Dozens of Calgary college students put their expertise to the take a look at Saturday throughout the eighth annual Calgary Excessive College Welding Rodeo.
About 50 college students from six faculty districts participated within the occasion, which allowed college students to showcase a wide range of their expertise, together with welding, steel fabrication, drawback fixing and management.
The theme this 12 months was Star Wars. Groups accomplished a fabrication challenge and scrap steel sculpture in a collection of timed challenges.
The competitors goals to encourage creativity and teamwork for college kids, and to assist them be aggressive in expertise and enterprise careers. As well as, there are various prizes for the successful groups.
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“The children are having a blast, they’re seeing the commercial setting, they’re working with professionals,” mentioned highschool welding trainer Keith Routhier. He added that among the Boilermaker volunteers are alumni of this system, which is a real full-circle second.
The children — who’re in grades 10-12 — work in groups of 4 and have artistic management, Routhier mentioned.
“It provides them real-world expertise… It provides them an concept of what to anticipate once they get out into the sphere after they graduate.
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