The Metal Fabrication and Joining Technologies program has named Roberto Perez* as their Outstanding Vocational Student. Roberto is the son of Roberto Perez and Lizbeth Rivera and came to Diman from Edmund P. Talbot Middle School.

Roberto played on the varsity soccer team in each of the last two years and served as a student advisor on Diman’s Advisory Board this school year. He has demonstrated his technical skills by winning gold medals at Diman’s Trade Fair in each of his first three years, and won SkillsUSA district gold medals in 2014 and 2015.

Roberto works at Gladding-Hearn as a welder through Diman’s Cooperative Education Program and will major in Mechanical Engineering at UMass Dartmouth next year.

* John and Abagail Adams Scholarship recipient