Students raced against the clock while competing in the
Telecom Cabling contest at the SkillsUSA Championships
Joseph Coderre had less than 10 minutes left out of the 30-minute competition to terminate the end of a cable, install a jack, and screw a faceplate on a wall. Dressed in a white polo shirt, black pants, and safety glasses, he scaled a blue stepladder to bring two horizontal cables from a simulated work area outlet back to the patch panel. As a judge sat nearby with a stopwatch, Coderre worked steadily
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