SkillsUSA, the organization that represents the United States in the WorldSkills Competition, is sending 20 career and technical education students to Leipzig, Germany, to compete in 19 skill categories during the 42nd biennial international event July 2-7, 2013. This is the largest U.S. team ever assembled. The U.S. first entered international competition in 1975. The students will test their skills against more than 1,000 students representing over 60 countries and regions from around the world competing in 45 official skill competitions and one demonstration contest. There will be 5,000 international experts, delegates and judges, three thousand volunteers and 200,000 student and public spectators attending.

The WorldSkills Competition highlights a worldwide issue: preparation of a highly skilled workforce. Simon Field of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) stated in the book Learning for Jobs, Increasingly, countries are recognizing that good initial vocational education and training has a major contribution to make to economic competitiveness. The wealth of nations will come to rely more on the skills of their people than on other sources such as natural resources.

WorldTeam will meet and compete in Germany with young workers from all around the globe and the team will represent our country well, said Tim Lawrence, executive director, SkillsUSA. And, just as in sports competitions, winning contestants will be awarded medals and honors. But, the difference between this and sports is that nations rise on the success of their workforce. Skilled, capable and flexible workers are the backbone of any nations economy and this competition highlights that fact.

The competitors earned the right to be members of WorldTeam by winning local, district and national contests under the SkillsUSA Championships program and then by participating in an application and interview process and an extensive training regime to prepare for for WorldSkills. Competitors must be under the age of 23.

Competing in Leipzig for the U.S.

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