special to The Press
Students from five regional technical schools participated in the District 11 SkillsUSA Championships Jan. 26 inside the Agri-Plex at the Allentown Fairgrounds.
SkillsUSA is a competition designed to showcase the best technical and career skills of the student participants.
Students displayed their skills in one of 32 competitions.
Lehigh County area technical schools participating included Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School and Lehigh Career and Technical Institute, Schnecksville.
PRESS PHOTOS BY LOU WHEELAND Jaiddie Morena, Lehigh Career and Technical Institute, portrays a customer as fellow nail care student Amia Samedi applies nail care products to her nails at the District 11 SkillsUSA Championships Jan. 26 inside the Agri-Plex at the Allentown Fairgrounds.
Greg Drake, St. Luke's University Health Network EMT, guides Myrah Dhawan, Career Institute of Technology, Easton, as she performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation on a mannequin. In the back are Robert Toth, St. Luke's, and Kimberly Castillo, LCTI, at the SkillsUSA Championships inside the Agri-Plex.
Payton Knowles, LCTI, works on plumbing at the District 11 SkillsUSA Championships.
Detective Timothy Shoudt, South Whitehall Police, answers competitors' questions at the Crime Scene Investigation competition at the District 11 SkillsUSA Championships.
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Ryan Seiple speaks with PSP Trooper 1st Class Nathan Branosky, South Whitehall Police Lt. Steve Brown and Community Relations Office Jason Grozier at the Criminal Justice competition at the District 11 SkillsUSA Championships.
South Whitehall Township Police Chief Glen Dorney and Parkland School District Superintendent Mark Madson were on hand at the District 11 SkillsUSA Championships.
Criminal justice competitors Andrew Taylor and Antonie Hunsicker, both from Lehigh Career and Technical Institute, attended the District 11 SkillsUSA Championships Jan. 26 inside the Agri-Plex at the Allentown Fairgrounds.
Vehicles are ready for competitors to display their skills at the District 11 SkillsUSA Championships in the Agri-Plex.
