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“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.

Benefits of joining SkillsUSA Texas

STUDENT BENEFITS

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

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

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

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 Championships

The SkillsUSA Championships brings together industry and labor representatives, educators, and the public to watch students compete in leadership and hands-on skill events for a full day. The SkillsUSA Championships begin at the local level with contests in classrooms nationwide.