ACC Earns 9 Medals at SkillsUSA Colorado

ACC automotive technology students pose with medals at SkillsUSA competition.

9 students from the Arapahoe Community College (ACC) Automotive Technology program competed at the 2025 SkillsUSA Colorado State Leadership & Skills Conference on April 9-11 in Pueblo.

ACC students combined to win 5 individual gold medals and 3 individual silver medals, including: 

GOLD 

  • Mackenzie Bogard: Related Technical Math 
  • Abby Epstein: Job Interview 
  • Gavin Fink: Customer Service 
  • Colin Venable: Automotive Service Technology 
  • Diedra von Frame: Job Skill Demo A

SILVER 

  • Haley Debem: Pin Design 
  • Destiny DeMarree: T-Shirt Design 
  • Cameron Zimmer: Automotive Service Technology

Additionally, ACC's Quiz Bowl team (Bogard, Debem, Fink, Sydney Fischer, and von Frame) won gold.

Gold medalists will move on to compete in the 2025 SkillsUSA National Leadership & Skills Conference on June 23-27 in Atlanta. Eddie Miller and Jake Tipsword serve as ACC's co-faculty advisors for SkillsUSA.

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