SkillsUSA Utah Weekly Update - Advisors/Students

SkillsUSA Utah Weekly Update – Advisors / Students
Monday, February 5, 2024
The Monday SkillsUSA Utah Weekly Update is organized by topic along with information for each topic. The items will contain information that is important for you and your students to know as well as information that is of general interest.  We’ll try to make it easy for you to scan through topics so you can find what you are looking for. Past issues of Monday SkillsUSA Connections- Advisors can be found here.

SkillsUSA Week (February 5-9, 2024)
This week is SkillsUSA Week, a time to celebrate during CTE month. This is an opportunity for advisors and student members, to promote SkillsUSA programs and activities across the state of Utah while highlighting the importance of the skilled trades!  Find more resources on what you and your chapter can do here.

Membership
The deadline to sign up for membership is February 15th.  You must be a paid member of SkillsUSA to register for ULSC.  Fees for 2024 are as follows: Students = $25, Advisors = $30.  Information on how to complete your membership is linked here.

Contest Registration:  Utah Leadership and Skills Conference (ULSC)
ULSC will be held March 28 & 29, 2024 at SLCC.  Conference registration is now open!  Regular registration is January 22 – February 21.  Registrations between Feb 22 – Feb 29 will incur a $10 late fee per registrant.  No registrations will be allowed past February 29th, so be sure to get that completed sooner than later during the registration window.  When registering, remember that students should enter their personal email and not a school email.  This is important for testing information that will be sent early in March.  More details on the Utah Leadership and Skills Conference can be found at this link

Contest List:  Utah Leadership and Skills Conference (ULSC)
Contests available can be found at this link.  Information, including dates, times, and contact info can be found on the Master Contest Sheet.  Information on this sheet is still being updated, so please check back for any new updates.  Technical Standards can be found at this link or using your absorb login. 

Contest Updates
You can view our 2024 contest updates blog on our website here. This website will have files that you
can download regarding competitions, including schedules, materials lists, etc.    

SkillsUSA Utah Award Nominations
Do you have a favorite Advisor, SkillsUSA Volunteer, Administrator, CTE Coordinator, or know someone who has dedicated their life to SkillsUSA? We want to recognize these amazing people who make students lives better by supporting Career and Technical Education. Please submit this form to nominate someone.

Pin and T-Shirt Design
We are looking for the next T-shirt and Pin that will represent the state of Utah at the National Leadership and Skills Conference in Atlanta, GA this June!  Submission deadline is February 15, 2024.  Find more info and the application to submit here.

Follow Us For More Updates and Reminders!
Instagram: @skillsusa_utah
Facebook: SkillsUSA-Utah

Remind:
We will be using Remind to push out notifications about contest updates. We are asking only advisors at this time to sign up for alerts from Remind. Please text the codes below to join the cluster your contests are assigned to. Text the following code to 81010.
General Conference Notifications: @2024ULSC
Architecture & Construction: @UTARCHCON
Audio/Visual Technology: @UTAVTECH
Communications & Leadership: @UTCOMLEAD
Health Science, Law & Public Safety: @UTHSLPS
Hospitality & Tourism: @UTHOSP
Human Services: @UTHUMSERV
Information Technology: @UTINFOTECH
Manufacturing: @UTMANUF
Transportation &Logistics: @UTTRANSP

New Mailing Address:
Please note our new mailing address:
SkillsUSA Utah
4997 W 4750 S
West Haven, UT 84401-9412