Activities

Skills Ontario Competition

The Skills Ontario Competition is Canada's largest skilled trade and technology competition that showcases the talented youth of our province. Over 20,000 spectators converge on this three-day event to watch over 2000 of the brightest young people of this province compete in one of the over 67 skills contests offered.  On competition day, our team was up for a 5 am breakfast and on the bus at 6 am.  The competition then ran 7.5hrs in front of large noisy crowds in the Toronto Congress Centre.

In May 2019, LDH earned Silver medals in both Graphic Design Studio and 2D Animation.  Congratulations to Hannah Burgstaller, the team of Theo Coombes and Will Klassen.  LDH also represented the OCDSB in  Graphics Presentation. In Mechanical CADD,  Ashwin Boni Bangari won gold at both the Provincial and National Skills competition. 

On May 7-9, 2018, LDH had qualified to represent our region in Photography, Graphic Design and Studio Production.   In Graphic Design ‐ Presentation, Hannah Burgstaller finished 14th out of 23 school boards. In Photography, Sarah Mcintyre earned a 10th out of 41 competitors.   Wing Yan Chan finished an amazing 4th out of 26 Graphic Design ‐ Studio Production.

In 2017, Parnika Rajaghatta and Hailey Frizell finished second in the province to the eventual national champions in the TV Video competition and  Kim Le finished an impressive First in Graphic Design ‐ Studio Production and represented Ontario at the National Skills Canada competition in Winnipeg.  This was the first time that any OCDSB school finished First and Second in any technology sector.

First Robotics

Team 4783, the RoboRavens, is a high school robotics team based out of Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School (LDHSS) in Nepean, Ontario, a subdivision of Ottawa, Canada’s National Capital. Team 4783 competes in the  FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). The RoboRavens are composed of students, student mentors from local universities, and professional mentors from local industry.

Each year, FIRST releases a challenge in January, and the team must build a fully functioning robot before attending 2 District events.  At these competitions teams and their robot, along with their teamwork, are put to the test, as they play the game against and alongside other FRC teams, along with competing for awards to earn District Points which allow them to qualify for the Provincial and World Championships.

FIRST is more than just robots. Students on team 4783 learn valuable skills, strategy, critical thinking, and participate in community events to help build their presence and spread the values of FIRST.

Please visit our team page: https://roboravens.ca/

Please see Mr. Morrison for more details

Ravens Printing

Please see Mr. McMann for more details. This group produces large format posters and banners for the school community.  Proceeds from the sale of appeal support the purchase of new technology for the communications program and initiatives around the school.    

Ravens Video Production

Please see Mr. McMann for more details. This group produces multi-camera broadcast of events within the school. Events can be recorded or live-streamed. Some events are posted on our youtube channel.