10 State Champ Gold Medals and More for NOVA SkillsUSA!

10 gold medals, 3 silver and 1 bronze for Northern Virginia Community College students at the SkillsUSA Virginia State Leadership Conference! Here’s the winners

🥇GOLD

Engineering Technology Design Team B
Julian Dixon, Erin Tran, Orion Bazid

Team Commercial sUAS Drone
Hudhayfah Amonullah, Abdalla Mohamed

Team Interactive Application and Game Development
Galal Abouelregal, Phuc Le, Youssef Hassan, and Irene Tran

Team Robotics Urban Search and Rescue
Alait Mesfune, Anujin Enkhee

Computer Programming
Levent Yazici

Telecommunications Cabling
Nga Tran

Team Additive Manufacturing
Dylan Townsend, Blake Rockwell

Job Interview
Cyrus Sharafi

Welding Sculpture
Annabelle Betz

Customer Service
Marianne Ndoye

🥈SILVER

Engineering Technology Design Team C
Fatou Bob, Veron Kotey, Raman Rodman

Team Welding Fabrication
Vincent Pham, Samuel Kilby, Anthony Guaglianone

Welding Sculpture
Lauren Rude

🥉BRONZE

Engineering Technology Design Team A
Aidan Hoo, Ali Pekdemir

Abdalla Mohamed, State Champion in Team Commercial sUAS Drone reflected: "As someone passionate about aerospace engineering, this was an incredible opportunity to apply what I’ve learned and explore how drone tech is shaping industries like logistics, agriculture, public safety, and environmental science. Huge thanks to my amazing teammate, Hudhayfah Amonullah and our dedicated mentors, Justin Owen, M. Andy Chaves and Mary Ratcliff- your support made this all possible. Grateful to be part of such a driven and inspiring team. Next stop - Nationals! We can’t wait to represent NOVA!"

If you would like to join SkillsUSA at NOVA, reach out to us at novaskillsusa@nvcc.edu or go to https://www.nvcc.edu/academics/divisions/iet/clubs.html to learn more and sign up!