*Monterey County's 2026 CTE Student Showcase

Welcome to the 6th Annual CTE Student Showcase. The purpose of this showcase is to celebrate Career Technical Education projects created by Monterey County students. 

We are thrilled to officially announce the launch of the 2026 CTE Student Showcase.

This is a time for our Career Technical Education students to shine. We are calling on all CTE students across Monterey County to submit their best work to be featured on our event website and to be recognized as one of the five CTE Student Showcase Grand Champions in the following categories:

• Communication-Communicates clearly, effectively, and with reason

• Technology & Productivity-Applies technology to enhance productivity

• Greater Good-Serves the greater good

• Creativity & Innovation-Demonstrates creativity and innovation

• Research-Employs valid and reliable research strategies

Whether it’s engineering, digital media, culinary arts, health science, or agriculture, we want to see your best work, and how it best represents one of the categories.

Congratulations to this year's Monterey County CTE Student Showcase 2026 Grand Champions!

Communication Award Grand-Champion:  Ava Daniels, Carmel High School

Creativity & Innovation Award-Grand Champion:  Colin Ross, Salinas High School

Greater Good Award-Grand Champion:  Camren Sessions, Monterey High School

Research Award-Grand Champion:  Melisa Merlin, Seaside High School

Technology & Productivity Award-Grand Champions:  Adrian Antonio Picazo, Fabian Serrano, Ramon Aldaco, Peter Perez, Rodrigo Velazquez, Marvin Johnson, Jared Juan Velasco, Heriberto Hernandez-Bautista, Yaret Santiago Ruiz Reyes, and Sebastian Lara-Arambula, Greenfield High School (Team Project)

All Grand Champions have been invited to attend the MTROP JPA CTE Student of the Year Awards Night on May 7, 2026 where they will be honored with their awards. 

The Grand Champion projects are linked, and highlighted in blue below.

A huge thank you to everyone who submitted a project, participated, and or otherwise supported students to make this event fun, and enaging for everyone!  

See you next year.

CTE Showcase Highlight Video 2026:

Awards

• COMMUNICATION AWARD - Communicates clearly, effectively, and with reason

• TECHNOLOGY & PRODUCTIVITY AWARD - Applies technology to enhance productivity

• GREATER GOOD AWARD - Serves the greater good

• CREATIVITY & INNOVATION AWARD -Demonstrates creativity and innovation

• RESEARCH AWARD - Employs valid and reliable research strategies

Here is the rubric used to consider student projects. The awards and rubric are adapted from the Standards for Career Ready Practice.