The Regional Skills Canada Competition is an opportunity for students to showcase their talent in a variety of trades and technology events.
Students will be competing in junior and senior competitions Fri., Feb. 22 (Northern Lights College - Dawson Creek Campus) including: carpentry, culinary arts, graphic design, electrical, hairdressing, gravity vehicles, spaghetti bridges, photography, public speaking, and many other categories. Gold medal winners will have the opportunity to compete in the Skills Canada BC competition held later this year in Abbotsford.
Every year the Peace Region Regional Skills Committee hosts the annual BC Skills Competition.
This competition brings apprentices, high school students and elementary students from the region together to compete in a variety of trades and technology events. Everything from spaghetti bridge to post-secondary electrical competitions.
A Trade & Technology Conference for Girls (Women) is held in conjunction with the Peace Regional Skills Competition February 22, 2019 from 10:00am to 12:30pm (lunch included) at Northern Lights College Dawson Creek campus
This is a morning of fun, exploration and inspiration.
The event aims to bring together female students grades 9-12 from various high schools in the Peace River Region (Dawson Creek, Chetwynd, Tumbler, Fort St. John and Fort Nelson), paired with a panel of women who are employed/entrepreneurs in diverse range of sectors.
Participants will also explore Trades and Technologies first hand while networking with women who have found success in trades and technology careers/business. Panelist will provide a brief summary of their training/career path and events that have resulting in their achieving success.
We are hoping to have 5-8 women come into the presentation all dressed in their casual clothes (nothing that would relate to your work). The girls get to ask you 20 yes or no type questions – trying to guess your profession. Then after the questions are done, you would have time to then change into work clothes, put on PPE etc and then come back into the class. You would then reveal what your profession is, explain a bit about what you do, where you work, the skills and training you have obtained and the girls would then get to tell you what they thought you did. Looking to encourage girls into more trades and technology type careers, trying to focus on the non-traditional trades such as cook, hairstylist, baker and such.
After the Women in Trades and Technology, the girls will then rotate through a series of try-a-trade events throughout the campus/competition areas collecting stamps in their passport which will then be entered for a prize
Picture courtesy of the Dawson Creek Mirror Newspaper
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