FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: William Morris
wmorris@dunwoody.edu, 612.381.3367
Dunwoody students brought back some hardware from last weekend’s National SkillsUSA competition held June 21-25 in Kansas City, MO. Mike Moreen (Electrical Construction and Maintenance) won the Gold Medal in the Related Technical Math category. And Dunwoody’s Quiz Bowl followed up on its dominating Minnesota competition by edging out Tennessee Technology Center at Newbern in a tight contest to also take the Gold. Dunwoody’s team featured Ben Anderson (Automotive Service Technology), Matt Barlau (Architectural Drafting and Estimating), Kyle Bodie (Architectural Drafting and Estimating), Phillip DeLeeuw (Automated Systems and Robotics), Jonathan Hill (Architectural Drafting and Estimating) and Jim Stenstrom (Electrical Construction and Maintenance).
Moreen and the Quiz Bowl team made it to the national competition by taking first in their respective categories at the Minnesota SkillsUSA competition. Also competing in Kansas City was Jonathan Hill (Architectural Drafting and Estimating) in the Architectural Drafting category.
In conjunction with the SkillsUSA competition, the National Robotics Competition took place. Dunwoody’s entry Rugburn — guided by James Jorgenson, Casey Combs and Michael Rhode — took second place. Rugburn qualified for the national competition by taking second place in the Minnesota Robotics League competition.
SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled work force.