MINSK, 25 May (BelTA) – Team Belarusian won two gold medals in the Eurasian tournament held as part of the final of the 5th National WorldSkills Championship Russia 2017 (Young Professionals) in Krasnodar, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Education Ministry.
The gold winners are Olga Kushner, a student of Grodo College of Engineering, Technology and Design (Fashion Technology skill) and Ivan Skorb, a student of the Belarusian State Technological University who was recognized best in the Furniture Production skill. Team Belarus also picked up 21 silver and 6 bronze medals.
Belarus WorldSkills team was 35-people strong. These were college, vocational school and university students and young skilled workers under the age of 22 from Minsk, Grodno, Vitebsk, Mogilev, Gomel, Rogachev, Brest, and Kobrin.
Participants competed in 29 skills in six areas: construction, manufacturing, service industry, creativity and design, information technology, civil transport maintenance. An absolutely new skill was geodesy.
Competing in WorldSkills Russia, Russia's largest worldskills competition, were 1,200 vocational college and school students, including international competitors. The championships featured 109 skills.
Following the championships Belarus will name the team that will take part, for the second time, in WorldSkills International, the most prestigious world competition of professional skills, due in Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.) in October 2017.
Professional competition WorldSkills has been held every two years for the past 60 years. The competition features young workers, students under 22. The WSI movement currently involves 76 member countries, covering more than 70% of the world's population, including Germany, France, China, the United States, Canada, Russia, and others. WorldSkills is aimed at popularizing the working professions in modern society, contributes to the improvement of their appeal among young people and provides an effective means to achieve the highest standards in every country.
