USA Apprentice Heading to China

Meet Charles Goede, plumbing & HVAC apprentice and Team USA competitor heading to WorldSkills 2026 in Shanghai, China!

SkillsUSA Plumbing Championship

Congratulations to the 2026 SkillsUSA National Plumbing Championship Medalists!

Foundation Annual Report

View our latest annual report to see how we are leveraging our relationships with contractors, PHCC chapters and manufacturer partners to deliver education for our industry.

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Rising Stars of Our Industry

Meet rising industry star Valerie Butler, hear stories from scholarship winners, learn about making a planned gift and about the newest online training available.

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Construction Management Workshops

Learn about our Foremen Workshop and Project Management class.

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Our Stories

Liam Chapman – Foundation Scholarship Winner

The Foundation’s donors and the scholarship they made possible have been a great help by allowing me to worry less about expense and focus on the end goal. Your scholarships have helped me pay for code books, textbooks, and tuition in the past two years.

Isaac Bliek – 2016 PHCC Apprentice of the Year

Sometimes all it takes is someone to tell you can’t do something to motivate you to do it better than anyone else. Five years ago, after three tours with the U.S. Air Force, Isaac Bliek was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and told by the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs that he would never be able to work again or hold a long-term job. Yet in late 2016, he earned PHCC’s prestigious Apprentice of the Year award and placed second in the Educational Foundation’s Plumbing Apprentice Contest at CONNECT 2016.

Sam Dowdy, Sr. – Owner, S&D Mechanical

The only way to be successful in the plumbing business is to learn. And learning means not only learning what’s out there now, but what’s coming in the future. You have to teach the old generation, you have to reach the young generation, you have to reach out to all the resources you can. PHCC is that source that I believe in and that is why I give back to the [PHCC Educational] Foundation.

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Nicole Gorrell – Foundation Scholarship Winner

I wish to share my sincerest gratitude for granting me the PHCC Educational Foundation Scholarship. I know that you received many applications from people across the nation, and I am extremely thankful for being blessed by being your recipient.