Date: December 1, 2022Location: Georgia Trade School – Acworth, GA Held our 2nd student welding scholarship competition. 3 schools GA. TRADE, FORTIS TECHNICAL COLLEGE AND LANIER TECHNICAL COLLEGE (DAWSONVILLE CAMPUS). INDUSTRY supporters AIRGAS and METAL SUPERMAKETS (MARIETTA) attended to talk to students not competing. CWI MIKE HYDE and CHASE SWEADA judged projects. Raffled off a…
April 22, 2022 – PAUL DUKE STEM HIGH SCHOOL; NORCROSS, GA. DD5 DARYL PETERSON presented this high school with the $15,000 MILLER LIGHT A SPARK GRANT. The engineering & technology program is starting a welding program to fabricate electric race cars with roll cages. The program has 40 students registered and all 40 students came…
April 16, 2022 – Mercedes Benz Stadium; Atlanta, GA Members were invited to a soccer game to meet other members and raise money for our local section scholarships.
March 23, 2022 – Central GA, Technical College Robert presented a membership presentation, he also discussed scholarships. Robert also discussed forming a student chapter for this college which has 3 campuses.Robert raffled off an electric helmet. Jeramy Wright Instructor, Andrew Bockholt Student Winner, Robert Trudelle
February 11, 2022 – ATLANTA, GA MTI hosted a student welding competition at their facility . Students competed in pipe welding and fabrication . 9 area high schools attended for a career day . ALCOVY HS, BARTOW CTY. COLLEGE & CAREER ACADEMY ,EASTSIDE HS, FULTON CTY. COLLEGE & CAREER ACADEMY , COVINGTON HS, NORTH COBB…
February 8, 2022 – West Georgia Technical College; LaGrange, GA Campus Robert presented the college with their banner for an AWS workforce grant awarded to them for the amount of $13,374.55 . This grant is used for upgrading their equipment and lab. From L-R front : Adjunct instructor ROB GREISE, President DR. JULIE POST, Instructor…
December 10, 2021 – Southern Cresent Technical College; Thomaston, GA Held a 3rd Student Welding Scholarship Competition after another section passed this scholarship on to our section. 7 students competed. Used SMAW welding process with 4 different positions. Our district direction and 3 union members attended. Daryl brought 3 union members from Florida with him…
December 10, 2021 – Central Maintenance and Welding; Lithia, FL Ilya Gekhman presented the Freshbooks software to the Atlanta, Florida West Coast, and Orlando Sections. During this presentation, the Ilya helped the sections import their past accounting transactions and further trained the section treasurers on how powerful and advantageous web based accounting software for section…
November 6, 2021 – Hardy Chevrolet; Dallas, GAAttendance: 125 Xcel travels around the US promoting welding by having welding competitions in local communities. They had local high schools and technical colleges compete. They also had professional teams compete. The teams fabricated their projects at their schools and brought the projects to the competition to be…