SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS, THEY SUPPORT US!
SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS, THEY SUPPORT US!
SkillsUSA Georgia Sponsor Partnerships and Career Expo Booths
The SkillsUSA Georgia Career Expo will be February 23, 2024 at the Georgia World Congress Center. We are excited to welcome back our industry to register for booths to have direct access to middle school, high school, and technical college students and instructors from across the state. If interested in becoming a SkillsUSA industry partner, click here: SkillsUSA Industry Partner Information
MEET YOUR 2024-2025 OFFICERS!
President, Corina Stewart
Marketing
Savannah Technical College
Corina Stewart is a 34-year-old single mom, small business owner, and student at Savannah Technical College, recently graduating with her Business degree and now working to complete her Marketing degree. Her plans after completing the Marketing degree is to transfer and earn her Bachelors in Christian Ministries to become a traveling inspirational speaker through a Women’s Survivor Missionary campaign she is building. Corina has had the privilege of serving in many leadership capacities including president of her college’s SkillsUSA chapter, president of their Student Government Association, and president of Business Professionals of America. She is a two-time gold winner at the SkillsUSA Georgia State Conference for Community Service and a recipient of the All-Georgia Academic Scholar award. In her free time, she enjoys volunteering, being actively involved in her church, zip lining, kayaking, reading, and spending time with her family. Corina is deeply honored to serve on your 2024-2025 SkillsUSA Georgia Postsecondary State Officer team and be your partner in success and excellence.
Vice President, Rashell Tanner
Design and Media Production Technology
Augusta Technical College
Rashell Tanner is a 31-year-old Design and Media Production Technology student at Augusta Technical College. She is passionate about technical education and spends most of her time outside of class with the Student Government Association, Phi Theta Kappa, and representing Augusta Tech as their G.O.A.L. student of the year. She enjoys bringing students together and encouraging them to take advantage of every opportunity that campus life and education has to offer. In her free time, she enjoys bicycling, kayaking, and spending time with her husband and their 13-year-old dog!
Secretary, Shelby Colbaugh
Health Information Management Technology
Lanier Technical College
Shelby Colbaugh is a 20-year-old from Gainesville, Georgia, currently working toward an associate degree in Health Information Management Technology at Lanier Technical College after completing her diploma certification in 2024. Shelby strives to help others, taking on many leadership positions at her college such as president of Club HIP (Health Information Professionals, they’re HIP!), vice president of her local SkillsUSA chapter, parliamentarian of the Student Government Association, and communications specialist of the Video Game Club. She is also a Computer Information Systems Lab Assistant (IT Helpdesk) Work-Study at the college. She started as a GED graduate at Lanier Tech with points that earned her degree level courses in her Accuplacer, and has worked her way through many personal hardships, overcoming obstacles with the knowledge that she is enough. She strives to create an environment for other students, like her, to feel safe and heard during tough times, and to know it’s okay to not be okay. During the free time she has outside of Lanier Technical College, she enjoys playing video games with her fellow officers and members of the Video Game Club, spending time with her significant other, and playing with her beloved cats, Pinto and Smol Bean.
Treasurer, Lilliana Cabaniss
Engineering Technology
Athens Technical College
Lilliana Cabaniss is an 18-year old from Madison County, Georgia. In her free time, Lilli enjoys reading, hiking, art, gaming, and spending time with loved ones. With a passion for igniting creativity and radiating positivity, Lilli proudly serves as a state officer for SkillsUSA Georgia Postsecondary. She hopes to orchestrate vibrant initiatives, championing the aspirations of SkillsUSA members across the state. Bringing a wealth of leadership experience, Lilli cultivates inclusive spaces at Athens Technical College, where she holds esteemed positions in various organizations. Pursuing an associate degree in engineering, she aspires to work in conservation, driven by her belief in education's transformative power and a dream of a better, cleaner world. With purpose as her compass and dedication as her fuel, she aims to empower Georgia's postsecondary community as a 2024-2025 state officer.
Reporter, Joseph De Lima
Mechanical Engineering Technology
Lanier Technical College
Joseph De Lima is a 19-year-old from Duluth, Georgia. He is currently majoring in Mechanical Engineering Technology at Lanier Technical College. During his time in SkillsUSA, he has been awarded a gold medal in his high school senior year for CNC 2-Axis Turning. During his second semester in college, he placed silver for Technical Drafting and hopes to continue achieving throughout his time. Before SkillsUSA, he was one out of four first time Georgia high schoolers who were invited by NASA to present a project he and his team made. In his free time, he loves going to Anime and/or gaming conventions, spending time with friends and family, doing some engineering crafts at home like laser engraving or 3D printing, or going to anime events to continue boosting up his own anime shop business he is starting! Joseph is excited and honored to be part of the 2024-2025 SkillsUSA Georgia Postsecondary State Officer team and cannot wait to put his creativity and passion to work!
Parliamentarian, Robert Buice
Fire Science
Lanier Technical College
Robert Buice is a 27-year-old from Dawsonville Georgia who attends Lanier Technical College. He is studying Fire Science on the track to become a firefighter. He even earned his gold medal for firefighting at the SkillsUSA Georgia Postsecondary State Conference. Robert is also president of Lanier Tech’s MAPSO club to assist active and nonactive military and first responders in his community. He is very passionate about history and learning from it. Robert is very active in church and uses his faith to grow and encourage others to grow. His biggest goal is to inspire more people not just to reach success, but to lead their peers to success.
2023 GEORGIA STATE
SKILLSUSA LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
October 15 2023
If you are trying to remember just how great the Georgia State SkillsUSA Leadership Conference was, click on the link below to refresh your memory! Our man on the ground captured some great images and caught our competitors doing some great things. Give this a glance, you might see your friends or yourself here.
Let's Chat!
We are pleased to announce that we've added a CONTACT US BUTTON! Just click on the Connect with your Leadership Team button above and now you'll be directed to a form that you may use to contact us. We love to hear from our SkillsUSA Teammates. So, whatever is on your mind, if you have a suggestion or question, zip it to us and let's discuss it. Remember, we're listening!
NEWS AND NOTES
LOOKOUT DOWNTOWN HERE WE COME
October 15, 2023
Downtown Atlanta had better be ready. SkillsUSA Georgia Postsecondary will be taking over the World Congress Center with our largest conference ever. We've been working hard to get everything ready for you! So polish up those tools and shine up your shoes. Sharpen your pencils and attitudes. Come compete, show off your skills, meet some new friends and hang with some old ones. We can't wait to see you on center stage! See you soon!
ONE OF OUR OWN
August 9, 2023
One of our very own former SkillsUSA GAPS State Officers has been extremely busy since the NLSC held in Atlanta in June. Former SkillsUSA GAP State President Emily Pinto has been traveling to attend training opportunities as our National SkillsUSA Postsecondary Vice President. Most recently Emily attended The Washington Leadership Training Institute where she and her fellow National Officers facilitated the event. Approximately 450 state officers from the secondary and postsecondary levels attended this event to enhance their leadership skills. Ms. Pinto was honored to represent all SkillsUSA members at Arlington National Cemetary by laying the wreath at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Emily underwent a rigorous process, including: earning the SkillsUSA Framework Certification, the CTE Knowledge Certification, the Career Essentials Credential (about a 30 hour course), passing a program written exam, participating in an interview by national education and industry leaders, and acquiring a majority of national delegate votes.
"It was quite a long process but it was so worth it to be involved in this organization, which is making such a big difference locally by also nationally in the long run for our future workforce," Pinto said.
Amy Holloway Scholarship
February 27, 2023
If you would like to support the scholarship so we can continue to support future students, please donate here (select Amy Holloway SkillsUSA scholarship): TCSG Foundation
After a brave fight with cancer, Amy Holloway passed away on September 9th 2015, but her smile will be remembered for years to come. Amy inspired and touched many people throughout her life, but perhaps most important was her dedication to our students. She had a passion for their success, which was frequently showcased in the SkillsUSA Competition she helped to coordinate. Amy joined TCSG in 1996 where she worked with the New Connections Program, Institutional Effectiveness, and Student Affairs as the Student Life Coordinator and State Director for SkillsUSA.
The purpose of the Amy Holloway Scholarship is to benefit participants in the SkillsUSA program by providing financial support for tuition, fees, books, tools and supplies, or to cover expenses to attend the SkillsUSA state or national conference.
Deadline:
Spring Semester Award: December 1
Submit completed application with attached documentation to:
The Technical College System
of Georgia Foundation
Attention: Scholarships
1800 Century Place, Suite 275
Atlanta, GA 30345
Please see attached application for the scholarship, it is open to any SkillsUSA student member at a SkillsUSA Georgia Postsecondary school. The scholarship award will be $500, please encourage your students to apply. Please email me directly at tmazhani@tcsg.edu if you have general questions. Thank you!
mikeroweWORKS Foundation
October 15th 2023
The mikeroweWORKS Foundation is a foundation that rewards people with a passion to get trained for skilled jobs that actually exist. SkillsUSA and the mikeroweWORKS Foundation have teamed up to increase opportunities for SkillsUSA students to attend the National Leadership and Skills Conference. The application window for this scholarship is now closed but be sure to check back often for this scholarship opportunity.
mikeroweWORKS FoundationGEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGES SHOW OUT!
October 16th, 2023
The NATIONAL SkillsUSA LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE was the place to be in June if you wanted to see first hand just how important technical education is in the state of Georgia. Once again, the state of Georgia came in the top 5 in the nation in medals awarded!!! Check out this link to read more about how well our technical college students from the state of Georgia represented themselves.
TCSG Press ReleaseSkillsUSA Theme
The SkillsUSA competition theme for the 2023 - 2024 year is
"SkillsUSA: NO LIMITS"
The topic to be addressed by contestants in the Chapter Display, Prepared Speech and Promotional Bulletin Board contests is how our theme
SkillsUSA: NO LIMITS relates to our national program of work in the area of Professional Development.
Learn More About
SkillsUSA in Georgia
SkillsUSA is a national, nonprofit student organization that has developed more than 10 million workers through active partnerships between employers and educators. Hundreds of American industries have turned to SkillsUSA as the source for employees who exemplify "Champions at Work" in both skills and attitudes. SkillsUSA's mission is to empower its members to become world-class workers, leaders and responsible American citizens. At the heart of this mission are SkillsUSA's core values: integrity, responsiblity, citizenship, service and respect.
Get SkillsUSA at
Your School
Any student enrolled in a school which has an active SkillsUSA chapter is eligible to become a member. You do not have to enrolled in a career/technology class to become a member. You simply have to affiliate yourself with the local chapter. If your school does not have an active chapter, contact a teacher or administrator about the possibility of forming one. Advisors, remember any student in your school is eligible for membership even if they are not enrolled in a career/technology program. They would be eligible to participate in any leadership contest, but would have to be in a career/technology program to be eligible for the skills competitions.
SkillsUSA
Competitors
The SkillsUSA Championships is the showcase for the best career and technical students in the nation. Contests begin locally and continue through the state and national levels.
This is a multi-million dollar event that occupies a space equivalent to 16 football fields. In 2013, there were nearly 6,000 contestants in 98 separate events. Nearly 1,500 judges and contest organizers from labor and management make the national event possible.
The philosophy of the Championships is to reward students for excellence, to involve industry in directly evaluating student performance and to keep training relevant to employers’ needs.