UA Cossatot SCC welding team from the Nashville campus won 3rd place at the 2022 Weld-A-Thon competition held at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado on March 17th! The team comprised three 11th graders: Cristian Perez from Mineral Springs HS, Wren Washburn, and Tristan Ewing from Nashville HS. They won welding jackets, gloves, and glasses and brought home their fire pit. The fire pit is located in the welding building at the UA Cossatot campus in Nashville.

The team was assigned a blueprint and welding materials and two hours to build a custom fire pit. The project was judged based on efficiency, technique, quality, and teamwork. Their instructor, Stuart Dufrene, is very proud of their success, especially since many of the other competing teams were seniors who competed in last year’s competition. This year is also the second consecutive year that a UAC SCC welding team has placed in the top three, with the previous year’s group of 12th graders winning 1st place.

Perez, Washburn, and Ewing hope to compete again next year, and other SCC welding teams from UA Cossatot are encouraged to compete.