McIntosh students

Kayti Haugh, Adam Jessen and Chris Dunn placed in the top six of the Skills

USA Championships, having also placed first in their state contests.

Dunn won fourth

nationally for advertising design; Haugh won sixth for photography; Jessen

took sixth for promotional bulletin board and also participated in the

bulletin board competition, sharing a sixth-place finish.

This was the

fifth trip to national competition for MHS graphics students and the first

time any contestant has placed in the top ten.

"I am

so proud of these students and of the hard work each one put into representing

their state and their school at the national level," said Margo Booth,

advisor and teacher, who accompanied the students to the competition.

"These

scores are exciting for our program and our school, and set a new standard

for MHS graphics students to come," she said.

Skills USA

is considered the largest single day of corporate volunteerism in America,

valued at $20 million in industry support of donated time, equipment,

cash and material. Contests are run and judged by industry using industry

standards for employment.

More than 1,000

industry judges participated. More than 4,000 high school and college

students from every state and three territories competed in 72 technical,

skilled and service occupations contests.