Twenty-three teams from schools in Brant, Niagara, Hamilton and Thames Valley competed in the Skills Ontario cardboard boat races Tuesday at the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre. Students were given two 4x8-foot sheets of cardboard, some duct tape and glue to create their designs. There are eight such elementary races being held this week throughout Ontario.

Lakehead Public Schools received a collection of new and used tools from Skills Canada and DeWalt Tools worth about $5,000.

The tools will go to high school manufacturing, construction and automotive classes throughout the board.

Cardboard Boat Race season begins for Skills Ontario. Click through to read the press release.

Despite the snow outside our windows, Skills Ontario's Summer Camp Program Manager, Charlene Bishop, is already busy at work planning the 2015 Skills Work! Summer Camps.

CTV News visits Skills Ontario for our Secondary Cardboard Boat Races in London on December 2, 2014. Watch the clip here:

GUELPH–Katherine Gatto, 15, is pondering what was once an unconventional career option for a girl to consider.

She's mulling working in high-tech manufacturing like thousands are engaged in at Guelph's largest employer, autoparts maker Linamar Corporation.

Looking for a press release or flyer for our Skills Work! For Women Career Exploration Events? Look no further, we've got you covered

For both young Niagara women, a yearning for skilled trades was bred in the bone.

As a kid, Melissa Mussari was captivated by watching her father renovate their Queenston home.

And Tiffany Stevenson couldn't get enough of observing her grandfather tinker on antique cars.

NEW TECUMSETH — Only 4% of skilled tradespeople in Ontario are women.

That's a statistic that the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) and Skills Canada Ontario are hoping to change by attracting more young women to jobs into the trades.

MARATHON, ON – October 21st, 80 elementary students, representing 11 schools from across the Northshore and Greenstone, gathered in Marathon to compete in SkillsOntario 2014-15 Cardboard Boat races (see full results below)