FM Pipeline Team’s Facilithon Contest Awards National Champions in Atlanta

JAMES ZIRBEL — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 21:21:16 +0000

For Immediate Release

Atlanta, GA

FM Pipeline Team’s Facilithon Program Awards National Champions in Atlanta

The Facilithon program for high school and post-secondary students to become Facility Managers awarded medals to their three high school and 3 post-secondary national finalists on Friday June 24th to a full house at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Finalists from Facilithon states across the country travelled there for a shot at winning gold in the first full-national finalists competition.

In the High school competition, Nicholas Huber from Durango high school in Colorado took Gold, Ryan Hughes from Greater Lowell technical high school in Massachusetts won silver and Jacob Melendez from Little Chute high school in Wisconsin received bronze.

In the College/Post-Secondary program, Angela Munoz from Ames Community College in Colorado took Gold, Michael Lopez from Texas State Technical College received Silver and Eduardo Hernandez from Madison College Wisconsin received Bronze.

National finalists also seized the opportunity to record their participation in the public demonstration Facilithon for social media for the upcoming the 2022-23 school year, for which some renderings will appear on TWITCH, the largest gamer’s media site.

Engaging, Enlightening and engaging our #NextGenofFM, the FM Pipeline team created the Facilithon program to populate the struggling FM industry while positively changing the ethos and narratives of those in the career. Emerging from the Covid epidemic, over 100 competitors entered the Facilithon this year and most are excellent entry-level and enrollee candidates for direct-hire, internship and college-level programs in need of applicants. The Facilithon program recently hit critical mass and will soon deliver thousands of energized, willing candidates for our supporting partners. If you are interested in hiring these incredibly bright young adults or need to illustrate you’re helping solve FM’s problem of the century while gaining exposure to our Next Gen of FM, contact chairman@fmpipeline.org or call (612) 426-7227 & say “chairman” for more details.

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SkillsUSA Minnesota Inaugural Facilithon

JAMES ZIRBEL — Fri, 25 Jun 2021 15:52:15 +0000

The FM Pipeline Team, in conjunction with SkillsUSA Minnesota and IFMA Minneapolis, ran a successful Inaugural Facilithon Competition in that state on Wednesday and Thursday April 14th & 15th, 2021. The judging contingent was coordinated by IFMA Fellow and FM Pipeline Team co-founder Peggy McCarthy, Cushman & Wakefield Facility Director and pipeline Liaison team member Allecia McDonald.

“The launch of Facilithon-Minnesota really emphasizes the years of tenacity and long hours recently that Peggy and Allecia put into these high school students. We have them to thank for everything there”, said Jim Zirbel, FM Pipeline Team co-director.

Jessa Dahmes, SkillsUSA MN Director, made an appearance at the 2021 FM Pipeline national Awards Gala and shared her commentary on how it lit up and where she plans it to expand.

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