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and your hands, and have fun while making some sparks!” said Neil. “You might
find that you will want to continue building things out of metal and make them come
together using the thing we call welding.”
Welding is the latest in a new group of career-oriented merit badges offered by the
BSA. Scouts interested in learning more about the welding merit badge and those in
the welding industry who are interested in serving as merit badge counselors can learn
more by visiting www.aws.org/weldingbadge.

About AWS
The American Welding Society (AWS) was founded in 1919 as a multifaceted, nonprofit organization with
a mission to advance the science, technology and application of welding and allied joining and cutting
processes including brazing, soldering, and thermal spraying. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, and led
by a volunteer organization of officers and directors, AWS serves more than 69,000 members worldwide and
is composed of22 Districts with 250 Sections and student chapters.
About the Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America provides the nation’s foremost youth program of character development and
values-based leadership training, which helps young people be “Prepared. For Life.™” The Scouting
organization comprises 2.7 million youth members between the ages of 7 and 21 and more than a
million volunteers in local councils throughout the USA.

About Assabet Valley RTHS
Assabet Valley Regional Technical High School (AVRTHS), located in Marlborough, Massachusetts, is a four-year program that provides academic and
technical courses as well as an evening program. Neil Mansfield, AWS-CWI/CWE, is AVRTHS Metal Fabrication instructor, metal artist, a graduate of Hobart
Institute of Welding Technology, a retired US Navy Chief, a New York City third-generation Ironworker, and was a welder at General Dynamics Electric Boat.

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