Skillbuild NI Team’s success

03 November 2008

Skillbuild NI Team’s success at the 2008 UK National Finals

Skillbuild UK and Summit Skills National Competitions 2008

Dates and Venues

The Skillbuild UK National Finals Competition was held in Leeds College of Building, Leeds 1 -3 Oct 2008. The venue was excellent with all the competition areas housed within one large building

The Skillbuild N.I Team for this event comprised 7 Apprentices, who travelled to compete in the finals.

The Skillplumb National Finals Plumbing competition, organised by Summit Skills, was held at the NEC complex in Birmingham 28 -30 Oct 2008 in conjunction with the Interbuild Exhibition.  Two competitors from Northern Ireland traveled to participate in this competition. Prior to this the Skillfridge National Finals, again organised by Summit Skills had taken place 2 – 4 June at South Birmingham College, Birmingham in which we had again two competitors taking part.

The Skillbuild N.I. Team Members

       Name                              Training Provider       Trade             

James Dougan                  Antrim  Campus          Brickwork       

Stuart Currie                      Ballymena Campus       Cab Making    

Christopher McCrory Omagh Campus Joinery

Christopher Gillick Enniskillen Campus       Carpentry        

Ronan Connell                   Newry Campus            Paint & Dec    

Michael Jones                    Rutledge Joblink           Plastering         

                                                                                                           

Martyn McAlister              CITB                           Roof S & T     

                                                                                                           

 Andrew Lindsay                Enniskillen Campus       Plumbing         

 Padraig Rogers                  Newry Campus            Plumbing         

Martin Davey                    Lisburn Campus           Refrigeration    

Lisa Cairns                        Lisburn Campus           Refrigeration    

The Skillbuild UK National Finals Competition 2008

111 Competitors representing Training Providers from all over the UK participated in the Competition.

There were a total of 11 trades in this competition.

The competition was keenly contested; the test pieces were very challenging with very high standards evident throughout all of the craft skills assisted by the excellent College facilities. Once again it was evident that standards continue to improve year on year.

The Summit Skills Skillfridge and SkillPlumb National Finals Competition 2008

10 Competitors Representing Training Providers from across the UK took part

in each of these competitions.

Again competition was intense and challenging with all apprentices delivering very high standards. Indeed only 15 marks separated all the competitors in the Skillplumb competition

Results

Skillbuild NI Competitors performed well in both competitions winning 4 medals, 1 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze. 

This is particularly pleasing given the rising standards very evident and having a very young overall age profile this year.

Medal winners details were as follows:-

Martin Davey               Refrigeration                 Gold Medal Winner

James Dougan              Brickwork                    Silver Medal Winner

James Gillick                Carpentry                     Bronze Medal Winner

Andrew Lindsay           Plumbing                      Bronze Medal Winner

It is pleasing to report that both Martin Davey and Andrew Lindsay did so well as they both are only 18 years old.

Public Relations Exposure

A post competition photo shoot took place at the CITB premises, involving all of our team competitors and representatives from CITB, DEL, Snickers, Gilbert Ash, Graham’s and Skillbuild N.I.Ltd. It was also used as an opportunity to distribute the Snickers Clothing kindly sponsored. An evening meal was also arranged at CITB to recognise all the team members and lecturers hard work.

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