Grade 7 and 8 students from across the Upper Canada District School Board (UCDSB), including students from Pleasant Corners Public School (PCPS) and Glengarry District High School (GDHS) gathered in Kemptville on April 9 to compete in the 2024 SKLZ Competition.

Gold medal winners from each event will now move on to the Skills Ontario Competition in Toronto on May 6. 

Teams of students worked on five categories of building: Green Energy (turbine building), Technology Challenge (hydraulic mining challenge), Construction Challenge (tiny homes), LEGO Mechanical Engineering and LEGO Robotics.

The competition incorporates problem solving, design challenges and teamwork.

Teams of GDHS students placed in the top three in the Green Energy, Technology, and Construction Challenges. The PCPS team placed in the top three in the Construction Challenges. Here are the complete results for the GDHS and PCPS students:

Green Energy:

  1. Glengarry DHS: Shahnoor Bajwa, Callan MacDonald, Shaelynn MacLeod, Mae Ella McCormick
  2. Char-Lan DHS: Mac Menard, Billy Cordner, Lily Major, Mila Kinloch
  3. Seaway DHS: Julianne Barnum, Garrett Templeton, Seb Desrosiers, Lincoln Robinson

Technology:

  1. Char-Lan DHS: Jade Malyon, Reeghan O’Farrell, Lexa Lalonde, Olivia Tyo
  2. Glengarry DHS: Lucy Cox, Cedric Jund, Kees McIntosh, Greg Oud 
  3. St. Lawrence SS: Patrick Bugajski, Muhammad Jan, Shabir Sultani, Grace Tokali

Construction:

  1. Glengarry DHS: Keaton MacKinnon, Callum MacPherson, Xavier Stang, Ben Wood 
  2. Char-Lan DHS: Wyatt Rombough, Grant Small, Karianne Boyer, Adessa Brennan
  3. Pleasant Corners PS: Reuben Zihlmann, Emma Beraha, Declan Ingram, Evalie Funke

A video documenting the event, produced by two Grade 7 students, is available on the UCDSB YouTube Channel.

Submitted photos

Winners of the Technology Challenge.
Winners of the Green Energy Challenge.