SkillsUSA is a workforce development organization for students and educators in career and technical education, with a membership of nearly 400,000 students and their teachers. SkillsUSA works with industry partners to identify essential skills and characteristics crucial to success in technical careers.
Participation in the organization builds experiences to help grow and measure personal skills, such as work ethic and flexibility; workplace skills such as decision making and multicultural awareness; and technical skills such as job-specific functions and computer literacy (graphic below).
Many of the programs at BOCES have SkillsUSA chapters where our students hone their hands-on skills against industry standards and ultimately compete against others from across their region, state, and even across the nation. Corning-Painted Post students have always done well in these competitions and this year is no different.
The GST BOCES Coopers Campus SkillsUSA Chapter received a Quality Chapter Award honoring their achievement of the essential standards of excellence in their program. Corning-Painted Post students helped the chapter earn that award, with 16 CPP students earning top three seats in the regional competition: 9 CPP students earning first place, 5 earning second place, and 2 earning third place.
Moving on to the state level, we had 2 students place in the top three and one qualify for the national competition.
Two CPP students placed in the top three at the state level competition:
Mason Horton
Mason is a senior on the Coopers Campus.
Mason earned the gold in Welding.
He has his eyes on a local welding position and is actively pursuing employment as a welder before graduation.
As a gold winner, Mason is competing in Atlanta the day before graduation, and flying home just in time for graduation.
and
Sydney Ford
Sydney is a junior on the Coopers Campus.
Sydney earned the bronze in Occupational Health and Safety.
More Information: https://www.skillsusa.org/
