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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...

Logan Utah Gets New Welded Arch Downtown

The welding project for the Center Street arch was funded by members of the community, and it will be unveiled as part of...

Sakgit Valley College Weld Club

The welding club, led Mary Kuebelbeck, a welding instructor at SVC, partnered with the city to fabricate a geese sculpture for the city...

Weekly Welding Roundup--Preparing Students For Welding Work

Even though welding apprentice Levi Jones worked four ten-hour days at the Plumbers and Steamfitters Local Union 157, he wasn’t...

Weekly Welding Roundup–$135,000 Donation Provide 18 Brand New Machines to Students

When Consolidated Precision Products looked for trained welders for their Selmet factory in Oregon, they saw a need for new welding machines at Linn-Benton Community College. In...

Back to Welding School: Top Welding Gear for Students

It’s back to school season, and for thousands of welding students and welding programs, it’s back to welding school season! While a welding program provides...

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–Women Welder Gives Back to Community

Welder and artist Melissa Gillespie Davis turned to welding as a career nearly 20 years ago because it didn’t require extensive schooling, paid a good wage, and...

Weekly Welding Roundup–A Passion for Creative Welding

Josie Hunter took a welding class in high school purely by chance, but it didn’t take long for her to realize that she had stumbled onto a...

Weekly Welding Roundup–Craft Beer and Welding? Inspectors Help Brewery with TIG Welds

If you love craft beer, thank a welder! Welding inspectors Matt Young and Keanan Janus had been inspecting the stainless steel welds at a brewery when they...

Weekly Welding Roundup–Welding Jobs and Training News

Spokane, Oregon’s beloved artist and educator, sister Paula Mary Turnbull, has passed away after spending years creating iconic welding artwork around town and educating visitors to her...

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...

SkillsUSA National Championship in Louisville KY

The SkillsUSA National Championship in Louisville, KY draws trade and welding students from all over America, including SUN Tech welding graduate Erin Beaver. Beaver is making her...

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,...

Welding Career Tips with Instructor John Hill of Frederick Community College

Each month we hope to feature a brief interview with a welding instructor at a community college, trade school, or high school in order to answer questions...

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....

Welding Serves as Both a Hobby and a Career

Welder Morgan Bledsoe gave welding a shot when she wanted to learn about repairing her car, but while enrolled in a welding class, she learned that metal...

Military Veteran Recruits Women to Weld

A military veteran and now welding shop co-owner, Chanda Maldonado is busy recruiting more women to get involved in welding in Chattanooga, TN. She pitches a welding...

NASA Trained Welder Started in Late 1960s

Welding instructor Becky Lorenz started her welding career in the late 1960’s with a sit-down strike to be allowed into the welding program, but she hasn’t spent...