Saline Welders earn Top Placers at WCC Contest
Jan 29th, 2010 by Scot Graden
The following Saline High School students took top honors in Washtenaw Community College 22nd Annual Welding Contest Invitational hosted on Friday, January 29, 2010
From left:
Brent Clink – 3rd place, Advanced OxyAcetylene Welding
Ryan Mickevicius – 2nd place, Advanced Gas Tungsten Arc Welding
Josh Newell – 1st place, Beginning OxyAcetylene Welding
Evan Pazkowski – 2nd place, Shielded Metal Arc Welding
Students from 7 other area schools attended the event with approximately 90 students in attendance. Students were awarded welding prizes for there efforts, which consisted of reading a technical print and assembling a finished weldment in 30 minutes. Beginning students were allowed to weld in the flat position and advanced students were required to weld in the vertical position.
The students and faculty are looking forward to the Skills USA contest, a nationally recognized professional student organization that allows CTE (Career and Technical Education) students to test there mettle against students from around the entire state of Michigan. The Skills USA contest regionals will be hosted at WCC at the end of February. Our students will be ready to prove themselves at that contest, which carries them to State and National levels of competition if they do well. Great Job SWWC Welders!