ITaB Third Year Apprentice Challenge

Open to all ITaB and Certified Builders third year apprentices

This Challenge is designed to bring all apprentices, employers and tutors together for a positive experience at a practical level. It will then take you to the next skills level – and slightly out of your comfort zone. The Challenge will build character and give you confidence to try different things.

The Challenge...

The APPRENTICE CHALLENGE FORM will be given out to all Third Year ITaB apprentices by Tutors at your block courses. (The questions on the forms are to be answered only by the apprentice.)

Apprentices should return forms to tutors or ITaB. Tutors collate all forms back and decide on 4 – 6 (maximum) finalists for practical exercise. (They will be chosen by tutors and the ITM local store representative).

If you are not in an ITaB apprenticeship course you will need to send your application to:
CBANZ/ITaB
PO Box 13405
Tauranga Central
Tauranga 3141
Attn Apprentice Challenge

Practical exercise done to set plans: Dog Kennel

This will be marked by tutors and CBANZ builders. The top 10 apprentices go forward to national finals in Queenstown.

These finalists need to complete a portfolio of their work history, giving examples in photos, references, and supporting documentation of their achievements to date from their employer. (You will need to bring this with you to the finals in Queenstown.)

The 10 Finalists will be flown to the CBANZ Conference event for the final part of the Challenge. All expenses will be paid to Queenstown in June 2010. (The top 10 finalists will be notified by mail).

Finalists will be assigned a workshop speaker to introduce at Conference, (you will be advised prior to Conference who that speaker will be). You will need to do some research on whoever you are assigned to introduce, an approx 2-3 minutes intro. Nothing too scary! You will receive coaching and support during conference.

The Apprenticeship Scholarship Trust (AST) Board will meet all finalists in a panel interview. The AST Board will judge and decide the winners. The winners will be announced at the Saturday Night Dinner Function at CBANZ Conference - Winner gets prizes and trophy. (Runner up also gets a prize).

All finalists will have a thrill factor to add to their experience, with the opportunity of a bungy jump off AJ Hacketts World Famous Queenstown Jump!

You will be considered the ambassador for your region at Conference, so big brother will be watching you... but hey, what an experience!


Click here to go to the ITaB website where you can find all the forms to download and fillout.

ITM will subsidise the cost of the timber for the finalists, therefore we propose that we will fund $500 worth of product to each of the 12 regional training centres. The process we would like to follow is that each training centre will need to buy the product required for the challenge from an ITM store and invoice us for $500 towards the cost of this (or the full amount if lower than $500) with a copy of the invoice. We will only pay on invoices purchased from ITM stores. If the provider decides that the builder is going to purchase the timber on his account, that is fine, but an invoice still needs to be make out to ITM National Office to receive the payment with an accompanying copy of the invoice for the timber from the ITM local store.

GIB are sponsors for the first prize - Outward Bound Course for the winner of the 3rd Year Apprentice Challenge – many thanks GIB