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March 13, 2017

Fine Homebuilding and SkillsUSA’s Keep Craft Alive Scholarship

Fine Homebuilding Scholarships Help to Close the Skills Gap  Leesburg, Va. — SkillsUSA is proud to announce, in partnership with Fine Homebuilding, a new scholarship opportunity for SkillsUSA members. Current…

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March 09, 2017

SkillsUSA Featured in Lucketts News and Notes

The Lucketts Ruritan Club newsletter recently ran a feature article on SkillsUSA. Lucketts is the village where SkillsUSA‘s national headquarters is located. Read more ……

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March 08, 2017

SkillsUSA Endorses WorldSkills Initiative HeForShe

SkillsUSA, the organization that represents the United States in the WorldSkills Competition, is proud to endorse HeForShe – a solidarity movement for gender equality, which is led by the…

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February 27, 2017

SkillsUSA Joins Mike Rowe to Support Baltimore Workforce Development

SkillsUSA Executive Director Tim Lawrence with Mike Rowe. SkillsUSA executive director Tim Lawrence attended the 2017 Build Baltimore Gala on February 25 to support and celebrate Project Jumpstart,…

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February 16, 2017

More Access To Manufacturing Jobs

Rep. Rick Larsen (WA-02) introduced legislation to help students access good-paying American manufacturing jobs by creating partnerships between high schools, community colleges, and state apprenticeships. According to the Department of…

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January 05, 2017

Relevant or Irrelevant?

SkillsUSA Executive Director Tim LawrenceTim appeared on the radio program “Relevant or Irrelevant” (ROI) and talked extensively about SkillsUSA and the skills gap. ROI is a radio show…

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January 05, 2017

Solving the Workforce Struggle 

Jeffrey Krause, the executive director and CEO of SME, has written an article called Solving the Workforce Struggle. He says that industry must work with associations, educators and government in…

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January 03, 2017

Article Highlights Maryland HVAC Program and SkillsUSA

This story by reporter Jon Pitts is about a growing HVAC program at Delaney High School. The article ran Dec. 21, 2016 in The Baltimore Sun (daily readership of 177,000).

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December 20, 2016

Fishing for Millennials

SkillsUSA executive director Tim Lawrence was quoted extensively in an article about recruiting millennials into the printing industry for Canvas, a digital platform that deals with the realities of…

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