SkillsUSA - Criminal Justice

Technical Standards, it states that the student should be part of a law enforcement and/or public security program

 

If you have a student that has interest in this as a career and wants to compete, and there is no program at school, then get a copy of the Technical Standards to your local law enforcement and ask that they do some training for  that student so he/she can come to state conference and compete/show their skills!  The judges do not really have time to teach them during the contest time, which has been happening.  This is not fair to those contestants who come prepared to compete.

 

If you register a student for state conference, it is your responsibility they have enough skills to go in and compete!!  We always have several students who go in without any subject knowledge of a contest

 

I am requesting names or contestant numbers of any students who show up for a contest and have no clue as to what is going on -  they need to be prepared. 

 

Greg Stahr

SkillsUSA Nebraska, State Advisor

402-471-0898

greg.stahr@nebraska.gov

www.skillsusanebraska.org

 

SkillsUSA - SLC 1

SkillsUSA Nebraska Advisors,

 

You all received information about how to complete your chapter membership on the national website.  February 15 is the deadline for Nebraska membership.

 

The next thing for you to do is to start thinking about getting your registration for State Conference started.  State Conference is April 20 – 22, in Omaha at the DoubleTree by Hilton Downtown Omaha Hotel, the Century Link and Metropolitan Community College South Campus/ITC.  Registration for SLC is $60 per person.  The registration deadline for State Conference is March 2.

 

To register for state conference, you will be using the Nebraska SkillsUSA state website, http://www.skillsusanebraska.org/.  Do not go to the SkillsUSA National website – that is only for registering membership.   The first thing to do on this State website is to “Get An Account” for you and your student members competing at state.  This “Get An Account” button is on the top right hand side of the home webpage.  Most of you already have an account and you will just have to ” LOG IN” in and update your information.  We were told by our management company of this program, that they were going to wipe the student accounts clean this year(tons of extra accounts).  That means all of your members will  have to also “Get An Account”.  So ideally you need to give your members this information as to how to get an account.  They will have to follow the prompts and complete that account.  If a student knows their user name and password, they can ” LOG IN” to activate their account and update it.  The advisor account has to be opened first and updated, so the students can pick the correct advisor.   Following this email, you will receive another email from Cori with a pictorial explanation of registering for state conference on the state website. WOW, WAS THAT DIFFICULT TO WRITE OUT!!    HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND IT!!

 

Attached is the Contest Eligibility Sheet for you to follow for registering for state.  Go ahead and print some of these out and post them around your classroom.  This sheet gives you all of the competitions we will hold at state and specific information about each.  You should have the Technical Standards CD to make copies of individual contests for your students.  DO NOT send them to state without seeing the standards for their contests.  The State Only contest Standards are on the website (more on that next week).

 

IF you have more than 50 registrants for state, please contact Cori for an easier way to get these accounts opened.   

 

I left off Seward for those schools who registered membership early.  They have 44 members registered.  Are there any other schools I missed?

 

 

 

Greg Stahr

SkillsUSA Nebraska, State Advisor

402-471-0898

greg.stahr@nebraska.gov

www.skillsusanebraska.org

 

SKillsUSA Nebraska - Skills Week Ideas

What are you planning for SkillsUSA Week – February 7 -13.  If those dates don’t work for you, do something the next week.  Get together with the other CTSO chapters in your school and do one project that week together.  Do something to get the SkillsUSA name out in the public.  Have a teacher breakfast,  get an article in the paper about the week (include some facts), wear skills t-shirts during the week or at least one day, have a dress up day, take Friday of that week and schedule industry tours, have daily announcements that week promoting SkillsUSA and Career/Technical Education, get the Mike Rowe PSA out to your local radio station/s, have a chapter meeting and do something fun