Welding Program :: Illinois Central College

American Welding Society PEORIA STUDENT CHAPTER

Why Should you Consider belonging to the Student Chapter:

Scholarship Information - ICC Welding Students received a total average of 3,000 dollars
Welding Contests Info. - AWS Wedling Contest, Welded Metal Sculpture Contest, and others.
Community Service Projects - Habitat for Humanity projects, and others.
Networking opportunities with local welding professionals and companies.<
Special Events, like Introduction to SCUBA (under-water welding), AWS Cookout, Golf Outing,
hockey games, guest speakers & demonstrations, factory tours, and a lot more.
Learn about more benefits at www.aws.org (link will open in a new window)

If you are interested in joining the AWS Student Chapter, you can ask your welding instructor for more information or contact Eric Ockerhausen, email: eockerhausen@icc.edu or phone: 694-5767. The membership cost is $15 and that includes the Welding Journal monthly magazine.

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AMERICAN WELDING SOCIETY CONTESTS

AWS Welding Contest at ICC

The annual Peoria Section AWS Student Welding Contest is hosted at the Illinois Central College, East Peoria Campus Welding Shop. More information will be posted in the near futre.

Two Categories: High School and Skilled Trades/ Proprietary School
Limit of 5 registrations from each school
Starting and Finishing times for High School: START: 3:30PM - FINISH: 5:30PM
Starting and Finishing times for Skilled Trades/ Proprietary School: START: 6:00PM - FINISH: 8:00PM

We are always looking for CWI's to judge the welds, people interested in helping with the contest or giving a donation for prizes. If you are interested in supporting this contest, please contact Bob Branan, email: bbranan@icc.edu or phone: 694-5482 - or Eric Ockerhausen, email: eockerhausen@icc.edu or phone: 694-5767.

Teams of four members, artists and welders, will have 8 hours on Saturday to create the best piece of art work they can. We hope to build this contest in to one of the major arts events in the central Illinois area!

If any of our members would like to help with this event we would appreciate it. This type of event will require metal to make it a success. We would like to have some sheets of steel but we also will need interesting pieces of metal, scrap steel, odd lengths of pip, rebar and what people may just call junk. If you have some steel that you may want to donate call Eric Ockerhausen at Illinois Central College, (309) 694-5767.

This event is open to the public.