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February 15, 2017

TCAT efforts help Tennessee Victims ofFire

After wildfires struck the Gatlinburg, Tenn., area, staff and students at the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology (TCAT) campuses took action. Help for fire victims in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Photo: TCAT, Knoxville,…

Chapter News

February 15, 2017

Drafting a Place to Live

Photo: Milton Hershey (Pa.) School. Used with permission. As part of the Milton Hershey (Pa.) High School engineering and design pathway, seniors are using Revit, architecture design software to design…

Chapter News

February 15, 2017

Baking Goods for the Homeless

Photo: J.T. Statler, A.C. Davis High School, Yakima, Wash. Used with permission. Courtnie Harrington and Emilio Hererra of A.C. Davis High School in Yakima, Wash., teamed with fellow students to…

Features Press Releases

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…

Press Releases

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…

Features

January 05, 2017

Ring in 2017 with Career Planning and Goal Setting

It’s time to kick off the new year with the help of the Career Transitions site. This is a free resource where students can: Assess their career interests by…

Features Press Releases

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).

Press Releases

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…

Chapter News

December 15, 2016

Motors to Build Skills and Partners

Photo: Kevin Law, Tazewell (Va.) County Career and Technical Center. Used with permission. At SkillsUSA’s national conference, instructor Mike Howington made a connection with representatives from Harley-Davidson Inc. Returning…

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