Regional and Provincial Skills Canada Competitions Registration
Click here for details on registering for the 2009 Regional and Provincial Skills Competitions
To provide additional opportunities for students interested in participating in three of our most popular events, high school students must qualify at a Regional Skills Canada Competition to compete at the Provincial Skills Competition in Carpentry, Culinary Arts and Welding.
Eight Regional Skills Canada Competitions will take place across Alberta in 2009. Click here to determine which regional event your school is invited to join.
Regional Skills Canada Competitions will be hosted in:
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Calgary
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Edmonton
> Fairview
> Fort McMurray
> Lac La Biche
> Lethbridge
> Medicine Hat
> Red Deer
Online registration for the Provincial Skills Competition and many Regional Skills Canada Competitions will open at 7:30am, Tuesday, February 24, 2009.
Click here for details on registering for the Regional and Provincial Skills Competitions
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Join a Provincial Technical Committee
Recruiting Teachers, Instructors, Certified Journeypeople and Industry, Labour and Government Experts
As we prepare to host the 17th Annual Provincial Skills Competition, Skills Canada Alberta is looking for additional volunteers for some of the Provincial Technical Committees.
Each of the Provincial Skills Competition events are overseen by volunteers from
the private, government and educational sectors that have a expertise
in their particular fields. In most cases, the Provincial Technical Committees
will consist of a chairperson and 3-5 committee members.
Contact Grayham Symko at grayhams@skillscanada.com to join:
- Baking
- Job Interview
- Job Skill Demonstration
- Fashion
Technology
- Mechanical CADD
Contact Jesse Murray at jessem@skillscanada.com to join:
- Auto Body Repair
- Cabinet Making
- Car Painting
- Landscape Gardening
- Sheet Metal
Click here for a complete list and information on each of the events at the Provincial Skills Competition...
Review the 2009 Provincial Technical Committee Handbook and plan to join us March 20 for the Provincial Technical Committee Meeting in Red Deer.
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Preparing to Take on the World!
Building Team Canada
By Skills/Compétences Canada
38 Canadian youth skilled in trades and technology are preparing for the
biggest event of their lives! Having recently met for the second time in Montebello, Quebec,
they are building team spirit and creating some essential support  systems
that will enable them to take on some of the challenges and stresses that
they may face at the WorldSkills Competition.
Skills/Compétences Canada, as
the Canadian Member organisation to WorldSkills International, endeavours to
provide their Competitors with valuable tools and resources to facilitate
their journey and make it an experience that is constructive and meaningful.
Just like Olympic athletes, Competitors spend countless
hours training in the months leading up to the WorldSkills Competition. With
the help of industry leaders and/or faculty members of secondary schools,
colleges or polytechnic institutes, Canadian Competitors train through
practical experiences and mental conditioning towards achieving success on
this world trade and technology stage.
Not only are they training and mentally preparing for
this event, but as hosts to 1000 competitors from 50 countries around the
world, they are ambassadors for the rest of the nation and feel the pressure
of giving the best performance of their lives. The pressure is on!
The ultimate goal of this global event is to inspire young people to
pursue a career in the trades and technology areas. It is an opportunity for
youth from around the world to truly appreciate trades and technologies
occupations as first choice careers, and to understand the many opportunities
that these can provide. More than 150,000 Canadian students and other
spectators are expected to attend the event at Stampede
Park in Calgary, Alberta.
"It enables the best of the world's
young skilled people to motivate and inspire successive generations to see
that vocational skills can lead to secure and fulfilling lives in a
fast-changing competitive world." Says WorldSkills International
President Tjerk (Jack) Dusseldorp.
It is not only about seeing the Competition first hand,
but also trying a skill first hand. Besides boasting a large trade show in
the Global Skills
Village, this extraordinary event
will showcase Skills
City which will house
the Try-A-Trade® and Try-A-Skill™ demonstrations which allow students visiting
the event to test drive dozens of trades and technology career options under
one roof. These demonstrations were created as an approachable platform for
students to try their hand at a skill while connecting with experts from that
field.
The Worldskills Competition to be held in Calgary on September 1-7, 2009 will be the
city's largest international competitive event since the 1988 Olympic Winter
Games.
The organising committee, WorldSkills Calgary 2009 Ltd., is leading
event coordination with support from WorldSkills International,
Skills/Compétences Canada, and Skills Canada Alberta. Along with numerous
sponsors and suppliers, the major event funding partners include: Government
of Canada, Government of Alberta and The City of Calgary.
For more information:
- about Team Canada,
visit www.skillscanada.com
- about WorldSkills Calgary 2009, visit www.worldskills2009.com
-about your Team Canada members from Alberta, visit www.skillsalberta.com
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Alberta and Skills/Competences Canada has been announced as the Platinum Equipment Sponsor for WorldSkills Calgary 2009.