PAGE 196 • 2024 STATE TECHNICAL STANDARDS Online Online Resumé Resumé Submission Submission SERIES: TEAM LEADERSHIP EVENTS CONTEST: CAREER PATHWAYS SHOWCASE CONTEST: CAREER PATHWAYS SHOWCASE Series Director: MINDY GAUTHIER • 401-297-7723 • [email protected] Series Director: STACEY WORDEN • 774-319-0737 • [email protected] Competition: Best Western - Courtyard with Event Managers: Debbie Pacheco, Ray Medeiros and Glenn Koocher REQUIREMENTS AND SCOPE OF CONTEST Advisors will be sent log-on information for the Learning Management System Learning Management System, which will be open on April 10. Contestants must submit an electronic copy of their resumé to the LMS LMS by April 22, by 5:00pm. Employability tests will be in the LMS LMS and the deadline for completion is April 22, by 5:00pm. Clothing Requirements: avoid a clothing penalty SkillsUSA attire: - Red SkillsUSA blazer, windbreaker or sweater, or black or red SkillsUSA jacket. - Button-up, collared, white dress shirt (accompanied by a plain, solid black tie), white blouse (collarless or small collard) or white turtleneck, with any collar to not extend to the lapel area of the blazer, sweater, windbreaker or jacket. - Black dress slacks or black dress skirt (knee-length) Wearing socks or hose is no longer required. If worn, socks must be black dress socks and hose must be either black or skin-tone and seamless/non pattern. - Black dress shoes NO cell phones or SmartWatches allowed Tool Requirements: Contestants must submit online a one-page type-written resume, failure to do so will result in a 10-point penalty per person 1. Supplied by the technical committee: a. Copy of SkillsUSA Massachusetts Technical Standards and all necessary information for judges and technical committee b. The committee will identify a holding area and presentation room c. Stopwatch/Timer 2. Supplied by the Contestant: a. Project for display b. Each team is to bring a three prong Power Strip c. Each Team is to bring an Extension Cord at least 15’ in length d. A tape measure for measuring of the project for judges e. All competitors must create a one-page resumé and submit an electronic copy to the LMS LMS on or before the posted deadline. on or before the posted deadline. Purpose: To encourage career technical students to promote their schools’ career preparation program to their community and industry. They will develop a learning-based project that will benefit their school, industry or community with a focus on their career preparation. They will then develop a display to use in their community to explain the project, their studies and its benefits. Display Requirements: Displays may not entail hazardous or flammable materials. Observer Rule: Only the team’s advisor WILL BE allowed to watch contestants compete. Eligibility: A team consisting of three students enrolled in the same recognized Career Pathways course of a state-approved career and technical program. The Career Pathways program must be part of an organized chapter of SkillsUSA. Students must be current, active members of SkillsUSA. Only the first-place high-school and college/postsecondary winning teams are eligible to participate. Teams of fewer than three members will be penalized one-third or two thirds of the possible points, based on the number of team members missing. State Skills: The student teams will use their course of study as the basis of a project that will benefit their class, school, community or industry. The project must highlight an aspect of their career cluster training. Upon completion of the project, the students will develop a display and use it within their community to explain their training and their project. This contest will judge mastery of their training, its application, the project’s benefit to their community, and display and presentation techniques. Online Test Online Test Completed Completed by April 22 by April 22