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2019 Mid-Atlantic Apprentice Contest

(Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC)
By: Janet Piechocki

Colton Houston, a 2016 graduate of The Hobart Institute of Welding
Technology won frst place at the Mid-Atlantic apprentice contest
for UA Plumbers & Pipeftters Local 10. The contest was held May
16, 2019 in Baltimore, MD at UA Local 486 Training School. Colton
will advance to the next round that will be held in Detroit in a couple
weeks. Hobart Institute would like to congratulate Colton on his win
and Business Manager, Steve Martin for his support and guidance.

Learning about Goods and Services

By: April Wise
I had the pleasure of speaking to many
second grade students at Demmitt
Elementary in Vandalia OH on January
29, 2019. I attended a Goods and
Services event where many people
came in and had the opportunity to talk
to the students about what they did
for a living and whether or not their
profession was a good or a service
to the community. I presented to two
individual classes and every student
was fully engaged, asking many really
good questions. The best one was what
was my age when I frst started my
welding career 5 years ago? Then they
all had to answer to the teacher what
my current age is. Several students had
knowledge of welding and a pretty good idea what it was because of their parents either working in the welding industry or doing it for a
hobby. We talked about how welding is a huge service for the industries in many ways, as well as my background in welding and all the
ways to weld. I showed them welding pieces of GTAW and GMAW on mild steel, aluminum and stainless. A lot of the students said that
the SMAW electrodes looked like a pencil. Having no homework while in a program at HIWT was the best thing they liked to hear. I think I
may have recruited a future police offcer and a YouTube star who now want to attend HIWT when they graduate in 2031.

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