IPRC Karongi trainees scoop awards in TVET Skills Competition

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IPRC Karongi Level 5 students who contested in "TVET Skills Competition Western Province 2021" in Auto-Engine, Industrial Electricity and Masonry trades won awards during the competition closing ceremony on 19th November, 2021.

The winners are Ngoga Masenga and Genie Irabizi who got first and second awards respectively in Auto-Engine, Abdouratif Ndayizigiye and Emerance Tuyishimire, first and fourth winners respectively in Masonry as well as Didier Niyomugabo who won second award in Industrial Electricity.

TVET Skills Competition in Western Province was organized by Rwanda TVET Board (RTB) in collaboration with IPRC Karongi and 7 Districts of Western Province under the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) through Promoting Market Oriented Skills and Training (PROMOST) program implemented by Swisscontact.

The competition objective was to raise the profile and recognition of trainees, practical experiments, industrial exposure, and show how important skills are in achieving socio-economic growth.

It was furthermore for providing employers and training providers with a proven method of up-skilling and developing young people from all backgrounds and abilities.

In his remarks during the closing ceremony, John Gaga, Swisscontact Program Manager appreciated IPRC Karongi for their good relations and collaboration since 2013.

He said, “There is a need of sacrifices in order to have such Skills Competitions. I would like to acknowledge IPRC Karongi for all the years we have been working together, now they can sacrifice for others.”

John urged other schools represented to work closely with IPRC Karongi and private sector so as to keep Skills Competitions program.

“Some schools are very advanced in terms of equipment and trainers, so they can support others in hosting such competitions. If we need our province to be the top in TVET Education and our trainees to be very qualified and competitive, we should sacrifice and find a way to conduct this competition once a year,” added John Gaga.

Haji Abdou Karemera, a private sector representative and assessor in Carpentry trade who said on behalf of his colleagues reminded the trainees that any entrepreneur need quality and production from them.

He promised a toolbox, include all carpenter's tools, donation to the first winner in carpentry trade, and that he is going to work with other private sector practitioners in the field of carpentry so that all competition contestants in this trade can find industrial attachments in order to continue practicing what they get from schools.

Winners in Culinary Arts were also promised one month internship in ones of the best hotels (5 stars) in Rwanda once they will be on holidays.

The students expressed their gratitude to all organizers of the competition especially RTB and Swisscontact. They declared that the competition left them with a spirit to work vigorously in order to reach the higher level, and assured to share to their schoolmates experience they got from the competition.

The competition brought together 118 level 5 trainees from 44 TVET Schools which train in the fields of Masonry, Carpentry, Culinary Arts, Industrial Electricity, Software Development and Auto-Engine in the Western Province.

It was conducted in two parts namely preliminary competition and final competition. In the preliminary, trainees contested in groups of twos, thus all contestants were in 59 groups. Only 23 groups made of 46 students were qualified for final competition to compete individually.

Finally, 24 best winners/4 per trade from the final competition were awarded HP laptops & Medium gold cups, Lenovo laptops & small gold cups, tablets, smart phones respectively and gold medals for all contestants. Below are all winners in their respective trades.

  • Auto-Engine:
  1.  Ngoga Masenga/IPRC Karongi
  2. Genie Irabizi/IPRC Karongi
  3. Evode Kwizera/ Rubavu Technical College
  4. Landry Marley Kamili/ETAG
  • Carpentry:
  1. Jean de Dieu Usengimana/Rubengera TVET School
  2. Cadeau Heritier Ukwishaka/Rubengera TVET School
  3. Hassan Niyitegeka/Gihombo TVET School
  4. Fiacre Nkurunziza/Muganza TVET School
  • Culinary Arts:
  1. Karen Gisubizo/St Marry Domique Mazzarello
  2. David Shema/St Marry Domique Mazzarello
  3. Jean Pierre Niyonkuru/Tyazo TVET School
  4. Olivier Mugabo/Nyabihu TVET School
  • Industrial Electricity:
  1. Gedeon Irakoze/ESTG
  2. Didier Niyomugabo/IPRC Karongi
  3. David Nsabimana/Giheke TVET School
  4.  Dieudone Mutabazi/Kibihekane TVET School
  • Masonry:
  1.  Abdouratif Ndayizigiye/IPRC Karongi
  2. Samuel Ntakirutimana/IPRC Huye
  3. Modeste Iradukunda/Nyagahinika TVET School
  4. Emerance Tuyishimire/IPRC Karongi
  • Software Development:
  1. Divin Irakiza/Rwanda Coding Academy
  2. Shallon Kobusinge/Rwanda Coding Academy
  3. Freddy Nuru/ GS Bumba
  4. Nathanael Niyodushima/Giheke TVET School

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