Waterberg TVET College Hotel School hosts Inter-Campus WorldSkills 2018 Competition

Waterberg TVET College Hotel School hosted an inter-campus competition for the international WorldSkills competition. The event was held to showcase the skills of the hospitality students, focusing on restaurant and cooking skills.

The cooking skills category had four competitors. They were judged based on their vegetable cutting and prawn preparation. Their skills were meticulously judged according to set standards. The Restaurant Skills Category was judged on four main skillsets of which one was Wine Identification. For this skillset the students had to smell the wine, observe it and be able to identify its origin. Another skillset, Napkin Folds, requires that the students do ten different napkin folds. The other skillsets were Restaurant Table Setting and Silver Service.

Of the four cooking skills competitors, one winner will be heading to the regional competitions. In addition six finalists from the restaurant service skills category will go on to represent the College at the regional
competition. The winners of the regional competition will proceed to the national level of the competition to be held in October. Ideally, each province should be represented at the national level of the competition.

The culmination of the competitions will be the 2019 International WorldSkills competition, which will be held in Russia this time around. Waterberg TVET College is immensely proud of the students who work hard daily and strive to be at the top of their game. Our hopes and aspirations rest on the students who will be representing South Africa on the world stage in Kazan, Russia.

Sourced from TVET College Times – Volume 54 2018