Middle School Competitions

Middle school students are allowed to compete in areas such as:

- - Cake Decorating
  - Additive Manufacturing *
  - American Spirit *
  - Chapter Display *
  - Community Service *
  - Engineering Technology- Design *
  - Extemporaneous Speech *
  - Job Skills Demo A*

- - Job Skills Demo Open*
  - Mobile Robotics*
  - Opening & Closing Ceremonies*
  - Outstanding Chapter*
  - Pin Design*
  - Robotics: Urban Search & Rescue*
  - Team Engineering Challenge*
  - T-Shirt Design*

Competitions marked with an asterisk (*) are eligible for national competition if they students earns a gold medal at state competition. State Leadership & Skills Conference is where we compete and is typically held at Knife River Training Center in Albany each year around March or April. It is a three day and two night commitment from students.

State and *National Competition costs including the registration fee, hotel, transportation, required clothing, and food can range from $300-$3000+. That’s why we ask each student to pay at least the registration fee and help with fundraising to pay the remainder of their portion if they plan on competing.

SLSC (State Competition) Approximate Costs

Website SLSC Budget

Past Competitions: State & National Leadership & Skills Conference

2025 State Competition

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2024 State Competition

Congratulations to our state winners from McLoughlin Middle School. Lorelei earned gold medals for both Cake Decorating and T-Shirt design. Jaxon earned two gold medals, one or Job Demo Open and the other for Pin Design. His pin was a real a hit at Nationals for trading. Everyone kept asking for the "doughnut" pin. Both Lorelei and Jaxon were eligible for National Competition. Daniel and Cooper earned bronze medals for Robotics: Urban Search and Rescue.

2023 State Competition

Congrats to our McLoughlin SkillsUSA students who earned 7 gold, 2 silver, and 1 bronze medal at state competition in April 2023. Aiden earned gold for pin design and silver for cake decorating. Daniel and Ryan earned gold for Urban Search & Rescue Robotics. Ryleigh earned gold for extemporaneous speech and bronze for t-shirt design. Jaylei earned gold for both job demo (cosmetology) and t-shirt design. Lorelei earned gold for cake decorating and silver for t-shirt design.

2022 State Competition

Congratulations to our state winners from McLoughlin Middle School. Jedidiah and Moxy earned 1st place in Urban Search & Rescue Robotics. Jedidiah, Mia, and Nicky earned 1st place in the Team Engineering Challenge. Mia earned 1st place in Cake Decorating and Alex earned 2nd place. Nikolai earned 1st place in State Pin Design and Nicky earned 2nd. I am so proud of these kiddos on a job well done. Special thanks to Ms. Robyn Colburn for stepping in to get them to state competition!

2021 Virtual National Competition

Our gold winners at state competed virtually against middle school students from across the U.S. in Urban Search & Rescue Robotics. Jedidiah and Tristan earned our second national medal and first silver medal.

We are so proud of their accomplishments, hardwork, and dedication!

2021 Virtual State Competition

Wow!! Our McLoughlin SkillsUSA students rocked state competition. Mia earned gold medals for both Cake Decorating and Mobile Robotics, Jedidiah earned gold medals for both Mobile Robotics and Urban Search & Rescue Robotics. Evan earned gold for Pin Design. Tristan earned gold for Urban Search & Rescue Robotics and bronze for Cake Decorating. Braden earned silver for Cake Decorating.

2020 Virtual State Competition

COVID-19 hit just as we were about to head on the bus to state competition and our n person competition was cancelled just like that. It was upsetting to students to say the least, but when they decided to go ahead with the competition virtually most of our students stuck with it and chose to compete. I know it is not what they expected or who they wanted it to go down, but I am proud of them for their perseverance and willingness to try a different way to compete.

2020 Medals Earned by Students

We had to mail home the medals students earned for competition and they were recognized virtually by our school board. Between them they earned a total of 6 gold medals, 4 silver medals, and 3 bronze medals. They competed virtually in Cake Decorating, Team Engineering, Urban Search & Rescue Robotics, Mobile Robotics, Pin Design, & T-Shirt Design. Congratulations to all of our SkillsUSA students. You are all winners in my eyes!

2019 National Competition

Our gold winners at state headed to Kentucky in June for a week of competition, site seeing, and fun. They competed against middle school students from across the U.S. in Urban Search & Rescue Robotics and Pin Design. Myles earned our first national medal, with his bronze medal for Pin Design. Students enjoyed a night at Kentucky Kingdom, we played putt-putt golf, and took several trips around the longest Go Kart track in the U.S.

2019 State Competition

Students put on their serious faces for state competition, but also had time for a little fun and play. They climbed a rock wall, had some gladiator style beat downs in the padded gladiator jousting arena. We even got to explore at the mall during our downtime where some of the students decided to ride the electric animals around the mall and try some new foods for the first time.

2019 State Competition Winners

This was year 2 for us at the State Leadership & Skills Conference. Our students always bring it at competition and this year students earned 4 gold medals, 1 silver medal, and 3 bronze medals. With 3 of those gold medals going to Myles who stepped up his game this year and will be going to national competition for pin design in Kentucky this June. Students also competed in a new area for middle school this year, Urban Search and Rescue Robotics. It was a lot of hard work and they had their trials and tribulations at competition, but they made it through and we have one team headed to nationals in Kentucky. We are thankful to Medford School District for their continued support of SkillsUSA and the donation of one of their buses for our transportation to and from competition.

2018 State Competition Winners

Our first year as a SkillsUSA chapter and our students rocked it! We had students compete in Team Engineering, Cake Decorating, and Extemporaneous Speech. Some will be with us again next year at Mac and others will be moving on to one of the high school chapters of SkillsUSA.
I'm sure that we will continue to see great things from these students. Our team engineering challenge
gold winners will be headed to national competition in June all the way in Kentucky for a week.

We could be more proud of them and their accomplishments!

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