Left to right: David van Schie, Michael Long, Steve Watts, Andrew Goodfellow, James McCutcheon
A team from the Christchurch branch of CablePrice Scania will head to China in September to compete in a regional semi final of the Scania Top Team competition.
There are six regional semi-finals conducted around the world, with the top two teams from each going on to the final Scania Top Team competition in Sweden in December where the world champions for 2015 will be crowned
The New Zealand national finals of the Scania Top Team competition were held in Wellington on April 18 with the Christchurch team taking out the top spot.
Scania Top Team was open to all CablePrice branches. Earlier this year nine teams, totalling 45 competitors, competed in the semi-finals where they worked on two sets of theory based questions, with 50 multiple choice questions in each.
Each team was able to research the questions in their respective branches, then send their answers to the training department for marking. From these two rounds the numbers were whittled down to the top four teams in the country.
The national final was made up of five stations, four of which were practical and one closed book theory round. The competition saw David van Schie, Michael Long, Steve Watts (team captain), Andrew Goodfellow and James McCutcheon take on three other teams – from Whangarei, Auckland and Wellington – working together to solve complex problems within a twenty minute time frame at each station.
CablePrice national training manager Ross Wallace says he was impressed with the level of talent exhibited by the teams this year.
“The commitment, expertise and effort that every team member puts into making this competition such a success continues to amaze me.
“It is this type of commitment that will help inspire the next generation of technicians to our industry.”
