Brazoswood CTE Welding Team Wins Multiple Industrial Craft Competition Awards (ICC) at the 2024 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; Wins Back-to-Back Best of Show Grand Champion
At the beginning of each school year, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo selects various CTE high school programs throughout the Gulf Coast to participate in a full-scale creation and judging of an industrial piping skid in coordination with the Industrial Craft Competition (ICC). The project includes various learning opportunities for CTE students including safety, estimating, scheduling, fabrication, welding, and electrical.
Competing for three consecutive years, Brazoswood’s Welding CTE Team received various awards in the Tier 1 category for their completion of this year's ICC Project.
- Overall Safety Grand Champion
- Project Presentation Reserve Grand Champion
- Project Execution Grand Champion
- Built to Specification Reserve Grand Champion
- Best of Show
- Grand Champion
Brazoswood Industrial Craft Competition Team: Jonothan Leal (Mentor, BASF), Allie Ivison, Courtney Homniok, Jake Hughes (Mentor, TASC), Jeremy Moore (Mentor, BASF), Matt Fast (Mentor, BASF), Sophia Saenz, Dane Kirschner, Jordan Byrd, Angel Zapata, Trajan Mumford, Wyatt Pena, Adrian Hernandez, Evan Cernoch
Project Manager - Courtney Homniok
This marks the second year in a row that the team has won Best of Show - Overall Grand Champion, Overall Safety - Grand Champion and for the third year in a row the team has won Project Execution - Grand Champion.
“Competing at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo really opened my eyes to how important safety and teamwork are in industry,” said Evan Cernoch.
“As their teacher, I'm extremely proud of my students who just won Grand Champion. Their achievement reflects the dedication and hard work they have put in throughout the year. It's been incredibly rewarding to watch these students grow in their leadership skills, working together as a team, as well as supporting each other through challenges. When announced as Grad Champions, it was awesome to see how excited and proud these students were with smiles and even a few tears of joy,” said Welding Instructor Michael Strobel.
Each student participating in the competition was assigned various roles on the team. Below are the students' names and their roles on the team.
Allie Ivison - Safety Manager
Courtney Homniok - Project Controls and Project Management
Trajan Mumford - Welder
Evan Cernoch - Welder
Dane Kirschner - Materials Manager and Welder
Wyatt Pena - Crew Worker
Adrian Hernandez - Crew Worker
Jordan Byrd - Crew Worker
Angel Zapata - Crew Worker
Sophia Saenz - Crew Worker
“This project gave me a good understanding of what actual industrial type of work looks like that I will be doing after graduation,” said Angel Zapata
The Industrial Craft Competition helps to foster the development of industrial craft skills for students who are enrolled in career and technical education programs from schools across Texas. Teams construct a spec-built project that is judged by industry experts. Each team is required to deliver a brief presentation to the judges, preceded by a detailed inspection of the project. Industry mentors work with high school instructors to provide their expertise and guidance. In addition, the students keep a journal of their progress that covers their roles, the project safety plan, an incident log, the project schedule, and any rework that was completed.