It wasn’t too long ago that JoeWelder.com did a post on Nuts, Bolts, & Thingamajigs, the FMA organization designed to encourage young people to explore careers in manufacturing.  And now, we are seeing Nuts, Bolts, and Thingamajigs in action!  They are conducting manufacturing day camps for girls in conjunction with Talahassee Community College.  If you had wanted to join in the fun, sadly, they ended last month.  But there’s always next year!

TCC DAY CAMPS INTRODUCES NEW CAREER OPTIONS FOR GIRLS

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – TCC’s Center for Workforce Development and Workforce Plus will hold a camp entitled Girls Empowered in Manufacturing (GEM), June 15-18. The camp will be held on TCC’s main campus and attended by 25 girls pre-selected from Gadsden County Schools, ages 16-18, from Gadsden County. Funding for the camp comes through a grant from the Gadsden County Board of County Commissioners and the Foundation of Fabricators and Manufacture’s Association, International – Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs initiative. Additional support for the camp is provided by the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 592. GEM will introduce young women to welding and metal fabrication with the goal of encouraging them to consider a career in welding or metal fabricating.

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Guilty pleasure meets guilty pleasure in this pairing of two of TLC’s shows: Jon and Kate Plus 8 and American Chopper.  For those of you don’t know, the shows, respectively, are about the ongoing life of a family with sextuplets and twins and the ongoing life of a motorcycle fabrication shop.  It is hard to belive, but the two of them came together for a joint episode in which Jon Gosselin (from the former) was going to build a custom motorcycle, with help from the latter.

In the past couple of years, companies have come up with green-friendly everythings.  Green-friendly notebooks, paper, pencils, cars, laptops, dishwasher detergent, window cleaner, you name it!  (I’m waiting for them to come up with green trees in a couple of years…)

The point is, we have “green”ed our products, but we have yet to “green” our energy!  Personally, I think we’re going about this a bit backwards, don’t you?

‘Greenergy’—the Next Big Thing

Renewable energy generation renews market, savings opportunities

By Kate Bachman, Editor March 10, 2009

Unless you have been living like a “Lost” survivor or studying stalagmites up close, you’ve witnessed the explosion of green energy generation—”greenergy”—poised to make the dot.com craze look like a blip in comparison.

Harnessing the power of the earth, water, sun, and sky is not new, of course. In fact, some applications date back hundreds, even thousands, of years—think solar tile baking ovens and merchant sail ships. Hydroelectricity is currently the leading renewable-energy source to generate electricity in the U.S. Windmills have been around long enough to be the nostalgic symbol of Holland and the shape of tasty cookies.

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To see a bit about Arc-Zone’s green efforts, have a look at this video about our company–>

Spread the word, tell a friend – welding jobs are in high demand!

Out of tragedy, art is born.

It was only two years ago –  a University of Michigan Medical Center transplant team was lost when their plane crashed into Lake Michigan as they were returning to the hospital.  Douglas Hollis, a native of Ann Arbor, was selected from amongst artists across the country to build a sculpture, “Rotations”, to commemorate the team members.

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