Student Claims…
“CADKEY® & SURFCAM® Gave Us the Edge Over Our Competition.”

Students Win the Gold Medal at the SkillsUSA-VICA in Utah

Above: Utah SkillsUSA-VICA Automated Manufacturing Gold Medal Winners left to right: Devin Bodily, Jeremy Henderson and Storm McDonald (Uintah High School, Vernal, UT).

Devin Bodily, Jeremy Henderson and Storm McDonald, students from Uintah High School won the gold medal in the Automated Manufacturing Technology Competition at the Utah SkillsUSA-VICA Championship, using CADKEY®, 2D/3D and solid modeling software, and SURFCAM®, a powerful PC based Computer-Aided Machining software system both used in industry worldwide. Jeremy Henderson commented, “CADKEY and SURFCAM gave us the edge over our competition.”

William Reese, CAD/CAM Instructor at Uintah High School said, “My goal as instructor is to have the best CAD/CAM lab in Utah at the high school level and I think we are close if not there. We are really excited about winning, as this was our first try, but CADKEY and SURFCAM have made it much easier than other CAD/CAM programs that we have tried. CADKEY and SURFCAM really allowed us to make a quality product and presentation.”

Reese added, “We make molds and parts and have been using carbon fiber composites in our manufacturing class. The students are really excited about this stuff and say that the CAD/CAM classes are the best they've taken in High School. One of my students, Devin Bodily, walked right into a machine shop and is running Fadal machining centers utilizing SURFCAM that he learned in my class as a junior.”

SkillsUSA-VICA is a national organization serving a quarter-million high school and college students and professional members who are enrolled in technical, skilled, and service occupations, including health occupations. Each year, students compete first at the state level, and then the winners continue on to the SkillsUSA-VICA National Competition in Kansas City, MO. For more information or to become involved in SkillsUSA-VICA, visit their Web site at www.skillsusa.org.

Tech Ed Concepts, Inc., donates software to many state SkillsUSA-VICA competitions located throughout the United States for use at the National competition.
Richard Amarosa, President of Tech Ed Concepts, Inc., said, “TEC congratulates the students on their outstanding performance! As in industry, Skills-USA participants need to be a step ahead of their contenders to take the gold. We are pleased that the winning software combination of CADKEY and SURFCAM allowed these students to place above their competition.”

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