The Facilithon introduces high school and technical school students and their advisors to careers in Facility Management, The Liberal Science of Buildings(c). The Facilithon competition tests a student’s ability to thrive in a facility management environment through a 50-question common-sense quiz, a 10-minute FM role play and the FM Challenge, an emergency scenario that the student has to react to immediately. Students that do well in the Facilithon represent excellent future facility management professionals.
The Facilithon is a SkillsUSA competition, the nation’s fastest-growing career technical student organization. With over 400,000 high school and post-secondary members in 2019, SkillsUSA creates students with skill and career vision through sharpening of personal, workplace and technical skills grounded in academics. SkillsUSA students have not only a superior graduation rate, they’re coached to be job-ready the day they leave school. Facilithon graduates may move directly into entry-level positions or attend established facility management training, certificate and degree programs.
Facilithon Winners
