Teamworks

We are gearing up for Skills this year in Kansas City.

This will be our 12th year doing TeamWorks, we have come a long way since our first year in Barney Allis Plaza when there were 10 teams. We now regularly see 45+ teams made up of secondary and post secondary schools.

The technical committee at TeamWorks would like to welcome Irwin as the newest member of the committee.

Due to the All Star game in KC this year the event dates have been changed.

In the next few days this site will be updated to provide what we hope is helpful to participants: students, sponsors, and volunteers.

Thanks to all of you and see you in KC.

I am ready, are you?

The TeamWorks technical committee wishes to express our appreciation of the 2011 TeamWorks competitors, advisors and supporters of the event.

This year we saw 46 teams compete and we had the greatest completion rate ever.

There are several sponsors who work behind the scenes to make this a great event.

As we mentioned at the debrief the major corporate sponsors are Lowes, Bosch, ,Stanley Black&Decker and State Farm.

Please send them a thank you at the address listed below:

Kelly L. Persons
Community Relations Manager
Lowes Companies Inc
1000 Lowes Blvd-NB5RP
Mooresville, NC 28117

Robert Bosch Power Tools
Attn: President BNA
1800 W.Central Road
Mount Prospect, IL 60056

Stanley Black&Decker Inc.
Attn: Timothy Perra
1000 Stanley Drive
New Britain, CT 06053

State Farm
Michael T Keating
2309 Oakland Ave
Bloomington, IL 61701

Thanks, see you next year.

Each year at the TeamWorks competition in Kansas City teams of four come to compete in what we believe is the best competition ever. Over four days the competitors, a carpenter, mason, plumber and electrician, present their best face, build an 8′ x 8′ vignette requiring all for skills.

While everyone is a winner a score is kept and the teams with the highest scores are awarded medals and prizes. After 10 years of competition one thing shines through, the teams who are best prepared come away with the highest scores. And nowhere is this more evident than in the team presentation on the first day. These teams are prepared.

In an attempt to level the playing field we have produced a video with some tips for success.

With thanks to Joe Keppler and Brad Keppler I present the TeamWorks Presentation Guide.

 

Good brick layers are hard to come by.
We see that each year at the national TeamWorks competition comes to Kansas City.

Many school programs do not have the resources to support a full masonry program.

To help competitors in their basic brick laying Brian Light came to the TeamWorks event at Hale Arena in 2010 to do a brick laying presentation.
We hope the video will provide some guidance to anyone who needs a lesson in laying brick.

Thanks Brian

The TeamWorks Technical committee is eagerly working to prepare for the 2011 competition in Kansas City June 19-24.

Stay tuned for more  and tips from the committee to “bring it” this year.

Timelapse 2010 Click to see the timelapse video from 2010

We just completed the 2010 Skills National Convention.
As usual it was exciting, inspirational and rejuvenating.
In the future this site will be populated with photos, guides and other information to help competitors, advisors, administrators and parents to make each participant’s experience in TeamWorks a memorable one.

End of Day 1 in Kansas City 2010 TeamWorks