Female engineers achieve their best medal tally at Skills Show
23 Nov 2016
Six female entrants were among the medal winners for this year’s Skills Show engineering competitions at Birmingham NEC.
Katie Goodwill (Rolls-Royce plc) and Christine McDowell (Belfast Metropolitan College, pictured with Emily Whittaker of Semta) won gold, Eva Blessing Onyelou (Middlesex University) and Hannah Frost (UTC Sheffield) took silver and Nicole Catney (Belfast Metropolitan College) and Kendal Irvine (JCB Transmissions) achieved bronze.
Ann Watson, chief executive of Semta – organising partner for 13 of the engineering competitions on behalf of WorldSkills UK – said: “It is fantastic to see so many talented young engineers being recognised for excellence and especially pleasing to see more girls than ever before making it on to the podium in our competitions.”
A total of 500 youngsters competed in 61 skills, with 116 people competing in the engineering medals battle.
For a full list of winners click here
