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2011 State Leadership and Skills Conference
April 15-17, 2011
Lansing, MI
Please read everything carefully and follow all instructions. Failure to do so may result in your school not being registered for the conference!
General Instructions
- Only one registration per school will be accepted.
- All individual registrations for your school must go through your Lead Advisor.
Due Dates
All registrations, forms and payment must be received prior to the date indicated.
- March 7, 2011 – School Hotel Reservations Open (First day that school housing lists will be accepted by the State Office)
- March 15, 2011 – Early Registration Due and Final Day for Housing Lists
- April 1, 2011 – Changes, Refund Requests and Regular Registration Due
- April 11, 2011 – Final Hotel Cancellations Due (A $25 fee will be assessed for hotel rooms NOT cancelled by this date)
- Absolutely no registration changes, refund requests or registrations will be accepted after April 1, 2011.
Regional Contestant Forms
The Regional Contestant Ranking Sheet or a Regional Qualifier Direct to States Form is REQUIRED for all contests so that we know what contestants have qualified for States. An accurate contestant count is necessary for contest supply orders, contest site set-up, conference registration, etc.One of these forms MUST be filled out for all regional contests (including those contests going directly to States) and for both HS and CPS divisions. I cannot stress the importance of these forms enough!These forms are on the web site at http://www.miskillsusa.org/forms.html.
- This form must be signed by the contest coordinator and faxed to your regional representative no later than 2 days after your contest.
- Failure to submit this form to your regional representative will result in those students NOT being allowed to compete at the State Conference!
- If we receive a State Conference registration for a contestant NOT on the appropriate Regional Contestant Ranking Sheet or Regional Qualifier Direct to States Form, he/she will NOT be allowed to compete!
- NO EXCEPTIONS!
Request for Deadline Extension
Because SkillsUSA Michigan realizes that some schools have a long lead time to have a check issued for payment, we have developed this procedure for schools to request a two week payment extension. Schools requesting a payment extension need to complete and submit this form at least two weeks prior to the payment deadline. A new form must be submitted for each conference for which an extension is requested.
Registration Packet
Each school must complete and submit the following to the state office prior to your chosen due date.
- State Conference Registration Form (please send in as soon as it is completed)
- Participant Code of Conduct and Medical Treatment Authorization Form for each person attending the conference
- Registration Fee payment for the entire amount
Participant Code of Conduct and Medical Treatment Authorization Form
With your registration, each person attending the conference must submit a Participant Code of Conduct and Medical Treatment Authorization Form. Failure to turn in a Participant Code of Conduct and Medical Treatment Authorization Form for each person attending the conference will disqualify the person (whose form is missing) from conference activities, including competition. Please make of copy of these forms to submit to our office. The originals are to remain with you or the Lead Advisor at the conference.
Please make sure that all persons attending the conference are familiar with the Participant Code of Conduct. The Participant Code of Conduct is for the protection of you, your students, your school, and SkillsUSA Michigan. A copy of this form need to be in all participants’ name tag. This will allow for easy access to medical information in case of an emergency.
Registration Fee
All registrations must be made electronically on the registration form available on our web site at http://www.miskillsusa.org/sc.html. Paper registration forms will not be accepted. The registration fee must be submitted to the state office prior to your chosen due date. Please be aware of the due dates and corresponding registration fee! Make checks payable to SkillsUSA Michigan.
- Early Registration Fee (payments received by March 15, 2011) - The conference registration fee is $60.00 for each person attending the conference. This includes all students, delegates, advisors, administrators, and special guests. If your registrations, forms and payment are not received by March 16, 2010, you will be responsible for paying the difference between the Early and Late Registration Fees and your school will be invoiced accordingly.
- Regular Registration Fee (between March 15, 2011 and April 1, 2011) - The conference registration fee is $75.00 for each person attending the conference. This includes all students, delegates, advisors, administrators, and special guests.
- Purchase Orders - SkillsUSA Michigan accepts purchase orders, but they need to be processes so the payment arrives by the deadline date to receive the early registration fee.
- Credit Card Payments – SkillsUSA Michigan accepts credit cards as payment. Please use the charge card form that is available at http://www.miskillsusa.org/forms.html. These payments are processed within 24 hours (if received during business hours) and the receipt is mailed within 48 hours.
Your school is responsible for the full amountof registration fees owed as per the initial registration. Any monies owed to the State Association must be paid in full prior to registering at the conference. Failure of making full payment at this time will result in the school being put on probation and therefore prohibiting members from attending official association functions, including the current year’s National Conference. This probation will remain in effect until the monies are paid in full.
Housing Reservations
The hotel registration is separate from the State Conference registration and reservations are made on a separate form. The hotel charges are NOT included in the State Conference registration fee.
Please review the following process in order to make your housing reservations for the SkillsUSA Michigan State Leadership and Skills Conference to be held in Lansing. This process has been developed by the Greater Lansing Convention and Visitors Bureau (GLCVB) to help the Host Hotels reduce the number of changes and cancellations that they have experienced over the past few years.
- Student housing is based on four (4) to a room. If a chapter does not have multiples of four (4) people of the same sex, it will be the chapter’s responsibility to fill a room by contacting other chapters, or absorb the additional cost (per person) for occupancy less than four (4). Chapters must house the majority of their delegation in quad rooms so SkillsUSA Michigan can ensure that there will be adequate room for all registrants. Students will not be permitted to be in a single room.
- If you make arrangements with another school to fill a quad room, please include the name of the school the student is from, after his/her name, on the form. Be sure that both schools include the mixed room on their registration form. One school should be designated as responsible for prepayment of the shared room. The other school(s) should then pay the designated school.
- Advisors should plan to be assigned to a double (2-person) room. Please indicate the name and school of the individual you want to room with, so the hotel can properly match you up. Remember to check with your intended roommate first. Each year, reservations are received where an advisor did not confirm with the second advisor. Also, remember to register your spouse if they will be staying with you during the conference.
- Schools should check our web site at http://www.miskillsusa.org/sc.html to decide which hotel they prefer to stay.
- Schools can begin registering for hotels on March 7, 2011 after all regional competitions have taken place. Hotel registrations received before March 7, 2011 will be entered in the hotel system on March 8, 2011. Reservations will be processed in the order in which they were received. All participants from the same school must register at the same time. You must have a rooming list of qualified students in order to proceed with your reservations. Housing reservations will not be accepted without a rooming list.
- Reservations for all official conference hotels must be made via the State Office beginning March 7, 2011. If you make a reservation on your own at an official conference hotel, there will be a penalty. Chapters that make their own reservation at an official conference hotel only slow down the process for other schools.
- Fill out housing form, noting your order of preference for the hotels with rooming blocks for the SkillsUSA event. If you do not list your preferred hotels, you will be placed in the next available hotel.
- The state office will assign your hotel based on the order received, priority of hotels selected and the hotel’s room availability. There will be no switching hotels once you have been assigned, so please choose carefully. Once your reservation has been processed and accepted by the hotel (approximately 6 business days), the hotel will send you a confirmation so you can send your payment directly to your assigned hotel. Once the school receives the confirmation, all changes should be made directly with the hotel.
- Once notified of your hotel, all rooms must be paid in full directly to the hotel, by April 11, 2011. Do not send your hotel payment to the State Office.
- Please remember to complete the SkillsUSA Michigan Tax Exempt Certification (included with your registration forms) and send it with your hotel selection form and housing list.
- Cancellations made after 6:00 p.m. on Monday, April 11, 2011 will incur a $25 fee per room cancellation fee. This fee will be assessed by the hotel.
- Special requests are based upon the availability at the time the housing form and full payment are received at the hotel. Hotel rooms will be assigned on a first received basis.
We hope that this streamlined process will work to everyone’s advantage and give an equal opportunity for room blocks at their favorite hotels.
The official conference hotel list will be posted on our web site in Fall 2010.
Supervision
The Advisors Council has determined that there should be adequate supervision for the students provided by each school.
- One (1) adult is responsible for every ten (10) students attending the conference. Please be sure to register the appropriate number of advisors from your school.
- Each school will decide which advisors are to be responsible for which students.
- Accountability for any student's misconduct will be the direct responsibility of the advisor in charge of his/her designee.
- Advisors should have available at all times the name, address, and phone number of the parents/guardians of each student they are responsible for.
State Conference Tentative Agenda
Friday, April 15, 2011
- 1:00 pm-7:00 pm Conference Registration Causeway Bay Hotel
(all schools)
- 1:00 pm Hotel Check In Assigned Hotels
- 1:30 pm State Officer Candidate Interviews Causeway Bay Hotel
- 2:00 pm-5:30 pm Leadership Test Causeway Bay Hotel
(for all contestants)
- 7:30 pm Opening General Session Causeway Bay Hotel
- After session Final Leadership Test Causeway Bay Hotel
(for those who did not take it earlier)
Saturday, April 16, 2011
- 8:00 am Contests Conducted Various Locations
- 4:15 pm Delegate Meeting Causeway Bay Hotel
- 6:00 pm Advisor Meeting Causeway Bay Hotel
- 7:30 pm Evening Activity (optional)
Sunday, April 17, 2011
- 8:00 am-12:00 pm Awards Program Causeway Bay Hotel
Available Contest Spots Lottery
Available contest spots, not filled by the approved number of regional qualifiers, are filled by a contest lottery, as determined by the State Director. The procedure by contest is as follows:
- All regions are put in a hat and regions are drawn based on the number of available spots.
- The winning region’s Regional Contestant Ranking Sheet is then consulted and the next available competitor is then contacted.
- If there is no available competitor from a winning region, then the procedure starts over.
Approved Alternate List
Students who did NOT qualify to compete at States but are attending the State Conference may be eligible to be on the Approved Alternate List. Students accepted for the Approved Alternate List must be approved by the State Director before the State Conference and have met the following criteria:
- Competed at Regionals in that contest.
- Are registered as an alternate for a team event and must indicate what team they are an alternate for. These alternates are only allowed to substitute for a competitor of the indicated team.
Competitor Meals
The day of the competition, competitors are encouraged to bring with them snacks and/or lunch to the contest site, as they may not be able to leave the contest site until the contest is finished. Contestant lunches are not provided by SkillsUSA Michigan but may be provided by the contest technical committee.
State Conference Map
An interactive map of all State Conference contest sites and hotels will be available at http://www.communitywalk.com/2011_skillsusa_michigan_state_conference__april_1517_2011/map/554420.
Transportation
SkillsUSA Michigan will provide transportation from the official conference hotels to the Opening General Session on Friday evening and most events on Saturday. Transportation is NOT provided on Friday for the Leadership Test and on Sunday for the Awards Program and is your responsibility.
State Officer Application
Being a state officer is one of the highest honors a student can achieve in SkillsUSA Michigan. If you have a student who wants to run for a state office, please have them complete and submit the State Officer Application by March 4, 2011. The State Officer Application is be available on our web site at http://www.miskillsusa.org/forms.html.
State-wide Food Sculpture Contest
SkillsUSA supports community service activities and the State Officers are sponsoring a State-wide Food Sculpture Contest. Winning schools will be recognized at the Sunday Morning Awards Program. Detailed information about the State-wide Food Sculpture Contest is available at http://www.miskillsusa.org/sc.html.
Friday Check-in
The lead advisor from each attending school will be given their conference materials upon check-in on Friday, April 15, 2011 at the SkillsUSA Michigan headquarters at the Causeway Bay Hotel. You will need to check-in before your students take the Leadership Test.
Alumni State Conference T-Shirt Sale
The SkillsUSA Michigan Alumni Association will be selling State Conference T-shirts. These t-shirts are only available on a pre-sale basis for $10 each. State Conference t-shirts will NOT be sold at the State Conference. You will receive your t-shirt order when you check-in on Friday. The order form is available at http://www.miskillsusa.org/sc.html.
Corrections and/or Changes
After reviewing the conference materials if there are corrections and/or changes, please bring them to the conference headquarters at the Causeway Bay Hotel before the Opening General Session on Friday. Corrections will be made Friday evening and if needed, new name badges will be available at the SkillsUSA Michigan headquarters at Lansing Community College-West Campus on Saturday morning.
Contest Information
Contest information for each event will be available on our web site by the first week in March at http://www.miskillsusa.org/contests.html. The web site contains important information about each contest, including what each competitor needs to bring to the contest.
Dress Code
The State Conference Dress Code was approved by the Advisor Council in July 2008. The Advisor Council will be on hand at each meeting to determine if a student is properly dressed before he/she will be allowed on the stage. This dress code applies to both students and advisors.
Friday Night General Session and Saturday Delegate Meeting: School-logo attire or SkillsUSA Michigan attire is required. A SkillsUSA blazer, sweater or windbreaker is encouraged but not required. Business attire is NOT allowed.
- Women: School-logo collared shirt, dress pants or skirt no shorter than 2” above the knee, skin-tone seamless hose, and close toed dress shoes OR white collared shirt, black pants or skirt no shorter than 2” above the knee, skin-tone seamless hose, and close toed dress shoes.
- Men: School-logo collared shirt, dress pants, dress socks, and dress shoes OR white collared shirt, black pants, black socks, and dress shoes.
Sunday Morning Awards Ceremony: SkillsUSA Michigan attire or appropriate National Competition clothing is required. A SkillsUSA blazer, sweater or windbreaker is encouraged but not required. Business attire and school-logo attire are NOT allowed. Please see http://www.miskillsusa.org/forms.html for the National Competition Clothing list.
- Women: White collared or collarless shirt (with or without school/SkillsUSA logo), black pants or skirt no shorter than 2” above the knee, skin-tone seamless hose, and close toed dress shoes OR appropriate National competition clothing.
- Men: White collared shirt (with or without school/SkillsUSA logo), black pants, black socks, and dress shoes OR appropriate National competition clothing.
Social and Free Time: Neat casual clothing is acceptable. Shoes must be worn when in public areas. Items not acceptable include hats, bathing suits (unless at the pool), and suggestive attire. Shirts must have sleeves and no bare mid drift. Skirts and shorts must be at least finger tip length.
Awards Presentation Procedure
SkillsUSA Michigan and the Advisor’ Council has also changed the State Conference awards presentation procedure beginning in 2010. At the State Conference Awards Ceremony on Sunday, the Advisors’ Council will be on hand to determine if a student is properly dressed before he/she will be allowed on the stage. If a student is determined to be not properly dressed (as outlined above), then the student will be instructed to go to the right of the stage to receive their award. Improperly dressed students will not be allowed to stand in front of the stage to receive their medallions (as in previous years). Pictures may be taken on the awards podium after the completion of the awards ceremony.
Industry Awards Procedure
In an effort to conserve time and resources, the industry awards will be announced and distributed differently than in the past.
- Announcement - Before the Awards Ceremony begins, recognition will be given to the industry award donors on the large screen and again when the contest is announced.
- Program – Industry award donors will also be recognized in the State Conference program.
- Distribution - The industry awards will be given to the winners in a separate room outside of the ballroom. After the winners receive their medal and plaque on stage and have had their picture taken, they will need to go to the industry awards room and show their plaque to claim their industry award. They must show their plaque in order to receive their industry award.
For an industry award donor to receive recognition at the State Conference, the new Industry Awards Form must be filled out completely and sent in to the State Office by April 1, 2011. This form is available at http://www.miskillsusa.org/forms.html.
Resume
All competitors will be required to submit a one-page, type-written resume. The resume will be turned in at the contest sites. A penalty of 5% will be assessed for failure to submit a resume. A sample resume worksheet is available on our web site at http://www.miskillsusa.org/forms.html. The resume will be turned in at the contest site.
SkillsUSA Leadership Test
All competitors will be required to take the SkillsUSA Leadership Test on Friday afternoon. This test is only used as a tie-breaker. A study guide for this test is available on our web site at http://www.miskillsusa.org/forms.html.
Special Needs Request Form
SkillsUSA Michigan is committed to providing equal access to all persons in admission to, access to, or operation of its programs or services. Individuals with disabilities or needing accommodations must complete and submit a Special Needs Request Form to the state office with your registration. This form is available on our web site at http://www.miskillsusa.org/forms.html. SkillsUSA Michigan is not responsible for providing special accommodations if this form is not submitted.
Official Voting Delegates
Each chapter will be allowed to have official voting delegates at the Delegate Meeting. All delegates must be registered for the state conference. They may be students that are already attending the conference in another capacity (competitor, observer, alternate, etc.). Only students with a delegate or alternate ribbon on their name tag will be admitted to the Delegate Meeting on Saturday afternoon and therefore, be allowed to vote for the state officers and on state business.
The number of official voting delegates is based on your chapter’s membership as of January 15, 2011. The chart of official voting delegates will be available on the web site at http://www.miskillsusa.org/sc.html.
Advisor Meeting
All advisors are asked to attend the Advisor Meeting on Saturday night. This meeting is conducted by the Advisors Council.
Saturday Evening Activity
There will be a optional evening activity on Saturday night. Details to follow.
Sunday Morning Awards Program
- Transportation will be your responsibility.
With the new Industry Awards Procedure, the Sunday Morning Awards Program might be finished earlier than in previous years.
Non-Discrimination Policy
The policy of SkillsUSA Michigan is that no person shall, on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, marital status, weight, sexual orientation, sex or disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination during any program, activity or in employment. SkillsUSA Michigan will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, marital status, weight, sexual orientation, or disability. Any student requiring an accommodation as a result of a disability should contact the chapter advisor to arrange such accommodation.
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