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WorldSkills winners

Andrew Owens_ and CE Margaret Banks

Department of Employment Education and Training
Chief Executive Margaret Banks
congratulates Taminmin High School’s
Andrew Owens

The winners of each of the categories will go onto represent the Territory at the National competition in July 2008, in Sydney.

Gold medals

Category Participant
Cookery Emma Dippel (Holiday Inn Esplanade)
Hairdressing Jodie Cridland (Hair Art)
Welding Ross Caswell (Fingers Aluminium)
Electrotechnology Savo Babic (Casuarina Senior College)
Information Technology Nicholas Howell (Nhulunbuy High School)
Primary Industry -
General Agriculture
Andrew Owens (Taminmin High School)
Business Administration Lyndsay Woods (Casuarina Senior College)
Commercial Cookery Fiona Weir (Taminmin High School)

Silver medals

Category Participant
Cookery Lauren Jacobsen (Novotel Atrium)
Hairdressing Kristy Bullus (Hair Art)
Welding Brett Shuker (Universal Engineering)
Electrotechnology James Buettner (Casuarina Senior College)
Information Technology Arbnora Beha (Nhulunbuy High School)
Primary Industry -
General Agriculture
Kate Hatton (Taminmin High School)
Business Administration Ellen Walshe (Taminmin High School)
Commercial Cookery Irini Vazanellis (Darwin High School)

The Department of Education and Training would like to thank the competition convenors, judges and sponsors for their time and generous support to make these competitions happen. Charles Darwin University provided their training facilities for the competitions.