Skills Canada gives students across the country the opportunity to compete with skills they have learned inside and outside of school.

Weyburn Comprehensive School students saw success at the competition taking home seven medals including one gold for welding.

Southeast College also saw success at the competition.

Alyssa DeMarchi, Hairstylist student, Weyburn Campus of Southeast College, won the Gold medal for post-secondary hairstyling.

Sheena Onrait, Manager of Marketing and Communications, Southeast College explained what was involved in the contest for DeMarchi.

"There's a list of requirements that is provided to the students ahead of time so they sort of know what is expected to do when they get there."

"There is also on the fly changes or additions to that. The adjudicator may say "we want you to integrate this into your hairstyle," so then you have to be able to really think on the spot and be able to adapt what you had already planned to meet what those new adjustments and those adjudications are going to be based on. So there is a lot of pre-prep for the students but there is a lot of 'being able to adapt to what is happening in the room' and what that adjudicator and potentially down the road what that client has in store for you."

Onrait said the Hairstylist program is a long-running program which is at capacity every year and explained how the program has been successful.

"Our students have a really high employment rate after they finish the program with us. And of course, we have instructors who really are second to none."

She adds there are some spots still available for this year. If students apply before the end of June, they are eligible for a Southeast College Entrance Award.

The gold medal win means DeMarchi will now have the opportunity to compete against other students from across Canada at National Skills Canada competition in Edmonton, in June.