WorldSkills Competitor trains at Algonquin College with the help of Algonquin College Professor Martin Restoule

Claude Cote (left) and Martin Restoule (right) photographed at their on-site training session held at Algonquin College

On September 26^th Claude Cote, Team Canada’s Automotive Service Technician competitor will be on-campus training for the upcoming WorldSkills Competition occurring in London, England. For the past year, Martin Restoule, coordinator of a number of Algonquin Colleges’ Automotive Apprenticeship programs has been acting as the Canadian Expert for Automotive Service Technician competitor Claude Cote and will be accompanying Claude to the competition. “Claude is a great competitor and is very dedicated to his training. It’s been a lot of hard work participating in the many qualifying competitions up to this point. To finally be able to compete at this year’s WorldSkills Competition in London is the culmination of all his hard work,” stated Martin earlier this month.

Martin’s dedication to this competition is also very noteworthy, for the last 10 years he has acted as coach, judge and all-around cheer leader for the many Algonquin students that have participated in the Ontario Technological Skills Competition as well as at the National and WorldSkills Competitions.

Claude will spend his time at Algonquin College with Martin as well as doing alignment training with the College’s resident alignment expert, Professor Stan Wierzbowski. Elite BMW/Mini has agreed to provide a Mini Countryman car for Claude to train on for the day giving Claude access to one of the possible vehicles that he will be asked to work on while at the competition in England.

While Claude is not a graduate of Algonquin College we have had our share of competitors at previous WorldSkills Competitions most recently Scott Blair (Carpentry Competitor), Stacy Dubois (IT Office Software Competitor) and Nathan Banke (Automotive Service Technician).

WorldSkills London 2011 will be the world’s largest, international skills Competition with young people from across the globe competing to be the best of the best in their chosen skill. The competition takes place at ExCeL London in London, England from 5-8 October 2011.

150,000 expected visitors will see 1,000 Competitors from more than 50 countries/regions competing in 46 skill areas over four exciting days of Competition.

For more information please contact Glenn MacDonald at 613-727-4723 ext.5968 or Martin Restoule at 613-727-4723 ext. 5153. For more information on the competition please visit http://www.worldskillslondon2011.com/ or http://www.worldskills.org/.