Related links

www.skillscanada.com
www.festo.com/canada

2004 Competition

Contacts

National, Provincial and Territory contacts at www.skillscanada.com

Mechatronics: Benoit Maisonneuve

2002 National competition

Following the provincial and territorial competitions, the Canadian Skills Competition is held to determine the best in the country. This year (the 8th competition) is in Vancouver, British Columbia from May 30 - June 2.

The Canadian Skills Competition allows young Canadians, studying a skilled trade or technology, to challenge themselves and to become the best in their discipline.

The competition showcases the talent, competence and expertise of competitors from across Canada. The objective of the activity is to provide a hands-on experience for the competitor and to raise the awareness of trades and technology careers.

Students compete at local, regional and provincial events to win the right to represent their province at the Canadian Skills Competition.

The Canadian Skills Competition, held under the supervision of the National Office of Skills Canada, is the first stage of building Team Canada for the World Skills Competition, which is hosted every two years.

Mechatronics competition site

Team St-Clair programming

Mechatronics podium at the medal ceromonies

Selection of the Mechatronics team

In Canada, 10 provinces and 3 territories participates in the national competition. Each of them have their own regional competition, and sent a delegation to the national. This year it was in Vancouver ( 5 1/2 hours flight from Montreal) May 31 and June 1. In my trade, 3 provinces participates: Québec, Ontario and Alberta. This year Ontario won.

2002 Competition

We use MPS station Distributing and Testing as competition equipment with Allen-Bradley PLC (MicroLogix and SLC503) and RSLogix software. Everybody has the same. The competition last two days and I did 4 tasks:

Day 1
1. assembly, programming and start up of station Distributing;

2. assembly, programming and start up of station Testing;

Day 2
3. Troubleshooting (At this point, the stations are not linked, but both has faults).

4. Networking of the two stations, with different sorting, different cycles controls (stop, start), plus E-Stop, etc...

Phillippe Sirois and Carl Bouchard - Team Mechatronics 2001 (Sherbrooke College)

In action at WorldSkills Seoul.

2001 Winners

The winners from the 2000 National Competition in Quebec became part of Team Canada 2001 for the WorldSkills competition in Seoul.

The team actively prepared for Seoul. One part of this training program was participation in the French competition, in Poitiers in May (our team got the honours here).