Concordia Junior-Senior High School

Bryce Wachs, Asst. Principal/CTE Dir.

Quentin Breese, Principal

Using Business & Community Partnerships to Reenergize a Welding Program

• Board & Superintendent believe and support CTE

• 11 Approved Pathways• Agriculture Science• Plant Systems• Power, Structural & Technical Systems• Construction • Design & Pre-Construction• AV Communications

• 4 Approved Prior to this year• Certificates• CNA• AWS D1.1 1G

• Cloud County Community College Partnership

Our CTE Program

• Business Entrepreneurship• Business Finance• Restaurant & Event

Management• Family & Community

Services• Production

• Agriculture Welding • Teaching welding for agriculture or

personal use• We were not offering a program to get

students ready to enter the workforce• Equipment• 5 GMAW Machines (non industry type

machine)• 2 Oxy Fuel units• 20 Arch Welding Stations• Located in Auto Shop

Welding: Where we started

• CloudCorp• Cloud County Economic

Development• 1 year ago started dialogue

with ONE GOAL, bring a welding program to our community

• With 1 Requirement the program had to get students American Welding Society Certified (Certified Welder)

Economic Development Contact

“It’s a great time to be a welder. Thanks to a global boom in

industrial manufacturing, skilled welders are in greater demand than ever. Companies can’t find enough

of them.Wall Street Journal• Welding plays a key role in manufacturing, almost

everything is welded!• Manufacturing Challenge• There are more the 500,000 welders working in US.*• The average age of welders in today’s workforce is 54.*• It is estimated that there will be a shortage of more than 200,000

welders by 2010.*• This year, 50,000 welders will leave the industry while only 25,000

students begin their welding education.*• Local Needs 27 welding openings summer of 2011

*www.aws.org

Why the Need?

• Alstom• Gerard Tank & Steel• Sunflower Manufacturing• Reinke Manufacturing Company• Smaller Shops

Local Manufacturing

• CloudCorp and Reinke started discussion about a welding program

• Currently Reinke has worked with 3 other high schools

• The program needed:• Instructor- certified or willing to get

certified• Facility• Adult education opportunity with

Community College• We could meet all their needs!

Reinke Manufacturing

• Visited three school facilities• Republic County High

School• Fillmore Central High

School (Nebraska)• Deshler High School

(Nebraska)• Visited Reinke

Manufacturing• This gave us ideas for

our Plans

Tour of FacilitiesGMAC Welding Set-up

Oxy Booth Set-up

Gas Supply Set-up

Develop Floor Plans

• Needed 480v 3 Phase service, CTE building only had 240v 3 Phase service

• Meeting with City inspector• Electrical Engineer Designed (required

to meet city building code)• Prairie Land Electric installed three

480v transformers on new poles along with placing the new service on our existing meter

• Installed a 480v service panel in CTE Building; installed grounding and bonding to the CTE Building

• Installed electrical service to eight new welding booths

Electrical Modifications

• All Metal Donated and Cut by Alstom• Design was for a student and instructor to work inside one booth• Blueprints from Reinke, assembled by our students

GMAW Booths

• All Metal Donated and Cut by Reinke• Design was for a student and instructor to work

inside one booth• Designed by our instructor, assembled by our

students

Oxy Fuel Booths

• Current Distributer

• Plumbing• GMAW booths

with drops• Oxy Fuel

Stations

Airgas

Lincoln Welders• Alstom uses Lincoln • Leased Machines• Change out every 6 months• Installed and set-up• Connect to iPad for CheckPoint

and Production Monitoring

• Program currently is part of:• Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources-Power, Structural, & Technical Systems

• Agriculture Welding I,II, III, IV• Dialogue with Industry• Design program for what local industry needs• Manufacturing terminology needed• Agriculture titles removed

• Process of Pathway Approval• Manufacturing- Production• Introduction to Industrial Technology• Blue Print Reading• Introduction Welding• Manufacturing Process• Production Welding I• Production Welding II

Manufacturing Pathway

• Cloud County Community College• Offer Production Welding Classes for College Credit• Night Adult Education Courses• Reinke will send employees for training courses

• Working together to start Welding Program Alignment Certificate A• New courses would then be added

• Our instructor will teach some of these night courses

CCCC

• USD 333• Electrical Engineer• Electrical Upgrades• Spartan Ironworker• Certified Instructor• Reinke Manufacturing• Metal for Oxy Fuel Booths• Deliver Scrap metal for instruction• Test our students after course

completion• Alstom• Metal for GMAW Booths• Deliver Scrap metal for instruction• Prairie Land Electric• Installed Transformers

Summary of Project• Airgas• Plumbed GMAW Booths• Plumber Oxy Fuel Booths• Lincoln Welders• Provided machines• Course Materials• Cloud Corp• Cloud County Community

College• College Credit• Adult Education• Concordia Tractor Incorporated• Paint for Booths

Bryce Wachs, Asst. Principal/CTE Dir.bwachs@usd333.com

Quentin Breese, Principalqbreese@usd333.com

Andy Massing, Instructoramassing@usd333.com

Contact Information

THANKS FOR MAKING THIS PROJECT A REALITY