Skills USA creates drone competition

Students from LHS Skills USA have been busy this winter with creating new competitive events, fundraising and planning competitions.
The LHS group is starting a new event that includes work with drones, according to adviser Terri Varnardo. The group plans to demo the event April 6-8 in Nampa, Idaho, and at
nationals in June.
A handful of LHS students will demonstrate their skills at nationals. The multiple events taking place include additive manufacturing, mobile robotics and welding sculpture.
Skills USA students at LHS raised $75 in February in order to help fund their upcoming competitions. The group sold Crush Grams Feb. 2-10 for $1.50 each. The choices were either a strawberry or orange Crush soda with a cute Valentine’s Day saying such as, “I like you berry much,” or “Orange you glad you’re mine?”
“I’m an out-of-district kid and we did this at my old school. I wanted to keep the tradition going at LHS,” said Miles Lewis, the president of Skills USA, about the grams.
In March the group will sell bags of gold chocolate coins for St. Patrick’s Day.