Huntington Pair Wins Regional SkillsUSA Medals
Huntington High School junior Alexander Gazza and senior Jesse Reigot captured medals in the recent SkillsUSA regional competition.
Mr. Gazza earned a gold medal in the video production category while Mr. Reigot grabbed a silver medal in culinary arts. "These are impressive achievements in a very tough competition," Huntington Superintendent James W. Polansky said.
SkillsUSA is a national student organization that offers leadership, citizenship and character development programs to complement the skills training that vocational students receive in career and technical programs at Western Suffolk Boces-Wilson Tech.
The recent competition required students to demonstrate the skills they had learned in their Tech programs.
"SkillsUSA is a nationwide partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce," according to the national organization's website. "It is a non-profit education association serving high school and postsecondary public career and technical education. CTE is learning that works for America. SkillsUSA teaches employability skills in coordination with technical instruction for 130 occupations in areas including manufacturing, construction, information technology and human services. SkillsUSA serves over 320,000 members annually and has the active support of more than 1,100 corporations, trade associations, businesses and labor unions at the national level. For more information, go to www.skillsusa.org.