Student Competitions
In 2025, student competitors from "Home" region schools for this event have the option to participate in the following categories that will be part of the East Georgia Skills Challenge.
- Blueprint Reading
- ** Cabinetmaking - in-classroom project brought to Skills Challenge for judging
- * Carpentry
- * Electrical
- Heavy Equipment Operations
- * Masonry
- * Plumbing
- Sheet Metal
- ** TeamWorks - a 4 -person team completes framing pre-fab work in their classroom and then brings units to contest to build rest of TeamWorks project on day of the Skills Challenge.
- Welding - Beginner
- * Welding - Advanced
- ** Welding Fabrication - 3-person team performs in-class project that will be brought to Skills Challenge for judging
- Welding Fabrication - This 2nd event in this category offers students who are not seeking the opportunity to advance to SLSC a chance to participate with a day of project.
* Students from schools within this event's "home" region AND have confirmed SkillsUSA membership by October 3, 2025, AND place 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the denoted competitions at the East Georgia Skills Challenge will advance to the SkillsUSA Georgia State Leadership and Skills Conference.
** Only "home" region students who are confirmed members of SkillsUSA by October 3, 2025, are invited to participate in Cabinetmaking, TeamWorks and Welding Fabrication contests at the East Georgia Skills Challenge. These competitions are qualifiers for "home" region students seeking to advance to the SkillsUSA Georgia State Leadership and Skills Conference. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers from "home" region schools in Cabinetmaking advance to the state competition. The first place TeamWorks team and the first place Welding Fabrication team from a "home" region school will advance.