Phoenix Challenge Announces Winners
ing/testing, prepress, plate mounting, printing, diecut- ting and more. The two-day event also included a tour of Genpak. After the all the judging of hands-on skills and the tests were scored the top three teams placed as follows: 1st — Asheville High School; Grayson Hackett and Travis Brown 2nd — Asheville High School; Alex Abrams and Do- rian Harmon 3rd — Knox High School; Michael Poindexter and Kameron Howard Guadalajara, Mexico, hosted nearly 1,000 label and package printing industry representatives from 12 Latin Amer ican countr ies Apr il 24-25 at Expo Guadalajara. This made it one of the best attended events of its kind to date. The two-day event united key suppliers and top label and package printing in- dustry stakeholders for a combination of confer- ence sessions with panel discussions, technical and practical presentations, and a tabletop exposition running for the duration of the event. 15th Label Summit Latin America Unites Printers
The Phoenix Challenge Foundation has announced the winners of its two competitions, the PCF College Competition and PCF High School Skills Competi- tion, which took place in March and April. The 11th PC College Competition concluded with eight schools traveling to St. Louis, Missouri, where they enjoyed tours of Rotometrics and Mark Andy Inc. before demonstrating their talents during the live presentations detailing their “real life” small business client projects, which require flexo printed materials to support a set of specific objectives. The 2018Winner’s in the top categories are: • Overall Competition – Cal-Poly • Research – University of Wisconsin - Stout • Execution – Clemson University • Concept –Waukesha County Technical College • Graphics –Waukesha County Technical College The 2018 PCF High School Skills competition was held in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the 21st time. Thirty-six students from across North America came together in two-person teams where they demon- strated their new flexo skills through a live, hands-on multi-faceted program covering flexo math, ink mix-
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