SkillsUSA Week and Career and Technical Education Month

From: Tim Lawrence
To: SkillsUSA Active Advisors
Date: February 8, 2010
Subject: SkillsUSA Week and Career and Technical Education MonthHappy SkillsUSA Week (February 7 – 13) and happy Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month. I hope you and your students are conducting activities this week to help people in your community know [...]

Announcing the Launch of SkillsUSA’s All-New Online Store

SkillsUSA is pleased to announce the launch of SkillsUSA’s all-new online store for clothing, branded items and chapter supplies. The official SkillsUSAStore.org is now open and ready for you to visit!

Log on today to discover an exciting array of new products, including stylish fashion apparel, accessories and gift items. From new personalized products — such [...]

Blogging for Mobile Devices

I just added the WordPress Mobile Edition .  Think of this as a must have for your platform in today’s world.

So now you can view OregonSkillsUSA on your Mobile Phone.

Visit http://mobile.nytimes.com using your phone.  Incredibly useful and lightning fast, even when compared to the NYTimes iPhone Application which pales by comparison.

SkillsUSA Thank You Notes

Remember that this year we have a new Prize Policy due to our generous sponsors, especially the Air National Guard. This year EVERY 1st-3rd place winner, in both Skill and Leadership Competitions, has a prize waiting for them at the State Office. Please send thank you notes to the State Office (address below) [...]

SLC 2009 Results

SkillsUSA Advisors -

Congratulations on a great Spring Conference.

Attached you will find the Leadership Awards Results and the Skill Awards Results, the Prize Policy Instructions, and National Conference Information and Instructions. (Please make sure to meet the first deadline of Friday, April 17)

I will be sending out Certificates and medallions that were not collected at conference with the [...]

2009 SkillsUSA Technical Contest Results

3-D Visualization and Animation

      1st – Roseburg-Team B-Zach Eck, Kurtis Vancleave

      2nd –Roseburg-Team A-Kyler Smith, Ian Winter

Advertising Design-Post-Secondary

      1st –Clackamas Community-Corey Bade

Advertising Design-Secondary

      1st –South Medford-Marshall Moses

      2nd –Mt.View-Quin Mansfields

      3rd – South Salem-Sean Sullivan

      4th – South Medford-Holdyn Hastey

      5th – Mt. View-Shelby Denham

Architectural Drafting 

      1st – Roseburg-Caleb Couch

      2nd –North Medford-Tom Beech

      3rd – Roseburg-Tyler Lincecum

      4th – Roseburg-Cory Lundy

      5th – Roseburg-Cody Cooper

      6th – Benson-Jacob Rotherham

Automated Manufacturing

      1st – St. Helens-Team A-Jacob Carpenter, Steven Cox, Kyle Babuska

      2nd –Benson-David Johnson, Maxwell McCain, Jeff [...]

2009 SkillsUSA Leadership Contest Results

Job Interview:

1st Place – Stayton Heather Bierbower

2nd Place – Benson Nou Vang

3rd Place – St Helens Nicole Craft

4th Place – Madras Javier Pineda

5th Place – Benson Stephen Gibson

6th Place – St Helens Cody Lufkin

Quiz Bowl:

1st Place – Benson

2nd Place – Sweet Home

3rd Place – Reynolds

4th Place – Bend

5th Place – Madras

6th Place – Centennial

Promotional Bulletin [...]

SUSA Carpentry

Attached is the up-date for Carpentry.2009-slc-carpentry-tool-list

Power Equipment Tech

Advisors –

All power equipment tech students need their own safety glasses

Computer Up-Dates

Advisors

Computer Maintenance will have all equipment provided but students do need to bring a pencil.

Computer Programming students need to bring their own computer with language development software and a network cable.  Also please bring a power strip/extension cord.

Technical Computer Application students need to bring their own computer with Office Software: Open Office, Office 2003 or [...]