Skills/Compétences Canada is proud of the accomplishments of all Team Canada 2005 competitors. We would like to congratulate our medal winners and thank each and every competitor for their dedication, hard work and determination in their training and their performance in Helsinki.
Many thanks also to the scores of volunteers that helped the competitors in their months of training and their days in Helsinki!”
Medals:
Chris Fournier (NWT) - Trade 17 (Web design): Gold
Young
Vocational Skills Specialists in Helsinki 26 -29 May 2005
In
the WorldSkills Competition, organised every second year, young people under
23 years of age from all over the world compete in the skills of their vocational
fields. There are 34 official competition skills and about five demonstration
skills. The skills represent the fields of technology, industry, and services.
About 800 competitors from nearly 40 countries participate in the competition.
What
is WorldSkills?
WorldSkills is a not for profit membership association open to agencies or bodies
which have a national responsibility for promoting vocational education and
training in their respective countries. WorldSkills operates worldwide and is
politically and denominationally neutral.
WorldSkills
provides a unique means of exchange and comparison of world-class competency
standards in the industrial trades and service sectors of the global economy.
The continued growth of WorldSkills attests to the fact that traditional trade
and craft skills along with the newer technology multi-skilled vocations make
an essential contribution to the economic and social well being of peoples everywhere.
As
a free standing, non-political organisation WorldSkills provides a cost effective
means for international government and industry cooperation in achieving higher
standards and status for vocational education and training on a worldwide basis.
The world's best young tradespeople from more than forty countries will showcase their skills in Calgary from September 8th to 11th, 2009.
On May 10th, 2004 in Hong Kong, the WorldSkills organization announced that Canada was chosen to host the 2009 WorldSkills Competition. Calgary will be the host city for the international, Olympic-style competition that showcases young skilled tradespeople from over forty countries. The 2009 event marks the first time that Alberta hosts a WorldSkills event and only the second time for Canada.
