Taipei Tech Student Won Gold Medal in the 43rd World Skills Competition
The World Skills Competition has been heldevery two years since 1950. It is the biggest skill competition on earth with over 60 participatingcountries and is known as the Olympics in Technical Skills.
The 43rd World Skills Competition was held in St. Paul, Brazil. Chinese Taipei team was awarded 5 gold medals, 7 silver medals, and 5 bronze medals. Chinese Taipei team’s performance was ranked no.3 in 63 participatingcountries, being the best result for Taiwan representatives so far.
One of the gold medals was earned in the field of refrigeratingand air conditioning. The winner, Pei-Hao Juan, is a student from the Department of Refrigerating Air-Conditioning Engineering at Taipei Tech.
Hong-Ping Cheng, Chair of the Department of Refrigerating Air-Conditioning Engineering at Taipei Tech, notedthat Pei-Hao Juan decided to participate the World Skills Competition inhis secondyear. In order to support Juan, Ching Song Zhuo, professor at Taipei Tech, and Chian Yu Lin, teacher at Taipei Municipal Nangang Vocational High School put togethera training team to assist Juan in perusing his dream.
Juan notedthat it wascommon for him to be trained in an over 35 degree Celsius environment. During the 11-month training, Juan always toldhimself that one couldonly achieve more by devotingmore. It wasthis hardworking spirit that helped Juan to become national championand won the first gold medal in refrigeratingand air conditioning field of the World Skills Competition for Taiwan.
Leehter Yao, president of Taipei Tech, notedthat students should learn from Juan’s experience and get out of their comfort zone to reach for the star. Dreams do come true when you carry through firmly to the end.
