Hi, my name is Simon Ernst and I am one of the Machinists on the Score (Eastern) Canada team in St. John’s Newfoundland. When I started my post-secondary education, I first enrolled at the Memorial University in St. John’s for engineering. Shortly after starting the program I realized that academia didn’t really interest me and I started to search for a skilled trade. I first applied to a welding program as at the time it was the trade that interested me the most, however, the class was full and I would have to wait a year to get into the program, so on a whim in 2015 I applied to the Machinist program at the College of the North Atlantic in St. John’s. As I progressed through the first year of the Machinist program I realized that I really enjoyed the trade and happened to be fairly good at it too, so I decided to stick with it.
