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Cardinal Carter’s Team #2 gets started on the racing portion of the annual Skills Canada Ontario Cardboard Boat Races at the Leamington Kinsmen Recreation Complex Thursday, Oct. 24. Team #2, creators of “The Flying Dutchman,” won their three-team heat race and the timed portion where they stayed afloat the longest among the first three competitors. Twenty-five entries from across Windsor and Essex County included two from Cardinal Carter and two from Leamington District Secondary School. (Southpoint Sun Photos)
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LEAMINGTON – The promotion of learning hands-on skills and developing creative strategies have once again hit the water at the Leamington Kinsmen Recreation Complex. The annual Skills Ontario Cardboard Boat Races drew 25 high school teams from across Windsor and Essex County to the LKRC Thursday, Oct. 24, including four from within the host community’s borders — two from Cardinal Carter Catholic Secondary School and two from Leamington District Secondary School. The event, which also includes a division for elementary school pupils, was introduced by Skills Ontario in 1992 to introduce students to the field of construction technology. Results, tabulated by volunteer judges based on concept of design, teamwork, attention to safety precautions and a scoring formula for one-lap races at the LKRC pool and how long each boat could stay afloat with specified amounts of student weight aboard, were calculated at the event’s headquarters at Conestoga Mall in Waterloo. Results were not available by press deadline. The LDSS teams included one — Team #18, dubbed “Strawberry Shortcake — that had two of four members with previous Cardboard Boat Races experience and another made up of four first-time participants. The latter, officially listed as Team #7, dubbed itself the VSCO Girls despite be-
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Members of Leamington District Secondary School’s Team #7 — The VSCO Girls — begin sinking during the race/timed segment of the annual Skills Canada Ontario Cardboard Boat Races at the Leamington Kinsmen Recreation Complex Thursday, Oct. 24.
ing 50 per cent boys. The younger squad’s members, all in Grade 10, included Krystal Robinson, Maria Driedger, Aden Letkman and Jacob Berry. “We’re all really excited about it,” said Robinson, who explained that the idea to form teams was presented by LDSS International Baccalaureate coordinator Lisa Jeffery. “When we were asked if we wanted to give it a try, I thought it sounded like a lot of fun.” The elder LDSS team was made up of Grade 11 students Hima Patel, Anna Dawson, Adam Dewhurst and Grade 10 Cara Braun. “A couple of us did this last year and thought it was a lot of fun,” explained Patel. “We really wanted to do it again this year and we’re happy that we get to.” Cardinal Carter’s Team #2 created ‘The Flying Dutchman’ and was made up of Preston Knight, Alex Demers and Alex Ortega. The Dutchmen’s crew, taking part in the first heat of races and weight sustainability tests, won the first race and emerged as the last team to stay afloat among their two side-by-side competitors. Team #14 included Ian Stanton, Evan Morais, Matthew Enns and Cade Lussier.
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