Alumni & Friends
Your SkillsUSA Story Does Not End at Graduation
SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary alumni, professionals, and friends can stay connected, serve students, share industry expertise, and help build the next generation of skilled professionals across Tennessee. Note: Membership must be renewed annually.
Stay Connected
Turn Your Experience Into Opportunity for Others
Alumni understand the confidence, technical growth, leadership development, friendships, and career opportunities that SkillsUSA can create. Staying involved allows you to use that experience to support students, advisors, colleges, technical programs, employers, and communities.
You do not have to be a former Tennessee member to participate. Former SkillsUSA members from across the nation who now live or work in Tennessee, along with professionals and supporters who believe in the mission, are invited to connect with SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary.
Free National Membership
Who Can Join Alumni, Friends, & Professionals?
The SkillsUSA Alumni & Friends Association welcomes former members, professionals, educators, industry representatives, family members, and other supporters who want to contribute time, talent, expertise, or resources to SkillsUSA.
National Alumni & Friends membership is free. Registration places you in the alumni system so you can remain connected and receive information about future opportunities.
Ways to Serve
Choose the Role That Fits Your Experience
Alumni and professional members can serve at the local, state, and national levels. The level of involvement depends on your interests, availability, location, and professional expertise.
Serve as a Judge
Evaluate student work, provide professional feedback, and help maintain the quality and credibility of SkillsUSA Championships events.
Serve as a Technical Chair
Help plan and manage a competition, recruit judges, review technical standards, coordinate materials, and support contest operations.
Volunteer at Events
Support registration, student programming, conference operations, ceremonies, hospitality, awards, logistics, and other event needs.
Mentor Students
Share career advice, support student leadership, help students prepare for employment, and encourage members as they move into the workforce.
Speak or Present
Provide workforce insight, technical demonstrations, career information, interview preparation, or professional development for students and advisors.
Connect Students to Careers
Share internships, apprenticeships, job openings, workplace tours, work-based learning opportunities, and professional connections.
Assist a Local Chapter
Help advisors with chapter activities, student recruitment, community service, fundraising, planning, and implementation of the chapter Program of Work.
Serve on an Advisory Committee
Bring employer and alumni perspectives to local technical programs, curriculum discussions, equipment planning, and workforce alignment.
Share Your SkillsUSA Story
Help current students see where SkillsUSA can lead by sharing your education, career journey, leadership experience, and professional accomplishments.
Support Where It Matters Most
Alumni Strengthen Local Chapters
Running a strong local SkillsUSA chapter requires time, planning, industry relationships, student support, and consistent energy. Instructors and advisors balance those responsibilities with teaching, accreditation, technology changes, workforce expectations, student needs, and program administration.
A dependable alumni volunteer can make a meaningful difference. Alumni know the challenges of organizing chapter activities and often return with new career experience, professional contacts, and practical insight that can strengthen the program they once attended.
Building the Tennessee Network
Tennessee College/Postsecondary Alumni & Friends Association
SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary is working to establish a stronger alumni and friends network for college and technical education graduates, former state officers, industry professionals, retired instructors, technical chairs, judges, volunteers, and supporters.
Purpose Under Development
The developing association is intended to connect alumni with service, leadership, volunteer, industry engagement, scholarship, community service, and student support opportunities across Tennessee.
Proposed bylaws outline a mission centered on supporting SkillsUSA educational programs, engaging alumni and business and industry leaders, strengthening technical and skilled occupations, and creating a sustainable structure for alumni leadership.
Proposed Leadership Structure
Organizing Alumni for Long-Term Service
The proposed bylaws describe a volunteer Board of Directors supported by appointed advisors and organized around governance, membership, communication, finance, service, and statewide engagement.
President and Vice President
Lead meetings, coordinate committees, communicate with members, support advisors, delegate work, and help guide the association’s direction.
Secretary
Maintain minutes, agendas, governance documents, meeting records, organizational files, and formal documentation.
Treasurer
Support budgeting, financial records, fundraising, receipts, reports, and responsible management of association resources.
Marketing and Membership
Build the alumni roster, support national registration, communicate with members, document activities, share alumni stories, and promote opportunities.
Members at Large
Support membership growth, fundraising, alumni outreach, schools, conferences, events, and special projects.
Focused Service Teams
Proposed committees include governance, fundraising, community service, scholarships, and other special committees created to meet identified needs.
Proposed Code of Conduct
Serve With Professionalism
Alumni volunteers work directly with students, advisors, institutional leaders, employers, conference guests, and other volunteers. Their conduct should reflect the values and expectations of SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary.
Be Prepared
Arrive on time, understand your assignment, and keep your commitments.
Be Respectful
Treat students, advisors, staff, volunteers, partners, and peers appropriately.
Be Trustworthy
Be honest about what you can do and follow through on what you accept.
Bring a Can-Do Attitude
Recognize that every assignment contributes to the student experience.
Protect Students and Boundaries
Maintain appropriate conduct, professional boundaries, and awareness of surroundings.
Respect Property and Facilities
Care for hotels, venues, equipment, supplies, and SkillsUSA property.
Model Positive Leadership
Let your language, attitude, and actions provide a strong example for students.
Take Care of Yourself and Others
Rest, eat, communicate needs, and support the wellbeing of the team.
Work as a Team
Use the knowledge, experience, and strengths of fellow alumni volunteers.
The complete Code of Conduct remains proposed and may be revised as the Tennessee College/Postsecondary alumni association is established.
Alumni Resources
Connect Locally, Statewide, and Nationally
Use these resources to register, explore volunteer opportunities, follow national alumni news, and connect with the broader SkillsUSA Tennessee alumni community.
Join SkillsUSA Alumni & Friends
Register in the national Alumni & Friends system and remain connected to future opportunities.
Open Alumni Registration Statewide ResourceSkillsUSA Tennessee Alumni
Visit the Tennessee Alumni Page National NewsSkillsUSA Alumni News
Read national alumni stories, announcements, historical updates, and examples of alumni engagement.
Explore National Alumni NewsHelp Build the Network
Connect With Tennessee College/Postsecondary Alumni Leadership
Lance Meyers is currently serving as the contact for efforts to establish the SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary Alumni & Friends Association. Alumni, former officers, volunteers, technical chairs, industry professionals, and supporters who want to help shape the network are encouraged to connect.
Come Back and Lead
The Next Generation Needs What You Know
Alumni bring credibility, perspective, technical knowledge, professional networks, and firsthand understanding of the SkillsUSA experience. Your involvement can help a student find confidence, prepare for a career, discover an opportunity, or see a future they had not yet imagined.