Eighty Tazewell County Career and Technical Center (TCCTC) students
competed in the SkillsUSA district-level trade competitions which were held on February 24,
2024, and hosted by TCCTC. Tazewell County students and Bland County students who attend
Tazewell County Career and Technical Center competed against students from Wythe, Smyth,
Carroll, Galax, Grayson, and Washington Counties as well as students attending Virginia High
School located in the city of Bristol, Virginia.
Tazewell County Career and Technical Center would like to congratulate the winners from
Tazewell County and Bland County Public Schools:
Automotive Service Technology, 1st place Nickelas Stacy; Criminal Justice, 1st place Kendi
Dye; Robotics and Automation Technology, 1st place Blake Zinsmeister and Austin Wall;
Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair, 1st place Thomas Steele and 2nd place Emily
Minton; Automotive Refinishing Technology, 1st place Ronin Loulies; Barbering, 1st place
Ashley Shelton; Cabinetmaking, 1st place Sean Dillon Stout; Carpentry, 1st place Justin
Kinder; Community Service, 1st place Alana Capshaw, Dalton Scott Golcher, and Ella Lawson;
Cosmetology, 1st place Braelyn Honaker; Crime Scene Investigation, 2nd place Maya Blevins, Zoie Dowdy, and Autumn Hurd; Diesel Equipment Technology,1st place Kenneth “KZ” Rose, 2nd place Ashlynn Brunty, 3rd place Jacob Bowden; Esthetics, 1st place Savannah Shouse with model Mikayla Linkous, 2nd place Stephanie Wingo with model Samantha Brewster, and 3rd place Ka telyn Brooks with model Jillian Crisp; First Aid-CPR, 1st place Haley Reynolds, 2nd place Makayla Matney, 3rd place Brett Bishop; Job Skill Demonstration A, 1st place Zoe Quinn,2nd place Breanna Hess; Marine Service Technology,1st place James Ryan Perkins, 2nd place Trenton Grimm; Masonry,1st place Dylan James Belcher, 2nd place Trinity Phillips and third place Noah Niswander; Mechatronics, 1st place Thomas Cole and Julius Pridgen, 2nd place Crystal Large and Raygan Vance; Motorcycle Service Technology, 1st place Alyssa Bandy; Nail Care, 2nd place Aysia Hammond with model Katie Blevins and 6th place Miranda Brewster with nail model Grayson Lester; Power Equipment Technology, 1st place Stephen Muncy, 2nd place Hope Looney; Team Works, 1st place Ethan Deel, Austin Miller, Orion Mustard, and Matthew Shirey and 3rd place Chad Bowles, Aiden Cornwell, C.J. Maynard, and Ethan Craig; Total Fantasy Fashion Look, 1st place Kydalynn Brown and Jayla Farmer with model Charity Smalling; Bricklayer, 4th place Anthony Davidson;Welding, 3rd place ConnerThompson; and Automotive Service Technology, 3rd place Lane Lowe. Other students who participated from TCCTC were Landon Lucas, Aiden France, Alexis Dale, and John Powers.
“The students of TCCTC are a hardworking and aspiring group of young tradespeople. Each
instructor inspires a work ethic that is necessary to be successful in a given trade and challenges those who desire to perform in competition to apply their learned skills at industry-level standards. This competition is a good indicator of how ambitious the students of TCCTC are to succeed. Many in the Tazewell County communities and schools are eager for what awaits these students in their next round of competition and what the future holds for them in their chosen fields of work,” said Sarah Cooke, TCCTC SkillsUSA Lead Advisor.
TCCTC would like to thank county administration for allowing the use of Nuckolls Hall at the
Tazewell County Fairgrounds.The TeamWorks and Carpentry competitions were both held there. Building materials for the TeamWorks competition were sponsored by Lowe’s of Claypool Hill, Virginia, and sponsored in part by Citizens Building Supply, Randy’s Gateway Drug, Raven Supermarket in Raven, Virginia, Trupoint Bank in Claypool Hill, Virginia, and Worship Hymn Church in Cedar Bluff, Virginia.
Looking ahead, 47 Tazewell County Career and Technical students will set their sights on theState SkillsUSA competition to be held in Virginia Beach, Virginia on April 18-21, 2024.12 instructors will be accompanying their students to the state SkillsUSA competition. If you would like to donate to assist with the costs for these students and instructors to attend the state competition, donations can be made to TCCTC by stopping by the school, via mail to 260Advantage Drive, Tazewell, Virginia 24651, by contacting Lead SkillsUSA advisor Sarah Cooke at 276-988-2529 ext. 1722, or via email to scooke@tcpsva.org.