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Speaker 1: One trader who's just eighteen and apprentice cable jointer with

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Speaker 1: EA Networks is TFRC. That means that she's the one

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Speaker 1: who helps fix up the stuff under the ground. You

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Speaker 1: may have spotted in the paper a few weeks back

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Speaker 1: that she competed for the first time and something called

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Speaker 1: the National Connection, which is a competition now old in

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Speaker 1: christ Church. More than one hundred of the top lines

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Speaker 1: people and jointers from around New Zealand together to celebrate

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Speaker 1: and put their skills to the test. You need to

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Speaker 1: be nominated for this and this year record number of

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Speaker 1: women were taking parts. Tea was one of them, competing

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Speaker 1: in the new Trainee cable jointing section, which was a

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Speaker 1: first for both her and the competition, and she won.

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Speaker 1: Had to do an eleven kV repair joints, which is

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Speaker 1: high voltage. That's the heavy duty stuff.

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Speaker 2: The bigger cables that are supplying the higher voltages, so

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Speaker 2: like eleven thousand volts they could kill you. Many voltages

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Speaker 2: could carry casual so just like a normal town's so

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Speaker 2: like just into your house is two thirty four hundred

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Speaker 2: volts for example, so you can imagine eleven thousand volts

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Speaker 2: is a lot bigger in comparison to that, No, exactly,

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Speaker 2: And so it's the sort of thing that for a

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Speaker 2: repair joint, you just want to cut out the damage

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Speaker 2: and then.

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Speaker 1: Join it back together. Is it welding involved?

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Speaker 2: Not really, No, no, sir. We join them together with

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Speaker 2: what we're using air. I know lots of places use

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Speaker 2: different things, but we use like shear off connectors. There's

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Speaker 2: a hole in each end and then you put the conductor,

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Speaker 2: so like if it's alley or copper, you put them

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Speaker 2: in either end and then you shear them off together

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Speaker 2: so they are joined it all the way.

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Speaker 1: Through like a cryptal, Yeah, like a crymptalo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we use crimps as well. Yeah. Yeah. So I

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Speaker 2: had never done it, never seen it before, haven't done

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Speaker 2: a whole lot of HV working because I was told

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Speaker 2: by John O, the Cable going a trainer that it

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Speaker 2: was going to be based off of our second and

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Speaker 2: third module, which is like our courses to show that

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Speaker 2: we're learning what we should be learning about cable joining.

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Speaker 2: And we've only done LV so far, and so when

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Speaker 2: we had to do an HV joint, I was like, okay.

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Speaker 1: What is that?

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Speaker 2: What is ditch up right? I was completely unprepared and

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Speaker 2: I was like, that's fine, what ever, guess.

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Speaker 1: We'll do that. Well, you seem to have such a cool,

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Speaker 1: calm and measured demeanor, which obviously helped because you won

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Speaker 1: the thing, right.

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Speaker 2: I definitely think that helped me a lot, because I'm

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Speaker 2: absolutely a very cruisy person. I was not nervous. I

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Speaker 2: wasn't worried. It was the sort of thing. I'm there

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Speaker 2: for the experience. I'm going to make the most of it.

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Speaker 2: I don't care if I win or lose. It's just

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Speaker 2: a nice, nice thing that I did.

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Speaker 1: I suppose what do you get for winning?

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Speaker 2: I got this very cool new trophy, which is big G,

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Speaker 2: which is one of the older cable joiners. I think

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Speaker 2: it was one of the first, one of the trainers,

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Speaker 2: I believe, his old hack knife that they'd sort of

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Speaker 2: glued onto a piece of rock. It looks real cool.

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Speaker 2: And then I got a certificate. And then I got

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Speaker 2: a forty vault impact read rattle that worth about nine

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Speaker 2: hundred dollars from Thekita.

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Speaker 1: I bet you think that's awesome. I sit there going Okay,