Emblem Ceremony/Colors
History
Organization
Important People/Places
100

The four colors -red, white, blue, and gold- represent the organization's ideals of unity, individual states, and the individual.

What are the SkillsUSA official colors?

100

Founded in 1965, this organization was originally known as the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA).

What is SkillsUSA?

100

Introduced in 2014, this structure breaks down the personal, workplace, and technical skill areas that define career-ready students.

What is the SkillsUSA Framework?

100

She is the current Executive Director of SkillsUSA.

Who is Chelle Travis?

200

Symbolic of the industrial society and the interdependence of labor and management, this component appears on the SkillsUSA emblem.

What is the gear?

200

Originally known as National VICA Week, this annual celebration promotes career and technical education while highlighting member accomplishments.

What is SkillsUSA Week?

200

SkillsUSA's mission is to form a partnership of students, teachers, and industry working together to prepare students for this.

What is the workforce or "the world of work?"

200

This is the state that SkillsUSA's national headquarters is located in.

What is Virginia?

300

This emblem component represents the search for knowledge and dispels the darkness of ignorance.

What is the torch?

300

In 1999, VICA changed its name to this, modernizing its career and technical education vision.

What is SkillsUSA-VICA?

300

"I believe in the American way of life" is one of the six tenets found in this guiding statement for every SkillsUSA member.

What is the SkillsUSA Creed?

300

In the fall, SkillsUSA members from across the national travel to Washington, D.C. for this conference, which offers leadership training and visits with newly-elected National Officers.

What is the Washington Leadership Training Institute (WLTI)?

400

This formal induction event highlights each part of the SkillsUSA emblem to help new members understand the organization's ideals.

What is the Emblem Ceremony?

400

This is the year that SkillsUSA-VICA officially shortened its name to simply SkillsUSA. 

What is 2004?

400

"Preparing for leadership in the world of work" is this component of SkillsUSA.

What is the SkillsUSA Motto?

400

This Georgia city is the current home to SkillsUSA's National Leadership and Skills Conference (NLSC) and the World Congress Center.

What is Atlanta, Georgia?

500

This official color represents the most important element of the organization: the individual.

What is gold?

500

This was the year that Chelle Travis officially became the Executive Director of SkillsUSA.

What is 2019?

500

Established to showcase the best in career and technical education, the SkillsUSA National Championships now hosts over 100 different hands-on skill competitions during this major summer conference.

What is the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference (NLSC)?

500

This man was the Executive Director of SkillsUSA before Chelle Travis.

Who is Tim Lawrence?