SkillsUSA SkillsUSA Champions Summer 2010 : Page 7
what’snew CHAMPIONS SUPPoRTinG chAMPionS B Serving Others, Serving the Cause Calling all chapters! Your assistance is urgently requested to help make SkillsUSA’s next Nation-al Week of Service the most inspiring yet! How? By holding a community service event during the week of May 2-8. Through the coordination of hundreds of service events during the same week, SkillsUSA can turn national attention to the spirit of service so prevalent in our member-ship, and who knows how many lives can be im-proved in the process? Make sure to let us know what you did by sending us photos and descrip-tions of your project. For more information, visit: www.skillsusa.org/events/service.shtml . • ack in 2009, Lowe’s and Kobalt Tools, along with NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson, donated more than $300,000 worth of tools to more than 500 SkillsUSA building and construction trades classes across the country. This year, the dynamic trio has returned with the “Toolbox for Education” program, an effort designed to support SkillsUSA auto-motive service technology students. At the program’s recent kickoff in Atlanta, Johnson and Lowe’s repre-sentatives met with students from Jonesboro (Ga.) High School at a local Lowe’s store. A shopping spree ensued, and students emerged with $1,100 worth of Kobalt tools (and priceless smiles) to use in their class. The tool set was the first of 400 that will be presented to SkillsUSA chapters nationwide, an estimated $440,000 donation. “We are supply-ing students with the equipment they need to succeed,” Johnson said. “The work they are doing is important. SkillsUSA is a fantastic organization, and I’m glad to be part of it.” For more, as well as video coverage, visit: www.skillsusa.org/blog/?p=851 . • Taking SkillsUSA to graduation and beyond Johnson takes SkillsUSA students on a Lowe’s shopping spree. f you’re a high-school senior, graduation is almost within your grasp. When you take that monumental and well-deserved walk this summer, show your family and friends how SkillsUSA was a part of your accomplishment with new graduation regalia. Choose from the SkillsUSA honor stole, honor cord or tassel — or just get all three! For more information and to order, visit: www.skillsusastore.org . If you’re planning to follow graduation with college, it’s possible you could end up on a campus with, horror of horrors, no SkillsUSA chapter. The good news? You can start one yourself! In fact, that’s just what SkillsUSA’s College Start-up Kit is designed to help you do. For more information, e-mail Heidi Ambrose at hambrose@skillsusa.org. i Photo: Harold Hinson • Summer 2010 SkillsUSA Champions 7
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