SkillsUSA advisor Wesley Sneed, left, was awarded the 2024-25 Kentucky SkillsUSA Advisor of the Year award. Photo courtesy of the Barren County Area Technology Center.
By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
Barren County Area Technology Center instructor Wesley Sneed was recently named the 2024-25 Kentucky State Advisor of the Year for high school SkillsUSA.
Sneed said that while no one at the school seeks awards, he’s honored to get the recognition.
“I was surprised; I didn’t know anything about it until they called my name up on stage,” Sneed said. ” There’s not an advisor in this school that does what they do for the sake of getting regonitions or rewards, but, at the same time, I certainly appreciate the recognition even though I wasn’t seeking it.”
“Any staff member at all on this campus is deserving of this award; everybody works together [and] loves the kids. I’m no better than anyone else, I just love my kids it’s as simple as that,” he added.
Junior Dylan Poynter said Sneed is “one million percent” deserving of the award for all the things he does handling the finances for the 174-member club.
“I’m confident in saying he’s one of the teachers I can call at anytime and have him pick up and talk to you,” Poynter said, recalling a story where Sneed fixed his truck around 8 p.m. on a school night. “He should get it every single year for the amount of stuff he does for the club and the school.”
Poynter is part of the three-person automated manufacturing team that captured first at the 2025 SkillsUSA state conference — the others being Jacob Spence and Joey Meyers. These three are not alone. Twelve students at the Barren County Area Technology Center have advanced to the national SkillsUSA conference in Atlanta, Georgia, from June 23-27.
“I can never remember a time when twelve went,” Sneed said. “That’s phenomenal.”
First place:
- Paul Mares for plumbing
- Alex Poynter in sheet metal
- Addison Garrett for employment application
- Taylor Strange for architectural drafting
- Gabrielle Milton for baking and pastry
- Gunner Morgan in customer service
- Jack Smith in transportation tool ID
- the three-person team of Autumn Milton, Mollie Hawkins and Trapper Vincent for quality chapter
Second place:
- Brady Geary for plumbing
- Lorenzo Cantero for Sheet Metal
- Stephen Nay in employment application
- Keith Crowe in skills creed
- Antionio Reyna, Clayton Jones, Karden Kinslow, Joey Meyers, William Runyon and Adam Carver in quiz bowl
Third place:
- Hunter Matthews in skills creed
- Logan Gorbett, Conner Smith and Adam Carver in automated manufacturing
- Trapper Vincent in electrical 1
Karden Kinslow was also the Skills state officer and Taylor Strange was the state officer, postsecondary.
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