Eleven students competed in the Top of Texas Career and Technology Education (CTE) Competition April 27-28 at Tulia High School.

Students competed for cash prizes and scholarships, with seven Canyon students winning first place in their event. Steven Thrasher teaches Digital Media and is one of the sponsors of the Canyon CTE organization.

“It brings the kids together to compete,” Thrasher said. “You see where you stand against other schools in the area.”

Senior Chance Neese placed first in Computer Generated Art in his first time competing in the CTE competition.

“I thought it was insanely cool to see what other students had built,” Neese said. “It was cool to see all these things that were built that looked like they were built by master builders.”

Senior Isaac Ortiz said he gained a better understanding of hardships of stop motion animation during his project.

“I got to experience this for the first time, and I could see all the frustrations that all the stop motion creators went through in order to make a good video,” Ortiz said. “I could see how they felt afterwards. As for an end result, I felt pretty good about it, and I don’t know how most stop motion animators feel after a big project, but for me I felt like ‘holy smokes, this was amazing.’”

Results for Canyon High:

Chance Neese: 1st Place in computer generated graphic art.

Isaac Ortiz: 1st Place Action/Adventure Movie

Erick Fernandez: 1st Place in CD Cover Design, 1st Place in Business Card Design.

Jordan McKillip: 3rd Place in Portrait Photography, 3rd Place in Architectural Photography.

Jada Avant: 1st Place in Black and White Architectural Photography, 1st Place in Black and White Landscape photography, 1st Place in Color Landscape Photography

Eli Garland: 1st Place in Computer Manipulated Image

Kale Rosser: 3rd Place in Still Life Photography

Jacob Hopson: 1st Place in Woodworking and CNC

Kaylee Kirkland: 1st Place in Woodworking

Kya Rasmussen: 2nd Place in woodworking

Mark Holley, Kaylee Kirkland, and Jacob Hopson: 2nd Place in the onsite construction contest.