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Nashoba Tech Sending 14 to SkillsUSA Competition

Nashoba Tech students swept two categories.

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Sixteen Nashoba Valley Technical High School students combined to win 13 medals at the recent SkillsUSA District Competition, held at Greater Lowell Technical High School in Tyngsborough.
Nashoba Tech students swept two categories, earning gold, silver and bronze medals in both Cabinetmaking and Digital Cinema Production.
The students who medaled will go on to compete in the SkillsUSA State Competition later this spring in Marlborough.
Gold-medalists for Nashoba Tech in the District Competition are:

• The team of Mikaela Berthiaume (senior, Townsend) and John Young (senior, Billerica), Digital Cinema Production.
• Julie Nelson (junior, Pepperell), Cosmetology/Nail Care.
• Shannon Pecora (senior, Westford), Cabinetmaking.
• Shannon Wilkins (postgraduate, Pepperell), Cosmetology.

Silver medals went to:

  • The team of Tori Cafeteiro (senior, Chelmsford) and John Stavro (junior, Billerica), Digital Cinema Production.
  • Matti McAdams (postgraduate, Chelmsford), Cosmetology.
  • Christopher Schueler (senior, Pepperell), Automotive Refinishing Technology.
  • Zebediah Updyke (senior, Townsend), Cabinetmaking.
Bronze-medalists for Nashoba Tech are:
  • Zachary Casper (junior, Chelmsford), Cabinetmaking.
  • Richard Cura (junior, Townsend), Automotive Service Technology.
  • Derek Decesare (junior, Shirley), Electrical Construction Wiring.
  • The team of Kirstin Richard (junior, Ayer) and Raysam Donkoh-Halm (senior, Lowell), Digital Cinema Production.
  • Shaun Sanville (sophomore, Dunstable), Collision Repair Technology.

PHOTO CUTLINE:
Front row, from left, club adviser Derik Rochon, SkillsUSA medalists Mikaela Berthiaume (Townsend), Matti McAdams (Chelmsford), Shannon Wilkins (Pepperell) and Derek Decesare, and club adviser Donna McMahon; second row, from left, medalists Shannon Pecora (Westford), Kirstin Richard (Ayer), Tori Cafeteiro (Chelmsford) and Julie Nelson (Pepperell); back row, from left, medalists Raysam Donkoh-Halm (Lowell), John Young (Billerica), Shaun Sanville (Dunstable) and Christopher Schueler (Pepperell). Missing from photo are medalists Zachary Casper (Chelmsford), Richard Cura (Townsend), John Stavro (Billerica) and Zebediah Updyke (Townsend).
Submitted by Nashoba Valley Technical High School.

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