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Students Win SkillsUSA State Championship

LEONARDTOWN - 12/3/2008

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 Tiffany Rose displays her
 first place pin design.
communications students from the Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center earned medals in the 2009 SkillsUSA Maryland State Pin Design Competition.

Tiffany Rose won first place and a gold medal, while Melanie Dyson won third place and a bronze medal. Tiffany’s first place pin design will be produced by the SkillsUSA Supply Service in a limited

 
 Melanie Dyson shows her
 third place pin design.
quantity for the 2009 conference. Tiffany is now qualified to travel to Kansas City, Mo., to represent Maryland in the SkillsUSA National Pin Design Contest at the National Skills and Leadership Conference in June 2009, along with her advisor, Kimberly Clements, graphic communications instructor at the Forrest Center.

“I think it is an honor to be able to proceed to the national level. I was surprised when I won but very excited at the same time, said Tiffany. She went on to say that she had never been to Kansas City before. "I think it’s cool to go somewhere I haven’t been and represent the Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center. I am a year two student there and I am in the Graphic Communications program in the Tech Center,” she continued.

Fellow skills winner, Melanie was also excited about her achievement, "It’s an honor to win an award such as this especially at the state level. And I’m so excited for Tiffany who will continue on to nationals and I wish her the best of luck.”

 

The graphic communications program was the first program in Maryland to be nationally accredited through the Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation PrintED® program. In this two-year program, students are introduced to the graphic arts and printing industries, studying graphic design and digital layout, typography, digital photography and production planning. Graphic communications program completers may receive up to nine college credits at the College of Southern Maryland.
 
For more information regarding the Forrest Center’s graphic communications program, or any other Forrest Center program, please contact Guidance Counselors Diana Kraft or Sue Taylor at (301) 475-0242.



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