Students compete at drafting competition
Waubonsee Community College recently hosted the annual Illinois Drafting Educators Association regional competition at its Sugar Grove campus.
Seventy-four students from five local high schools, including Aurora Central Catholic, West Aurora, Waubonsie Valley, Oswego East and Indian Valley Vocational Center in Sandwich, participated in the competition on March 5.
Students competed in eight different categories, testing their skills in traditional and computer-aided design, architectural drafting, and modeling.
Students placing first and second in each category earned bids to compete in the state competition.
Students earning top scores in the category of Architectural Board included: Morgan Powell and Cassy Tsagaris, both of Waubonsie Valley; Emily Rusnak of Waubonsie Valley and Enrique Chavez of West Aurora in the Introductory CAD Division; Keegan Donnely of Aurora Central Catholic and Darryl Watkins of West Aurora in the Introductory Board division; Adam Spooner and Francisco Martinez, both of West Aurora, in Machine CAD; David Vellejo of West Aurora and Rachel Kaltencker of IVVC in Architectural 2-D CAD; Jake Schroder and Dan Cordero, both of Waubonsie Valley, and Zach Baker of Aurora Central Catholic in Assembly Modeling; Devin Ratcliffe and Evan Grove, both of Oswego East, and Max Hurst of Waubonsie Valley in Solid CAD; and Nicolet Chovancak and Reilly Devine, both of Waubonsie Valley, in Architectural 3-D CAD.
Randall Hines, Waubonsee's instructor of computer-aided design and drafting, organized the IDEA Waubonsee Regional Competition.