What is Skills USA?
Whom Do I Contact?
Where Can I Get More Information?
What is the UVU Legacy at Skills USA?
Who are the 2007 Winners?

What is Skills USA?

Membership: More than 284,000 students and instructors join SkillsUSA annually, organized into more than 14,700 sections and 54 state and territorial associations. SkillsUSA has served more than 8.8 million members.

Mission: SkillsUSA is an applied method of instruction for preparing America’s high performance workers in public, career, and technical programs. It provides quality education experiences for students in leadership, teamwork, citizenship, and character development. It builds and reinforces self-confidence, work attitudes, and communication 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.

Partners: Currently, 14,612 teachers and school administrators serve as professional SkillsUSA members and instructors. More than 1,000 business, industry, and labor sponsors actively support SkillsUSA at the 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.

Programs: SkillsUSA programs include local, state, and national competitions in which students demonstrate occupational and leadership skills. At the annual national-level SkillsUSA Championships, over 4600 students compete in 84 occupational and leadership skill areas.

SkillsUSA programs also help to establish industry standards for job skill training in the lab and classroom, and promote community service. SkillsUSA is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and is cited as a "successful model of employer-driven youth development training program" by the U.S. Department of Labor.

The Professional Development Program (PDP) teaches 84 workplace skill competencies in a series of hands-on self-paced lessons. The Total Quality Curriculum (TQC) trains students through activity-based instruction in the quality improvement process used by industry. Student2Student Mentoring gives high school students a chance to mentor younger students in the area of career development.

CareerSafe is a credentialed 10-hour online training program developed in cooperation with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to provide students with basic knowledge of safety and a credential desired in the job market.

Workplace Readiness Certification demonstrates student attainment of employability skills. It requires successful completion of a written exam prepared with NOCTI (National Occupational Competency Testing Institute) and NASDCTEc, the consortium of state directors of Career and Technical Education.

Whom Do I Contact?

For More Information:

Contact: Darin Taylor, Director

SkillsUSA at UVU
CS 704G
(801) 863-8168

Where Can I Get More Information?

National SkillsUSA Organization

Article about UVSC(UVU) Student—Winner at SkillsUSA National Competition

UVU Tradition of Excellence

Based upon medal count, Utah Valley University at the National SkillsUSA Competition in June 2006, won 10 national medals (6 golds and 4 silver) and tied for the ranking of #2 in the nation.

Winning is a tradition of excellence at UVU, as is noted by their national rankings for the last six years:

2001 – UVSC #!

2002 – UVSC #1

2003 – UVSC #1

2004 – UVSC #1

2005 – UVSC #2

2006 – UVSC #2

2007 - UVSC #2

Forty-four states in the nation did not win as many college medals as UVSC did on its own. The State of Utah won a total of 28 medals, which earned the state the ranking of #4 in the nation. Of the 28 medals earned by the State of Utah, 36 percent were earned by UVSC.

UVU 2007 SkillsUSA Winner

Gold

Brett Munden Architectural Drafting

Aaron Dent Chapter Business Procedure

David Furr Chapter Business Procedure

Kami Furr Chapter Business Procedure

Lindy Hall Chapter Business Procedure

Doug Nordin Chapter Business Procedure

Whitney Orton Chapter Business Procedure

Karl Kendall Related Technical Math

Jason Prete Residential Wiring

Vinicius Carvalheiro Robotics & Automation

Robert Simmons Robotics & Automation Technology

Phillip Ah You Screen Printing

Legrand Hunsaker Television Video Production

Paul Hunt Television Video Production

Silver

Scott Wakefield Computer Programming

Kathleen Moffat Job Skill Demonstration "A"

Jason Dean Plumbing

Bronze

Derek Frazier Advertising Design

Justin LaMarr Fire Fighting

Chris Smetana First Aid/CPR

Calvin Robertson Mechatronics

Russ Wheeler Mechatronics