The judging has been completed for the 11th annual
QUICKTURN Metalworking Excellence Awards
contest and the winners are as follows:

1st place
Jesse Bourke, A.L. Fortune Secondary School, Enderby (project: heavy duty bench vice)

2nd place
Jon Kalf, A.L. Fortune Secondary School, Enderby (project: heavy duty bench vice)

3rd place
Derric Hiscock, Clarence Fulton Secondary School, Vernon (project: metal trivet)

Honorable Mention
Josh Bayliss, Pleasant Valley Secondary School, Armstrong (project: metal coffee table)

The first place winner received $350, a plaque to keep and a trophy to display at his school for the year. Second place received $250 and a plaque and third place received $150 and a plaque to keep. Metalwork teachers from participating schools received assorted measuring instruments and tools for their metalworking classes.

QUICKTURN Production Machining Ltd. is proud to sponsor the 12th annual QUICKTURN Metalworking Excellence Awards contest for high school metalworking students in the North Okanagan region of British Columbia. The objective of the contest is to encourage excellence in metalwork classes and is open to all metalworking students in high school in Vernon, Armstrong, Enderby and Lumby. Any metalworking student in the 2008/2009 school year is eligible to enter. Projects of the students' choice will be judged on workmanship, technical merit and ingenuity. Students may submit more than one entry, but only one award will be presented per student. Entries must be completed and submitted to the metalwork teacher by May 27, 2009 to be forwarded to QUICKTURN for judging. The first place winner will receive $350 as well as an annual trophy to be displayed at his or her school. Second place will receive $250 and third will receive $150. There will be keeper plaques for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. The awards will be presented at the schools' annual awards day. QUICKTURN will donate tools to all participating schools.