Our Membership
SkillsUSA serves students enrolled in career and technical education training programs in our natuion’s public high schools and colleges. SkillsUSA’s mission is to help its members become world-class workers and responsible American citizens. 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 TEA and is cited in federal legislation as an integral part of the career and technical curriculum.
Call Customer Care at 844-875-4557 or once you’ve created a login or click the chat box to the bottom right of your screen at www.skillsusa-register.org.
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 1,000 advisors and administrators.
Membership Dues
Students – $16.00 ($8.00 national and $8.00 state dues). Student membership includes:
- Community
- Career Competitions
- Scholarships
- Connect: Business and Industry Connection
- Promote, Advocacy
- Access to Events: Recruitment Materials, Elevate, Leverage, SkillsUSA Week, NLSC
- Access to Programs: CEP, PVSA, Career Essentials
- Leadership Opportunities
- Community Service Opportunities
Advisors – $40.00. Advisor or professional membership includes:
- SkillsUSA Championships Toolkit – includes the Technical Standards for national competitions.
- Framework Integration Toolkit
- Jump Into STEM!
- Program of Work Toolkit
- E-Courses
- Advisor Professional Development
- Recognition Programs
Membership Deadlines
November 15th: Full service with incentives
February 15th: Membership deadline for competition eligibility
Membership must be submitted to be eligible for district competition prior to the competition date and must be paid for state competition.
New Chapter
Welcome to SkillsUSA Texas!
You’ve made the decision to become a SkillsUSA advisor. You are starting on a journey that is bound to offer many rewards for you and your students. There are a few basic steps to follow when starting a new chapter. We are happy to help you navigate your way to creating Champtions!
Support is here for you at the National level from Customer Care at 844-875-4557 and from the Texas office at 903-887-4013.
Basic steps to follow to start a new chapter:
- Connect with Customer Care at 844-875-4557 or customercare@skillsusa.org. Request a New Chapter Kit and get all of your questions answered.
- Meet with your school administrator to request permission to start a new program and gain classroom and financial support for your SkillsUSA chapter.
- Contact your SkillsUSA Texas Membership Specialist at 800-444-2297 ext 0 to get your charter/chapter paperwork started.
- Identify one or more possible SkillsUSA leaders (technical instructors, a career counselor or another interested person within the school) to help with the new chapter.
- Integrate SkillsUSA Framework into your classroom syllabus. SkillsUSA activities and programs develop students in three distinct areas: personal skills, workplace skills and technical skills that are grounded in academics.
- Register as a professional member and start your chapter roster. www.skillsusa-register.org
- Formalize your chapter by electing officers. This allows your chapter to move from advisor-led to advisor-supported. Students take the lead with SkillsUSA. Serving as a chapter officer is one of the best ways for students to hone their workplace and leadership skills.
- Recruit members to join your chapter or start another program chapter at your campus. Custom audience videos are available to help!
- Hold chapter meetings either during the school day within a class period or when they work best for your students and their school day.
- Ask chapter members to complete this Essential Element self evaluation to help them identify strengths and weaknesses within the SkillsUSA Framework.
- Attend Professional Development opportunities. SkillsUSA Technical Thursdays feature virtual skill-building workshops with experts from different fields. REGISTER HERE and check out our offering calendar for the upcoming session descriptions.
- Celebrate your success! Your students are the stars of your organization. Use social media, newspapers and TV stations to share positive stories with your community. Strive to keep stakeholders involved and informed about your chapter.
- Introduce your student members to the current SkillsUSA theme, Ignite Your Potential, and hang posters from your SkillsUSA Membership Kit in the classroom or hallway to raise awareness of SkillsUSA and generate excitement among students to become a SkillsUSA member.
Texas Chapter Numbers
SkillsUSA Texas has an identifying system that includes a National Charter number for the entire school and a SkillsUSA Texas Chapter Number for each program area under that charter. The guidelines are found in our SkillsUSA Texas Bylaws and in our Texas Regulations.
Support is here for you at the National level from Customer Care at 844-875-4557 and from the Texas office at 903-887-4013.
SkillsUSA, the national office, assigns a National Charter number for the entire school campus, they call this local chapter. To receive this an advisor must complete a National Charter Application. Once approved, your school is added to the national registration database. The advisor can register as a professional member and start recruiting chapter members. A charter may exist for your campus, you can verify by calling 844-875-4557.
Once the school charter is established, an advisor completes the Chapter Petition. Upon approval of this petition, SkillsUSA Texas assigns a chapter number for each training or program area. Chapter numbers must remain on the campus where they started. If an advisor moves to a new campus they will need to look at taking over a chapter number on that campus or get a new chapter number by completing a petition for the new campus.
Schools have the option to work with one Texas Chapter number for all programs at the campus or a Texas Chapter number for each program or training area. The option to work under one SkillsUSA Texas chapter number, may limit the number of students that are able to compete, see the Texas Regulations for details.
Each local charter (the entire school) needs at least 7 members and a professional member to be eligible for competitions. If you create separate Texas chapters for each training program area, each Texas chapter will need at least 7 members to fill a slate of officers. If your school is not able to fulfill this obligation, you may request a waiver.
The chapter rule for competition prevents overloaded district competition areas and provides equal opportunity for schools to compete. Filling your quota of students per contest and chapter wisely may entail advisors conducting a local competition so the best students are sent to the district competition. Or a district contest may need to narrow the competitor field with preliminary contest rounds. This will allow SkillsUSA Texas to offer quality in our competitions and offer a better experience for those students who are qualified to compete at a district-level competition.