Category: WorldSkills

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SkillsUSA Selects Plumbing and Heating Competitor for WorldSkills 2024

SkillsUSA has selected Gabriel Eady and Derek Summers of Tennessee as the official competitors for Mechatronics at the 2024 WorldSkills Competition.

Gabriel Eady and Derek Summers.

SkillsUSA Selects Mechatronics Competitors for WorldSkills 2024

SkillsUSA has selected Gabriel Eady and Derek Summers of Tennessee as the official competitors for Mechatronics at the 2024 WorldSkills Competition.

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SkillsUSA Names First Competitor for WorldSkills 2024

SkillsUSA has selected Lily Williams of Jonesboro, Ark. as the official competitor for Car Painting at the 2024 WorldSkills Competition.

WorldSkills USA Will Go for Gold in Kazan, Russia at Global Trade Skills Competition

Competitors will represent the United States against the greatest young talents in the world Leesburg, Va. — SkillsUSA today revealed 22 young competitors who will represent the United States at WorldSkills, the largest international showcase of the skilled trades. SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a…
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Former SkillsUSA Competitor Selected to the WorldSkills Champions Trust

Kieron Kohlmann Represents the United States and the WorldSkills Americas Leesburg, Va. — Kieron Kohlmann, a former SkillsUSA Championships and SkillsUSA WorldTeam competitor, has been chosen to represent the western hemisphere’s WorldSkills Americas as a member of the WorldSkills Champions Trust (WSCT). Each WSCT ambassador was a WorldSkills competitor in 2013, 2015 or 2017. Ranging…
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In the World Championships of Vocational Skills, Contestants Go for the Gold

SkillsUSA competitor Jordan Baker was featured in The Wall Street Journal on Oct. 30 in an article, “The Thrill of Victory in Welding, Baking and Bricklaying,” about the recent WorldSkills competition, held Oct. 14-19 in Abu Dhabi. Baker practiced nearly daily for more than six months on bread-making techniques under the close eye of her…
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SkillsUSA WorldTeam Earns Four Medallions of Excellence at International Competition for Young Skilled Workers

Highlights Importance of a Competitive, Highly Skilled Workforce Leesburg, Va. — The SkillsUSA WorldTeam received four Medallions of Excellence in the WorldSkills Competition Oct. 14-19. SkillsUSA represents the United States and sent a team of 11 to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to compete in 10 skill categories during the 44th biennial event. Medallions of…
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