SkillsUSA Champions features our members' photography. We're looking for images of SkillsUSA chapters in action, or the kind that show individual members' concentration or perspectives. The photographer's chapter is awarded $150. For details, email thall@skillsusa.org (put "Image Photo" in the subject header) or write SkillsUSA Champions, P.O. Box 3000, Leesburg, VA 20177.
Melissa Smith, a former student from Bradley, Maine, saw the high pressure of this year's SkillsUSA Championships - literally - at the Cabinetmaking contest. As official photographer for SkillsUSA Maine, Smith accompanied Bangor's United Technologies Center chapter, whose advisor is Bob Clukey.
“SkillsUSA is giving me opportunities that I never would have had otherwise. Not only am I able to travel and develop as a leader, but I am able to meet new, remarkable people and hear stories and ideas that I may never have experienced outside of this organization.”
— Heather Taylor of Drumright, Okla., SkillsUSA's newly elected Region IV vice president.
“We never want to forget the American values on which this country was founded and on which its future success depends, and SkillsUSA helps develop that in a way that is really unparalleled.”
—Susan Sclafani, U.S. Assistant Secretary of education, at SkillsUSA's National Leadership and Skills Conference
SkillsUSA Champions | Fall 2004 | Volume 39, No. 1
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