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<\/a>\u201cThe way I actually found out about this competition is in the pipe trades shop at Camosun; there\u2019s all these banners hung up from past winners and when you go and win these things, they put a banner up for you in the shop,\u201d says Fraser. \u201cWhen I did my very first day in the shop, when I first walked in there and saw it, I was like, \u2018Huh, what are those?\u2019 and I sort of asked around about it a little bit. I thought to myself, \u2018That\u2019d be pretty cool to get my name up on one of those things.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Fraser is no stranger to competition; he genuinely enjoys being in front of people and showing them what he\u2019s capable of doing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, competition is something I\u2019ve always enjoyed,\u201d he says, \u201cand getting to do something like this has been a lot of fun, a lot of pressure, but, I\u2019ve done a few different careers in my life so it was kind of nice to get off the job site and go do something where it\u2019s just, what do you know and how well can you do it?\u201d<\/p>\n
While some students may experience nerves when competing, that isn\u2019t the case for Fraser. He says that a lot of pipe trades involve math, and knowing the craft in a way that doesn\u2019t let nerves interfere.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically, what I do, and what most pipe trades are, is just practical math,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s just taking math and making it a physical reality. So, when it comes to nerves, as long as your math is good, as long as you\u2019re confident in your ability to produce something, there\u2019s no reason to be nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fraser enjoyed being around like-minded individuals at the competition, and he says that it was a supportive atmosphere.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best part about the competition is just meeting the other people from all around the country, not just at the provincial level, but also at the national level,\u201d he says. \u201cMeeting, you know, all these people from literally across Canada, all their instructors, all their teachers, and training directors and all that. Getting to make those connections and learn little tips and tricks from everybody as you\u2019re in the middle of a competition in a high-stress environment where just everyone\u2019s supportive, but also watching you the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n
During his time at Camosun, Fraser has met a lot of teachers and journeypersons who have inspired him. He says that Camosun is one of the best places to learn trades. He hopes to one day follow in his teacher\u2019s footprints and become a teacher himself (ideally, at Camosun).<\/p>\n
\u201cYou gain this sort of comfort of knowing that the people that are teaching you are really, really passionate about what they do, and seriously good at it,\u201d Fraser says. \u201cThere\u2019s some of the smartest people I\u2019ve ever met in this industry working at that school. And they\u2019re really good at what they do and they\u2019re very good at spreading that on to their students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Evan Fraser has been learning sprinkler fitting at Camosun College, and it recently paid off with a gold medal. Fraser\u2014a Plumbing and Pipe Trades apprentice\u2014says that sprinkler fitting is very interesting because he works diligently and carefully to install safety systems he hopes will never have to turn on. And he was able to showcase […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24109,"comment_status":"closed","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":[13,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-july-5-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24072","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=24072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24074,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24072\/revisions\/24074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}