February 4, 2019

Office of Public information
RE: SkillsUSA competition 

Neosho, MO – Crowder College’s Technical Education Center will send 43 students to the district SkillsUSA competition this week. The competition is for high school and post-secondary students.

Crowder will host the welding portion of the contest Wednesday, February 6, at the Joplin Advanced Training and Technology Center. The contest begins at 8am. There are three days of various competitions held throughout the southwest district starting Tuesday, February 5.

The southwest district competition will be held at Crowder College-Joplin ATTC, Scott Technology Center-Monett, Carthage Tech-Carthage, Franklin Tech-Joplin, Ozark Technical College-Springfield, and Missouri Southern State University-Joplin.

SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry working together to ensure America has a skilled workforce. SkillsUSA helps each student excel. SkillsUSA serves more than 360,000 students and instructors annually. This includes 20,365 instructors who join as professional members. Including alumni, SkillsUSA membership totals over 400,000. SkillsUSA has served more than 13.5 million annual members cumulatively since 1965.

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Last Updated on February 4, 2019 by Cindy