Athens ISD press release
The Athens High School Technology Student Association competed Monday and Tuesday at the association’s regional meet in Carthage. AHS had a total of 56 entries and are advancing to state in 50.
“This is the first year Athens High School has competed in the Technology Student Association, and our students certainly made a statement today,” said Julie Whitley, TSA chapter advisor and a career and technology education teacher at AHS.
Entries spanned numerous categories from photography to extemporaneous speech. Under the photography umbrella, the AHS chapter earned four first-place wins, 11 second-place, four third-place, and 22 more advancing to state in various categories.
John Baldwin and Dustin McGhee won first place in technology problem solving — 2,334 points ahead of the second-place team. Stephanie Ritz won two awards: first in color computer generated art and second in black and white computer generated art. Evan Conley won first place for a technical report. Jacqueline Rodriguez is advancing to state in essays on technology. Baldwin won first place in extemporaneous speech. We also had two teams compete in on-demand video: Kathryn Martinez, Kathleen Tellez, and Rodriguez earned second and are advancing to state; Jakob Smith, Kyle Kleinmann, and Rafael Hernandez earned fourth place. Pedro Fraire and Armando Ceballos also competed and are advancing in photography categories.
Baldwin and Martinez, who were elected last semester as TSA regional secretary and treasurer respectively, participated in the opening ceremony. The state meet will be held in Waco, April 14-16.