Friday, October 3, 2014
Winners In Chapter Business Procedure 2014 Skills USA Championships
First Place Lawrence County High School Lawrenceburg, TN consisting of Ally Bosheers, Trevor Clayton, Emily Wilson, Darian McCroskey,
Ginger Allen, Liz a Manuele
Press release
The winners of the annual SkillsUSA Championships in CHAPTER BUSINESS PROCEDURE were announced Friday evening, JUNE 27, 2014 at the Awards Ceremony of the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference.
The Conference was held JUNE 23 - JUNE 27, 2014, at the Municipal Auditorium, the Kemper Arena, H. Roe Bartle Hall, the downtown Marriott and the downtown Crowne Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri.
Over 6,000 outstanding career and technical education students joined in the excitement of hands‑on competition in 99 different trade, technical, and leadership fields.
Chapter Business Procedure is a team contest evaluating students’ ability to conduct business meetings for a SkillsUSA chapter according to the order of business.
Student teams of up six members demonstrate the knowledge of parliamentary procedure in both a written exam and a team demonstration. During the presentation, the team must properly insert into the order of business the secretary’s minutes, treasurer’s report and business items identified by the technical committee.
In addition to the debate and transaction of the business items, teams will also properly demonstrate at least six different parliamentary procedure motions, including at least one of each of the following: maine, privileged, subsidiary, incidental and motions that bring back issues to the floor. The secretary upon completion of the demonstration reads minutes of the demonstration
Members of the national technical committee for the Chapter Business Procedure include Chair Mark Johnson, Pittsburg State University (Kan.); Virginia Berberick, National Association of Parliamentarians (Kan.); and, Teresa Dean, National Association of Parliamentarians (Mo.).
SkillsUSA is the national organization for students in trade, industrial, technical and health occupations 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 occupations.
Working against the clock and each other, the participants proved their expertise in job skills for occupations such as electronics, technical drafting, precision machining, medical assisting and culinary arts. There were also competitions in leadership skills, such as extemporaneous speaking and conducting meetings by parliamentary procedures.
The contests are designed and planned by representatives of labor and management. Contests test the skills needed for a successful entry-level performance in occupations.
The non-occupationally-specific leadership contests represent a variety of communications, goal setting and teamwork skills -- all geared to enhance a student's qualities of leadership, responsibility, and character.
A short video about the National Leadership and Skills Conference is available online at http://www.skillsusa.org/events/nlsc.shtml.
Lowe’s Companies Inc. also supports the contest.
A complete list of winners is available online. Go to http://www.skillsusa.org/compete/results.shtml.
