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Celebrating a Big Birthday Hand-In-Hand for Our Future SkillsUSA championsSUMMER 2015 golden moments how we’ve grown over five decades faces of the future welding service to learning how students shaped the organization from the start Celebrating A Big Birthday Hand-in-Hand for our future. We are proud to support... The future of tomorrow’s skilled workforce is in our hands. It’s only natural that America’s #1 brand of heavy duty hand cleaner* join with the #1 champion for the next generation of skilled workers and leaders in America. Now let’s go to work! Visit us at SkillsUSA TECHSPO June 23-25, 2015. *Results based on May/June 2014 survey, administered by a third party where GOJO was not identified as sponsor of the research. Survey of 450 workers and key decision makers in U.S. and Canada in industries where tough soils are encountered. Survey respondents mentioned GOJO more than any other hand cleaner brand in unaided awareness. © 2015 GOJO Industries, Inc. All rights reserved. www.GOJO.com SkillsUSA champions SkillsUSA’s Official Magazine BOarD Of DirectOrS 14001 SkillsUSA Way, Leesburg, VA 20176-5494 Brent Kindred (Wisconsin) 703-777-8810 Michael de Castro (Air Products) www.skillsusa.org Chris Arvin (Caterpillar University) James King (Tennessee) Magazine Staff/Office Of cOMMunicatiOnS Dave Milliken (Utah) Tom Hall, Director Peggy Torrens (Kansas) Ann Schreiber, Associate Director, Communications Charles Wallace (Maryland) Craig Moore, Manager, Web/Technology Kathleen Cullen (National Association of State Direc- Tom Kercheval, Manager, Audiovisual Technology/ tors of Career and Technical Education Consortium) Communications Alex Gromada (Association for Career and Technical Jane Short, Program Manager Education) Jennifer Polz (SkillsUSA State Directors Association) Office Of the executive DirectOr Jennifer Worth (American Association of Community Tim Lawrence, Executive Director Colleges) Sandra Moore, Administrative Assistant Troy Dally (Lowe’s Companies Inc.) Laurie Hackett (Air Products) aDMiniStratiOn anD finance Russ Hoffbauer (State Farm Insurance Companies) Kim Graham, Director Alicia Smales (Snap-on Inc.) SkillsUSA champions online Keith Ashby, Manager, Educational Resources/ Chris Tesmer (Newell Rubbermaid) National Center Cameron Ferguson (Emeritus/Caterpillar Inc.) Visit the SkillsUSA Champions “e-zine” version Melissa Wilson, Manager, Human Resources at www.skillsusa.org/champions/ to flip through Roxanne Hodge, Customer Service Representative natiOnal StuDent OfficerS/aDviSOrS articles, view videos and extra photos and get HigH ScHool updates. You’ll find archives of past issues, adver- BuSineSS PartnerShiPS anD DevelOPMent Ahmad Shawwal/Timothy McLeod (Virginia) tiser links, lesson plans for new issues, and more. Kelly Persons, Director Dalton Crump/Elizabeth Crump (North Carolina) Dave Worden, Program Director, SkillsUSA Stephanie Wilburn/Todd Anderson (Oklahoma) See even more champions on our frequently Championships Robert Gomez/Joe Valdez (Texas) updated website, www.skillsusa.org, as well as: Christen Battaglia, Corporate Development Officer Antonio Vargas/Laura Velez (Connecticut) Jim Kregiel, Program Manager, SkillsUSA Taylor Mackie/Sheila Fox (Massachusetts) Championships Benjamin Miller/Lauren-Anne Sledzinski (Virginia) Leslie Lawrence, Corporate Development Officer Matthew Carder/Deborah Luellen (Ohio) Brittney Colburn, Development Coordinator Anastasia Hawkins/Jordan Bedhart (Texas) Summer Diegel/Eric Croft (Montana) Volume 49, No. 4 eDucatiOn, training anD aSSeSSMentS SkillsUSA Champions (ISSN 1040-4538) is published four Marsha Daves, Director college/PoStSecondary times per school year — Fall (October/November), Winter Heidi Walsh, Program Director, Programs and Grant Brooke Johnson/James Carter (North Carolina) (December/January), Spring (February/March) and Summer Management Quinel Nabors/Joanne Edley (Tennessee) (April/ May) — by SkillsUSA Inc. at 14001 SkillsUSA Way, Niki Clausen, Associate Director, Training Darlenne Helena/Thomas Thoss (Florida) Leesburg, VA 20176. Periodicals postage paid at Leesburg, VA, Associate Director, Conference (Oklahoma) and at additional mailing offices. Copyright 2015 by SkillsUSA. Shelly Coates, Shane Morrison/Ryland Stonehocker All rights reserved. Nonmember subscriptions: $15 per year Management Services Alex Bruin/Michelle Martinez (Arizona) (SkillsUSA members, $1.30 paid with dues or affiliation fees). Stephanie Bland, Program Specialist Ashley Ridgeway, Program Specialist, Conference POSTMASTER: Send address corrections to SkillsUSA Champions, Management Services Attn.: Judy Garrison, 14001 SkillsUSA Way, Leesburg, VA 20176. The names SkillsUSA, SkillsUSA Championships and SkillsUSA Marketing, MeMBerShiP anD SaleS Kelly Horton, Director Champions; the SkillsUSA: Champions at Work slogan; and the Senior Manager, Membership Services SkillsUSA logo, emblem and slogan art are all registered trade- Judy Garrison, marks of SkillsUSA Inc. All rights are reserved, and permission Susan Trent, Program Manager, Member Services must be granted by the national headquarters of SkillsUSA Patty Duncan, Program Manager, Work Force Ready prior to any use. System and Member Services Gayle Silvey, Membership Liaison In keeping with a tradition of respect for the individuality of our members and our role in workforce development, SkillsUSA strives to ensure inclusive participation in all of our kanSaS city Office • 816-691-3827 Byekwaso Gilbert, Program Manager, Alumni programs, partnerships and employment opportunities. aDvertiSing rePreSentativeS fOr SkillSuSa chaMPiOnS Constellation Enterprises Inc. 53 Main St./P.O. Box 508, Cherry Valley, NY 13320 607-264-9069 4 SkillsUSA Champions Summer 2015 asktim Serving Strong at 50 Executive Director Tim Lawrence has known SkillsUSA as a student member, instructor, industry partner and state director. Got a question? He can help. & What is the key to SkillsUSA’sQ Through service,A you’ll experience Q: half-century of success? some life-changing moments, not just for Tim: No organization survives for 50 others but also for yourself. You’ll enhance years without a strong mission and teams personal communication and organiza- of dedicated people to carry it out. This tional skills to help you advance in your anniversary issue of our magazine offers career and further develop as a leader. strong examples of those people, past To mark our 50 years of serving educa- and present. Covering our organization’s tion, SkillsUSA began a 50K Challenge biggest accomplishments, it makes a great (www.skillsusaservice.org) to log 50,000 keepsake to share with future members. hours of service by the end of June. This is The year of our founding, 1965, was a a powerful statement about who we are as pivotal time for our nation. Civil rights an organization and what matters most. were at the forefront, and so was the Helping others can be as simple as space program. The Vietnam War was listening to a child learning to read — or in progress. These were challenging but as complex as rebuilding the home of a exciting times, and 2015 is no different. senior citizen. It can be a one-time event Technology is rapidly changing the way or ongoing effort. You can serve with your our “plugged in” generation works, but chapter or family, community group or people are still fighting injustice. There church. If you need help finding a place to are still wars. We are still trying to serve, try national websites such as Volun- conquer space. Yet if you follow the news, teerMatch.org or CreatetheGood.org. there are also many stories of human Whether your SkillsUSA chapter kindness and doing the right thing. has five members or 500, I encourage Or, like Ryan Eubank, you can be the you to reach out and give. We can each story. His welding program, featured in have an impact on the lives of others. this issue, is inspiring. These students’ Let’s continue to be champions of the reputation is so strong that nearly 20 SkillsUSA mission and make the next 50 organizations are hoping to be selected years even better than the first.• for their next service project. Eubank can train $100,000 welders, but he also wants Got questions about SkillsUSA or other topics? to train responsible citizens. By leading Email [email protected] or send a letter to complex projects, they learn problem the address on the facing page. Put “Ask Tim” solving and time management. in the subject line or mail address. Summer 2015 SkillsUSA Champions 5 what’snew National Conference Just Hanging Out, Nationwide his year’s national officer team has been embracing social T networking all year to help our members get to know them better, and Set to Ignite they’ve just participated in a SkillsUSA first: a live Google hangout. Google Hangouts is a videoconfer- encing service allowing one-on-one or A Bold New Era group video chats and presentations. t last year’s National Leadership and continuing gargantuanization (if that’s not Topics discussed in the session with the Skills Conference, SkillsUSA lit the a word, it should be) of our biggest event. officers included planning community candlesA on its imaginary 50th birthday This year’s SkillsUSA Championships, service projects, conveying the impor- cake, and we’ve been celebrating all year for example, will be the largest ever, with tance of career and technical education, long. At the 2015 NLSC, it’ll finally be more than 6,000 competitors in 100 skill speaking to legislators and more. time to blow those candles out and begin and leadership events. The opening and The hangout is no longer “live” (since
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