Winners of Phoenix Challenge high school competition announced

At the 2010 International Phoenix Challenge High School Flexo Competition, first-place was awarded along with USD $1,000 scholarships each to Stephanie Hammond and Lianne Chang of GordonGraydonMemorialSecondary School in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. They were declared the winners of the thirteenth annual competition which took place at the HarperNationalFlexographicCenter at CentralPiedmontCommunity College in Charlotte, North Carolina, in late March.   

The pair won the first place award by earning this year’s highest combined scores in the contest’s five exams: written knowledge, math, pre-press proficiency, press operation and plate-making. In addition to the two Phoenix Challenge Foundation Scholarships, the winning team took home the 2010 Harper Flexo High School of the Year trophy cup, for display at its school. Stephanie Hammond is a second year champion, having clinched first place with a different teammate in the 2009 competition.

Top performing students excelled in all aspects of the competition. Second place went to Grant Izukawa and Chong Wang, also from GordonGraydonMemorialSecondary School. Third place want to James Jackson and Marcus Davis from FairfieldCareer & TechnologyCenter in Winnsboro, South Carolina.  

The competition was stiff among the nineteen participating teams, a number which has grown year over year since the Phoenix Challenge high school program began back in 1998.   

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