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Jackie received the Silver Medal for Career Pathways – Natural Resources Agriculture/Food.
Bob Medved, State Farm High-Tech Toolbox host sat down with SkillsUSA student and competitor Jackie Davis.
Jackie along with 50+ other students at 2012 SkillsUSA Nationals received a scholarship to help with their travel and lodging expenses. These scholarships are essential to assisting students in attending. Read More...
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Collision Hub and mrW Tradesmen Bob Medved interviewed mrW’s Vice-President and Director of Operations at the 2012 SkillsUSA Nationals.
For many a trip to compete at SkillsUSA Nationals would not be possible without the scholarships provided by the Mike Rowe Works Foundation. When he’s not out looking for the world’s dirtiest job or driving a Ford, his foundation is hard at work supporting and leading the charge for a more skilled American Workforce.
Boots crafted in the USA to be launched for Holiday 2012 as part of the Mike Rowe Works by Cat Footwear collection
ROCKFORD, Mich., July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Cat® Footwear announced today they are launching a new Mike Rowe Works by Cat Footwear work boot made in the USA for the holiday 2012 collection. As part of their partnership with Mike Rowe –creator, host and executive producer of Discovery Channel’s popular television show ‘Dirty Jobs’ — Cat Footwear will be manufacturing the Made in the USA work boots in the Wolverine World Wide plant in Big Rapids, Michigan. Read More...
The National Leadership and Skills Conference is always an exciting—transforming—experience involving 15,000 of our closest friends. It’s also humbling to realize how much our collective work affects lives. Many teachers said to me and to staff: “Thank you for what you do for our students.” Read More...
Mike Rowe’s shameless promotion for a cleaning product. Well, that and you can save $3.00 doing laundry. How often does that happen? (We’re guessing never.)
But here’s the thing – for every $3.00 coupon redeemed, the mikeroweWORKS Foundation gets a buck to continue doing the good stuff it’s doing. What does it do you ask? Check out www.mikeroweworks.com/giving-back and find out!
Take a moment, if you will, to travel back in your mind to a hot, muggy July day. Perhaps it’s not hard to imagine the hot and muggy part but see if you can imagine standing in the back of that assembly room at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in 1776 as the delegates from the 13 colonies entered into the debate as to whether or not America should be formed. They were lawyers, farmers, doctors and scholars from as diverse a background and cultural heritage as you could find. Read More...