Team Carson High School and Illinois Central College Win Top Honors at National Web Design Competition Kansas City, MO
Greetings WOW Members and Web Professionals everywhere! Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute.
WOW hosted the fifth annual Web design competition in conjunction with the SkillsUSA organizations National Champions competition in Kansas City last week. Over 5,000 outstanding career and technical education students joined the excitement of hands on competition in ninety-one different trade and technical fields.
Working against the clock and each other, some really amazing individuals representing over forty U.S. states, proved their expertise in the categories of Web design, Web development, Web business and professionalism.
Top students in the contest were:
Secondary Division
* Michelle DeLarge and Amanda Norman from Carson High School walked away with the Gold
* Stephanie Hutchins and Anthony Sweet from Barre Regional Vo Tech Center walked away with the Silver.
* Chelsea Parkhurst and Jesse Garrison from Fort Vancouver High School walked away with the Bronze in the secondary category.
Post Secondary Division
* Sheri Humphrey and Luan Railsback from Illinois Central College won the Gold
* Justin L Fregoe and Lindsay E. Jones from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College won the Silver
* Matthew Steiner and Gregory Malbraaten from Riverland Community College in Minnesota won the Bronze
Stay tuned for additional coverage on the event as well a handful of in depth and inspirational interviews with a number of some of the best and the brightest students from around the U.S. later in the week.