Pamela E. Gammans
Marketing & Business Development Manager
Technology Education Concepts, Inc.
800-338-2238 x 308 pamela.gammans@tecedu.com
April 7, 2008
For Immediate Release
Hannaford Career Center Brings Home Gold
Architecture Student wins first prize in Vermont Skills USA Competitions
In just five hours could you re-design an existing 38” x 132’, two floor warehouse into six 1624 sq ft two bedroom apartments? This was the challenge at the Vermont State SkillsUSA competion in Architectural Design this March. Victoria (Tori) Cousino, a second year Architecture student from Hannaford Career Center, Middlebury, was one of ninety students participating in the Skills event.
Tori completed four floor plans of the six units, front elevation of the structure, interior kitchen perspectives, and an exterior rendering that was, landscaped and showed the required parking. Cadsoft’s Envisioneer™ was the software she chose for the competition. She
had just been introduced to the software in February.
This gave her a little less than a month to master the program. Envisioneer™ is a 3D architectural design program that is being used by schools across the country for pre-engineering courses, as well as architectural design, construction trades and interior design classes. Tori hopes to increase her knowledge and speed in the use of Envisioneer™ before the National SkillsUSA championships.
The 44th annual SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills conference is June 23 -27, 2008, Kansas City, MO. We look forward to seeing Tori (and Envisioneer™) in the competition.
About Technology Education Concepts, Inc.
Technology Education Concepts, Inc. headquartered in Concord, New Hampshire, is a privately held company founded by Richard T. Amarosa in 1987. The company provides 3D software and hardware solutions needed to teach today’s young people about the fields of engineering, design, manufacturing and architecture with an emphasis on real-world industrial production and manufacturing. Technology Education Concepts is the academic distributor for Envisioneer and is a proud supporter of SkillsUSA® on the national and state levels.
About Envisioneer™
Founded in 1984, Cadsoft is a premier software developer for residential and light commercial designers, builders, interior designers, and contractors. With ease of use and flexibility in mind, Envisioneer is an easy to use building design program that allows students to effectively model and convey their building, interior, exterior and landscape design ideas in fully animated 3D in a matter of minutes!
About Hannaford Career Center
Located in Middlebury, Vermont, the Hannaford Career Center (HCC) provides quality educational programs to secondary and adult students. The Center offers its students twelve technical and six foundational programs. The Pre-engineering/Architectural Drafting program uses CAD software in the fall and students create blueprints of their dream homes in the Spring. This course is designed to immerse students in an environment of several branches of engineering, including electrical, mechanical, structural, and architectural.
