PAGE 176 • 2024 STATE TECHNICAL STANDARDS SERIES: DISPLAY AND NOTEBOOK EVENTS CONTEST: OUTSTANDING CHAPTER CONTEST: OUTSTANDING CHAPTER Series Director: ANNEMARIE CATALDO • 978-660-8957 • [email protected] Competition: Best Western - Sterling Room with Event Manager: Arielle Petrucci 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. A PDF file of the Notebook must be emailed to [email protected][email protected] on or before April 1. 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 50-point penalty 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 Notebook that documents chapter activities submitted in the official SkillsUSA 3-ring binder. A digital version submitted ahead of competition and the original brought to competition (which may include updates or a slight expansion of the emailed version). b. Completed secretary’s and treasurer’s notebook. Note: The official SkillsUSA binder and secretary’s and treasurer’s notebooks are available from the SkillsUSA Store. Purpose: To evaluate local chapter activities that benefit the student members, the school and the community. The outstanding chapters chosen each year serve as an example of the enthusiasm and careful planning necessary to keep chapters active and to involve as many members in activi- ties as possible. Eligibility: (Team of 3) All state first-place winners may be entered in national competition. Each state may send one high-school and one college/postsecondary team. Observer Rule: There will be no observers allowed to watch contestants compete. Skill Performance: The contest assesses a chapter’s ability to effectively plan, organize, implement and record activities related to its annual program of work. Contest Guidelines: The chapter will organize the year’s activities and record them in an official SkillsUSA 3-ring binder with a completed secretary’s and treasurer’s notebook (binder and notebooks available from the SkillsUSA Store). *Contestants will turn in completed notebooks to the Event Manager by 9: 00AM in the interview room. (which may include updates or a slight expansion of the emailed version). Online Online Resumé Resumé Submission Submission Notebook Notebook Submission Submission April 1 April 1 Online Test Online Test Completed Completed by April 22 by April 22
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