Our Skills Canada Regional Group includes Richmond, Delta, Surrey, and Langley school districts. This year the Skills Canada Regional Competitions will take place at the Cloverdale Campus of Kwantlen Polytechnic University on Friday, March 4, 2011. Competitions start in the morning and conclude mid afternoon, with awards presentations in the early evening.

The Skills Canada Provincial Competition will take place at Tradex in Abbotsford on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Regional Competition Gold Medalists are invited to compete at the Provincial event.

The Skills Canada National Competition will take place in Quebec City, June 1 - 4, 2011.

The 2011 World Skills Competition takes place in London, England, October 5 - 8, 2011

PREVIOUS YEARS: 2009

RICHMOND STUDENTS BRING HOME 6 MEDALS

Richmond students had another strong showing at the 15th annual Provincial Skills Competition, held Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at the Tradex in Abbotsford.  Students from all over BC gathered together to compete in over 40 different competition areas.

Skills Canada BC is a provincial non-profit organization and registered charity comprised of volunteers representing industry, labour, education and government dedicated to promoting and enhancing the perceived value of technical and trade skills among BC’s youth.

McNair student, Dustin Bender brought home a Silver Medal in Culinary Arts.  Bender had 3.5 hours to prepare a 3 course meal using a modified black box format.  Each competitor had to prepare a lacto-ovo vegetarian appetizer, a rack of lamb main course and a dessert using semi-sweet chocolate. In addition to taste and presentation, competitors were also judged on general cooking skills, timing of courses, the amount of leftover food, safety and sanitation, professionalism, cleanliness and a written menu that accompanied the dishes.

Richmond students also brought home 5 medals in the junior competitions. Congratulations to the following:
Fanni Hamari & Orsi Hamari (Hugh Boyd) - Silver Medal in Jr. Gravity Vehicle
Armin Saba, Andy Wu & Siu Fung Yip (Hugh Boyd) - Silver Medal in Jr. Spaghetti Bridge
Gordon Ho (Cambie) - Gold Medal in Jr. Mini Sumo Robot
Kakit Cheung (Cambie) - Silver Medal in Jr. Mini Sumo Robot
Nova Siu (Cambie) - Bronze Medal in Jr. Mini Sumo Robot

TEAM RICHMOND GOES TO THE PROVINCIALS

A number of Richmond students will be going out to the Tradex in Abbotsford on Wednesday, April 22 to compete in the Provincial Skills Competition.

Team Richmond consists of:

• Nova Siu (Cambie) - Jr. Mini Sumo Robots
• Kakit Cheung (Cambie) - Jr. Mini Sumo Robots
• Gordon Ho (Cambie) - Jr. Mini Sumo Robots
• Gutaran Parmar (Cambie) - Jr. Mini Sumo Robots
• Mike McClelland, Martin Ho, Kesar Nizzar, Curtis May, Pratyush Dhawan & Chapman Lam (Cambie) - Robotics
• Ximena Zapata (RHS) - Baking
• Dustin Bender (McNair) - Culinary Arts
• Samantha McInnis (Boyd) - Hair Design
• Olivia Chow (Boyd) - Hair Design
• Jacob Pawer & Shaane Nathu (Boyd) - Jr. Gravity Car
• Cassandra Goh, Cameron Lee, Orsi Hamari & Fanni Hamari (Boyd) - Jr. Gravity Car
• Armin Saba, Siu Fung Yip & Andy Wu (Boyd) - Jr. Spaghetti Bridge
• Jacob Cabuay & Wally Gonzalles (Boyd) - TV/Video Production

Good luck to TEAM RICHMOND!

RICHMOND STUDENTS WIN MEDALS AT THE REGIONAL SKILLS COMPETITION

Congratulations to the following Richmond School District students who won medals at the Lower Fraser Valley Regional Skills competition, held Saturday, March 7 at the Cloverdale campus of Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Johnson Li (Hugh Boyd) - Bronze in CAD Mechanical
Dustin Bender (McNair) - Gold in Culinary Arts
Christy Carnegie (McMath) - Bronze in Culinary Arts
Julian Mo (Palmer) - Bronze in Fashion Design
Jennifer Hiew (Boyd) - Bronze in Graphic Design
Fanni Hamari & Orsi Hamari (Boyd) - Gold in Jr. Gravity Car
Kakit Cheung (Cambie) - Gold in Jr. Mini Sumo Robots
Gurtaran Parmar (Cambie) - Silver in Jr. Mini Sumo Robots

Skills Canada BC hosts a number of competitions to reward students for excellence, to directly involve industry in evaluating student performance and to keep training relevant to employers’ needs. The Regional competition involved students from the Richmond, Surrey, Langley & Delta school districts.

Two competitions - TV & Video & Website Design are virtual contests. The results from these contests have not been made available yet.  Richmond had 12 students competing in these two contests.

A record number of Richmond students competed this year - 75 (compared to 55 last year). Gold Medal winners are eligible to compete at the Provincials, held April 22 out at the Tradex in Abbotsford.

Congratulations to ALL students who participated in this event.

For more information check out the Skills Canada BC website.