Alamo Community Colleges News & Events

For Immediate Release
April 10, 2008
Contact:  John Hammond, Director
Public Relations, 210-733-2147

SAC Students Win Top Awards in Skills USA State Competition
 

Left to right Natasha Krautheim (awarded 2nd place in written and 2nd place Skills contest); Cynthia Waits (awarded 3 place written contest, 1st place Skills contest, she will travel to the Nationals for SkillsUSA in Kansas, Missouri, June 23- 28, 2008 to compete at the National contest, representing Texas in the area of Dental Assisting); and
Anna Valdivieso (awarded, 1st place written contest, 3rd place Skills contest).

Five students in San Antonio College’s Dental Assisting and Engineering
Technologies programs took top awards in the 36th Annual Skills USA
College/Postsecondary Division State Leadership Conference competition, held
in San Antonio on March 27-29.

In the Dental Assisting competition, Cynthia Waits took First Place (Gold
Medal) in Technical Skills and Third Place in the Written Test, Natasha
Krautheim took Second Place (Silver Medal) in Technical Skills and Second
Place in the Written Test, Anna Valdivieso took Third Place in Technical
Skills and First Place in the Written Test.

In the Electronics Engineering Technologies competition, Ryan Gernsbacher
for the second consecutive year took First Place (Gold Medals) in both the
Written Test and in Technical Skills; and Electronics Engineering
Technologies student Kaysone Luangkhoth took Second Place (Silver Medals) in
both the Written Test and in Technical Skills.

Both Waits and Gernsbacher will go on compete in the National Skills USA
competition to be held in Kansas City June 23-27.

According to their website (at http://www.txskillsusa.org/about-us.php),
“SkillsUSA is a national student organization that works directly with
business and industry to maintain American productivity, quality and
competitiveness.”  

For more information, call 785-6184 about the Dental Assisting students or
733-2930 about Engineering Technologies students.