Timisoara has appointed its representative who will participate in the WorldSkills Fiber Optic Junction Competition at national level

On February 7, Timisoara designated its representative who will participate in the WorldSkills Fiber Optic Junction Competition at national level, in Bucharest on May 21-22, 2025. Congratulations David Cazacu!

The competition, popularly known as the Fiber Optic Olympiad, is organized at the second edition by AFOR and WorldSkills Romania and takes place this year in 8 technological high schools in the country. The first high school that started the journey this year is the Emanuil Ungureanu College in Timisoara, where 10 students from the tenth and eleventh grades competed. We thank the organizers for an exemplary performance: Mrs. Director Adina Daniela Mioc, Mrs. Professor Codruta Capatana and Mr. Professor Viorel Stoica-Dinyer. A remarkable contribution was made by Robert Balat, last year's former student of the college, who obtained the 3rd place in the country at the first edition and is part of the Romanian national team for preparing to participate in the WorldSkills Shanghai 2026 international competition on the Information Network Cabling job. Robert helped a lot in this year's training together with Florian Ciucă, the expert from Timisoara who trained the high school students last year. We thank Camusat for the support in this week's practical training of the participating students. The 3 members of the jury who evaluated the participating students were Florian Ciuca, Irina Nistor from Flex and Robert Balat.

We would like to thank all the partners and sponsors of this edition in Timisoara: Flex from Timisoara https://flex.com/careers/romania, a practice partner of the high school, which also owns a splicer for ribbon fiber optic cables, DIGI Romania, Orange Timisoara, Prysmian, TeraPlast, Jonard Tools, Celesta/Sumitomo, Interlan, CNDIPT Timisoara, Timis County School Inspectorate and obviously the Timisoara City Hall.

The other 7 participating high schools will also designate their representatives in March. We are glad to see an increase in the interest of students and teachers in this competition, as well as private companies.