More local teenage girls are firing up flaming hot torches and learning welding as a career. About 450%2C000 welding jobs were available in 2014%2C with many vacancies caused by retirements%2C U.S.

Bright orange sparks flew as more than 20 girls at the Fox Valley Technical College Advanced Manufacturing Technology Center worked on welding projects during the first Girls in the Shop summer camp.

One reason: High school girls are still walking by welding on their way to classes in cosmetology, food service and child care. Women represent 98 percent of students in cosmetology, 87 percent in ...

AS WELL. AT 20 MINUTES, A GROUP OF GIRL SCOUTS GOT TO LEARN HOW TO WELD. THIS MORNING. THEY PARTNERED WITH PENN VALLEY’S ADVANCED TECHNICAL SKILLS INSTITUTE IN 2023, 5.8% OF WORKERS IN THE WELDING ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Forty-five students from different school districts across Kentucky participated in the first-of-its-kind competition -- an all-girls welding competition. The girls were given their ...

All year long, WKYC will be spotlighting Girls in STEM, an initiative that inspires girls to embrace science, technology, engineering and math. On Tuesday's Donovan Live, Betsy took us to Northeast ...

Nationwide, at most 3 percent of trades workers are women. But in a Sherwood High School welding, computer technology and woodshop class, it's completely the opposite. Every student is female.

MARINETTE — A long running outreach effort between Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and Samuel Pressure Vessel Group hopes to create a spark and reshape how young people – especially girls – see ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Tiffany Rivera turns heads when she lowers her welding helmet. First, they stare at her tiny frame — 4-foot-9. Then they gawk at her welds, expert work for someone so young, ...

Kalei Kipp is the only girl in the welding program at her high school. Why don't more women go into that profession? Our Student Reporting Labs report as part of Outside the Box, a series on the ways ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Dozens of high school girls from across Kentucky took part in the state's first all-girls welding competition Thursday. Pleasure Ridge Park High School and its business ...

As a high school student in Texas, Bria Sativa Aguayo walked past the all-male welding class on the way to her cosmetology class. “I never looked in. I wasn’t even curious,” she says. “It didn’t seem ...