NIMS director to lead SkillsUSA manufacturing students at WorldSkills Competition in Brazil

SkillsUSA has appointed Montez King, director of credentialing for the National Institute for Metalworking Skills Inc. (NIMS), as a volunteer expert for the Manufacturing Team Challenge (MTC) students competing at the 43rd WorldSkills Competition, Aug. 11 to 16 in São Paulo, Brazil.

King is responsible for preparing and mentoring three students who will join 16 other students as part of SkillsUSA’s WorldTeam. He also will serve as a judge of the MTC contest but will not evaluate the U.S. team.

The biennial WorldSkills competition promotes global workforce skills development and provides a vehicle for comparing career and technical students and methods of training among industrialized nations. About 1,000 students, ages 17 to 22, from nearly 70 countries will compete in one of almost 50 contests covering manufacturing and engineering, construction and building technology, information systems and communications technology, social and personal services, and transportation and logistics.

The MTC contest involves three student teams that perform design, production, assembly, and testing of a manufactured product.