The eight SkillELECTRIC competitors who scored most highly across the recent national qualifying heats have been named as this year’s UK finalists:
Adam Souter – SECTT / McDonald and Munro Ltd
Archie Casson – Oldham College / JRC Electrical Engineers
Ellis Stevenson – SECTT / Campbell and McHardy Ltd
Ewan Forsythe – Belfast Metropolitan College / Nugent
Fabian Maciejewski – East Goscote Electrics / Leicester College
Jane Thorp – Suffolk New College / Fellowes Electrical
Samuel Chadderton – Hopwood Hall College / Isolate Electrical
William Boyer – Blackburn College / Paul Wilson Electrical and Renewable Energy Solutions
All have been invited to take part in the SkillELECTRIC UK Final being held at Bridgend College across the week of 24th November.
Alongside SkillELECTRIC, around 50 other WorldSkills national competition finals will be taking place that week across venues around South Wales, involving over 400 competitors.
SkillELECTRIC is organised by NET and is part of the WorldSkills UK competition framework. The competition has Electric Center, the NICEIC and Scolmore Group as its delivery partners and is supported by Megger, EAL, Snickers Workwear and Rolec.
To be crowned SkillELECTRIC champion, competitors will have to excel in a complicated three-day practical installation task set to a strict timescale and against a rigorous marking criteria. Low carbon technologies will feature once again following previous years’ successes, this time in the shape of both an EV point charging-related task and solar task for competitors to tackle.
Those who perform well enough and are age eligible could be in with a chance of representing the UK in the Electrical Installation competition at WorldSkills 2028 in Aichi, Japan.
“Once again we have some great competitors in this year’s final, but what’s very important to note is the level of returning competitors, including three of our finalists,” said Jennie Phung of NET. “We’ve had many competitors this year across the heats who have previously taken part in our 2024 and 2023 events and have entered again for the 2025 competition. This clearly demonstrates the benefits they are gaining from taking part in the competition and the continual progress and development it provides to them.
“We’re looking forward to supporting all the finalists in the run-up to November and helping them to prepare for their UK final performance.”