Magnolia High
Earns #1
Spot in
In Design/Build Contest!
Magnolia High School’s Building Industry
Technology Academy (BITA) team, under the
direction of instructor
David Webb,
earned first place in the Home Builders
Council-sponsored Design/Build competition
held April 10-11 at the Orange County
Fairgrounds in
Costa Mesa.
Third place honors went to Jeremy Cates’
students at Anaheim High School. Student
carpenters struggled against the contest
clock to build a grown-up-sized playhouse in
sixteen hours over a two-day span.
Instructors ran their teams like
construction crews; some students worked
while others waited in
the wings, ready to be rotated in to give
someone else a rest. David Webb’s
Magnolia BITA team finished an hour and a
half early, and called for a final
inspection. They hung plants on the front
porch, and placed a pre-made wooden number
“506” –their Magnolia room number—over the
front door. Their house was complete!
North Orange County
ROP had five other teams in the contest:
Mike Reed’s BITA team,
Trident
Education Center; Javier Belmares’
BITA team; Brea Olinda High School; John
Puckett’s BITA team; Katella High
School; Roy Morrison’s BITA team,
Valencia High School; and Jerry Cates’
BITA team, Western High School.
Pre-engineering instructor Ron Ponce
assisted the Anaheim High team, and
Robert Albright, Masonry instructor, and
James Murphy, Construction Trades
instructor at Los Alamitos High School,
assisted the Gilbert team. There were
twelve teams in the contest.
Home
Builders Council members sponsored the
teams, providing building materials as well
as tools, hard hats, and shirts for the
event. The Home Builders Council sponsors
scholarships to worthy students in the Light
Construction Development Management
certificate (LCDM) program at UCI. They
also support schools that provide
construction-related classes and programs.
ROP thanks all who contributed, and a
special thanks to Kathy Johnson, the
executive director of Vital Link who started
Design Build twenty-one years ago, and who
is instrumental to its continued success.
Congratulations to all the teams who
participated in the construction marathon.
Overheard conversations during the contest
include the following:
“Is this plumb?”
“Measure exactly! I need 18 3/8 inches
here, not 18 1/2 inches.”
“Wrong nails, guys—take these out and
put in 8 penny nails. It
doesn’t make a difference to you now,
but it will make a difference to someone
down the line.”
Scariest of all—
“Owww!”
“That’s
why we have hard hats, folks.”
Student teams, by school, who participated
in Design/Build, are as follows:
First place team, Magnolia High School BITA,
David Webb, instructor, assisted by
Jon Webb: Gerardo Adame; P. J. Alami; Jordan
Benevides; Edgar Estrada; Savas Estrada;
Eric Gomez; Jose Hernandez; Andy Lopez;
Chris Maxwell; Hector Mendoza; Edgar Mora;
Alejandro Morales; Ricardo Perez; Daniel
Tran; and Tocise Willis.
Third place team, Anaheim High School BITA,
Jeremy Cates, instructor, assisted by
Ron Ponce and Jim Mullion: Christian
Morillon; Jason Leon; Eduardo Santiago;
Jairo Aguirre; Steven Lopez; Ruben Jujan;
Daniel Roman; Edgar Silva; Maria Carbajal;
Lizebeth Correa; Mayra Carrillo; Martin Mati;
Manuel Pena; and Augustin Villagomez.
Brea Olinda BITA team, Javier Belmares,
instructor, assisted by Kenneth Delgado and
Josh Zamora: Sandie Reeves; Sabrina Lopez;
Juliette Lopez; Andrew Lopez; Brandi Drysol;
Felix Alvarez; Dylan Venegas; Edgar Orellana;
Jacob Romero; and Andrew Garcia.
Katella
High School BITA team, John Puckett,
instructor, assisted by Mark Long:
Leny Zarate; Zeus Gutierrez; Jacqueline
Gonzalez; Ricky Miranda; Eriberto Lua;
Gerardo Vargas; Adam Clausen; Oscar Morales;
Holly Hiebert; Ricardo Quiroz; Donovan Vejar;
Carlos Jimenez; Brandon Blodgett; Noemy
Zamarripa; Nicholas Moreno, and Javany
Palacios.
Trident
Education Center team, Mike Reed,
instructor, assisted by Robert Albright
and James Murphy: Monique Martinez;
Luis Torres; Jovanny Molina; Ivan Martinez;
Bryan Hernandez; Oscar Magana; Jose Bravo;
Faivale Vee; Anthony Bedrous; Juan Ortiz;
Jesse Sanchez; David Reyes; Juan Lopez;
Jesus Bautista; and Anthony Hernandez.
Valencia High School BITA team, Roy Morrison,
instructor: Jacob Blackwell; David Reyes;
Edgar Saucedo; Chris Cevallos; Hector
Byerara; Chris Gutierrez; Carissa Jimenez;
Zackary Peterson; Michael Delasantos;
Bernard Quijada; Josh Sumahit; Jonathan
Weiss; Lucio Morales; Juan Ramirez; and
Devon Andersen.
Western High School BITA team, Jerry Cates,
instructor: Jonathan Ochoa; Marco Limon;
Alberto Sanchez; Aaron Reyes; Daniel
Leonhardt; Gabriel Ramirez; Jonathan Rauch;
Thuan Vo; David Hernandez; Nathan Crow;
Brandon Savage; Ahmed Subhi; Anthony Toscano;
Alex Pena, and Ben Winningham.
ROP
Culinary Arts Student takes first place in
Teen
Chef competition - and earns scholarship!
Emmanuel Osornio, a senior in
Bob Moonswami's Advanced Culinary class
at Savanna High School. Emmanuel came
in first place in a field of ten at
the regional Teen Chef competition at
the Arts Institute in Santa Ana on
Saturday, April 17. In addition to a
$5,000 scholarship, he has earned a trip
to Houston to compete in the National
Teen Chef competition,
where a total of $200,000 in scholarship
money will be awarded.
Emmanuel has also studied at the
Culinary Arts Institute, completing
classes in Safety and Sanitation, Frozen
Desserts, and Pasta.
Congratulations Emmanuel!
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