Page 9 - HIWT Summer 2018 World of Welding

Hobart Institute Holds Collaborate to Educate Event
By: Calvin Scharrer

This year was the 5 annual Collaborate to Educate (CTE) held at could assemble the desired workpiece with aluminum or steel and
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Hobart Institute of Welding Technology. The Collaborate to Educate Gas Tungsten Arc Welding.
is an educational event for the instructors from all around the US to
be educated on the changes, challenges, and procedures in welding In addition, there were many presentations over the two day
education and the welding industry. This years event brought collaboration from instructors in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana.
twenty-four instructors and business professionals from 8 different The presentations focused on their programs and how they teach
states. to their students to help make them successful individuals with
careers in welding. Some of the other presentations from business
The school was excited for this years CTE as a new project was professionals covered the Skills Gap in America, Sheet Metal
added to the agenda - WELDING! We thought we would add some Unions, and how to save money with Consumables and Gases. The
new and exciting events to this years CTE, stated Calvin Scharrer, event offered an informational tour through Hobart Brothers Filler
Marketing and Career Development Representative. We wanted Metal plant to see the inner workings of how welding products are
to not only gain new insights on the ever changing welding feld made. Lastly, the school raffed scholarships to be taken back to
from our instructors and business professionals, but also allow the respective schools students for them to use to attend Hobart
the instructors the chance to weld and hone in on some welding Institute. Scholarship winners were: Ohio Hi Point Career Center,
skills. The project allowed the instructors to see what it is like as OH - $250, Montcalm Career Center, MI - $375 and Belmont High
a Hobart Institute student, and get a chance to weld here like some School, IN - $675.
of the students that attend the school. The instructors were given
a challenging blueprint project for them to fabricate and see who Next years event will be held June 18 19, 2019.

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