Members of Team Sudbury are returning home from Skills Ontario with lots of hardware and heads held high.
They won medals in nine categories at the recent Skills Ontario competition, including two gold, three silver, and four bronze. Skills Ontario is the largest event of its kind in Canada.
Team Sudbury is comprised of more than 50 students from Cambrian College, Rainbow District School Board and Sudbury Catholic District School Board.
This is the second year in a row the three institutions have joined together to create Team Sudbury. The team's debut last year produced four gold medals, two silver medals and four bronze medals.
There were even repeat winners among Team Sudbury this week. Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School students Anton Niemi Fielding and Colin Therrien repeated as silver medalists in the category of silver medal in Horticulture and Landscape.
“This is a great result for our students,” said Renee Scott, Cambrian College’s director of student success and recruitment and the college’s lead organizer for Team Ontario. “We have proved again this year that Sudbury produces highly skilled students who can compete with the best in the province.”
“We are so proud of our students for their outstanding achievement at the provincial level. They captured top honours among the best in Ontario," says Rainbow District School Board director of education Norm Blaseg. "Congratulations to Team Sudbury and to everyone who supported them on their journey to success."
“We are very proud of the students who participated in this year’s Skills Ontario Competition,” said Joanne Bénard, director of education with the Sudbury Catholic District School Board.
“At Sudbury Catholic we promote innovation as a system and make it a priority to offer hands-on learning opportunities such as this one for students at each of our 4 secondary schools. Our students work year-round improving their skills and strengthening their abilities. We would like to thank their dedicated and inspiring educators for supporting them throughout the learning process! Congratulations to all participants on Team Sudbury.”
Winners of a gold medal at Skills Ontario have qualified for the Skills Canada championships May 28-29 in Halifax.
Team Sudbury would also like to thank its supporters for this year’s Skills Ontario competition: Infrastructure Health and Safety Association, NetSpectrum.ca and Schneider Electric.
Here are the medals won by members of Team Sudbury at this year’s Skills Ontario competition:
Gold
- Pierre Leduc (Cambrian College) - Automation and Control
- Trenton Luxton and Dylan Larkin (Cambrian College) - Powerline
Silver
- Keaton Rich (Cambrian College) - Industrial Mechanic Millwright
- David Tuerk (Cambrian College) - IT Network Systems Administration
- Anton Niemi Fielding and Colin Therrien (RDSB/Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School) - Horticulture and Landscape
Bronze
- Lara El-Darazi (Confederation Secondary School) - Prepared Speech
- Rhys Kenwell (Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School) – Coding
- Stephane Bisaillon (Cambrian College) - Heavy Equipment Service
- Jeremy Woodard (Cambrian College) - Metal Fabricator/Fitter
