A LANGWARRIN metal fabricator won the top prize at a national event last month.
Tyler Abbott works for TIB Welding. He won the gold medal at the WorldSkills Australia 2023 National Championships.
The event was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre between 17 and 19 August. At the event, attendees were tasked with building a steel oil tank on a frame with an outlet at the bottom.
Abbott said, “it was pretty exciting to win the top prize.”
“I was happy to win the regional competition for Melbourne East and be nominated for the national competition, but to win gold in that too was just unbelievable,” he said. “We had a limited time and limited materials to make the assigned project, and you’re judged on the quality of the fabrication, the quality of the cuts and dimensional accuracy.”
Abbott graduated Holmesglen with a Certificate III in engineering earlier this year.