When Mitchell Technical College student Blaine Simantel traveled to Atlanta for the SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference, he hoped to perform well against the ...

Feb. 8—This week's SkillsUSA welding competition that wrapped up Thursday in Joplin was not only a contest for students to show mastery of the skill but also their first step into a career. SkillsUSA ...

Alex Franco, left, and Elijah Chisholm are seniors at Breckenridge High School who also take dual credit classes at Texas State Technical College’s Breckenridge campus. The students were part of a ...

For the fifth year in a row, students from Maple Mountain High School’s SkillsUSA club will be competing in the national welding fabrication competition. But in order to fund the trip, the students ...

Industry leaders and the education sector could be doing more to promote welding as a rewarding career path for young people and more collaboration is urgently needed to prevent a skills shortage in ...

SAN PEDRO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With sparks flying at a series of workstations, dozens of Harbor area teens demonstrated new skills in welding and construction thanks to their participation in an ...

When the mask comes down, a welder is in another world, a place of thick darkness broken almost immediately by the spark of a torch that quickly heats up like a tiny star to about 10,000 degrees. With ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — At the Cook County Department of Corrections, change is being created through new opportunities for detainees to learn new skills, including a welding class about a week from ...

Consuelo Poland was the only woman and the only woman of color in her class when she got a welding certificate seven years ago in Michigan. And other than the hands-on instruction on how to use ...

Mandla Makhubela of Bazil Technologies emerged as the overall winner, receiving additional R5,000, high-tech welding tools, and a VIP ticket to SAIW’s annual Gala Awards dinner. Makhubela also won the ...

At Harper College, Katsiaryna Piatsevich is pursuing an unlikely duo of credentials in welding and fashion. Her latest achievement: Watching her garments walk the runway at a Rome fashion show.

During the construction of Standard Gauge Railway, it emerged that the Chinese contractor needed to import labour for welding because such skills were not available locally. This same scenario also ...