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Welding Rodeo 2008

It is mid-May and time for the annual Bellingham Technical College Welding Rodeo. The school is also celebrating their 50th Anniversary so they put on quite the show. Tomorrow promises to be even better. I am taking my Dad out to see it as he used to be quite at home in a machine shop. Today was the amateur teams, tomorrow will be professional welders. The idea is that at 8:30, teams will paw through a yard full of scrap metal, take what they want back to their work area and start welding. The theme this year is motion. The school also has an awesome Culinary Arts program which catered the event:

A team of students from our local high school was in the competition: More art:

This is the scrap yard that people got to pick through: When I took welding classes here three years ago, the old building was cramped and dirty. The welding booths were very small with poor ventilation. The new shop is wonderful:

And all the while, there was a delightful Marimba Band playing: Like I said, I will be back there tomorrow, spending more time and taking some more pictures. A fun day! Posted by DaveH at May 16, 2008 10:03 PM