{"id":324,"date":"2025-03-07T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/lehighvalley\/?p=324"},"modified":"2025-03-12T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:43:09","slug":"recap-54th-annual-lehigh-valley-aws-student-welding-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sections.aws.org\/lehighvalley\/2025\/03\/07\/recap-54th-annual-lehigh-valley-aws-student-welding-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: 54th Annual Lehigh Valley AWS Student Welding Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Date of Event:<\/strong> 03\/07\/2025<\/p> Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Lehigh Career & Technical Institute, Schnecksville PA<\/p> Number of Attendees:<\/strong> 16 Students, 5 Judges, 8 Instructors and 4 Admin<\/p> Event Summary:\u00a0<\/strong>16 students from 8 Career & Tech Ed Institutes participated in the 54th Annual AWS Student Welding Competition. The students were tasked with making several different projects. One project was a pressure vessel with a through plate. The project consisted of SMAW, GMAW, GTAW (stainless to carbon) and OFC. The students also had to complete a OFC project that consisted of washing\/gouging a welded pipe from the center, creating a bevel in a hard to reach area, as well as making several shapes and corner to corner cuts. The additional OFC project was the states Keystone which awards the winner a cutting outfit. The last project was an “AWS” aluminum sign consisting of staggered fillet welds which the students were able to keep. The competition ran from 8:30AM to 3:30PM with a working lunch. Hats off to all the student competitors in this challenging competition!!!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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