Hartford Union High School’s SkillsUSA team took part in the National Leadership and Skills Conference, in Atlanta.

Earning a ticket to nationals is impressive, and requires winning at the state level.

Hartford’s Drew Kraus, who will be a senior at HUHS, is a two-time SkillsUSA Facilithon National Champion. He told WTKM all about it. 

"Skills USA is a national workforce development and leadership development group, and they do it more in a competitive sense. The competitions include team works, construction, manufacturing to a bunch of leadership competitions. There is a plan every year in terms of how they will run those competitions. It filters down to the state, regional and district competitions." 

There is a total of 114 competitions.

Competing against top state champions from across the country, Hartford Union High School students earned recognition:

• Drew Krause: National Champion in Facilithon (for the second year in a row!).

• Charlie Kraus, Brooke Jelen, Carter Redelings, & Nate Weber: National Champions in TeamWorks.

• Zach Lobert: 2nd in the nation (Silver Medal) in Aviation Maintenance.

• Anna Flanders: National Competitor in Medical Terminology.

SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers, and industry working together. SkillsUSA serves middle-school, high-school, and college/postsecondary students.