Lina Barclay and Ellie Nix, two 2022 Arlington Tech graduates from the Arlington Career Center, received the initially-position gold medal in the Television (Video clip) Creation contest at the once-a-year Nationwide Leadership and Techniques Meeting and SkillsUSA Championships, held lately in Atlanta.

Barclay and Nix represented Virginia in this contest and competed towards 37 other groups from across the U.S.

The Tv (Online video) Output contest is a two-member workforce levels of competition exactly where students are provided a prompt to plan, shoot and edit a 60-next promotional video clip in two times. The staff is evaluated on capabilities these as adherence to the prompt, shot collection and composition, camera balance and concentration, audio excellent, enhancing circulation and transitions, speech/music harmony and the “wow factor” of the piece.

Tom O’Day, the tv and multi-media manufacturing instructor at the Arlington Profession Center, has waited a long time for this end result.

“This is an really challenging contest to get. We have competed in this contest for in excess of 25 many years, and could never get in excess of the hurdle to earn,” O’Day mentioned. “It’s unbelievably aggressive considering the fact that we are taking on every condition winner.”

Barclay and Nix arrived in next location in the contest very last year, and ended up established to earn the entire point in 2022.

“Their tricky perform has paid out off and they can proudly say that they are nationwide champions,” O’Day stated.

Barclay will be attending Boston University to study film and Nix will be attending the College of Texas in Austin to review radio, television and movie.

Arlington Vocation Heart tv-creation learners also took house a third-spot medal in the Atlanta competitors. Vocation Heart university student Scotten Maderal and Arlington Tech students Evan Holt, Rand McAvoy and Antonio Abela competed versus 20 other teams in that exertion.