VALDOSTA – Student leadership in Lowndes Technology Student Association continues. 

Not only did Lowndes High TSA take six top 10 placements, three Lowndes High students, Courtney Raymond, Christopher Bellflowers and Tate Green ran successful state officer campaigns and were elected as 2018-19 TSA state officers, according to school officials. 

During the 2018-19 school year, Raymond will serve as the TSA state sergeant at arms; Bellflowers will serve as TSA state treasurer; Green will continue his leadership as TSA state secretary; and Preston Crawford represents Lowndes TSA at the national level as the national sergeant at arms. 

In competitive events, Aeryn Cronin and Gavin McGuire took home a second-place trophy in animatronics and the chapter team, a parliamentary procedure event, consisting of Bellflowers, Liam Wetherington, Crawford, Raymond, Kathryn Crawford and Green took fifth place. 

Two sixth-place finishes went to Tee Mitchell in computer-aided design architecture and Ebony Williams for transportation modeling. Sarah Cole and Preston Crawford placed eighth in children’s stories. 

Rounding out the top 10 was Mitchell, Jake DeMersseman and Wesley Smith in system control technology.