Students earn bragging rights, college credits at CCC Skills Competition

Elise Brown
February 27, 2012
Filed under Current Events

Students hailing from all over Clackamas County went to Clackamas Community College on Thursday, Feb. 23 to compete in their yearly Skills Competition. Twenty-two students from WLHS competed, and five students won or placed in their event. Students who placed first in their event earned 12 free, transferable college credits, while students who placed second earned nine credits and students who placed third received six.

Winners from WLHS:

• Elise Brown, junior, 2^nd place in News Junkie Jeopardy
• Katherine Farnbach, senior, 1^st place in Music
• Caroline Attanasio, senior, 1^st place in Spelling Bee
• Hunter Bosson, sophomore, 3^rd place in French 3
• Jackson Carter, senior, 3^rd place in Math Individual Competition, level 6