Fresno City College Welding and Fabrication

We are very happy for our two teams competing in in the Welding League and Advanced Manufacturing competitions. The Welding League students made it through the first round after building their F4 Corsair. They are currently working on the next project that's due later this month. Hopefully they do well enough to move to round 3. The Advanced Manufacturing team was just notified that they will be heading to Las Vegas in March to compete in the regionals. There are 16 teams competing in the regionals and 4 move on to the national finals for the Advanced Manufacturing competition. We wish everyone competing for the best as they compete for a national championship.

We finally opened up the crate to our Dragon A400. It's been in storage for a little over a year. We have it in which hopefully will be our new Fabrication and automation shop. Hopefully we can get power to it and our Power max 85 with sync technology sometime before 2025. Our students can't wait to use it for their projects.

Wrapping up day 2 of round 1 of the second annual Ram Weld Camp. This year we were able to bring in James Mosman and Ben Bradbury from to do some training on STT and Precision Pulse. Students and faculty were also able to visit two local companies for industry tours at and .After the tours yesterday students had opportunities to do some carbon arc gouging, running educational cells and CRX cobots as well as see demonstrations on 6G sanitary stainless and 3G D1.1 with NR233. We start our second round tomorrow. I would like to thank all of our sponsors.

Congratulations to all of the students who earned their qualifications this semester. Between our Weld 4A, 4B and 3B courses 20 qualifications were earned. Students in 4A qualified in Structural Steel in 3G and 4G SMAW and FCAW-S, 4B did 6G pipe in API 1105 or ASME section IX, and 3B did 6G 2" sanitary stainless fusion.

The club held their monthly meeting yesterday with guest speakers from our plumbers, Pipefitters and steamfitters union. They spoke about the great opportunities at their union and went through the steps to becoming a union member along with the wages and benefits that come along with being a Local 246 member. Thanks Robert and Brandon for taking time out of their day to talk to our students and staff.

Come join us tomorrow for our monthly meeting. We have a guest speaker coming from the Local 246 Plumbers and Pipefitters Union to talk about their union and trade. We look forward to hearing from them.

What a great event! Thanks to all of the schools that participated. Thanks also to and for the prizes! Fifth place Miramonte Bakersfield, fourth place Madera Liberty, Third place second place was Bakersfield Foothill, and first place was Kingsburg. Great job!

The second annual fabrication contest is on its way. We have schools from Bakersfield to Placer participating today. This year's theme is welding cart. Teams have 6 hours to fabricate their projects.

The competition is drawing to an end. These students put in over 8 hours fabricating the bbq's. We'll let you know the winner later on.

What a great afternoon at Chukchansi Park. There are over a dozen local high schools competing in a welding fabrication contest. They were given a set of plans to build a Santa Maria style bbq and have 6 hours to complete it. These students are part of the future of the trades industry! I'll update you later today when they get closer to finishing.

What a great event last night for the . hosted the inaugural Jessi Combs Gala in Parker Colorado. There were about 200 people in attendance there to support this great foundation so they can help more young ladies who want to make their mark in the career technical trades industry. The foundation also recognized some of their scholarship winners including recipient Paige Camacho. Jessi was a great advocate for young women trying to make their way into the trades industry and I want to thank the foundation for helping keep her dream alive!

The FCC Welding Club is having their monthly meeting this Thursday 10/5/23 in room T-107 at 3:30 pm. Please come be a part of this new club where they are going to be planning activities and fundraisers.