Help me give my students the critically important consumable saw blades so that we can process the materials needed for our welding projects.
FULLY FUNDED! Mr. Carpenter's classroom raised $534
This project is fully funded
Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
KHS recently re-opened its welding program because of the current national shortage of welders and the need to find well-paying jobs for the young adults of this community.
My current students are the first group to go through this new program and they are a voracious bunch.
They come from diverse backgrounds and have a wide range of personal interests. They bring these to class each day along with an eagerness to try new things and a willingness to stay late to complete the day's tasks.
These kids are hungry and ready to sink their teeth into the opportunities that the field of industrial welding has to offer.
My Project
The Kennedy welding program uses a considerable amount of raw and scrap metals in its efforts to teach students basic welding and metal fabrication.
The ability to process this material from heavy and cumbersome chunks of metal into small and usable pieces is of critical importance to the productivity of the students.
Our shop has a few pieces of equipment that exist exclusively for this task, but this equipment is useless without the expensive consumable blades needed to cut the materials.
Please help our program by supporting our ability to process material. Everything we do here hinges on the materials we have to work with.
Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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