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.

At Brookhaven Technical Center in Bellport, N.Y., fashion/merchandising students Gina Cucceraldo and Amanda Erlwein work on gowns. Photography students, instructed by Don Miellie, help create portfolios for both classes.

There’s only a handful of national organizations positioned to positively affect America’s future skilled workforce. SkillsUSA is one of them.
—Phyllis Eisen, National Association of Manufacturers

SkillsUSA showed me there’s more than one way to become successful. I thought the only way I was going to make it was through sports. But eventually, after I got involved in SkillsUSA, many doors started to open, and I realized that sports just wasn’t for me anymore.
— National officer Nehemiah Payne of Ohio