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Photo Album	Skills Canada Saskatchewan hosts annual Olympic-style skills competitions that provide a forum for secondary, post-secondary and apprentice students to compete in over 30 trade and technology competition areas. Students participate in practical challenges designed to test the skills required in trade and technology occupations. The philosophy of the skills competitions is: To reward students for excellence To directly involve industry in evaluating student performance To keep training relevant to employers’ needs Check out the website for more information!! http://www.skillscanadasask.com/
2009 National Competition Results GOLD, SILVER BRONZE!! Congratulations to our SKILLS CANADA competitors! Tyson M: Gold in Outdoor Power Equipment Repair! A graduate student from a few years back: Andrew H: Silver in Electrical Wiring Brendan K: Prepared Speech! Bronze!! A great showing from Ross M. in Workplace safety!!! Way to go L.P. Miller!!!!

2009 Provincial Competition
Eighteen students from Nipawin made it to the 11th SKILLS competition in Regina. We were well represented by a great cheering section too. Ross M. earned gold in Workplace safety. Brendan K. did it again! His Prepared Speech about how SKILLS can work as a ‘first choice” career option for youth captivated the audience and cinched his second provincial gold medal. Tyson M. rounded out the gold medals. He wrenched and measured his way to victory in the Outdoor Power and Recreation Equipment event. David U. soldered and wired his way to Bronze in the Electronics department. Matt T. earned Bronze in Architectural CAD. Dianna H. pegged a Bronze in Job Skill Demonstration this year! Steven H. earned a bronze medal in Auto Mechanics. Congratulations to all of our students who gave it their very best and placed ‘fourth’! Your enthusiasm and dedication will pay off at SKILLS next year or in your future career pathways. Thank you to all of the parents and family members who supported their students in the past months of hard training. Thanks also to the administration of L.P.M. and to the North East School Division for encouraging our students to explore vocational career options. Best wishes to Ross, Brendan and Tyson! Work hard and do your best to represent Nipawin in PEI in May!
National Skills Competition 2008 Photo Album
So many people begin a dream by saying, ”I wish…” At L.P. Miller High School, three young men began a dream with “I can.” And they did! Brendan, Stefan, and Vincent set their goal to represent their school in the Provincial Skills Canada competition in Saskatoon. Their combined “I can” resulted in each winning gold medals. This entitled them to represent this province at the National Canadian Skills in Calgary, AB from May 25 to 28. Brendan, grade 9, competed in Prepared Speech. He was required to speak from 5-7 minutes on a set topic. After the speech, the judges asked him two questions. He was given a one minute time limit after each question to convey his answers. Where most of the known world would go into full panic mode at the mere thought of public speaking, Brendan was composed, calm, knowledgeable and enthusiastic. In the weeks prior to the competition, he had been practicing with family, coach, and then several classrooms to hone his skills. All his hard work paid off, as he competed with conviction against grade 12 students from across this country. Stefan and Vincent, grade 12, chose to compete in TV and Video production. They were required to spend 12 hours creating a 3-5 minute promotional video that conveyed the power and range involved in the World Skills competition to be held in Calgary in September of 2009. Unlike the other competitors who had as many as 2 advisors per student, Stephen and Vincent are essentially self-taught in this area. Using all their own equipment, they incorporated conversations, stunning shots of the skills competitors, bilingual bits with their ever present humour to create powerfully moving, well crafted, information packed video. Obviously, a two-thumbs up video. Canada Skills is the only national, Olympic-style, multi-trade and technology competition for young students and apprentices in the country. The Canadian Skills Competition is the main step in selecting the members of Team Canada for the World Skills Competition that is held every two years. National Skills brings teams of competitors from every province and territory to be challenged in all areas of what we would traditionally term “the trades”. Baking, small motor repair, electronics, welding, sheet metal work, hair and esthetics, clothing design, airplane motor repair, carpentry, computer 3D animation, IT technical support, job skill demonstration, painting and design….the list is very long. The opportunities are longer. Employers scan these competitions to offer jobs to students.