Developing Skills in Manitoba

This week Skills Canada Manitoba held its annual skills competition at Red River College.

It is a wonderful event in which high school students from around Manitoba compete to show their abilities in various skill areas.

There are a wide variety of skill contests - from robotics to hair design, from aesthetics to plumbing and construction, from cooking (top photo) to refrigerator repair to automobile maintenance. It was an exciting venue to visit with Debbie Leiter (Executive Director) and Kim Jasper (President of the Board) (bottom photo).

We were met by Jeff Zabudsky (President of Red River College). In the second photo you see us together at the construction skill site.

For robotics, students had the challenging task of designing a robot to pick up a football and put or throw it through a basketball hoop (third photo).

Congratulations to Debbie Leiter, Kim Jasper, Jeff Zabudsky and all the many others who made this possible.

For more information you can visit the Skills Canada Manitoba web site at tp://www.skillscanada.mb.ca/about.htm