Kris Dubé | May 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The District School Board of Niagara (DSBN) took home 12 medals at a recent Skills Ontario competition, and three of them were earned by Greater Fort Erie Secondary School (GFESS) students.
Held last week in Etobicoke, the competition involves a wide range of skilled trades and technology events, with the top-ranking secondary student receiving an Award of Excellence.
Six students from GFESS put their skills in play; Autumn Wartman, Angel Blackwood, Caitlin Shay, Harper James, Jocelyn Burns, and Emma Fokkens.
Bringing home medals were Wartman with a gold in Job Skill Demonstration, Blackwood with a gold in Prepared Speech, and Fokkens with silver in Graphic Design Presentation.
“They went head-to-head with the top talent in the province, and absolutely crushed it,” says a social media post made by the GFESS official Facebook group.
This year, 55 DSBN secondary school students competed in 33 different events at the competition, including robotics, landscape design, carpentry, floristry, baking, graphic design, machining and more.
DSBN students won six golds, five silvers and one bronze.
The two GFESS students who won gold, Wartman and Blackwood, will move on to the Skills Canada competition being held in Saskatchewan at the end of the month.
There, they will join more than 500 of the country’s top students and apprentices to compete in Canada’s only national, multi-trade and technology competition, says a news release from DSBN.
This marks Wartman’s second consecutive time representing DSBN at the national competition.
Last year, she earned a bronze medal, one of 38 medals won by the Ontario team.
Fort Erie Radio, Original Article