SkillsUSA WD-40 Scholarship 2025

In partnership with SkillsUSA, WD-40 is proudly sponsoring and inspiring the next generation to pursue their passion for skill-related careers. Recognizing the vital role skilled trades play in driving America’s progress, WD-40 is encouraging students to advance their education in these fields by offering ten $1,500 postsecondary scholarships to SkillsUSA members. These scholarships are available to students pursuing education in trade areas such as CNC, HVAC, Electrical Construction Wiring, Welding, Automotive Service Technology, or other Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics fields.

SkillsUSA is America's proud champion of the skilled trades. We're a student-led partnership of education and industry that's building the future of the skilled workforce. Representing nearly 400,000 career and technical education students and teachers, SkillsUSA chapters thrive in middle schools, high schools and college/postsecondary institutions nationwide. Our mission is accomplished through the SkillsUSA Framework of Personal Skills, Workplace Skills and Technical Skills Grounded in Academics, which is integrated into classroom curriculum.

To be eligible to apply, applicants must be:

• a registered member of a SkillsUSA chapter

• 12th grader, or current college/post-secondary student

• enrolled in CNC, HVAC, Electrical Construction Wiring/Welding/Auto Service technology, or other Transportation Distribution and Logistics

• plan to continue study of trade at the postsecondary level in the 2025-2026 academic year, or the academic term immediately following high school graduation