Workforce Development Newsletter June 2023

WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

5 SKILLSUSA GEORGIA COMPETITIONS WILL QUALIFY FOR STATE AT AGC GEORGIA SKILLS CHALLENGES

AGC Georgia and SkillsUSA are excited to announce a new opportunity that both of our organizations are embracing to help bring more opportunities for construction students to compete for bids to the SkillsUSA Georgia State Leadership & Skills Conference (SLSC) in February 2024 which will take place at the Georgia World Congress Center.

SkillsUSA students will now compete at the AGC Georgia Skills Challenges as their bid to SkillsUSA Georgia’s SLSC. While membership in SkillsUSA Georgia is not a requirement for competing in the AGC Georgia Skills Challenge series, students who hold a membership are afforded an opportunity to qualify in the core five construction trade competitions — Carpentry, Electrical Construction Wiring,

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IN THIS ISSUE

Check Presentations and Donations

Skill Challenge Videos

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Dooly County High School Students Earn OSHA Certification

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AGC Members in the Spotlight

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SKILLSUSA cont’d from page 1

2023 SKILLS CHALLENGE DATES & LOCATIONS

NORTHEAST GEORGIA Gainesville Oct. 25, 2023 agcga.org/NESkills

CENTRAL GEORGIA Macon Oct. 26, 2023 agcga.org/CGSkills

METRO ATLANTA Marietta Oct. 31, 2023 agcga.org/MetroATLSkills

NEW LOCATION FOR 2023!

WEST GEORGIA Columbus Nov. 1, 2023

agcga.org/WGSkills

SOUTHEAST GEORGIA Statesboro Nov. 2, 2023 agcga.org/SESkills

SOUTH+SOUTHWEST Moultrie Nov. 7, 2023 agcga.org/SSWSkills

NORTHWEST GEORGIA Rome Nov. 9, 2023 agcga.org/NWSkills

EAST GEORGIA Augusta Nov. 16, 2023 agcga.org/EGSkills

For questions regarding the new process for qualifying for state SkillsUSA please connect with:

Ashley Brown SkillsUSA Georgia’s Executive Director at 866-503-3169 or abrown@skillsusageorgia.org

Jenny Williams

AGC Georgia’s Workforce Development Director at 678-298-4122 or jwilliams@agcga.org

Masonry, Plumbing and Welding — during one of the eight events offered this fall around Georgia. This new arrangement will allow more students per school the opportunity to compete regionally for a bid to SLSC and will allow for more competition spots at SLSC.

A comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions document is available for construction teachers to review to help them better understand the guidelines that also reference the newly designed map showing where individual schools will be allowed to compete for the opportunity to advance to the state level. Please consider visiting bit.ly/456nBol to review the 15 FAQs.

Leadership from both SkillsUSA Georgia and AGC Georgia are committed to working together to make the fall 2023 Skills Challenges and the SkillsUSA Georgia regional qualifying a great experience for all our state’s construction instructors and their talented students.

These check presentation photos are from visits contractor members made to schools that competed in the 2022 AGC Georgia Skills Challenge competitions. Host contractors presented checks from the AGC Georgia Foundation to instructors during the spring of 2023. These donations are made possible by

the generous support of Skills Challenge sponsors. Each year, after expenses are paid for the regional events, a percentage of the remaining proceeds are spread among the competing schools to help instructors purchase equipment and materials for their construction labs.

SOUTH + SOUTHWEST GA ALLIANCE CHECK PRESENTATIONS

Valdosta High School

Clinch County High School

Colquitt County High School

Thomas County Central High School

Early County High School

Worth County High School

Harris County High School

Ware County High School

Bainbridge High School

Teachers from Left to Right: Brent Branning, CITA; Raymond Richards, Fulton County CCA; Kevin Goble, Adairsville High School; Dale Hales, Roswell High School; Chris Stone, Carrollton High School; Jerome Black, Cass High School; Michael Barcarse, Marietta High School; Calvin Gray, CITA; Blake Reidling, Brasfield and Gorrie

Northeast Georgia Alliance Check Presentation

Metro Atlanta Alliance Check Presentation

West Laurens High School receiving concrete

Harris County High School Check Presentation

Burke County High School Check Presentation

SCAN OUR QR CODES OR VISIT THE FOLLOWING URLS TO WATCH OUR EXCITING VIDEOS HIGHLIGHTING THE 2022 SKILLS CHALLENGE SERIES

SOUTH + SOUTHWEST GEORGIA VIDEO

bit.ly/42oxgoG

HIGHLIGHT VIDEO FEATURING ALL 2022 SKILLS CHALLENGES

bit.ly/3B7oX4s

bit.ly/3MfULKW

SOUTHEAST GEORGIA VIDEO

EAST GEORGIA VIDEO

DOOLY

COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS EARN OSHA CERTIFICATION

Dooly County High School in Vienna is celebrating 37 students who completed their Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Outreach Training Program’s 10-hour safety courses (OSHA 10).

The OSHA Outreach Training Program provided the students from Dooly County High School Construction Teacher Wyndell

Hamrick’s class with basic and more advanced training about common safety and health hazards on the job.

“It was a good day!” Hamrick said about the celebratory OSHA 10 Certification grill out.

The Dooly County School System offers the following Career, Technical, and Agricultural

Education programs: Agriculture, Audio/Visual Technology, Business and Technology, Construction, Health Science, JROTC Army and Work Based-Learning.

We’d like to send a big congratulations to Mr. Hamrick, his construction class and the rest of the Dooly County Bobcats family!

HIGH SCHOOL FIELD TRIP

Jackson High School Construction Teacher Ben Lowe took his class to visit a Parrish Construction Group job site. Lowe, who is in his 18th year as a high school construction teacher, is also the SkillsUSA advisor at the Butts County school.

Don’t forget that SkillsUSA students will now compete at the AGC Georgia Skills Challenges as their bid to SkillsUSA Georgia’s SLSC!

Dooly County High School Students

AUGUSTA CONSTRUCTION CUP

The Augusta Chronicle reported that Jefferson County High School in Louisville (Yes, Georgia) students have won the East Georgia Workforce Development Alliance Construction Cup for the fourth time in eight years.

The East Georgia Skills Challenge was held in November at the Georgia Carolina State Fair in Augusta with host contractors R. W. Allen Construction, GoldMech, Silver Sheet Metal, Inc. The event was one of seven regional events held throughout the state with carpentry, electrical, masonry, plumbing, sheet metal and welding competitions.

JCI CONTRACTORS SOCIAL MEDIA

Our AGC Georgia Team can’t get enough of these JCI photos from an elementary school visit. Look at the perfectly sized safety vests!!! We’d like to encourage all contractor members to keep in mind the importance of engaging with elementary students, middle schoolers and high schoolers. It’s never too early to introduce someone to careers in construction!

JORDAN VOCATIONAL COLLEGE

Associated General Contractors of Georgia Workforce Development Director Jenny Williams and Monica Luker of Freeman & Associates tour Jordan Vocational High School College and Career Academy with Academy CEO Tim Vinson as part of the West Central Georgia Alliance.