Dunlop Multi-Skill Champion
Fourteen-year-old multi-skill student Kenneth Sylvester from Doncaster College has been named as the overall winner of Dunlop’s Multi-Skill Champion Competition 2016.
The competition was launched by the manufacturer of tile adhesives, grouts and decorating products as a way to recognise the some of best multi-skill tiling and decorating students in the country.
Eighteen students aged from 14 to 40 from FE colleges across UK providing the City & Guilds Construction Skills qualification (6219) competed against each other in a series of tiling and decorating tests at the competition’s Grand Final which was held at Dunlop’s Innovation and Technology Centre in Stoke-on-Trent.
Following the rigorous assessment, Kenneth was declared the winner and presented with the winner’s trophy and approximately £1000 worth of tiling and decorating tools, products and equipment, donated by sponsors Bellota and Coleman Brothers.
After being named the winner an Kenneth said: “I’m absolutely speechless, I don’t think this will sink in for a long time. I just can’t put it into words what means for me, it’s the best thing I ever done.
“Doing the multi-skill course at the college and taking part in this competition has been amazing. I’ve enjoyed every minute of it, and I just got the hang of it so quickly. It’s definitely something I want to do when I finish college.
“I just want to say a big thank you to Mark Adams, my tutor, because without him I would never have won this competition.”