Apprentice Competition
&
Coordinators meeting
September 14-20, 2010
Westin Seattle Hotel &
Local 86, Seattle, WA
Who should attend:
Coordinators, Business Managers, JAC Reps, Management Reps.
Schedule:
Sessions with an * indicate that these sessions will be of particular interest to JAC trustees and Management Representatives.
National Apprentice Competition:
The National Apprentice Competition consists of eight different competitions. The individual competitions are: written test, layout Instruments, welding, burning, knot tying, rod tying, ornamental and the column climb.
Written Test:
The written test consists of 100 questions taken directly from the apprentice training manuals.
Instrument Test:
The instrument test requires competitors to set up an instrument. Establish the height of instrument and figure the elevation of benchmarks above and below the height of instrument.
Burning Competition
The burning competition requires apprentice competitors to correctly lay out and burn a circle and square make a bevel cut and a straight cut. Contestants are judged on accuracy of layout and cut as well as quality of cuts.
Welding Competition
Apprentices must complete three passes in all four positions: flat, horizontal, vertical and overhead. The welds are graded based upon quality.
Knot Tying
For the knot tying competition, the competitors are required to correctly tie six knots which are chosen at random from the rigging manual the day of the test. They also must correctly reeve two sets of blocks (3x3, 3x2, or 2x2).
Rod Tying
The rod tying competition is always exciting. Competitors have one minute to tie as many of each different type of tie as they can. The ties are: snap tie, snap and a wrap, saddle tie, saddle and a wrap, and the figure 8 tie. The scores that an apprentice gets on each tie are tallied to give him or her overall score.
Ornamental
In this time-based test, contestants race against the clock to see who can put together a 2’ x 2’ glazed window.
Column Climb
Contestants race to the top of a 35 foot column. The fastest gets all the points.
Apprenticeship Competition Contest - May 2010
These are the versions of the contests that will be used in the competition in Seattle in September of 2010.
Coordinators meeting Agenda:
General Sessions
Breakout Sessions
