Midlands Technical College Wins Gold, Silver, and Bronze at 2026 SkillsUSA Championship

Some of MTC's student competitors and MTC faculty sponsors are pictured at the 2026 SkillsUSA Championship.

Midlands Technical College won three medals, including a national championship, at the national 2026 SkillsUSA Championship in Atlanta, GA the first week of June. At the SkillsUSA nationals at the Georgia World Congress Center, MTC’s Building Construction Technology team won gold in the TeamWorks category. The gold medal team consisted of students Eva Carroll, Kaleb Lawrie, Kameron Knight, and Josh Tyndall.

MTC students also earned medals in two other categories: Lundin Breanna with silver in Graphics Imaging Sublimation, and Colby Golden with bronze in Screen Printing Technology. This marks the most wins ever for MTC at SkillsUSA.

“SkillsUSA is a wonderful testament of hard work, dedication, and commitment from our students and faculty. These students took a chance, took a risk, and realized, ‘I may not win this thing, but I’m going to try anyway,’ and that’s the kind of attitude that it takes to be successful in life,” said MTC President Dr. Greg Little.

This marks the fifth consecutive year that MTC’s building construction team has placed nationally; previously winning gold in 2022.

“I couldn’t be more proud of them,” said MTC Building Construction Technology Program Director Robbie Sharpe. “This group has worked really, really hard. Eva, Cameron, Caleb, and Josh – they were all 100% laser focused on what they had to do.”

“It’s a huge accomplishment. Five years in a row, we’ve had two national championships, two national runners-up, and a third-place finish. That’s extremely hard to do,” Sharpe added. 

In previous national SkillsUSA TeamWorks competitions, student Kaleb Lawrie earned bronze in 2024 and silver in 2025. Students Eva Carroll and Kameron Knight earned silver in the 2025. Carroll's gold-medal performance marked her second consecutive year as the only female medalist in the college/postsecondary TeamWorks competition. 

SkillsUSA’s National Leadership & Skills Conference (NLSC) is the largest gathering of America’s future skilled workforce and the ultimate recognition of excellence in career and technical education. Held in Atlanta each June, the NLSC is a week-long celebration of the skilled trades and the accomplishments of career-ready leaders from across the United States. The highlight of the NLSC is the SkillsUSA Championships, where approximately 7,000 state champions compete for national gold, silver and bronze medals in 115 skilled and leadership competitions.

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Learn more about MTC’s School of Advanced Manufacturing and Skilled Trades (AMST) and School of Science, Information Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM).

For five consecutive years, Mungo Homes and the Michael J. Mungo Foundation have sponsored MTC’s Building Construction students as they compete at SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference. Our students could not have completed this achievement without their support.