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Regional Competitions
Each year, thousands of students compete at regional competitions that are organised and hosted by school boards, colleges, and training delivery agents across the province. These competitions provide the opportunity for students to demonstrate their talents in the skilled trades and technologies and to determine the strongest candidates who will go on to represent their institution at the Qualifying Competitions or the provincial Skills Ontario Competition.
If your institution hosts a regional event that you would like us to add to this page, please contact us by e-mail at competitions@skillsontario.com.
Skills Ontario is planning to hold the 2023 provincial Skills Ontario Competition in-person in Toronto. The Competition will take place on May 1st and 2nd, followed by the Closing Ceremony on the morning of the 3rd.
Prior to the provincial-level competition, we host Skills Ontario Qualifying Competitions for four select contests that students must participate in first to determine who will continue to the provincial level. The Qualifying Competitions will take place on Saturday, April 1st, 2023 at various locations across the province for Culinary, Carpentry Individual, TV Video (team of two), and Welding. For more information on the Qualifying Competitions, click here.
May 1, 2023
- Elementary Gr. 7-8 Workshops
- Elementary Contests Gr. 4-6 and 7-8 and closing ceremonies
- Select Secondary & Post-Secondary Contests
- Career Exploration showcase (open to the public)
- Young Women’s Conference Gr. 7-8 (tentative date)
May 2, 2023
- Remaining Secondary & Post-Secondary contests
- Career Exploration showcase (open to the public)
- Young Women’s Conference Gr. 9-12 (tentative date)
- First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Student Conference Gr. 7-12 (tentative date)
May 3, 2023
- Closing Ceremony
If you have any questions, please email competitions@skillsontario.com. For latest developments, follow us on Twitter at @skillsontario.
If a Regional Event Can Not be Hosted – Who do we Send to Provincials?
A list of suggestions has been compiled from Skills Ontario and in discussions with educational institutions, that may assist in determining which students to send if a regional/internal event can not be hosted.
Even if a student may not have had as much practice as they may have had in a non-COVID year, we recommend that if an institution can still submit a competitor that they practice as much as they can given the circumstances for the opportunity, as they will still be able to have this on their resume, along with the experience, and the chance to win Gold, Silver or Bronze!
Below are ideas and recommendations on how a competitor could possibly be forwarded to the qualifying or provincial level:
- Any medal winning competitors a previous year who still qualifies under the eligibility for the year of the contest, and is still a student at the institution
- Asking students who want to participate
- do a lottery
- have teachers hold a meeting to discuss which student is the top student to send
- host an online theory test, highest mark
- highest mark(s) in class/school/board
- Hold cohort class regionals
- Selecting from Co-op and/or OYAP students
- If able to host an in-person or virtual regional event
Elementary/Secondary Events
As Skills Ontario is made aware of the individual regional events, they will be added to these charts.
| School Board | Date | Link |
| Algoma District School Board | ||
| Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board | ||
| Avon Maitland District School Board | ||
| Bluewater District School Board | ||
| Brant Haldimand-Norfolk Catholic District School Board | ||
| Bruce-Grey Catholic District School Board | ||
| Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario | ||
| Conseil scolaire catholique de district des Grand Rivières | ||
| Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir | ||
| Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est | ||
| Conseil scolaire de district catholique de l’Est ontarien | ||
| Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario | ||
| Conseil scolaire de district catholique des Aurores boréales | ||
| Conseil scolaire de district catholique Franco-Nord | ||
| Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario | ||
| Conseil scolaire de district des écoles catholiques du Sud-Ouest | ||
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Conseil scolaire public du Grand Nord de l'Ontario |
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| Conseil scolaire public du Nord-Est de l'Ontario | ||
| Conseil scolaire Viamonde | ||
| District School Board of Niagara | ||
| District School Board of Ontario North East | ||
| Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board | ||
| Durham Catholic District School Board | ||
| Durham District School Board | ||
| Grand Erie District School Board | ||
| Greater Essex County District School Board | https://www.publicboard.ca/Programs/K-12/Tech-Courses/Pages/Get-Skilled-Skills-Competition.aspx#/= | |
| Halton Catholic District School Board | http://www.haltonskills.com/index.html | |
| Halton District School Board | http://www.haltonskills.com/index.html | |
| Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board | ||
| Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board | ||
| Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board | ||
| Huron Perth Catholic District School Board | ||
| Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board | ||
| Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board | ||
| Keewatin-Patricia District School Board | ||
| Kenora Catholic District School Board | ||
| Lakehead Public Schools | ||
| Lambton Kent District School Board | ||
| Limestone District School Board | https://www.limestone.on.ca/programming/expanded_opportunities/skills_competition | |
| London District Catholic School Board | ||
| Near North District School Board | ||
| Niagara Catholic District School Board | https://mywayto.niagaracatholic.ca/skills2020.html | |
| Nipissing-Parry Sound Catholic District School Board | ||
| Northeastern Catholic District School Board | ||
| Northwest Catholic District School Board | ||
| Ottawa Catholic School Board | ||
| Ottawa-Carleton District School Board | ||
| Peel District School Board | https://www.peelschools.org/elementary/get-involved/peel-skills-challenge/Pages/default.aspx | |
| Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board | ||
| Rainbow District School Board | ||
| Rainy River District School Board | ||
| Renfrew County Catholic District School Board | ||
| Renfrew County District School Board | ||
| Simcoe County District School Board | ||
| Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board | ||
| St. Clair Catholic District School Board | ||
| Sudbury Catholic District School Board | ||
| Superior North Catholic District School Board | ||
| Superior-Greenstone District School Board | ||
| Thames Valley District School Board | ||
| Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board | ||
| Toronto Catholic District School Board | https://www.facebook.com/SkillsTCDSB | |
| Toronto District School Board | ||
| Trillium Lakelands District School Board | ||
| Upper Canada District School Board | ||
| Upper Grand District School Board | ||
| Waterloo Catholic District School Board | ||
| Waterloo Region District School Board | ||
| Wellington Catholic District School Board | ||
| Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board | ||
| York Catholic District School Board | ||
| York Region District School Board | www.yrdsb.ca/skills |
Post-Secondary Events
As Skills Ontario is made aware of the individual regional events, they will be added to these charts.
| Institution | Location |
Date | Link (if available) |
| Cambrian College | |||
| Centennial College | |||
| Conestoga College | |||
| Durham College | |||
| Fleming College | |||
| Georgian College | |||
| Humber College | |||
| Loyalist College | |||
| Mohawk College | |||
| Seneca College | |||
| St. Clair College |
