Local media outlets welcomed this year’s National Craft Championships (NCC) by covering several individual competitors trips to NCC. Newspapers from Alabama, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Texas published stories on competitors in the Welding-Structural, Sheet Metal, HVAC, and Electrical: Commercial-Industrial competitions.

The articles featuring NCC competitors are listed below

• Birmingham News: - Shanice Kirkland, The Robins & Morton Group, Welding-Structural

• Thibodaux Daily Comet: - Cecil and Trey Folse, ÀÏÅ£Ó°ÊÓNew Orleans/Bayou Chapter, Welding-Structural

• Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: - Jeff Morris, ÀÏÅ£Ó°ÊÓKeystone Chapter, HVAC

• The Gadsden Times: - Lisa Smith, Marathon Electrical Contractors, Inc., Electrical: Commercial-Industrial

• The Dallas Morning News: - Coby McCormick, Construction Education Foundation, Sheet Metal