Cabell County Career Technology Center students pose with a plaque showing they won Nucor Steele West VirginiaÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s Ken Iverson Project sculpture contest on Monday, May 12, 2025.
Cabell County Career Technology Center students pose with a plaque showing they won Nucor Steele West VirginiaÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s Ken Iverson Project sculpture contest on Monday, May 12, 2025.
HUNTINGTON ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥” Students at the Cabell County Career Technology Center won a sculpture contest created by Nucor Steel West Virginia.
Nucor Steel West Virginia organized the contest, called the Ken Iverson Project, named after the founder of Nucor Steel Corp. According to Nucor, the project aims to inspire creativity, art and history through metalworking.
Cabell County students were among those at four schools who were given four months to complete sculptures representing the heritage of West Virginia.
The winning sculpture, ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œExplore West Virginia,ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ features a metal brook trout, the state fish, layered with mountains and trees on top of a ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œWild and WonderfulÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ West Virginia-shaped pedestal.
ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œI think theyÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™re amazing,ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ CCCTC Principal Melissa Ash said of her students. ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œThey always go above and beyond.ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥
Ash said three groups of students in graphic design, welding and collision repair worked together to design, construct and paint the sculpture.
ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œThis is what we need to be doing more of ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥” collaboration across departments, across programs,ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥ she said. ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥œ(The students) need to think outside the box of what we normally do. Think about how you can put your trade and put your spin on it. And that makes them think a little bit and figure it out. So itÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥™s always a great learning opportunity.ÃÛÁÄÖ±²¥
Ash said her students were given a plaque for winning, and Nucor gave the school all the supplies they needed to complete the sculpture.
The sculpture will be displayed in the Nucor Steel West Virginia Apple Grove facility for a year before it is given back to the school, she said. Ash said she will try to make a place in the new building, the Woody Williams Center for Advanced Learning and Careers, to display it.
Katelyn Aluise is an education and court reporter.
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