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Date of Event:<\/strong> 01\/16\/2025<\/p>

Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Vance-Granville Community College – Louisburg, NC Campus<\/p>

Number of Attendees:<\/strong> 14<\/p>

Event Summary:\u00a0<\/strong>This section meeting took place at Vance-Granville Community College in Louisburg, NC. Welding Program Director, Luke Gravel, spoke to the group about their welding program, recent changes, upcoming expansion, and plans for the future. Several former VGCC welding program alumni were in attendance and shared about their experience while in the program and how it helped them in their careers. Several of them have since become AWS CWI’s.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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