Clemco And Local College Launch Welder Apprenticeship Program
Author: The Shot Peener Staff
Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 2, Spring 2019
Doc ID: 2019018
Year of Publication: 2019
Abstract:
Clemco Industries of Washington, Missouri,
in collaboration with East Central College in neighboring
Union, Missouri, launched their Welder Apprenticeship
Program. Four Clemco employees are enrolled in the
three-year program, which is funded by a Missouri Registered
Apprenticeship Program (MORAP) grant. The $239,550
MORAP grant, awarded by the Missouri Department of
Workforce Development, has enabled East Central to partner
with Clemco to develop apprenticeship programs.
The four Clemco employees in the Welder Apprenticeship
Program range in age from 20 to 33 and from between less
than a year and 4.5 years of employment in the Clemco
manufacturing facility. Last fall they spent their Tuesday and
Thursday evenings in four-hour, hands-on classes on the East
Central campus. They were taught metal inert gas (MIG),
tungsten inert gas (TIG), and stick welding. The MORAP
grant covered the students’ tuition and book fees, and they
maintained their day jobs at Clemco.
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