Create a video about a trade you love & enter to win a Macbook Pro for you and $2K for your high school!
It's time to pursue your dream in trades!
April 10, 2013, Victoria, BC | Want to show HGTV’s celebrity renovator and professional contractor Mike Holmes what you can do? Enter the Discover Trades BC “Show Us Your Skills” video contest and he might just give you a big thumbs up.
The contest, which asks students to create a short video depicting the trade they love, aims to get more BC high school kids interested in pursuing a career in trades.
To enter, BC high school students (13 years or older) simply create a short video about a trade they love (like carpentry, electrical, welding, cooking or hairstyling). Once they submit the video they can ask their friends and fellow students to vote.
The ten videos that get the most votes move on to be judged (for creativity and passion for their trade) by the experts:
- Mike Holmes (from HGTV’s Holmes on Homes, Holmes Inspection and Holmes Makes It Right),
- Suki Takagi (owner of Suki’s International Hair Salons),
- Trevor Bird (Top Chef Canada & Fable)
- Bob McHugh (automotive columnist at The Province).
The top contestants will win Apple products for themselves and up to $2000 cash for their high school to support trades and technology education. Videos must be submitted no later than April 30, voting begins May 1 and the three winners will be announced by June 18.
By 2020 there will be more than one million job openings in BC and nearly half of those jobs will require trades and technical skills
“Encouraging students to pursue a career in trades now will help fill these job openings in the future,” states Kelly Betts, Project Lead for Discover Trades BC, journeyman welder and educator, “a career in trades is a rewarding and fulfilling career option and offers a great future.”
“Encouraging students to pursue a career in trades now will help fill these job openings in the future,” states Kelly Betts, Project Lead for Discover Trades BC, journeyman welder and educator, “a career in trades is a rewarding and fulfilling career option and offers a great future.”
Discover Trades BC is an initiative of the Trades Training Consortium of BC. Its goal is to increase awareness and interest in trades among British Columbia’s secondary school students. Ultimately, the goal is for more BC students to consider a career in the trades and for more teachers to introduce trades to students in the classroom. Students, parents and educators can discover these opportunities on the Discover Trades BC website here.
