KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Call it the final word. At the end of the daylong HVACR competition at SkillsUSA, time was set aside for a debriefing.
The 52 contestants had made their way around eight workstations, demonstrating their skills to the judges. In each instance, they were given a specific problem (usually in the form of a customer complaint) and had to call upon what they had learned to diagnose and repair the problem.