Shrewsbury Student Wins Big At National Competition

SHREWSBURY, MA — One local teen won a silver medal at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference last month.

Chelsea Mayone, a Metal Fabrication senior, was one of seven Assabet Regional Vocational Technical School students who headed to Georgia to compete. Mayone won a silver medal for a tree she created in the welding sculpture competition.

“We are very proud of the seven students who skillfully represented Assabet Valley at the SkillsUSA National Championships,” Superintendent Ernest F. Houle stated in a news release. “We are also extremely proud of Chelsea Mayone for winning a Silver Medal in Welding Sculpture."

Seven is the largest number of students that the Assabet Valley school has ever sent. Among them were:

• Katherine Tovar, a Painting & Design senior from Westborough;
• Arianna Bryce Rudd, an HVAC senior from Hudson;
• Cecelia Robinson, an HVAC senior from Shrewsbury;
• Daniel Gois, a Painting and Design sophomore from Marlborough;
• Diandra Marliere, a Painting and Design sophomore from Marlborough;
• Gabriella Bairos, a Pating and Design sophomore from Hudson.

The students competed in three of the 114 technical and trade skill competitions - welding sculpture, chapter display and promotional bulletin board.

The conference took place over six days from June 23 to June 28, but the students had been working for months on their projects.

“While the students are the real stars, we would like to thank the Assabet community for the incredible support,” stated school advisor Kelly Jenkins in the release. “These projects required months of effort to design, create, troubleshoot and finally ship the products down to Atlanta.”