SkillsUSA

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SkillsUSA

• LCTCS

• Louisiana

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SkillsUSA is

• A partnership of students, teachers and
  industry, working together to ensure America has
  a skilled work force
• Serves more than 286,000 student and professional
  members in all 50 states in 4,700 high schools
  and two year colleges nationwide. Members are
  enrolled in technical, skilled and service
  occupations, including health occupations
• Leadership, citizenship, and character
  development programs and activities

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SkillsUSA offers

• Curriculum materials to help you integrate
  professional training into your current program
• Professional Development Program Online
• Chapter Standards recognition opportunities
• Student2Student mentoring
• Online Safety training
• 1 million in scholarships available through the
  SkillsUSA Championships

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SkillsUSA offers

• Curriculum materials to help you integrate
  employability skills into your current program
• New College CSEP employability skills Career
  Skills Education Program (College)
• CareerSafe
• Workplace Readiness
• Community Service
• Chapter Activities Professional development
  Employment, Social activities, Community service,
  Ways and means, Public relations, SkillsUSA
  Championships

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SkillsUSA helps you

• Organize business and education partnerships
• Over 1,500 corporations, trade associations and
  unions are affiliated with SkillsUSA at the
  national level
• Partnerships can mean program funding
• Partnerships keep you up to date
• Local programs benefit

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SkillsUSA Championships

• Over 30 million in volunteer time and equipment
• Over 2,000 volunteers
• 84 contests
• 4,850 contestants
• 14,000 people attending

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SkillsUSA ChampionshipsNational Medalist
 Medalist  Event  Name  Hometown
Gold American Spirit Team Michelle Porter, Brandy Beaubouef, Kelly Campbell LTC Sabine Valley Campus Advisor Eylda Thaxton
Gold Food and Beverage Service Rina Castillo LTC Lafayette Campus Advisor Jerry Sonier
Gold Nurse Assisting Aidesha Brown LTC Evangeline Campus Advisor Veronica Benoit, Errol Solomon
Bronze Medical Math Johanna Degeyter LTC Alexandria Campus Advisor Kathy Kees
Bronze Practical Nursing Crystal Lanclos LTC Lafayette Campus Advisor Rose Isidore
Bronze Preschool Teaching Assistant Ashley Armstead LTC Tech Area Campus Advisor Melissa Arnaud
Silver Cabinetmaking Everette Domangue Terrebonne Vo-Tech High School Advisor Tommy Sledge
Bronze Extemporaneous Speaking Matthew Richard Port Barre High School Advisor Wayne Fruge
 
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LCTCS and SkillsUSA?

• Pertinent to Louisiana SkillsUSA and the
  Louisiana Community and Technical College System
• In the LCTCS board meeting of July 1999, the
  Academic Affairs Committee recognized by
  unanimous resolution all Louisiana SkillsUSA
  members, both professional and students who
  achieved national merit. In the address to the
  board regarding the program, Mr. Rabalais
  explained, "SkillsUSA is a program that is
  responsive to business and industry by promoting
  occupational and leadership skills and other
  assets such as employability skills in students
  in order for them to make a smooth transition
  from school to the workplace."
• NOTICE OF BOARD ACTION
• During its meeting of February 9, 2000, the
  Louisiana Community and Technical College Board
  of Supervisors unanimously voted to encourage LTC
  faculty participation in student organizations,
  conferences, and activities, and to have
  Supervisor Jared Lord formulate a letter to the
  Directors of the LTC campuses expressing the
  Board's support of the SkillsUSA program.
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• Dr. Jerry Pinsel, Interim Vice-President for
  Instruction, Learning and Inter-Institutional
  Cooperation
• Dr. Wayne Brown, LCTCS President
• ITEM F.2 PRESENTATION BY SUPERVISOR LORD ON
  SKILLS USA "BUILDING SKILLS FOR AMERICA" 
• On motion of Supervisor Christopher, seconded by
  supervisor Trist, the committee of the Whole
  unanimously voted to encourage LTC faculty
  participation in student organizations'
  conferences and activities and to have Supervisor
  Lord formulate a letter to the Directors
  expressing the Board's support.

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SkillsUSA Membership

• High School
• Alfred Bonnable High School
• Bossier Technical School
• Caddo Career Center
• College Street T I
• Cuillier Career Center
• Grace King High School
• Port Barre High School
• Terrebonne Vo-Tech High School
• LTC-Lafourche Campus
• W.D. Smith Career Center

• College
• Acadian Campus
• Alexandria Campus
• Ascension Campus
• Baton Rouge Campus
• Charles B. Coriel Campus
• Delgado Community College
• Evangeline Campus
• Gulf Area Campus
• Lafayette Campus
• Lafourche Campus
• Mansfield Campus
• Morgan Smith Campus
• Natchitoches Campus
• Northwest Campus
• River Parishes Campus
• Sabine Valley Campus
• Shreveport-Bossier Campus
• Southern University A Shreveport

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Why SkillsUSA?
For the student

• Gains self-esteem
• Becomes a responsible citizen
• Receives opportunities or jobs and contacts
• Receives cutting-edge training
• Is able to compete
• Enjoys fun, travel, and excitement
• Builds peer support network
• Learns to be a professional worker

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Why SkillsUSA?
For the teacher

• Enrollment and Retention
• Cutting-edge training
• Professional curriculum
• Respect
• Student success
• Student pride
• SCANS standards

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SkillsUSA as the tool for success

• SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers
  and industry
• Working together to ensure that America
• Has a skilled work force
• We help each student excel

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Plans to better integrate SkillsUSA as part of
student life on campus

• Present SkillsUSA to Council on Student Body
  Presidents meeting
• LCTCS Conference Day Presentation Student
  Organizations Providing to Opportunity for
  Engagement
• Invite Advisory Committees to participate in the
  SkillsUSA Championships, and have a direct link
  to technical education
• Increase linkages between secondary to
  postsecondary institutions
• For Colleges increase business partnerships on
  campus
• assess employability skills development of
  students
• increase internship opportunities for students
• validate student performance to national
  industry standards

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SkillsUSASTATE CONTACT

• Larry Rabalais, SkillsUSA Louisiana Director
• Phone [phone]
• E-Mail lrabalais_at_Lctcs.edu