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Putting a Lid on Second Graders

Katie Saint working on a cap and letter for her buddy. Law enforcement students at Northeast Metro 916 Career and Technical Center in White Bear Lake, Minn., mentor Oakdale (Minn.) Elementary School second-graders. In what’s known as the Tiger Cubs and Caps project, the high-school students write their “buddies” during the school year. They also knit two caps each for the youngsters. The buddies eventually meet at the elementary school to deliver the caps. This past year, the high-school students also filled in when family members were unable to help with their children’s Flat Stanley projects. See:... Read More

Awareness, Nutrition and Meals

To raise awareness of the growing number of local families with insufficient sources of food, Kaitlyn Hermansen, Marian Yalong and Regina Yoo (pictured left to right) created the #SayNo2Hunger social media campaign in conjunction with Giving Tuesday’s “unselfie” behavior campaign. Besides creating awareness of the issue, the Bergen County (N.J.) Academies SkillsUSA chapter wanted to teach the community the importance of eating properly and provide food to those in need through a food drive for the Center for Food Action. Giving Tuesday occurs the week after Thanksgiving. For details, visit: www.givingtuesday.org. Photo: Ann P. Schreiber... Read More

Students Who Study Technical Education May Earn More

A new white paper, entitled “Preparing our Students for Career Success – What Parents Should Know” examines the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard and U.S. labor market trends to provide insights on choosing educational paths that lead to well-paying jobs. The analysis finds that students who choose an industry-aligned technical education can go on to earn more than their peers at some of the nation’s most-selective liberal arts universities. The paper was written by Douglas Young on behalf of Universal Technical Institute. You can download the white paper here: www.uti.edu/prepare4future. Read More

SME and SkillsUSA Partner to Provide Memberships to High School Educators and Students

(DEARBORN, Mich. – June 22, 2016) – SME and SkillsUSA, two organizations dedicated to finding solutions for the U.S. skills gap, have announced a high school membership partnership to inspire and engage students and educators, to ultimately fill the manufacturing workforce pipeline. Read the full press release. Read More

SkillsUSA Supports Putting Learner Success First

SkillsUSA Executive Director Tim Lawrence authored a guest post on Advance CTE’s blog. Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work is the longest-standing national non-profit that represents State Directors and state leaders responsible for secondary, postsecondary and adult Career Technical Education (CTE) across all 50 states and U.S. territories. Advance CTE was formerly known as the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium (NASDCTEc). Read his full post: http://blog.careertech.org/?p=12460... Read More

SkillsUSA Response to Ohio Masonry Contest Issue

Attached is a statement from SkillsUSA and a statement from the Ohio Department of Education. These statements pertain to an issue with the scoring of the 2016 SkillsUSA Ohio Masonry competition that resulted in a number of mentions in the press. The issue was national competition eligibility. SkillsUSA Statement... Read More

They Bagged It for the Needy

At Niagara Career and Technical Education Center in Sanborn, N.Y., SkillsUSA advisor Scott Brauer asked members to collect food and organize it in bags. Students made the rounds at school, shared the importance of helping the pantry and asked for donations. Each grocery bag represented a meal for a needy family. The result was 1,000 pounds of food in bags for 150 meals delivered to the local food pantry. Pictured above, students shared a sign of their hard work. The class that collected the most was rewarded with a pizza party. Photo: Niagara Career and Technical Education Center. Used... Read More

Making Waves with a Big Win in Honolulu

Graphic communications students at Admiral Arthur W. Radford High School won first place in the Student Print Project Design, Planning and Production category of the PrintROCKS awards. Sponsored by Pacific Printing Industries (PPI) Association, an affiliate of Printing Industries of America, this award qualifies them for the student category of the Benny Awards, part of the International Premier Print Awards competition. The entry included designs for a poster, program cover and volunteer T-shirt for a basketball invitational, says SkillsUSA advisor Lane Yokoyama. They also won Best of Division, Student, and the Mad Props Award, a special judges award for... Read More

Access to Water, Hope for Life

When people collect drinking water in developing countries, their journey can cover many miles to and from rivers or streams, sometimes in perilous conditions. At Frederick (Md.) Career and Technology Center, CAD-engineering students have been testing new designs to more easily move water collection barrels. They plan to send their handle design prototype to the Hippo Water Roller Project in South Africa by year’s end. Student Brittainy Sechler tests a design to more easily move a water barrel. Photo: Maria Olney, SkillsUSA Maryland state reporter. Used with permission. Read More