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Weekly Welding Roundup--Inspiration for Your Next Welding Project

Check out the big savings on bundled welding supplies and cutting edge welders and welding helmets at Baker’s Gas and Welding this holiday...

Weekly Welding Roundup - News in the Welding World

Welding has provided 25-year army veteran Kevin Burkman with the ideal creative outlet and job that he has needed after serving...

Weekly Welding Roundup–NASA, WWII, and Women in Welding

When the Saturn V rocket of the Apollo missions sent American astronauts into space, Margaret Brennecke played a critical role as a metallurgy researcher at NASA. Brennecke...

Weekly Welding Roundup–Young Welder Travels the World for Competitions

Welder Ryan Fincher, 21, of Cedartown, GA finished just short of winning the spot of U.S. representative for the WorldSkills welding competition three years ago. He then...

Weekly Welding Roundup – Welding News -Rig Welding Career?

Is rig welding for you? In a recent edition of the Fabricator, Jim Mosman writes that he has seen many of his former welding students...

Weekly Welding Roundup – Metallica Grants $10,000 to Grand Rapids Community College

The welding program at Grand Rapids Community College is among those that have benefitted from a $10,000 grant from the legendary heavy metal band Metallica. The college...

Weekly Welding Roundup – Welding Industry Poised for Growth

It’s impressive that Jonathan Flores, 24, has completed his welding program with a 4.0 average and is poised to...

Weekly Welding Roundup – News in the Welding World - Are robots the future of welding?

Inmates in a Western Kentucky prison are thriving in a welding program that is preparing them for careers and helping...

Weekly Welding Roundup– Take a Closer Look at Friction Welding

Kelli Gilliam often went against the normal expectations for her, playing trumpet when all of the girls in her class played flute. When her father asked her...

Welding Is Essential for Electric Vehicles

While Ron Standley, a construction manager, had long wanted to try out welding, his first time striking an arc happened because of a Father’s Day gift from...

Atlanta Based Non-Profit, Becoming a Welder Inc. Helps Women

Women only make up 5% of the welding workforce, but big changes are coming as the current welding workforce retires in larger numbers. Bria Sativa Aguayo, 43,...

600 Welding Students Compete in SkillsUSA Competition

More than 600 welding students attended the Minnesota SkillsUSA competition to compete in a variety of events, and students from Ridgewater College took home six gold medals....

Fun Tech Event Hosted by Technical Training Group

The annual Fun Tech event hosted by the Technical Training Group (TTG) in Stratford, Ontario. The event hosted elementary school students, ages 7-14, and allowed them to...

Wind Energy Leads to Growth in Welding Market

Welder Dan Wilson Sr. has been creating signs, fabricating metal frames, and welding small and large household items for residents of Salisbury, MA and beyond since 1974....

Kansas City Students Consider Welding Career

A growing number of high school students in the Kansas City area are considering welding careers due to a significant demand for welders in their region. Manufacturers...

From Cheerleading to Welding

Welding has proven to be a surprising but fulfilling career for many high school students, and Samantha Petrosino, 18, switched from the cheerleading squad and sports to...

Growing Welding Industry in Buffalo NY

Buffalo, NY has taken its first steps toward supplying additional welders for the growing welding industry that expects more than 17,000 job openings related to welding or...

Students Create Feeding System for Giraffes

When it’s time for the giraffes to eat at the Asheboro, N.C. Zoo, supervisors found that the current feeding system didn’t allow the zookeepers enough room to...

New Welding Shield Developed

A group of Montana high school students took welding classes over the past year and were then administered a welding certification test where four of the seven...

Welding: A Great Creative Outlet

Water patrol deputy Chris Guise spends his days patrolling the waters of his parish, going between wetlands and waterways, but in his off time, he spends hours...

High School Student Graduates from College Level Welding Course

High school student Sue Ellen M. Linn, 17, will be graduating from high school and a college-level welding program simultaneously. Linn took a series of dual credit...

Welding Students Help Local Police Department

The bomb squad at the Scranton, PA Police Department had a special request for the Johnson College Welding Training Center. Students were asked to build heavy duty...