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10 Winners in Trades Day Competition

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Students work on a cabinetry project today at CNC - photos 250News

Students work on a cabinetry project today at CNC – photos 250News

Prince George, B.C. – The sawdust has settled, and the winners from today’s Regional Skills Competition and Trades Day at CNC have been announced.

Students from the Prince George and Quesnel school districts were given a project and a time limit in which to complete that project.

They were judged by experts in each trade and competed in five different categories. Here are the winners:

One of today's winners - Devin Rentz, a grade 11 student at Prince George Secondary School

One of today’s winners – Devin Rentz, a grade 11 student at Prince George Secondary School

Cabinetry:
#1 Avery Bell
#2 Garnet Grenon
#3 Devin Rentz

Culinary Arts Secondary
#1 Laura Parent
#2 Hannas Zenzinger

Culinary Arts Post-Secondary
#1 Angela Harkins
#2 Sara Burridge

Electronics:
#1 Leland Ash

Welding:
#1 Adrian Barr
#2 Evan Runzer

Winners of today’s event will attend the provincial competition in Abbotsford April 13th.

Comments

Congratulations to winners and participants, a great confidence and skill building event. Hope to see some of you on Canada’s Handyman Challenge one day!

Most of these kids that joined, will not be working the trades they learned. A sad reality of the world we live in. Not many takes in apprentice anymore as most leaves after they reach their hours causing most companies to give up on that.

    What you say is true … there are not enough apprenticeships to sustain our economic well being … our household knows from first hand experience … however, do NOT underestimate the impact of these programs … our student whom completed CTC Electrical at CNC and could not find an apprenticeship upon completion just today received his Engineers’ iron ring as an Electronics Engineer. The program was pivotal in his choices. One door closes and another opens.

    I would assume they leave for better pay or because they are not treated well. Some, not all companies use apprentices as a form of cheap labour.

    Yeah these days companies expect taxpayers to pay for apprentices training.

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