{"id":48954,"date":"2026-05-17T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/48954\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T12:52:19","slug":"eatonia-student-returning-to-national-skills-canada-competition-swiftcurrentonline-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/48954\/","title":{"rendered":"Eatonia student returning to national Skills Canada competition &#8211; SwiftCurrentOnline.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Eatonia student will once again represent Saskatchewan on the national stage this time at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.skillscompetencescanada.com\/en\/event\/skills-canada-national-competition-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Skills Canada National Competition<\/a>\u00a0in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Jaxen Dudley has been selected to compete for Team Saskatchewan in the Secondary IT Office Software Applications category at the upcoming competition later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The national competition, hosted by Skills Canada, will take place May 28 and 29 at the Enercare Centre in Toronto and feature more than 550 competitors across over 40 skilled trade and technology categories.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories:<\/p>\n<p>Student discovered passion through classroom experience<\/p>\n<p>Dudley said he first became interested in office software applications after enrolling in a course encouraged by his parents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got into this skill because my parents told me to take a class because they thought it was about typing, and it ended up being about office software applications,\u201d Dudley said in a social media post shared by Skills Canada Saskatchewan. \u201cI got to love learning how to actually use these programs instead of just making stuff up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also credited Renee Harrison for helping prepare him for the national competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to thank Renee Harrison because she is the one preparing me for Nationals,\u201d Dudley said.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to nationals in Toronto<\/p>\n<p>Dudley said he is excited to return to the competition with more experience under his belt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m most excited about competing again because now I know what I am doing and I think I actually have a chance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Skills Canada National Competition also includes interactive \u201cTry-A-Trade\u201d activities and is open to the public free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Eatonia student will once again represent Saskatchewan on the national stage this time at the\u00a02026 Skills Canada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-48954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}