Clubs/Organizations

Membership and active participation in a Career and Technical Student Organization will put you ahead in the development of important job skills and interpersonal skills, such as teambuilding, leadership, and communication.  What's more, you'll get a chance to attend conferences and compete against your peers in activities that require the best of these skills to win.  Career and Technical Student Organizations are also great for building friendships and finding lasting support for your efforts.

About SkillsUSA

What is SkillsUSA?
A national organization serving more than 264,500 high school and college students and professional members enrolled in training programs in technical, skilled, and service occupations, including health occupations.

Where is it?
In high schools and college/technical schools.  SkillsUSA has more than a quarter million student members annually, organized into 13,000 chapters and 54 state and territorial associations (including the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands).

What's the point of it all?
SkillsUSA prepares America's high performance workers.  It provides quality education experiences for students in leadership, teamwork, citizenship and character development.  It builds and reinforces self-confidence, work attitudes and communication skills.  It emphasizes total quality at work, high ethical standards, superior work skills, life-long education and pride in the dignity of work.  SkillsUSA also promotes understanding of the free enterprise system and involvement in community service activities.

Who is involved?
Approximately 14,500 teachers and school administrators serve as professional SkillsUSA members and instructors.  More than 1,000 corporations, trade associations and labor unions actively support SkillsUSA on a national level through financial aid, in-kind contributions, and involvement of their people in SkillsUSA activities.  Many more work directly with state associations and local chapters.

What else?
SkillsUSA programs include local, state, and national competitions in which students demonstrate occupational and leadership skills.  During the annual national-level SkillsUSA Championships, more than 4,500 students compete in 77 occupational and leadership skill areas.  SkillsUSA programs also help to establish industry standards for job skill training in the classroom.