Page 16 - HIWT Summer 2016 World of Welding

Assabet Valley Vocational Metal Fabrication And Welding Students Bring Fire

And Sparks To Boy Scouts

When you see flowers beginning to pop up everywhere, and the
daylight grows longer and the clocks have moved, the snow has
disappeared, street are filled with sounds of motorcycles passing by
and groups of cyclists whizzing by, its’ that time of year for Assabet
students to show boy scouts how to weld, cut, shape, and forge
steel into functional shapes.

It all begins with a early start 7:30 am on a Saturday and ends 4:30
PM certainly a full day of learning, working, and exploring metals
for scouts. Over twenty Assabet and JROTC cadets volunteered
their time to teach young boy scout of troop 103 Boylston,
Massachusetts how to weld and work safety around all sorts of
metals to earn their boy scout merit badges 1. BSA welding badge
2. BSA Metal working badge .

Also, a group of MCJROTC cadets (Marine Corps Cadets)
demonstrated proper folding of the US Flag, brief history of the
American flag, how to dispose properly of an American flag, how
distress calls are used by an American flag onboard ship and land,
and what the American flag means to boy scouts , armed forces
veterans, and citizens of our country.

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