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HIWT Holds Collaborate To Educate Event

By Melinda Jeffery

Collaborate to Educate is an annual event held by Hobart Institute
of Welding Technology to allow a forum where welding instructors
and other welding professionals come together to discuss best
practices, challenges, and changes in the education as well as to
hear speakers from the welding industry. This year’s event was
held on June 27 and 28, 2017. Twenty instructors and education
professionals attended the event. Instructor speakers were Brian

for scholarships to be given to the winning schools students and
applied toward tuition to attend HIWT. This year’s winners were:
Phil Bedel from Whitewater Career Center - $350, Lora James from
Benjamin Logan FFA - $800 and Tom Younts from Southeastern High
School - $550.
Mikesell from Kokomo School Corporation
in Kokomo, Indiana, Bill Pencil from Tolles
Career and Technical Center in Plain City,
OH and Phil Bedel of Whitewater Career
Centers in Connersville, IN. They discussed
various ways in which they run their welding
programs, how to deal with challenges in
the classroom and shared success stories
concerning their students. Additionally,
speakers from the welding gas industry,
air movement systems and the American
Welding Society shared industry specific
topics related to welding. A presentation
was also given addressing interview
techniques and soft skills to assist students
in their career endeavors. The Collaborate
to Educate event allows instructors to earn
continuing education units that they are
required to achieve as well as returning fifty
percent of the attendance proceeds back to
the attending schools in the form of a raffle

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