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SkillsUSA NC 2023 Conference & Competition Packet State & Regional Contest Information Now Available On Our Website!
BOOKMARK and WATCH our COMPETITIONS PAGE for 2023 Contest Postings, including 2023 Contest Versions, Themes, and Contest Dates & Locations. THIS PAGE WILL UPDATE OFTEN!!
SkillsUSA Contest Technical Standards!
Available Free to all Professional Members. Login to Absorb Here.
The Technical Standards are located under My Courses.
Support For One of Our Own,
Matt McKnight
Matt McKnight, one of our SkillsUSA NC Family from Davie High School, needs our love and support. He is fighting a tough battle with cancer.
Please keep Matt and his family in your thoughts and prayers.
SkillsUSA State Officer Candidate Applications Now Open
SkillsUSA State Officers serve as student ambassadors for SkillsUSA throughout the state. Each year SkillsUSA NC recruits student leaders at the high school and postsecondary level who would like the challenge of serving and representing SkillsUSA North Carolina students, teachers and industry leaders.
If you have an exceptional student leader who would like to serve as a state officer, please go to our website for the State Officer Candidate Application and Process Packet!
Are You Ready for SkillsUSA Week?
SkillsUSA Week will be happening Feb. 6-10, and you can participate in many ways: Honor your community supporters, connect with local business and industry professionals, or make a presentation about your CTE program and SkillsUSA chapter at a school board meeting. Celebrate the week by planning activities that follow the daily schedule for chapters nationwide.
Monday, Feb. 6, Recognize and honor members, advisors, administrators, business partners, community leaders and supporters who make a meaningful impact on your CTE program and SkillsUSA chapter.
Tuesday, Feb. 7, Give Back Day. Rally around your school community by focusing on ways for your chapter to give back.
Wednesday, Feb. 8, Partner Day. Invite local business and industry leaders to connect with members, highlighting the importance of developing career-readiness skills found in the SkillsUSA Framework.
Thursday, Feb. 9, Advocacy Day. Amplify CTE in your community by conducting a local public relations activity, such as presenting to school board members, administrators and community leaders.
Friday, Feb. 10, SkillsUSA Day. Celebrate SkillsUSA by wearing your favorite SkillsUSA T-shirt, planning a celebration activity or posting your SkillsUSA Framework story on social media using the hashtag: #SkillsUSAWeek.
There’s still time to gear up for SkillsUSA Week! Head to the SkillsUSA Store to shop the SkillsUSA Week collection for the SkillsUSA T-shirt and other spirit items, such as SkillsUSA sunglasses, buttons, bracelets, balloons and more.
DEWALT Trades Scholarship
Our friends at Stanley Black & Decker have established theDEWALT Trades Scholarshipto assist individuals attending a two-year college or vocational-technical school who are pursuing a trade degree or certificate. Recipients will be awarded one of 40 $5,000 scholarships. Click Here for more information. The application deadline is Feb 8, 2023, or when 1000 applications have been received.
Get Students Career Ready With the SkillsUSA Framework Integration Toolkit
The Framework Integration Toolkit helps advisors to ensure career readiness within your classroom, training program and chapter. Eight strategies have been developed to integrate the SkillsUSA Framework into the classroom, each with activities and suggestions for additional learning opportunities. The Framework provides a structure to assess student development along a learning continuum of awareness, demonstration and mastery. Professional members can access the Toolkit in SkillsUSA Absorb.
SkillsUSA Technical Fridays Workshop
Join us for “SkillsUSA Technical Fridays,” a series of virtual workshops led by industry experts to help teachers develop specific technical skills relevant to their career fields. Leave the sessions with new knowledge and skills to implement in the classroom. On Jan. 27, from 4-5 p.m. ET, Dan Banach will lead an “Autodesk Fusion 360” session with an overview of Fusion 360, including tips to get started as well as sketching, part and assembly modeling and how to create setup for additive and subtractive manufacturing. He is a nationally recognized instructor, speaker at Autodesk University and author of 25 books on 3D mechanical design software, Learn more about the workshops here.
The workshop is free but space is limited. Register here. If you have questions, contact Karolina Belen.
Call the SkillsUSA Customer Care Team if you need help starting a new chapter, registering members, engaging more students or discovering strategies to strengthen an existing chapter. If you have questions or need assistance, the team is here to help. Call SkillsUSA Customer Care toll free: 844-875-4557 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. ET Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. ET Tuesday and Thursday. You can also email them anytime: customercare@skillsusa.org.
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