Welcome to SkillsUSA Minnesota

SkillsUSA Mission Statement:

To help its student members become world-class workers and responsible American citizens.

SkillsUSA Minnesota is part of a national organization that serves over a quarter million student members annually, organized into more than 14,700 chapters and 54 state and territorial associations (including Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands). The Minnesota Association has offered leadership opportunities to over 200,000 student members since 1967, with a current annual membership of over 3,000. There are chapters in 29 technical colleges and 50 high schools or cooperative centers, with potential to serve many more. SkillsUSA is governed by a Board of Directors, elected from teachers that advise local chapters, and representing both the high school and college divisions and industry representatives. All programs are offered as integral to the curriculum.

Mounds View High School Awarded Lowe's Tool Box for Education Grant

Mounds View High School

Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation has awarded an $8,000.00 Lowe's Tool box for Education grant to
Mounds View High School for the purchase of I-pads to be used in Career Education classrooms and also SkillsUSA Leadership.

2013 State Conference Media

2013 SkillsUSA Minnesota State Conference Press Release

Minneapolis, MN, April 11, 2013

The SkillsUSA Championships, held in Bloomington, MN took place on April 5-7, 2013. The conference was a showcase of career and technical education students where more than 800 outstanding career and technical education students competed in 80 hands-on trade, technical and leadership contests. Minnesota state colleges captured gold, silver and bronze medals for 241 college division students at the SkillsUSA Minnesota 2013 State Leadership and Skills Conference, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Bloomington. The competitions focused on technical skill demonstration where students captured gold, silver and bronze medals in 80 competitive events in both divisions, with over 600 college students from 25 campuses of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities the competition focused on technical skill demonstration in 67 competitive events. Minnesota High School students captured 200 gold, silver and bronze medals for the high school division in 60 competitive events, with over 218 students from 30 high school campuses.