SkillsUSA Showcases Trade´s Next Generation
Jim Workman, Vice President, Center for Technology and Research, Printing Industries of America
The 2017 edition of the SkillsUSA Championships was held June 20–23 in Louisville, Kentucky. More than 6,000 students joined in the excitement of hands-on competition in 100 different trade, technical, and leadership fields, including graphic communications. Only students who won their state SkillsUSA contest were eligible to compete.
The Magazine 6
SUMMER 2017
SkillsUSA is a nonprofit association representing almost 400,000 students and advisors in trade, industrial, technical, and health occupational education. It sponsors the SkillsUSA Championships annually to recognize the achievements of career and technical education students and to encourage them to strive for excellence and pride in their chosen occupation.
The graphic communications competition consisted of exercises in digital workflow, electronic prepress, offset and digital press operations, finishing, and production planning, along with verbal and written assessments. Specifically, students had to assemble and preflight files, print work on sheetfed offset and digital presses, cut and fold paper to specifications, participate in an oral interview, and take an online test to assess their overall graphic communications knowledge.
Printing Industries of America assisted with the competition and sponsored a breakfast for the competitors and their advisors at Churchill Downs. The organization also took the group on a tour of Vivid Impact, one of Louisville’s premier printing companies, so students could learn more about industry careers and operations.
To get the full sense of the contest, envision a large space in the middle of the mammoth Kentucky Exposition Center with four digital presses, three sheetfed offset presses, two
(top left and bottom) A student competes in the offset press portion of the contest as a judge observes.
(top right) A competitor is interviewed by two judges from LSC Communications
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