Rainbow District School Board hosts Technology Skills Competition

Rainbow District School Board will host is fifth annual Technology Skills Competition at Cambrian College on Wednesday, March 4, 2009. Approximately 90 secondary school students will test their skills in nine events – carpentry (team), welding, precision machining, auto cadd, Rube Goldberg, video editing, baking, lego mindstorms and cabinet making. Students will vie for an opportunity to compete in the provincial Skills Competition in Waterloo this May.

As part of the competition, 200 Grade 8 students will visit Cambrian College and take part in four one-hour workshops. These workshops will provide an insight into technological based problem solving and some of the programs offered at Cambrian College. Rainbow District School Board teachers and Cambrian will deliver these workshops.

“Students need to begin thinking about careers at an early age,” says Vicki-Sue Majkot, Rainbow District School Board’s Program Co-ordinator for Science, Technological Studies and Geography. “Linking classroom instruction with real life experiences is a key component of our destination-based curriculum. The Technology Skills Competition brings learning to life in a fun and creative way.”

The trades and technology departments at Cambrian College are providing the location for the various events and have prepared the written and practical tests for the day for the secondary competitors.  They are also providing judges. One of the events will be held at Lasalle Secondary School. Teachers from the Board are also involved in developing the scopes for the some of the competitions. 

Participants will have an opportunity to go home with some wonderful prizes thanks to the support of community businesses and organizations including the Sudbury & Manitoulin Partnerships Board and the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP), among others. A plaque will be presented to the winning school in each category. 

The awards ceremony will begin at 2:30 pm in the Cambrian College Student Centre. Parents/guardians are welcome to attend.

Rainbow District School Board salutes the many staff members who have worked in partnership with the community to organize the Technology Skills Competition:

Rob Smith – Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School

Christopher Dinnes – Lively District Secondary School

Denis Dormer – Chelmsford Valley District Composite School

Darren Foy – Rainbow District School Board

Vicki-Sue Majkot – Rainbow District School Board

Irving Noble – Manitoulin Secondary School

Sharon Orlak – Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program

Ted Smith – Lively District Secondary School

Peter Vigna- Lasalle Secondary School

Technology Skills Competition

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Agenda for the day

8:30 am to 9 am

Registration   

Entrance to the gym

9:00 am to 9:30 am       

Orientation

Baking – Rm 1240   

Construction – Rm 1722 – Trades Building

Precision Machining – Rm 1712 – Trades Building

Welding – Rm 1738 – Trades Building

Cabinet making – Rm 1721 – Trades Building

TV/Video Production – Rm 2646

Lego Mindstorms – Student Centre

Rube Goldberg Event – e-Dome

AutoCADD – Lasalle

9:30 am to 11:30 am

Competition time for all competitors

9:00 am to 11:00 am       

Competition time for precision machining competitors

11:00 am                

Lunch for precision machining competitors (room 1707)

11:30 am               

Lunch for trades competitors (room 1707)

Lunch for all others (cafeteria)

11:30 am to 1:30 pm

Precision machining resume competition       

Noon to 1:30 pm

Trades competitors Resume competition

Noon to 2:15 pm

All other competitors resume competition

       

2:30 pm to 3:30 pm

Awards Ceremony (Student Centre)

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Media Contact:

Vicki-Sue Majkot, Program Co-ordinator

Science, Technological Studies, Geography

Rainbow District School Board, (705) 523-3308 ext. 8234