District 05

Your District Coordinator for District Five is Emily Downing. She can be reached at: district5@skillsusatx.org. Your District Director for District Five is Darlene Mills she can be reached at darlene@skillsusatx.org.

Your Teacher Advisory Committee representative for District Five is Sarah Mateo.  can be reached at: sarah.mateo@pisd.edu

Your Board of Directors regional representatives are: David Lanman, david.lanman@wylieisd.net and Rebecca Jan Holland, r_holland@nacisd.org

Please make sure you are joining your district’s advisor group on Signal App. Each district has its own page where advisors and the state office can connect without students. First, you download the app and request to join the D5 Advisor group a group admin will need to approve your request. Join the group here: https://signal.group/#CjQKIPl-gLY9yl8Q7Dj-Vw1UwSb7Q6lcQ5a-yeKdvmlxanU0EhCAjhmyJLvCwhqJkYGxrrGw

Number of Voting Delegates Per Chapter: Each Texas chapter will have: a. one delegate for the Texas chapter b. one delegate for each group of 10 members c. one delegate for major fraction of 10 members (more than 5) i.e. 16 members = 3 voting delegates; 15 members = 2 voting delegates. At District Contest and State Conference, your delegates vote for officers and any proposed amendments. 

2023/2024 UIL Update: “The UIL calendar is set based on multiple parameters, mostly working around state standardized testing dates and avoiding conflicts with other UIL events. UIL attempts to also look at other activities, but as you know, the multitude of offerings for students continues to grow and the spring calendar continues to get more crowded. They have a date range of one week that districts can set their UIL district meet dates. This year it is April 1-6 for most academic events and April 1-13 for speech events. Each district can set the UIL date for their meet within that window based on the recommendations from coaches with the administrators on the UIL District Executive Committee having final say. They limit the competition window to one week due to test confidentiality, as well as require students competing against one another to test at the same time and location. The best option is for teachers who do both UIL and Skills USA to make the conflict known so that their UIL district contest can be set earlier in the week by their DEC, if at all possible.”

2023 D5 Officer Application (2024 Application Coming Soon!)

2024 Advisor of the Year Texas Application D5 

2024 D5 Outstanding Member Application

2023 Fall Leadership

Wed Oct 18th at Collin College, Wylie

Registration opens Sept 11th and closes Oct 11th. Payment will be due Nov 11th. No late registration, cancelation or refund after Oct 11th. 3% fee for credit card transactions. $30/pp, do not need to be a joined or paid member. Any MS/HS CTE program can attend. www.skillsusa-register.org

D5 Fall Leadership Agenda

2023 District Contest (2024 Updates coming soon)

D5 Awards PPT 2023

D5 Top 10 Construction Tool ID List

D5 Top 10 Automobile Tool ID List

D5 Job Exhibits State Qualified 2023

Feb 2-4 at TSTC Waco, main contest weekend. Details below. Registration opens Dec 14th and closes Jan 12th at 5pm. You must be a joined member to compete, registration is $50 per registrant. One advisor must be registered to attend to supervise the competitors. Cancellation deadline Jan 20th. Payment is due Feb 20th.  www.skillsusa-register.org

Deadline for Substitutions is Jan 16th at 5pm. Sub Form Here

Offsite: Jan 24th: Sherman HS, Jan 26th: Wylie HS, Feb 10th: Aveda Dallas

Online PD Testing window is Wed Jan 18th from 8a-4p. Click here for information: District PD OnlineTestingUserGuide. If you do not contact your district coordinator 24 hours in advance to make other arrangements and you do not take the test, you will get a ZERO score, no exceptions. If you are entered in multiple contests you will only take the test once.  Please register your students with a personal, not a school email address.