Date of Event: 02/05/2025
Location: Edgecombe Community College, Tarboro NC
Number of Attendees: 12
Presenter/Notable Guest(s): Mark Sapp, guest speaker
Event Summary: Edgecombe Community College Recruitment meeting Minutes
5:50 – Mark Sapp begins the meeting by asking the Edgecombe instructor about the classes he offers and roughly how many students are in their program.
6:00 – The meeting officially begins and Mark Sapp starts with an introduction about himself, his career, as well as all of the many AWS committees he is apart of. He continues to talk about the history of welding and the AWS, as well as the website he runs and the book he is currently writing, dinner has been served by this time.
6:30 – Mark begins telling the students about the benefits of AWS, and about all of the scholarships they can receive by being an AWS member, he also talks about how welders can become CWI’s through the AWS and why they should consider it.
7:05 – Sapp talks about a welding hood he found while at Fabtech, he passes around flyers that show a hood with a built-in camera.
7:15 – The meeting is wrapped up with presenting the intsturctor of Edgecombe community college an AWS coffee mug, as well as a raffle for the students to receive multiple welding related prizes.
7:20 – A tour of the shop was given as well as a group photo taken
7:40 – Meeting was concluded
