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What is SkillsUSA?
SkillsUSA is a national
organization serving more than 264,000 high school and college students and
professional members who are enrolled in training programs in technical,
skilled, and service occupations, including health occupations.
Where is It?
SkillsUSA has more than a quarter million student members annually,
organized into 13,000 chapters and 54 state and territorial associations
(including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin
Islands).
What's the point of it all?
SkillsUSA prepares America's high performance workers. It provides quality
education experiences for students in leadership, teamwork, citizenship and
character development. It builds and reinforces self-confidence, work
attitudes and communications skills. It emphasizes total quality at work,
high ethical standards, superior work skills, life-long education and pride
in the dignity of work. SkillsUSA also promotes understanding of the free
enterprise system and involvement in community service activities.
Who is involved?
Approximately 13,000 teachers and school administrators serve as
professional SkillsUSA members and instructors. More than 1,000
corporations, trade associations and labor unions actively support SkillsUSA
on a national level through financial aid, in-kind contributions, and
involvement of their people in SkillsUSA activities. Many more work directly
with state associations and local chapters.
What else?
SkillsUSA programs include local, state and national competitions in
which students demonstrate occupational and leadership skills. During the
annual national-level
SkillsUSA Championships, more than 4,100 students compete in 73
occupational and leadership skill areas. SkillsUSA programs also help to
establish industry standards for job skill training in the classroom.
The Total Quality
Curriculum enhances SkillsUSA's Quality at Work movement by
preparing students for the world of work starting in the classroom. The
curriculum emphasizes the competencies and essential workplace basic skills
identified by employers and the U.S. Secretary of Labor's Commission on
Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS).
The Professional
Development Program is a self-paced curriculum for high
school and college students. It teaches skills such as effective
communication and management, teamwork, networking, workplace ethics, job
interviewing and more. The curriculum involves local industry and academics
and can be used in day-trades, apprenticeship training, cooperative
education, school-to-work, academic and special needs programs.
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