The Skills USA Experience as Shared by a former Student, Instructor, and Facilitator

About this episode

The episode features a discussion on the Skills USA program and its impact on automotive vocational education with insights from a representative, a graduate, and an instructor.

We welcome Danny Pohl, representative of the Skills USA program to discuss in depth how this program partners with high school vocational programs to motivate and inspire the next generation of automotive collision and finishing technicians. We also welcome Brian Godoy, a graduate of the program to discuss the program and skills competition experience and how he found the automotive collision repair career field, and insights about the program from his instructor from Southern High School, Richard Garrity. This is a fascinating and fun conversation covering this program from all perspectives and so much more!

People in this episode

Hosts: Jason Paynter, Eric Bensel

Guests: Danny Pohl, Brian Godoy

Topics covered

• Skills USA
• automotive education
• vocational programs
• collision repair
• skills competition

Keywords

• Skills USA
• automotive collision
• vocational training
• skills competition
• career field

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Skills USA, Southern High School

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