Ryan Fincher, of Cedartown, will represent the United States in Welding at the biennial WorldSkills Competition in Kazan, Russia. Fincher will compete as a member of the WorldSkills USA team, selected and trained by SkillsUSA. The 45th international event will be held Aug. 22-27, 2019. Read the full story on the Marietta Daily Journal online.
Ryan Meppelink, a 20-year-old student from Zeeland, Mich., has been fascinated with all things mechanical since he was 14. For some years now, he has been working on semi-trucks and more recently moved into heavy-vehicle maintenance. Read the full story on Transport Topics News.
On March 11-12, the WorldSkills USA team members and their experts, traveled to St. Paul, Minn., for two days of training at 3M’s headquarters. The first day was spent in team building activities, scenario training and learning what to expect in Kazan, Russia. The next day, competitors enjoyed mentor discussions, information sessions and toured the…
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Benjamin Campbell seems pretty good at designing things. It’s something he’s done all his life, he said. When the 20-year-old engineering student was little, he’d make things with Legos — coin sorters, pinball machines, combination locks. In high school, Campbell took an aerospace engineering class and invented “a small little tool that you could attach…
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NAMPA, Idaho — To a promising engineering student, some might say, “the sky’s the limit,” but for 19-year-old Northwest Nazarene student, Benjamin Campbell, the sky isn’t high enough! “We’re gonna launch those up on a rocket to the International Space Station,” said Campbell, a sophomore engineering student. Read the full story on KIVITV.com.
MADISON, Wis. – Training for WorldSkills is like training for the Olympics. A lot of countries take it very seriously, with competitors training full time for up to two years before the event. The U.S. recently decided to up their game as they prepare to send a contingent of skilled craftspersons to the world competition in…
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Brittany Whitestone, a two-time SkillsUSA champion, will compete in August in the print media technology category. Brittany Whitestone is a junior at Cal U studying graphics and multimedia. Read the full story at Calu.edu.
There are many incredibly talented auto body students in the Commonwealth, but few have the determination and desire necessary to earn them a trip to Kazan, Russia. Read the full story at GrecoPublishing.com.
SkillsUSA announced that 20 young competitors, including four automotive students, will represent the U.S. at WorldSkills, the largest international showcase of the skilled trades. The competition will be held in Kazan, Russia, during the Global Trade Skills Competition Aug. 22-27, 2019. Every two years, competitors from 76 countries and regions around the world compete in…
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If you would have asked Brittany Whitestone, a junior at the California University of Pennsylvania, if she knew she was going to win the 2016 and 2017 SkillsUSA national competition, she would have said no. To her surprise, she did and now she’s preparing to compete at the WorldSkills Competition this August in Russia. We…
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