Gary Schultz, competition grading official, watches Grace Mavin, a Grade 12 student from Powell River, as she assembles and bends a brake line to specification in the automotive category of the annual Skills Canada B.C. Regional Competition.
Dozens of high school students from the central Island and Sunshine Coast came to Nanaimo Friday to compete in culinary arts, carpentry, automotive, hairdressing, welding and other specialties.
The day’s winners move on to compete in the provincial skills competitions in Abbotsford April 5.
