SKILLSUSA & FM PIPELINE FACILITHON
Representing 400,000 career and technical education students and teachers, SkillsUSA chapters thrive in middle schools, high schools, and college/postsecondary institutions nationwide. Our mission is accomplished through the SkillsUSA Framework of Personal Skills, Workplace Skills, and Technical Skills Grounded in Academics, which is integrated into the classroom curriculum. Through the Framework, SkillsUSA students hone their hands-on skills against current industry standards in more than 130 occupational areas, from 3-D Animation to Welding and everything in between. At the same time, they develop transformative career-readiness skills teamwork, communication, professionalism, leadership, and more that fuel career and life success.
A vital solution to the ongoing skills gap, where more highly skilled jobs are available than skilled professionals ready to fill them, SkillsUSA has served more than 14.6 million diverse, difference-making members since 1965.
FM Solutions principal Curtis Slife is the director of the Facilithon competition for the state of Arizona. Through the FM Pipeline, this competition is introduced to high school and technical school students and their advisors at the Skills USA competition. This competition familiarizes the students and advisors on careers in Facility Management. The Facilithon competition tests a student’s ability to thrive in a facility management environment through a 50-question common-sense quiz, a 10-minute FM (Facility Management) role play, and the FM Challenge, an emergency scenario that the student must react to immediately. Students who do well in the Facilithon represent excellent future facility management professionals.
