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going for gold at the toronto skills competition We often focus on the importance of teamwork, but there’s nothing wrong with having a competitive spirit. Every year the Toronto District School Board’s Auto Collision and Car Painting competition helps to foster this spirit and encourages young people to seek careers in the autobody trades. This year’s competition took place March 8 at Danforth Collegiate Technical Institute in Toronto. The competition is broken down into quadrants because of the sheer number of high schools in Toronto. This was the 22nd Toronto Skills competition. Bill Speed is an autobody instructor at Danforth CTI, and has been involved with 20 of those 22 competitions. He has also been involved with the Ontario Technological Skills competition as a co-chair or chair since 1995 and involved with the Canadian Skills competition since 2001 as a judge and a committee member since 2006. Although skills competitions are helpful in attracting new talent, Speed notes that the number of schools participating in the competition has declined. “The number of auto body programs in the school board has dropped substantially over the last 20 years, from about 10 programs when I started in 1989 to just four programs today,” says Speed. Bill Speed is an instructor at Danforth CTI and one of the competition organizers.
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“Perhaps the industry needs to start asking questions of the school boards as to why these programs have not been sustainable.” Bill Speed and the competition organizers would like to thank the following people for their help and support in serving as judges: Kirk Edwards, BASF Stu Klein, Fix Auto Andy Neufeld, Fix Auto Dave Hawthorn, 3M Canada Domenic Prochilo, Prochilo Brothers Collsion Competition Results South West Auto Collision Gold medal: Tony Teng, Danforth CTI Silver medal: Youssef Maachar, Danforth CTI Bronze medal: Daneil Coley, Danforth CTI South East Auto Collision Gold medal: Aomid Nawabi, Sir Robert L Borden South West Car Painting Gold medal: David Dyson-Tam, Danforth CTI Silver medal: Catherine Mathewson, Danforth CTI South East Car Painting Gold medal: Philemon Joseph, Sir Robert L. Borden Silver medal: Sebria Sourour, Sir Robert L. Borden
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