South East Alberta Regional Skills results
Here are the winners of the 12th Annual South East Alberta Regional Skills Competition. First and second place advance to the Provincial Skills competition in Edmonton May 10 -11.
Automotive Service
Bronze – Tyson Aebly and Nick Skanderup – Brooks Composite High School Silver - Richard Gilson & Lathen Sadler – Crescent Heights Gold - Kayden Winkler & Brady Penman – Crescent Heights
Junior Hairstyling
Bronze – Maira Buendia – Brooks Composite High School Silver – Anne Mukadi – Brooks Composite High School Gold – Alea Salamat – Brooks Composite High School
Intermediate Hairstyling
Bronze – Dakota Darbyson – McCoy Silver - Marie Claire Tungpalan – McCoy Gold – Soleil Rothenburg – Brooks Composite High School
Cabinet Making
Bronze – Destin Saba – Crescent Heights Silver – Kimberly Greenwood – Brooks Composite High School Gold – Kat Darkow – Medicine Hat High School
Carpentry
Bronze – Jayk Sterkenburg – Medicine Hat High School Silver – Makayla Gross – Senator Gershaw Gold – Chris Byam – Senator Gershaw
Welding
Bronze – Eric Newton – Medicine Hat High School Silver – Matthew Ironside – Strathmore High School Gold – Tanner Vanderloh – Medicine Hat High School
Video Production
Bronze – Rouvic Magwali & Tony Nguyen – Medicine Hat High School Silver – Cameron Jackson & Tyson McCormick – McCoy Gold – Miles Peterson & Martina Wallace – Bassano School
Culinary Arts
Bronze – Payden Wallin – McCoy Silver – Amy Drader – Brooks Composite High School Gold – Cheyenne Clow – Brooks Composite High School
Baking
Bronze – Hiliary Greene – Brooks Composite High School Silver – Emily Chen – Brooks Composite High School Gold – Jesse Boschmann – Brooks Composite High School
The South East Alberta Regional Skills Competition took place at Medicine Hat College all day Tuesday. About 117 students from a dozen regional schools took part in the nine-event competition, hoping for a chance to represent southeast Alberta in the provincial championships in Edmonton on May 10-11.
Alycia Pawluk, manager of programming and education at Skills Canada Alberta, said the day was an opportunity for students to show off their hard work and newly-acquired trades’ skills.
“The day is going great,” Pawluk said. “These students, no matter how far they go in the competition, have practised countless hours to even be here today. The calibre of skills shown here is very high in every student who competes.”
Paul Schaan, carpentry coordinator at Medicine Hat College, was judging the carpentry competition. He said the pressure of competition generally brings out the best in students. The carpentry competitors were tasked with building an elevated chicken coop in just under six hours.
“It’s a bit of a marathon,” he admitted. “And there is always a little bit of stress, but these students are coming along well.”
Schaan said he was looking for good project planning and proficient handskills.
“We really want to see their skill at reading a blueprint, trying to interpret that blueprint and cutting the pieces accurately. Then putting them together accurately. And, most of all, having fun.”
Hat High student Grace Banto was relieved to be done with her part in the hairstyling competition after an intense 90 minutes of work on Tuesday morning.
“I have been practising for about two months,” stated Banto. “It was pretty stressful today but right now I am feeling pretty confident.”
Banto said the entire experience of training for the competition, and then taking part in the event, was an educational one in many ways.
“I don’t think professional hairstyling is for me,” admitted Banto, “but I enjoyed the competition anyway.”