ASU-Beebe students recently competed in the Arkansas SkillsUSA contest held April 11-12 in Hot Springs.
ASU-Beebe Searcy campus winners in SkillsUSA divisions were:
Diesel Equipment Technology:
Gold in high school division - Cal Kitzmiller
Gold in college division - Cole Goodeaux
Job Interview Skills:
Gold in college division - William Wade
HVAC/R:
Bronze in college division - Devin Jolla
Automated Manufacturing:
Gold in college division - Dillon Hamilton, Breanna Stracner and Brandon MacMurphy
Technical Drafting:
Gold in college division - Jonathan Baker
Silver in college division - Ethan Brown
Silver in high school division - Dallas Pence
Winners of the state contests have the opportunity to represent their respective schools and the state of Arkansas at the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference June 19-23 in Atlanta, Georgia.
SkillsUSA is a national membership association open to high school, college, and middle school students who are preparing for careers in trade, technical and skilled service occupations, including health occupations, and for further education.
SkillsUSA serves more than 331,000 students and instructors annually. This includes 19,019 instructors who join as professional members. Including alumni, SkillsUSA membership totals over 393,000. SkillsUSA has served nearly 14 million annual members cumulatively since 1965 and is recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Labor as a successful model of employer-driven workforce development.
Students competing in the diesel technology and job skills divisions at SkillsUSA are pictured, from left, Cole Goodeaux, William Warren, Carl Kitzmiller, Rueben Lybrand, William Wade, Kenneth Falconer.
