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Welding Students Create Thunder

Calvin Scharrer, part of the Hobart
Institute of Welding Technology’s
Marketing and Career Development
team, attended the 2016 Welding
without Borders which was held in
Las Vegas at the annual FABTECH
welding convention.

The Welding without Borders is a
philanthropic organization which
allows students of all ages from
High School to College, to compete
using their welding skills learned
at their local facilities throughout
the Northern Arizona, Southern
California, and Southern Nevada.

The competition was held during
the few days that FABTECH was in
Las Vegas. The students were given
blueprints of the items they were
to fabricate throughout the two day
competition. There were 17 schools
who traveled from the different
states to compete and show their skills. This year’s prints were to are interested in having your own philanthropic Welding without
fabricate a grill/griddle and then cook food to be judged as well Borders you can contact Samuel Colton from Western Community
as be creative with their piece of art they were fabricating. If you College in Yuma, Arizona.

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