A Normal Day in the Welding Class
by Drue M.
I am a senior at
Earlville High School and this is my second year in the Welding
class. I was asked to go to Yorkville recently and give a
presentation to their 5th graders about the Welding class
at IVVC. Some of the things I have learned include TIG, MIG,
stick, and oxy fuel welding and I am pretty good at all of them. I
told the students at Yorkville about a basic day in the Welding
class.
Your day starts as you get on the bus at your high school and go to
IVVC. In the Welding classroom, you put on your gear (such as
safety glasses, boots, cotton pants, gloves and your welding
jacket). You go out into the shop and get to work. We work on high
performance racing oil pans, trailers, go carts, gas tanks, snow
plows, pipes, and horseshoes to name a few. There are things
you need to get done such as plates, a tee weld, butt, lap, open
corner, vertical, horizontal and flat.
When break time rolls around at 10:00 a.m., we have food cart. There is a lot of good things on it such as pizza and breadsticks. After 10 minutes, it is time to get back out in the shop and back to work. The Welding class is like a job, you need to show up, work hard all the time and put a 100% into every project.
