Skills Competition Wales 2024: Bridgend College triumphs with 24 medals
15/03/2024Bridgend College students emerged victorious at last night’s Skills Competition Wales 2024 award ceremony, winning a fantastic 24 medals in total. Awards were won across the board, with the students claiming 8 Gold, 3 Silver and 14 Bronze.
The College hosted a pre-ceremony celebration party at its STEAM Academy before travelling to the International Convention Centre (ICC) Wales for the main event. This was a chance to bring together the College’s participating students, their families and tutors to celebrate the outstanding student effort, skill and performance exhibited during the heats.
Funded by Welsh Government, Skills Competition Wales is an annual series of competitive heats across a breadth of vocational areas, taking place between January and February. Students compete in their chosen categories, providing them with a chance to both showcase and benchmark their skills against their peers. This year, there were 64 individual competitions which covered skills across four key sectors: Construction and Infrastructure; Engineering and Technology; Health, Hospitality and Lifestyle; and Digital, Business and Creative.
Skills Competition Wales, run by the Inspiring Skills Excellence in Wales project, also serves as a launchpad for participants to compete in prestigious national and international events, such as WorldSkills UK, EuroSkills and WorldSkills International.
We would like to congratulate all students who took part in the Skills Competitions this year and we are incredibly proud of our award winners. Here are the 2024 medallists from Bridgend College:
- Graphic Design: Nia Balendez, Gold
- Performing Arts: Brook Furlong, Gold
- Performing Arts: Cassie Money, Gold
- Performing Arts: Kacey Peck, Gold
- Performing Arts: Lowri Williams, Gold
- Performing Arts: Mathew Rees, Gold
- Performing Arts: Rose Pierce, Gold
- Performing Arts: Tyler Beddows, Gold
- Construction Skills (Age 14-16): Caled Powell, Silver
- Health and Social Care: Jac Brisland, Silver
- Inclusive Skills Health and Social Care: Kiera Merrin, Silver
- Beauty Therapy Practitioner (Body): Jessica Bowen, Bronze
- Enterprise: Bethaney-Mai Hopson, Bronze
- Enterprise: Rhiannon Elliot, Bronze
- Enterprise: Rhosyn McMahon, Bronze
- Enterprise: Samuel Hill, Bronze
- Enterprise: Tirion Viant, Bronze
- Fashion Design and Technology: Oliver Thomas, Bronze
- Graphic Design: Melody Cheung, Bronze
- Hairdressing (Age 14-16): Ella Hall, Bronze
- Inclusive Skills Health and Social Care: Lucy Badman, Bronze
- Industrial Robotics: Aled Gore, Bronze
- Industrial Robotics: Morgan Leyshon, Bronze
- Photography: Andrew Penny, Bronze
