33 gold, 27 silver, 21 bronze

Students from Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School (BVT) earned 81 medals at the annual SkillsUSA Massachusetts District V Competition held March 11.

A total of 198 students from BVT competed against career and technical education students from six vocational high schools in events designed to test technical knowledge, workplace readiness and safety practices in a variety of trades and leadership categories. 

BVT students earned 33 gold, 27 silver and 21 bronze medals and swept two competition categories. In total, 118 student-competitors from BVT qualified to advance to the SkillsUSA Massachusetts State Leadership and Skills Conference, which will be held May 1 at BVT. 

Hopedale students included gold winners: Nicholas Abbruzzese, Internet of Things; Joseph Bache, Television (Video) Production; and Ryan McGovern, Television (Video) Production.

The complete list of medalists is available at www.valleytech.k12.ma.us/skillsusa.