“My instructor talked me into doing it and I figured why not, it would be a fun real world test of my knowledge thus far.

The competition was to take an old barn, with existing dimensions and turn it into a livable space for a ranch home.

I was determined to get through school and get a job and wasn’t looking for too many extracurricular activities. I had heard a lot about the Skills competition through the school but had no intentions of signing up. One of the first things I tried was to recreate the clue board mansion into a real world building through Chief Architect. I would put off my assignments because I would get too enveloped in my own ideas, just experimenting with the program. That’s where I was introduced to Chief Architect. I started attending Wichita Area Technical College in fall of 2016, having had all my general education taken care of I didn’t have much to take. I graduated from Augusta, Kansas in 2009 and just recently decided to go back to school. My interest was always there, it just took me a bit after high school to get settled and figure out what I was going to do. In fact, when I was young my mother would take me to the library and instead of checking out normal young adult/children’s books I would get a few copies of Architectural Digest and look at all the house designs. “My dad is a land surveyor and I was always interested in architecture.

Corey won gold at Kansas SkillsUSA! His passion for architecture began at an early age and has developed through college and now into a full-time career.

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