Weld Like A Girl™️

We are gearing up and getting ready to head to Yuma, Arizona for our first event of the year! There's no better way to kick off 2025 than with a Youth Welding Challenge and Career Discovery event hosted by Weld Like A Girl™️! 💪😎 #projectmfg #welding #youthempowerment #youthweldingchallenge #weldlikeagirl #visityuma #yumahomeschool #cityofyuma #yumacounty #yuma

So impressed with AstroCamp 2.1 campers in metalsmithing class. 😎 Look at these AMAZING #solarsystem sculptures with moving planets! These young builders heated & bent copper in a forge, cut various ferrous & nonferrous metals with a plasmacutter & shear, welded steel & stainless steel, brazed copper to steel and tin… all to create these amazing tabletop masterpieces. What an out-of-this-world two weeks! Astrocamp 2.2 is currently underway and campers are making incredible progress! While we heat, hammer and cut, we discuss the #planets #metalsmithing #songsaboutthesun #nasa and a whole bunch of other cool things. NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration is, of course, our go-to for official information re the size, color and distance between planets. (The only thing NASA may not appreciate… we *did* include pluto. 🌌💜) #makeplutoaplanetagain lol 🤓 #summercamp #nerds #astrocamp #americanweldingsociety #welding #brazing #brazingcopper #plasmacutting #millerwelders #hypertherm #harristorch #dewalt American Welding Society Miller Electric Mfg. LLC Hypertherm Associates

Shout out to Shanen Aranmor, MS, CWI/CWE for inviting us to a couples welding workshop last night at Weld Like A Girl™️ . Shanen is my welder son's benefactor, the one who mentored and gave him the scholarship to Tulsa Welding School-Tulsa Campus . It was a mother-and-son workshop I took him to back in middle school that introduced him to welding. I hadn't done a workshop since...probably 7 years ago. Shanen also welded the arch Greg Wilkinson and I got married under. She and her husband John, retired LEO, have both been a huge force in our lives, particularly my son's obviously, and for so many others in our community including at-risk youth and military children. We are so greatful for their friendship. Greg and I made a VERY simple candle box with a Maltese cross, go figure...the other 2 couples? wow...they created some art! I was texting my son pictures during class and getting feedback about slowing down and turning up the voltage, lol. Last night reminded me how meticulous a job welding is, they make it look so easy.