Skills Day Competition Descriptions

Skills Day Competition Descriptions

Auto Collision

We will provide activities in the following areas:

  • ASE-style written exam covering metalworking, proper metal preparation for application of plastic fillers, proper mixing and use of plastic fillers
  • Top 16 will move on to the hands-on portion to demonstrate ability
  • Students will be judged on the use of proper safety practices, repair time, overall appearance and straightness of completed panel

Instructor(s): Tim Hardyk
Maximum Competitors: 20

Auto Tech

We will provide hands-on, timed activities in the following areas:

  • Engine repair
  • Measuring equipment
  • Brakes
  • Electrical

Instructor(s): Shane Sampson
Maximum Competitors: 25

Culinary Arts

We will provide activities in the following areas:

  • Meal creation using ingredients provided by our Chefs
  • Utilize various cooking methods from dry heat and/or moist heat families (steam, boil, stew, saute, grill, broil, etc)
  • Teams will work together to create the meal
  • Evaluation on effective use of time, sanitation, creativity, temperature of finished product, attractiveness of finished dish, and overall flavor, texture and appropriate use of ingredients

Instructor(s): Western Iowa Tech Chefs
Maximum Competitors: 16

EMS

We will provide individual activities in the following areas:

  • Written Exam
    • fundamental knowledge needed to provide immediate care in a pre-hospital setting 
    • airway management
    • trauma and medical assessments
    • EMS operations
  • Skills Test
    • Demonstrate hands-on essential life-saving interventions
      • bleeding control
      • fracture splinting

Instructor(s): Cammy Jo Cother and Terry Surdla
Maximum Competitors: 30

Graphic Design

We will provide timed activities in the following areas:

  • Design a t-shirt for a local event/festival
    • Brainstorm for design solutions
    • Create design using Illustrator or Photoshop
    • Show creative process by sketching out ideas
    • Finalize the idea in a one color digital file
  • Judging based on:
    • Brainstorming and ideas generated
    • Design elements of contrast, alignment, repetition, proximity
    • Visual impact of final design, clarity, relative effectiveness of design
    • Meeting project criteria

Instructor(s): Lynn Wilcke, Lana Brown, Jamie Bell
Maximum Competitors: 20

Health Sciences Career Poster 

We will provide activities in the following areas:

  • Create a poster for a health sciences career that can be achieved through programs offered at Western Iowa Tech that includes:
    • overview of the selected health sciences career,
    • job responsibilities,
    • educational requirements,
    • entry-level salary,
    • benefits of the selected career,
    • challenges of the selected career,
    • any additional relevant information.
  • Posters will be displayed and blindly evaluated by judges.

Instructor(s): Amanda Heilman
Maximum Competitors: 32

Industrial Drafting

We will provide activities in the following areas:

  • Trivia competition about drafting and engineering
  • Top ten scoring students move on to hands-on portion
    • demonstrate ability to use CAD (Solidworks) to model components (no prior knowledge needed, they will receive written instruction),
    • correctly complete several components of an assembly to receive a 3D print of that part,
    • assemble the 3D printed components and use assembly to complete a task.

Instructor(s): James Garvey
Maximum Competitors: 15

Mass Communications and Journalism

We will include activities in the following areas:

  • Write a 4-6 minute news update from supplied materials
  • Record the written news update from our set.

Instructor(s): Chris Mansfield and Mike Jones
Maximum Competitors: 7

Medical Terminology and Dosage Calculation

We will include activities in the following areas:

  • A timed 100 question medical terminology test
  • A timed 20 question dosage calculation test

Instructor(s): TBA
Maximum Competitors: 50

Music

We will include activities in the following areas:

  • Performance (instrument or voice) of two selections of contrasting styles (provide your own accompaniment)
  • Scored on standard musical assessment
  • Highest score receives a certificate/award

Instructor(s): TBA
Maximum Competitors: 50

Persuasive Speaking

We will include activities in the following areas:

  • Quiz to move on
  • Prepare and rehearse
  • Deliver the speech

Instructor(s): Rachel Reiss
Maximum Competitors: 15

Plumbing

We will include activities in the following areas:

  • Training and safety procedures briefing prior to competition
  • Hands-on experience making a project announced when competition begins
  • Judging of project based on accuracy of measurement and application of soldering process

Note: Suitable clothing required for all participants: long sleeve shirts, t-shirt, cap, jeans (no frayed jeans); all shirts must be tucked in. All safety rules must be followed, participants must follow direction of the group leader, and all work must be done individually.
Note: Necessary equipment and materials will be supplied by the technical committee at Western Iowa Tech.

Instructor(s): Josh Elgert
Maximum Competitors: 15

Welding

We will include activities in the following areas:

  • Participants take a written and multiple choice safety test.
  • Participants take a 32 question test on reading a tape measure and distance between measurements. (No calculators)
  • Shielded Metal Art Welding (SMAW)
  • Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW)
  • Oxy/Fuel Cutting (CFC)
  • Participants supply safety glasses, welding gloves, welding hood, proper welding jacket/sleeves.

Instructor(s): Bill Fitch, Jered Frenchman, Rachel Peters
Maximum Competitors: 50