Meet New Student Chazz Massey

Hi, I am a new student in the Stillwater Transitions program and I came from the Twin Cities Academy in St Paul.  I love to draw, play video games and perform with my rock band.

I just got back from a 3 day Leadership Conference in Alexandria, MN for the Stillwater SKILLSUSA chapter.  It was exhausting but fun.  We participated in team building activities and problem solving groups with other students from around the state of Minnesota.  It was a real opportunity to meet new people and learn about them as well as learning about my strengths. I am volunteering at River Market in downtown Stillwater as my first actual job experience.

Art work by Chazz Massey

SKILLSUSA ~Adopt A Highway~

On Thursday, October 5th, the Stillwater Transition’s chapter of SkillsUSA participated in Adopt-A-Highway. We cleaned along Highway 36, we were split up into two groups, one group was led by our advisor Mike Albers and cleaned the side of the highway that went with the traffic, and there was another group that went with one of the Transition paras Michelle and we cleaned the opposite side of the highway that went against the traffic.

We picked up a lot of interesting things along the way. We saw two dead skunks, which was really gross, and we also saw some bones of some animal. Both of the groups had a total of 10 trash bags that we used to collect the trash that we found. We also were provided with a reflective vest and a pair of work gloves. We left Oak Park around 10:30 a.m and we returned back by 1:00 p.m.

Overall, this was a fun adventure for our SkillsUSA Chapter, we got to work as a team by doing something that most of us really don’t enjoy doing. We are planning on doing another time this month, but we are not exactly sure. This was a great experience for us and we are looking forward to doing it again.

Hwy 36 

The Clean Up Crew