Youth Organizations

4-H offers youth opportunities in communications, leadership, career development, livestock, home improvement, and computer technology to seven million American youth. Programs are found in rural and urban areas throughout the country and similar programs around the world.

Lincoln Electric has been a sponsor of the FFA - a premiere youth leadership organization - for over 60 years promoting welding safety and technology to the next generation of future leaders. The standards that the FFA instills in their over 500,000 members are the same standards that were the building block for the Lincoln Electric Company.

Lincoln Electric is a proud sponsor of the Boy Scouts of America – one of the nation’s largest and most prominent values-based youth development organizations. The Boy Scouts of America believes that introducing youth to skilled trades is a key to building a more conscientious, responsible, and productive society. In 2012 the Boy Scouts of America developed a new merit badge on welding. View Welding Merit Badge

SkillsUSA is a partnership of students, teachers and industry representatives, working together to ensure America has a skilled work force. It is a national organization serving teachers and high school and college students who are preparing for careers in technical, skilled and service occupations, including health occupations.

WorldSkills International is a not for profit membership association open to agencies or bodies which have a responsibility for promoting vocational education and training in their respective countries/regions. WorldSkills International provides a unique means of exchange and comparison of world-class competency standards in the industrial trades and service sectors of the global economy.