The 2019  SkillsUSA National Web Design Competition – It just doesn’t get any better than this.

The SkillsUSA Web Design competition had another fantastic year in Louisville. We enjoyed seeing the top High School and College level student Web Designers/Developers from all across the US competing.

While there our team enjoyed Louisville’s Mama’s BBQ, Silvio’s Italian, and way too much coffee and energy drinks to make sure we delivered on the promise of an incredible experience for our secondary and post-secondary competitors.

 

Jonathan Worrent and Mark Dubois lead the charge this year, and I can honestly say things ran incredibly smooth. The competition runs smoothly due to all of the hard work that Mark and Jonathan put into the prep every year. Part of that prep went into the new “Server in a Box” that was tested last year got some beefing up for 2019. This expensive piece of tech allows the web design competition to run much like an actual web development work environment.Kudos to the server team of James Anderton and Jeff McCollum who made it all look so easy.

Some 360 VR Images of the SkillsUSA 2019 Web Design Competition.

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Interviews of future professionals conducted by today’s professionals.

The Kansas City contingent of David Jackson, Grant Schnettgoecke and myself focused on the On-Site team interviews. This was David’s 5th year, Grant’s 1st year ,and my 6th year judging. As always, we were again so very impressed with the caliber of competitors we see at SkillsUSA Nationals. I have no doubt that any of these competitors will get snatched up by web and tech companies as soon as they are ready to take their skills from the classroom to the workplace.

For many of the competitors this was their first experience being interviewed by professional web developers. The interviews add another dimension to the competition and another level of realism for the competitors to learn from. The WebProfessionals.org started the SkillsUSA competition in 2004 and have maintained a high level of authenticity to every aspect of the competition.

 

If you have not had the chance to see a SkillsUSA event, then you need to add it to your bucket list. If you are in a SkillsUSA and don’t have anyone competing in Web Design – then you are missing out.

If you are a state director for SkillsUSA, and you don’t know us – then let’s become friends. We can help you with your state level competitions.

Congratulations to all the competitors who earned the opportunity to come and compete at nationals. You all have the right to brag. Below are is a list of those who got recognized with national medals.

Medalists For NLSC – 2019 SkillsUSA Web Design National Leadership and Skills Conference

High School Level

Gold 

  Meridian Technical Charter High School

  Alexandra Chavez , Caleb Hardy

  Meridian ID

Silver

  Center for Technology

  Benjamin Buscher , Daniel LeBlanc

  Essex Junction VT

Bronze 

  Seward High School

  Eddie Lee , Austin Dobrusky

  Seward NE

College Level

Gold

  Ozarks Technical Community College

  Carissa Hurt, Ryan Mackey

  Springfield MO

Silver

  Manatee Tech College

  Shivangi Contractor , Claudia Estrada

  Bradenton FL

Bronze 

  Moore Norman Technical Center

  Avery Huckabee, William Fleckenstein

  Norman OK

Congratulations again to all the competitors this year.

I had a great time and can’t wait to do it all again next year.

Have Fun – Steve