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Welcome to SkillsUSA Texas
“SkillsUSA is America’s proud champion of the skilled trades.
Our mission is to empower students to become skilled professionals, career-ready leaders, and responsible community members.”
SkillsUSA Texas is a partnership of students, teachers, and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. SkillsUSA helps each student excel in leadership skills, technical and engineering skills, STEM, and occupationally related skills in 12 of the cluster areas. All students in Career and Technical Education programs are eligible for membership.
The Student Research Foundation shows the majority of surveyed SkillsUSA members feel they are engaged in relevant career and technical education (CTE) coursework that prepares them for the future.
Champions at Work
SkillsUSA has approximately 18,000 school chapters in 53 state and territorial associations and serves more than 400,000 members annually. More than 18,000 instructors and administrators are professional members of SkillsUSA. Our members are known in their schools and communities as leaders and skilled professionals in training. In Texas, we have a membership of over 22,000 students and 1,500 advisors and administrators.
Team of Experts
Your SkillsUSA Texas State Office is here for you, whether you have questions about membership, chapter management, district information, invoicing, billing, registration or contests, we are here to support your chapters. Call the State Office toll free: 800-444-2297
SkillsUSA Hotline
Need Help with Your Chapter or Registering Members? Call the SkillsUSA Membership Hotline Toll Free: 844-875-4557. Hotline operators are ready to answer your questions on how to start a new chapter, engage chapter members and strengthen an existing chapter.
We Are Here To Help You Achieve Career Success
SkillsUSA is leading the way in America's skilled workforce.
SkillsUSA serves students enrolled in career and technical education training programs in our nation’s public high schools and colleges. SkillsUSA complements technical skill training with instruction that is co-curricular and integral to CTE programs making a well- rounded worker and citizen. Founded in 1965, the organization has served more than 12.2million workers through active partnerships between employers and educators. SkillsUSA is endorsed by the U.S. Department of Education and state departments of education and is cited in federal legislation as an integral part of the career and technical curriculum.


13,600,000
annual members total since 1965

650
national partners, businesses, trade associations and unions

714
National Medals Winners in Texas since 2004

19,000
classrooms conducting SkillsUSA training nationwide
Benefits of joining SkillsUSA Texas

STUDENT BENEFITS
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- Teaching teamwork and leadership
- Reinforcing employability skills
- Offering a state and national contest program
- Providing ways to serve the local community
- Offering $1 million in scholarships annually
- Helping students meet potential employers

ADVISOR BENEFITS
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- Enhancing curriculum
- Real-world engagement
- Technical performance gauge
- Providing avenues for local industry support
- Showcase training programs
- Gaining greater administrator support
- Providing opportunities to network

SCHOOL BENEFITS
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- Teaching teamwork and leadership
- Reinforcing employability skills
- Offering a state and national contest program
- Providing ways to serve the local community
- Offering $1 million in scholarships annually
- Helping students meet potential employers

INDUSTRY BENEFITS
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- Enhancing curriculum
- Real-world engagement
- Technical performance gauge
- Providing avenues for local industry support
- Showcase training programs
- Gaining greater administrator support
- Providing opportunities to network
SkillsUSA Texas Dates to Remember
August 1 – Membership Opens
August 1 – Washington Leadership Training Institute (Registration Opens)
August 15 – Fall Leadership (Registration Opens)
September 30 – Legislative Day (Registration Opens)
October 1 – Texas Regulations Updates Posted
October 10 – Advisor Academy, Waco, TX
October 15 – District Contest Agendas Posted
November 1 – District Schedules Posted
November 15 – District Conference (Registration Opens)
February 15 – Membership Deadline
February 20 – State Conference (Registration Opens)
April 8-11 – State Conference, Corpus Christi, TX
April 13 – Summer Leadership (Registration Opens)
April 13 – National Conference (Registration Opens)
May 15-18 – Summer Leadership Conference, Medina, TX
June 1-6 – National Conference, Atlanta, GA
Meet your 2025-2026 SkillsUSA Texas State Officer Team!

Grant McCall, President

Shiv Patel, Vice President

Robert Emrich, Secretary

Pragathi Prakash, Treasurer

Riyyah Ulebe, Reporter

Brayden Hayes, Parliamentarian
