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COLLEGE • March 5, 2002
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| {Skills
Competition Photos by Kyle Bent The best in their respective fields met over their weekend to duke it out for the right to compete nationally. Aircraft maintenance, auto service, carpentry and electrical wiring professionals met at the Home Show at the Charlottetown Civic Centre. At the same time, IT/PC Network Support pros and IT/PC Software Applications beat it out at the Charlottetown Centre of Holland College. Competitions ran about six hours, with everyone receiving the same tools, time and space. Winners will be off to Vancouver from May 31 to June 1. To participate in the competition, each partipant agrees to a training plan to train for the Nationals. Skills Canada will pay for most of the trip, though competitors must contribute $200. There is one last provincial competition at Holland CollegeÕs Slemon Park location April 11 in the field of industrial wiring.  Automative Service Technology graduate St. Clair Geldert fiddles with the innards of a Monte Carlo. Geldert took time off from his three year apprenticeship to take part in the automotive skills competition. Charlottetown Rural High School student Shawn Callaghan sands down the firewood brace he built during the competition. Dylan Taylor, 3, wasnÕt a competitor, but still wanted to play with the controls of a 3,000 kilogram CAT Skid Steer Loader during the Home Show. Shane MacLeod shows what heÕs learned in the Electronic Construction and wiring course. Aircraft Maintenance student Sean Deighan (right) rigs the flight controls on the wing of a Cessna with instructor, Don Penney. } |
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