Middle School Competitions
SkillsUSA offers many opportunities for growth through career competitions, including several Middle School level contests. Students can compete at the local, district, state, or national level. Students must compete at the district level to advance to the state level, and then state to advance to the national contest. Texas Only contests compete and district and state levels only.
For District and State level regulations and guidelines, such as registration limits, eligibility requirements, and competitions please refer to the Texas Regulations. Contests that advance to the National level can be found here.
Middle school students will be required to take the professional development test and submit a resume for contests this year. Here is a Resume Guide and a Test Guide that will help you prepare.
Each joined student in approved chapter, taking a class that qualifies under the technical standard may enter (up to 10 things for one registration fee):
- One skilled & technical individual competition AND
one team skilled & technical competition AND - One individual leadership competition AND one team leadership competition AND
- One individua
demonstration competition AND one team
demonstration competition - One individual occupational related competition AND one team
occupational related competition AND - One individual job exhibit AND one job exhibit multiple or chapter
The following is a list of Leadership Development Competitions offered in SkillsUSA Texas. Some of the contests are “State Only”, meaning there is not a national level for that contest.
The following is a List of current Middle School Competitions that are offered in SkillsUSA Texas. Middle School students are encouraged to look at job exhibits as a competition option.
| 2025 Contests | Div | Team | Category | State |
| ACTION SKILLS | M | Leadership Development | ||
| ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING | M | Yes | Skilled and Technical Sciences | |
| AMERICAN SPIRIT | M | Yes | Leadership Development | |
| AUTOMOTIVE TOOL ID | M | Skilled and Technical Sciences | TX | |
| CHAPTER DISPLAY | M | Yes | Leadership Development | |
| COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT | M | Yes | Leadership Development | |
| COMMUNITY SERVICE | M | Yes | Leadership Development | |
| CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS ID | M | Skilled and Technical Sciences | TX | |
| CONSTRUCTION TOOL ID | M | Skilled and Technical Sciences | TX | |
| EMBLEM CEREMONY | M | Yes | Leadership Development | TX |
| ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY DESIGN | M | Yes | Occupational | |
| ESPORTS | M | Yes | Skilled and Technical | TX |
| EXTEMPORANEOUS SPEAKING | M | Leadership Development | ||
| JOB INTERVIEW | M | Leadership Development | TX | |
| JOB SKILL DEMONSTRATION A | M | Leadership Development | ||
| JOB SKILL DEMONSTRATION OPEN | M | Leadership Development | ||
| MOBILE ROBOTICS TECHNOLOGY | M | Yes | Leadership Development | |
| OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES | M | Yes | Leadership Development | |
| OUTSTANDING CHAPTER | M | Yes | Leadership Development | |
| PIN DESIGN | M | Leadership Development | ||
| PREPARED SPEECH | M | Leadership Development | ||
| PROMOTIONAL BULLETIN BOARD | M | Yes | Leadership Development | |
| PROMOTIONAL POSTER | M | Yes | Leadership Development | TX |
| QUIZ BOWL | M | Yes | Leadership Development | TX |
| ROBOTICS URBAN SEARCH | M | Yes | Skilled and Technical | |
| SKILLSUSA TX MS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | M | Yes | Leadership Development | TX |
| SKILLSUSA TX MS OUTSTANDING MEMBER | M | Yes | Leadership Development | TX |
| TEAM ENGINEERING CHALLENGE | M | Yes | Skilled and Technical | |
| T SHIRT DESIGN | M | Leadership Development | ||
| TEXAS PIN DESIGN | M | Leadership Development | TX | |
| TEXAS T SHIRT DESIGN | M | Leadership Development | TX |