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Students from grade 8 through post-secondary are invited to create a video showcasing how manufacturing in the future will impact the next generation. Videos should be uploaded to YouTube and submitted with the corresponding entry form by October 24, 2014.

On September 5th, Skills Ontario staff spent the day at the Canadian Heavy Equipment College in Cambridge Ontario for a team building event!

Ontario, August 25, 2014 - Every year, the Skills Ontario Board of Directors awards a maximum of two scholarships to Ontario students who show great potential in the skilled trades and technologies at the Ontario Technological Skills Competition (OTSC). In an unprecedented move, the Skills Ontario Board of Directors has awarded scholarships to eight outstanding students for 2014.

This morning Gail Smith, Executive Director of Skills Ontario, and David Tsubouchi, Registrar and CEO of the Ontario College of Trades, were nominated for the #ALSIceBucketChallenge. This one's a good one, catch the video here.

Helping our young people get a head start on what they want to do in the future is more important than ever these days and a Durham College summer camp this month did just that.

Skills Ontario, a not-for-profit organization which promotes the skilled trades and technologies, held The Skills Work! Camp, a week-long day program for kids entering grades 8 and 9, at the Whitby campus in August.

WHITBY -- A group of students who took a summer camp program at Durham College could help rectify the skills shortage that Ontario is facing.

TIMMINS - A group of local students learned there's another option besides going to university or college for traditional academics.

Nine students from Grades 7 and 8 participated in a week-long program hosted by Skills Canada Ontario

In the Skills Work! Camp, there are no bonfires but participants learn about electricity. There's no chopping of firewood, but students learn about carpentry. And traditional barbecues are replaced with culinary classes

Fifteen campers participated in this year’s Skills Ontario Camp at the Bruce Power Visitors’ Centre exploring skilled trades and technology with hands-on activities.

The Bruce Power Visitors' Centre is home to an engaging summer camp for youth this week.

Fifteen campers are taking part in the Skills Work! Day Camp which has them explore the skilled trades and technologies through hands on activities.