SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary
Your Journey.
Your Achievements.
Your Passport.
Career-Ready Passport
Every experience in SkillsUSA helps build your future. Track your participation, earn digital badges, and celebrate the skills you develop along the way.
Earn Badges
Recognize participation, leadership, service, and achievements.
Explore Opportunities
Discover new experiences throughout your SkillsUSA journey.
Track Your Progress
Build a record of your SkillsUSA involvement.
Celebrate Growth
See how your experiences connect to career readiness.
About the Passport
More Than a Collection of Badges
Your SkillsUSA experience is more than a single event, competition, or leadership position. Every opportunity to learn, lead, serve, and grow contributes to your development as a career-ready professional.
The SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary Career-Ready Passport brings those experiences together. Through digital badges, students can build a record of their participation, achievements, and progress throughout their SkillsUSA journey.
Whether you're attending your first jumpSTART, serving as a chapter officer, competing in the SkillsUSA Championships, or developing the Essential Elements of the SkillsUSA Framework, your journey matters.
See the Possibilities
What Could Your Passport Look Like?
Every student's journey is different. Your Passport helps you see where you've been, recognize what you've accomplished, and discover where you can go next.
How It Works
Participate. Achieve. Grow.
Your Passport creates a record of your SkillsUSA experiences and accomplishments.
Get Involved
Participate in SkillsUSA opportunities through your college, state association, or national organization.
Document Your Experience
Complete activities and provide information or documentation when required for a badge.
Earn Recognition
As achievements are recorded or approved, digital badges become part of your Passport.
Continue Your Journey
Explore additional opportunities, develop new skills, and build your career-ready record.
Opportunities for Recognition
Every Experience Can Move You Forward
The Passport recognizes many different ways members participate, lead, develop skills, and contribute to SkillsUSA.
Membership & Participation
Begin your journey through SkillsUSA membership and participation.
Membership • Alumni EngagementLeadership Development
Develop leadership skills through training, service, and officer opportunities.
jumpSTART • WLTI • TLTI • OfficersFramework Essential Elements
Strengthen the personal, workplace, and technical skills employers value.
17 Essential ElementsSkillsUSA Championships
Demonstrate technical expertise, professionalism, and competitive excellence.
State • National • RecognitionService & Advocacy
Make a difference through service, advocacy, and community engagement.
Community Service • Day on the HillCareer Readiness
Build skills through certifications, work-based learning, and career development.
Certifications • Work-Based LearningBadge opportunities and eligibility requirements may vary. Additional recognitions will be added as the Passport develops.
Career-Ready Scholar
Go Further. Be the Example.
Career-Ready Scholar is the highest recognition available through the SkillsUSA Tennessee College/Postsecondary Career-Ready Passport.
Students must be active SkillsUSA Tennessee C/PS members, demonstrate all 17 SkillsUSA Framework Essential Elements at the Demonstration or Mastery level, and complete three verified capstones: LEAD, SERVE, and APPLY.
Demonstration or Mastery in every element
LEAD • SERVE • APPLY
Three Ways to Demonstrate Career Readiness
Students have multiple ways to meet each capstone. Experiences may come from SkillsUSA, their college, employment, or other approved settings.
LEAD
Leadership in Action
Demonstrate leadership by organizing, guiding, mentoring, or influencing others toward a meaningful outcome.
Possible pathways- Lead a chapter activity or initiative
- Demonstrate leadership as a chapter or state officer
- Mentor other students
- Lead a classroom or workplace team
Holding a title or attending an event alone is not sufficient. Students must demonstrate leadership in action.
SERVE
Service and Advocacy
Demonstrate meaningful service or advocacy that benefits others, the community, Career and Technical Education, or SkillsUSA.
Possible pathways- Complete a community service project
- Serve through SkillsUSA Courtesy Corps
- Advocate for CTE or SkillsUSA
- Support an approved community initiative
Students must document their contribution and the benefit of the service or advocacy.
APPLY
Career and Technical Skills in Action
Apply career or technical knowledge and skills in an authentic, verifiable setting.
Possible pathways- Demonstrate technical skills in a SkillsUSA competition
- Earn an industry-recognized credential
- Complete work-based learning or an internship
- Apply technical skills in employment, clinical experience, or a project
Competition is one pathway, not a requirement. Evidence must demonstrate real application of career or technical skills.
How Are Capstones Verified?
Students provide evidence of their accomplishment. Verification may come from an advisor, instructor, employer, community representative, or the State Office, depending on the activity.
Students do not need to travel, win a competition, or hold state office to qualify.
After review and approval, completed capstones appear in the student's Career-Ready Passport.
Learn About Reporting & VerificationPassport Reporting & Verification
Document Skills. Verify Achievements.
Some badges are awarded from official membership and event records. Others require supporting documentation, advisor assessment, or verification before issuance.
For Advisors
Framework Essential Element Assessment
Submit observations and authentic evidence of a student's SkillsUSA Framework competencies for state review.
Advisors may request Awareness, Demonstration, or Mastery recognition based on documented performance.
Submission does not automatically issue a badge.
Open Framework Assessment ↗Pilot assessment form. Use for approved testing and review.
For Requested Advisor Verification
Advisor Credential Verification
Confirm, decline, or correct a participant's submitted credential when the State Office requests review.
This form is intended for authorized advisors responding to a specific verification request.
Open Advisor Verification ↗Test-mode form. Use only with a valid verification request. Advisor notifications are not yet active.
Need to Report Another Achievement?
Have you earned a recognition that is missing from your Career-Ready Passport?
Tell us about officer service, competition medals, certifications, judging, technical committee work, community service, work-based learning, or other SkillsUSA achievements.
Your Journey Starts Here
Ready to Explore Your Passport?
Discover opportunities, explore your achievements, and see how your SkillsUSA experiences contribute to your future.