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.

Some students will go to any length to get the job done right. Jason Kinzel caught Kody Zimmer in action at Milliken Technical Center in Oakdale, N.Y. Kinzel's instructor is Don Miellie.

To learn how to talk to your legislators is very important. It’s your right as a student, as an adult and as an American.

—Sean Apsey, East Peoria, Ill., SkillsUSA national officer

Our major reason for being here is because we’re looking for qualified, dedicated, intelligent and excellent people — talented people to join our organization. And that’s what we find here.

— Training supervisor Wayne Hays of Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC, during SkillsUSA’s Washington Leadership Training Institute