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1 June 2010
 On Monday 31 May, the College was visited by the Queensland Department’s Office for Women representatives, Mrs Sarah Malone and Ms Sophia Maalsen.
They were researching for an article for their magazine ‘Community Connect’ and wanted to feature our girl tradies who are engaged in "non-traditional" trades. Some of the girls, pictured here on the steps of the College, were delighted to be involved in this project and happily posed for various pictures in their trade areas.
Mr O’Hanlon-Rose said, "we have always encouraged and will continue to encourage girls to undertake these trades as we believe that all trades should be on offer to both genders".
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26 May 2010
 It was an historical moment for the College to be named as a finalist in the Manufacturing Skills QLD Award “Registered Training Organisation of the Year”.
This is the first time that the College has applied in this category, given that it is only in its fourth year of operation. One of our metal and engineering student-apprentices, Luke Bunn was also a finalist/runnerup in the School-based Apprentice of the Year. At the Awards dinner, Luke was chosen to represent all scholarship awardees and was presented with his Scholarship Award, valued at $2000. Additionally, Jordan Carlsson (Automotive student-apprentice) was also successful in gaining a MSQ Scholarship. Congratulations to both Luke and Jordan on these achievements.
Well done to everyone involved in preparing the applications for these awards.
Attending the MSQ Awards were:
L-R (Back) Leon Kaese (Trainer); Joy Bunn, Luke Bunn, Paul Bunn; David McDonald and Michael Millar (Trainers)
L-R (Front) Terry O’Hanlon-Rose (College CEO), Michael Hall (Executive Director, ACPET), Judy Riley (EA to CEO & Marketing Manager) and Ian Davies (Board Chair)
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11 May 2010
The National World Skills Competition has now finished for another two years and what a week it was. World Skills is the pinnacle competition for young trainees and apprentices across Australia which saw over 500 competitors involved from all states and territories. These competitors range from School-based Apprentices and Trainees and full time apprentices under the age of 23 years.
The “numbers” involved in staging this competition is staggering $18m for the events, 83kg of chocolate, $20000 worth of gold, 12 beef carcases and 15 lamb carcases, 119 manikins for hairdressing, cars, car bodies, trucks, kilometres of electrical wiring, tonnes of bricks and building supplies and the list goes on. It was a sight to see on Friday!
Bump-in |Bump-out
Bumping-in and out is a terminology for setting up and pulling down 25000sq meters of competition and display area. Our students played an important part in getting this ready for all the competitors as we had over thirty students involved in the setting up stages which was a valuable experience for them.
Our young brickies worked very hard which allowed the organiser to concentrate on the competition. The brickies worked in a very tradesman like manner and feedback from the organisers was very encouraging. Our College should be very proud of all of our students who helped as their work ethic, professional attitude and skills were duly noted from many.
The Competition
On Friday 7 May the competition started in earnest with five of our students participating in various trades as follows:
• Nathan Duffield (Metal and Engineering)
• Corey Mitchell (Automotive)
• Tahlia King (Cookery)
• Zac Clayton and Peter Goodwin (Electrotechnology).
Each competitor had a project to complete or a set of tasks to perform within a deadline of three days. In Nathan’s competition he had to construct a BBQ trolley and canopy and attach a BBQ plate to it. Another example of complexity was Tahlia’s compititon where she had to produce three days of meals consisting of breakfast, lunch and dinner for four.
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Try a Trade
We had a number of students who gave up their time over the week end to assist in Try a Trade where members of the public can try their hand at some of the skills which tradies use in their trade.
Examples of some of their involvement are as follows:
• Rebecca Fisher (Electrotechnology) demonstrated how to strip wire.
• Scott Schacklow and Ashley Clark demonstrated how to bend steel into a box with a lid – between them they produced over a thousand boxes!
• Chris Harris also worked in many areas of the metals section.
• Kirby Ross spent Mothers day at the College’s information booth discussing the benefits of coming to the ATCNB from a student’s point of view.
I acknowledge all of these students who are a credit to our College. They represented in a professional and committed manner and were real ambassadors of the College to the community and the Worldskills organisers.
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The Presentation Night
The College is happy to announce that Corey Mitchell won Silver for Automotive (just pipped for gold, Pictured left) and Nathan Duffield (Pictured right) received a Bronze medal for his work in the production of his BBQ. Congratulations to both these young tradies! The recognition of their skill level will put them in good stead for further and long term career choices.
However, these students don’t automatically get to this level by themselves so a big thank you goes to the trade trainers, teachers and employers who invest time and knowledge into their development.
Well done to everyone who was involved behind the scenes. It was a great experience!
Trevor Elliott
Learning Support / Trade Trainer
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Australian Trade College leads the nation winning 15 Australian Defence Force Technical Scholarships
10 May 2010
The College recently received news that 15 of our student-apprentices had been awarded 2010 Defence Force Technical Scholarships. These are most prestigious awards and it is an amazing achievement, topping our 2009 quota of 8 ADF Scholarships being received.
A Defence Technical Scholarship (DTS) is a fantastic opportunity for Year 11 and 12 students, intending to pursue an ADF general entry technical trade career after completing Year 12. The DTS rewards technically-savvy students for staying on at school and enrolling in specific subjects.
Year 11 recipients will receive $2000, paid over two semesters and successful Year 12 students will receive $3000, paid over two semesters. There is no obligation to join the Navy, Army or Air Force after finishing school.
Congratulations to the following student-apprentices: Alex Moretti; Christopher Harris; Jesse Reeves; Sean Price ; Andrew Bach; Matthew Parry; Leonie Thom; Christopher Trevarthen; Louise Banachak; Zac Lee; Brock Mcgill; Mitchell Naylor; Luke Beaven; Tomi Chan and Michael Bambling.
The College is accepting enrolments for Year 11 in 2011 for their unique school-based apprenticeship program. In addition the College also offers trade training for full time apprentices and a broad range of accredited vocational and education training courses in the areas of upskilling and recognition of prior learning. If you would like to know more about the College, an information evening is being held at the Scarborough campus on Tuesday 15 June at 7:00pm. Phone the Registrar on 3414 5960. |
Pictured here (L – R) are Year 12 recipients with Mr Terry O’Hanlon-Rose (CEO/Principal): Andrew Bach, Zac Lee, Tomi Chan, Matthew Parry and Alex Moretti.
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7 May 2010
 The “Women in Hard Hats” launch was feature of the Worldskills competition where (Pictured L-R) Karlee Boyce (ATCNB Automotive student-apprentice) was invited to participate as a panellist along with Samantha Sheppard (Carpenter), Carlie Wright (Plumber) and Radmila Desic (MC, Carpenter).
Check out Karlee's Interview on working in the Automotive industry.
http://www.skillsone.com.au/industry/1/automotive/video/1204/worldskills-nationals--brisbane-2010--automobile-mechanic/ |
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 The Honourable Karen Struthers MP, Minister for Community Services and Housing and Minister for Women introduced each of the panelists. The session provided an opportunity for the public to meet and talk with successful Queensland tradeswomen and learn about their careers first-hand. Karlee was outstanding and the College had several female representatives in the audience to support her. In addition, Rebekah Fisher was presented with a Pink Hard Hat from Ms Struthers, herself.
I received the following feedback from the organiser of the Women in Hard Hats Panel Discussion, Ms Sophia Maalsen....
“I just wanted to say a big thank you to you and your girls from ATC. Karlee was a fantastic speaker to have and a fantastic addition to the panel. The girls who were part of the audience were fantastic too and really got the discussion going so a big thank you to all of them. They saved the day! We were really impressed.” |
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