CNC Carpentry Students Hit the Mark for 2015 Games
Thursday, November 7, 2013 @ 3:56 AM
CNC Carpentry students and their instructor, pose on rifle racks they built for 2015 Games – photo submitted
Prince George, B.C. – Carpentry students at CNC can boast they had a role to play in the 2015 Canada Winter Games.
The students built 40 rifle racks that will be used during the Biathlon events at the Games.
“The racks were built from a prototype from Europe. The 2015 Canada Winter Games supplied the birchwood, and we went into a full production run in September,” said Ross Pullan, CNC carpentry instructor. “We changed the shop layout and used a mass production technique.”
The students are enrolled in the Career Technical Centre program where high school students earn their first year of foundation-level trades training and their high school diploma simultaneously.
CTC student Dillon McMordie, from College Heights secondary, served as shop foreman for the production run.
“I was in charge of cutting out the material from the rough lumber and we were full-tilt for a week and a half,” he said. “It’s a huge thing to be part of the 2015 Games and the racks turned out really well.”
The racks will get their first test at the Otway Nordic Ski Centre in February of 2014, when the Centre hosts the Western Canadian Biathlon championships. As many as 150 athletes will be taking part in that competition which is a test event for the 2015 Biathlon event at the Canada Winter Games.
John Neumann, chief of competition for biathlon at the 2015 Canada Winter Games says he is ecstatic with the finished product “They’re pretty fancy racks. There is nothing like them in Canada, just in Europe. They’re made out of hardwood and very lightweight for volunteers to move.”
“Working with partners like CNC and their talented instructors and students gives the community another way to participate in the 2015 Canada Winter Games,” said Stuart Ballantyne, CEO of the 2015 Games. “These gun racks — made in Prince George — will be another way that we’re sharing the northern story, and will be a legacy left for future biathletes who will train and compete at the Otway Nordic Centre for years to come.”
Comments
Way to go boy you should be proud… excellant job. My son is a former CTC electrical student and I fully support the CTC program and everything that it does for these young men/women.
The CTC is a great program. I think if more people were aware of it there is so much more they could offer. You have to apply in grade 10 and unfortunately most kids that age aren’t thinking of their future yet. Hopefully stories like this will get the word out to the parents.
way to go guys!
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