The judging has been completed for the 12th annual
QUICKTURN Metalworking Excellence Awards
contest and the winners are as follows:

1st place
Marc Stobbe, A.L. Fortune Secondary, Enderby  - project: heavy duty bench vise

2nd place
Adrian Halvorson, A.L. Fortune Secondary, Enderby - project: come-a-long

3rd place
Diamond Shykora, A.L. Fortune Secondary, Enderby  -  project: screw jacks

Honorable Mention
Don Pippus, A.L. Fortune Secondary, Enderby  -  project: helmet

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 13th 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 2009/2010 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 June 3rd, 2010 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.