{"id":12203,"date":"2016-07-13T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=12203"},"modified":"2016-07-11T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T21:31:43","slug":"camosun-students-bring-home-medals-from-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2016\/07\/13\/camosun-students-bring-home-medals-from-national-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun students bring home medals from national competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Camosun College students recently returned from Moncton, New Brunswick with medals they won at the 2016 Skills Canada National Competition.<\/p>\n

Every year, trades and technology students compete in over 40 skilled trade and technology categories in regional, provincial, national, and international levels at Skills Canada competitions. Skills Canada then creates a national team from finalists at the national level.<\/p>\n

In the Carpentry category at the national competition in Moncton, Camosun\u2019s Jake Schuttinga won gold and Greg McKerihen won bronze. Richard Chong and Lukus Kiwilsza both took home bronze in the Landscape Gardening category, while Kevin DeOliveria won silver in Sheet Metal Work. Colin Hosokawa and Colin Dunlop took home gold and silver, respectively, in the Sprinkler System category; in Steamfitting, Kyle Horne and Dale Pearn were awarded gold and silver, respectively.<\/p>\n

Schuttinga says he was glad to be able to compete and to walk away with a finished project.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, I was just happy to complete the project,\u201d says Schuttinga. \u201cThat was my goal\u2014that if I could go there and complete this project in the time they give it I would be more than happy. The gold is just the bonus on the top.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun student Jake Schuttinga recently won a national gold medal at a Skills Canada competition (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camosun chair of Architectural Trades Al van Akker helped to prepare the students for the competition and also gave some advice to Schuttinga before the big event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did work directly with Jake; I did a coaching session with him the week before he went,\u201d says van Akker. \u201cI spent a couple hours working with Jake to go over some of the more complex elements, and we devised some strategies for how he could do those.\u201d<\/p>\n

The competitors don\u2019t go into Skills Canada events completely blind to what kind of project they will need to complete in the two days of competition: dimensionless plans of the project are provided to allow for preparation. Schuttinga says that definitely paid off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did do some prep on the more complicated part and just went over the plans a lot,\u201d says Schuttinga. \u201cI just kind of went over it in my head, where I was going to start, and if this doesn\u2019t work there what I could do next. It\u2019s kind of planning ahead and thinking three steps ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camosun\u2019s van Akker had no doubt in Schuttinga\u2019s ability to succeed, and he attributes some of Schuttinga\u2019s success to Camosun\u2019s dual-credit program.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is very capable, very fast, and he does good work,\u201d says van Akker of Schuttinga. \u201cI think that certainly one of the things contributing to his success is the fact that he is a recent graduate of the Camosun Carpentry Foundation program, and he was able to access that through the Accelerated Credit Enrolment in Industry Training program.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the finalists from the national competition will now have the opportunity to go to the 2017 World Skills General Assembly in Abu Dhabi. The 2017 national team prospects have been selected and will be announced soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several Camosun College students recently returned from Moncton, New Brunswick with medals they won at the 2016 Skills Canada National Competition. Every year, trades and technology students compete in over 40 skilled trade and technology categories in regional, provincial, national, and international levels at Skills Canada competitions. Skills Canada then creates a national team from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-july-13-2016"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12205,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12203\/revisions\/12205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}