12 competition skills / 0 training providers / Free to enter / Skills Show open to schools / Judged the way the world judges / 12 competition skills / 0 training providers / Free to enter / Skills Show open to schools / Judged the way the world judges /
12Skills contested at the National Skills Competition
8Divisional heats, so nobody travels the length of the country
12,400+Young people who have competed since 2014
29%Of last year’s competitors were women
Six sectors, thirty skills
Pick a sector to see what is contested and what the judges look for.

Construction and Building Technology
The trades that put up and finish a building, from the first brick to the last…
Creative Arts and Fashion
Design skills where the judges look at taste and finish as closely as technique.
Information and Communication Technology
Software, networks and security — the fastest growing group of skills in Bangladesh.
Manufacturing and Engineering Technology
Making things to tolerance: machining, welding, automation and control.
Social and Personal Services
Hospitality, beauty and care, judged on consistency under time pressure.
Transportation and Logistics
Keeping vehicles and freight moving, safely and on schedule.How you get from your workshop to the national stage
Four steps. The whole route takes about a year.
Step one
Register
Enter online with your institute or on your own. No entry fee.
Step two
Divisional heat
One judged day in your own division, on the same test project as everyone else.
Step three
National competition
Top three per skill per division come to Dhaka for three or four judged days.
Step four
The squad
Medallists train with the national squad and go to selection trials.
Champions
Where some of our recent medallists are now.
Training providers
The institutes who enter competitors and host the heats.
Skill News, once a month
Dates, results, open volunteer roles and what the squad is working on. One email, no more than that.
