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.

Where do you see yourself in the future? Photographer Heather Zarilla of Tulsa (Okla.) Technology Center posed that question to her friend Lindsey Carson. Zarilla’s instructor is Clay Allen.

“I just want to give thanks for our success and the opportunities it has brought to our program and our students. … When I talk to new instructors, I encourage them to join SkillsUSA and be prepared for the success that is about to come their way. ”
—SkillsUSA advisor Ken Kunz,
Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, Ill.

“We’re very encouraged with the nurturing platform that SkillsUSA provides our future leaders. ”
— Rick Hughes, president/CEO, Kansas City
Convention and Visitors Association