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Using Business & Community Partnerships to Reenergize a Welding Program

Using Business & Community Partnerships to Reenergize a Welding Program. Concordia Junior-Senior High School Bryce Wachs, Asst. Principal/CTE Dir. Quentin Breese, Principal. Our CTE Program. Board & Superintendent believe and support CTE 11 Approved Pathways Agriculture Science

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Using Business & Community Partnerships to Reenergize a Welding Program

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  1. Using Business & Community Partnerships to Reenergize a Welding Program Concordia Junior-Senior High School Bryce Wachs, Asst. Principal/CTE Dir. Quentin Breese, Principal

  2. Our CTE Program • Board & Superintendent believe and support CTE • 11 Approved Pathways • Agriculture Science • Plant Systems • Power, Structural & Technical Systems • Construction • Design & Pre-Construction • AV Communications • 4 Approved Prior to this year • Certificates • CNA • AWS D1.1 1G • Cloud County Community College Partnership • Business Entrepreneurship • Business Finance • Restaurant & Event Management • Family & Community Services • Production

  3. Welding: Where we started • Agriculture Welding • Teaching welding for agriculture or personal use • We were not offering a program to get students ready to enter the workforce • Equipment • 5 GMAW Machines (non industry type machine) • 2 Oxy Fuel units • 20 Arch Welding Stations • Located in Auto Shop

  4. Economic Development Contact • CloudCorp • Cloud County Economic Development • 1 year ago started dialogue with ONE GOAL, bring a welding program to our community • With 1 Requirement the program had to get students American Welding Society Certified (Certified Welder)

  5. “It’s a great time to be a welder. Thanks to a global boom in industrial manufacturing, skilled welders are in greater demand than ever. Companies can’t find enough of them. Wall Street Journal Why the Need? • Welding plays a key role in manufacturing, almost everything is welded! • Manufacturing Challenge • There are more the 500,000 welders working in US.* • The average age of welders in today’s workforce is 54.* • It is estimated that there will be a shortage of more than 200,000 welders by 2010.* • This year, 50,000 welders will leave the industry while only 25,000 students begin their welding education.* • Local Needs 27 welding openings summer of 2011 *www.aws.org

  6. Local Manufacturing • Alstom • Gerard Tank & Steel • Sunflower Manufacturing • ReinkeManufacturing Company • Smaller Shops

  7. Reinke Manufacturing • CloudCorp and Reinke started discussion about a welding program • Currently Reinke has worked with 3 other high schools • The program needed: • Instructor- certified or willing to get certified • Facility • Adult education opportunity with Community College • We could meet all their needs!

  8. GMAC Welding Set-up Tour of Facilities • Visited three school facilities • Republic County High School • Fillmore Central High School (Nebraska) • Deshler High School (Nebraska) • Visited Reinke Manufacturing • This gave us ideas for our Plans Oxy Booth Set-up Gas Supply Set-up

  9. Develop Floor Plans

  10. Electrical Modifications • Needed 480v 3 Phase service, CTE building only had 240v 3 Phase service • Meeting with City inspector • Electrical Engineer Designed (required to meet city building code) • Prairie Land Electric installed three 480v transformers on new poles along with placing the new service on our existing meter • Installed a 480v service panel in CTE Building; installed grounding and bonding to the CTE Building • Installed electrical service to eight new welding booths

  11. GMAW Booths • All Metal Donated and Cut by Alstom • Design was for a student and instructor to work inside one booth • Blueprints from Reinke, assembled by our students

  12. Oxy Fuel Booths • All Metal Donated and Cut by Reinke • Design was for a student and instructor to work inside one booth • Designed by our instructor, assembled by our students

  13. Airgas • Current Distributer • Plumbing • GMAW booths with drops • Oxy Fuel Stations Lincoln Welders Alstom uses Lincoln Leased Machines Change out every 6 months Installed and set-up Connect to iPad for CheckPoint and Production Monitoring

  14. Manufacturing Pathway • Program currently is part of: • Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources-Power, Structural, & Technical Systems • Agriculture Welding I,II, III, IV • Dialogue with Industry • Design program for what local industry needs • Manufacturing terminology needed • Agriculture titles removed • Process of Pathway Approval • Manufacturing- Production • Introduction to Industrial Technology • Blue Print Reading • Introduction Welding • Manufacturing Process • Production Welding I • Production Welding II

  15. CCCC • Cloud County Community College • Offer Production Welding Classes for College Credit • Night Adult Education Courses • Reinke will send employees for training courses • Working together to start Welding Program Alignment Certificate A • New courses would then be added • Our instructor will teach some of these night courses

  16. Summary of Project Airgas • Plumbed GMAW Booths • Plumber Oxy Fuel Booths Lincoln Welders • Provided machines • Course Materials Cloud Corp Cloud County Community College • College Credit • Adult Education Concordia Tractor Incorporated • Paint for Booths • USD 333 • Electrical Engineer • Electrical Upgrades • Spartan Ironworker • Certified Instructor • ReinkeManufacturing • Metal for Oxy Fuel Booths • Deliver Scrap metal for instruction • Test our students after course completion • Alstom • Metal for GMAW Booths • Deliver Scrap metal for instruction • Prairie Land Electric • Installed Transformers

  17. Contact Information • Bryce Wachs, Asst. Principal/CTE Dir. • bwachs@usd333.com • Quentin Breese, Principal • qbreese@usd333.com • Andy Massing, Instructor • amassing@usd333.com

  18. THANKS FOR MAKING THIS PROJECT A REALITY

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