The Dual Enrollment Welding Academy, now in its first year as a program, has attracted students from many area school districts to give them a 10-credit head start toward a 34-credit technical diploma in welding from WITC.
“These students will do about 80 hours of shield and metal welding. They will run a lot of rod,” said New Richmond High School teacher and welding academy instructor Tom Leque.
“We are going to go through about 4,000 pounds of 3/16th mild steel. The students do about 15 hours of classroom and then are also getting 10 hours of OSHA 10 certification. These kids will be pretty marketable when they graduate and be able to go right out into the workforce after tech school.”