April 20, 2007
The 13th annual B.C. Skills Competition took place in Abbotsford on April 18. District students received nineteen medals at the competition, winning one or more medals in twelve categories.
Students finishing at the top of their category with gold medals were:
- Kevin Pencer, North Surrey Learning Centre - Electrical Wiring
- Vu Nguyen, Enver Creek - Hairdressing
- Bradley Sanders, Lord Tweedsmuir - Work Site Safety
- Mitchell Baxfield & Wei Chou, Elgin Park - Jr. Gravity Vehicle Race
- Fran Lee, Kevin Jung, Sung Lee, Austin Liu & Philip Son, Semiahmoo - Jr. Great Machine
- Kevin Lin, Thomas Wang & Steven Yang, Semiahmoo - Jr. Spaghetti Bridge
All three medals in the work site safety category went to district students, with Sean Singh of Johnston Heights receiving silver and Josiah John of Fleetwood Park receiving bronze. District students also won all three medals in electrical wiring, with Jordan Yee of Sullivan Heights winning silver and Travis Chambers of Tamanawis receiving bronze.
Earl Marriott students grabbed two of the three Internet website design medals. Liam O’Brien (silver) and Megan Ferguson (bronze) are students of Mr. Dawson and had both already won medals at the regional competition. For the regionals, Mr. Dawson dubbed the school's web design team “The Earl Marriott Virtual Athletics Team." The team of 24 students even dressed in uniform, sporting official Earl Marriott Mariners jerseys.
Elgin Park students won two out of three medals in the junior gravity vehicle race. On top of the gold medal won by Baxfield and Chou, bronze was awarded to Nancy Peng, June Hung and Wendy Voehuest. Semiahmoo students won both gold and silver in the junior spaghetti bridge competition, with Audrey Lam, Inae Lee and Donna Lau grabbing silver.
An additional silver medal was won in the solar vehicle challenge by a team of students from Semiahmoo: Solomon Ahn, Ryan Cho, Scott Thiessen, Jordan Pousett, SyHun Lee, Shawn Baker, Shawn Webb and Mat Palmer.
Bronze medals were received by Carissa Sundeen of Lord Tweedsmuir for baking, Madeleine Schmidt of Earl Marriott for carpentry, John Kuzma of White Rock / South Surrey Learning Centre for masonry and a team from Sullivan Heights for the robotics challenge: Patrick Laing, Malcolm Jarvis, Jessica Hurtubise, Taylor Smith, Kurt McCafferty, Gabryel LeBlanc, Clayton Singh and Evan Wilson.
Student’s receiving gold medals will now move on to the Canadian Skills Competition taking place June 6 - 9 in Saskatoon. It is the only national, Olympic-style, multi-trade and technology competition for young students and apprentices in the country.
For more information, visit the Skills Canada website.
Last Updated: April 23, 2007
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