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		<title>Rosie&#8217;s Girls Can Do It!</title>
		<link>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/07/20/rosies-girls-can-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran across this awesome summer day camp for girls (too bad there isn&#8217;t one for adult women!) ROSIE&#8217;S GIRLS is a three week day camp for girls (6th-8th grade).  It a place to learn skills (carpentry, welding, etc) that build confidence.  PLUS they get to use power tools!  This is an awesome way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WASPs</title>
		<link>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/04/05/wasps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, we&#8217;re not talking about not insects, nor the Protestants.  These are the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) who served during WWII (the first to ever do so) &#8212; right alongside the Rosies who helped build the planes in which they flew! Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Mad Rantings of a Woman Welder&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/03/22/mad-rantings-of-a-woman-welder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to steal the name of her blog.  Seriously. This is a fantastic look into the workings of a women welder&#8217;s mind written by Wendy Welder.  Perhaps she is related to our good friend, Joe Welder?? SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2010 How it all started. Even as a little girl, I had dirt under my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Woman&#8217;s Trash&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/03/15/one-womans-trash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s never too late to start welding &#8212; that&#8217;s the lesson we can learn from Cynthia Daniel, who has a yard full of metal art to prove it! Dallas welder transforms trash into garden sculptures Monday, February 15, 2010 By DIANE REISCHEL / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News Cynthia Daniel keeps a gangly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kids Are in Charge</title>
		<link>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/03/12/the-kids-are-in-charge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/03/12/the-kids-are-in-charge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Standwood, Washington, they&#8217;ve got it a little backwards &#8212; here, the students have become the teachers.  The teens are teaching the adults how to weld!! Stanwood students teach adults welding By GALE FIEGE THE DAILY HERALD STANWOOD, Wash. &#8212; When a group of high school welding students decided to offer a class for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Student Bike Build</title>
		<link>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/03/01/student-bike-build/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must be a dream come true for students at the Western Dakota Technical Institute.  I mean, since when do you get to custom build a motorcycle during class, and get credit for it?!? WDTI students gear up for bike build Barbara Soderlin Journal staff Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2010 9:15 am Western Dakota Technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Graveyard Shift Welding Classes</title>
		<link>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/02/26/graveyard-shift-welding-classes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/02/26/graveyard-shift-welding-classes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clackamas Community College offers welding classes seven days a week.  Their most popular time slot?  The &#8220;graveyard shift&#8221;. Welding school offers night shift to fit busy schedules Story Published: Feb 3, 2010 at 4:30 AM PST By Chris Parker for KVAL.com OREGON CITY, Ore. &#8212; The sun isn’t necessary for students welding at midnight: the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After High School</title>
		<link>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/02/24/after-high-school/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/02/24/after-high-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Welding Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[College isn&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be.  In fact, if you&#8217;re looking for a career in welding, a technical school might just be the place to go. Technical schools give students a leg up on a career By FARAH TAMIZUDDIN/VOICE CORRESPONDENT THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER Posted Jan 25, 2010 @ 11:00 PM Seventeen-year-old Konner Fenwick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Place to Rest</title>
		<link>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/02/22/a-place-to-rest/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/02/22/a-place-to-rest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one of the most original, sad, and, therefore, daunting tasks I&#8217;ve ever heard of, Natascha Whitehurst is using her talent for welding to fabricate her own parents&#8217; tombstones. Instead of the usual headstones, Natascha is crafting two oak stumps (made from a water heater tank), connected by a root (made from an exhaust pipe), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welding a Tin Man</title>
		<link>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/02/15/welding-a-tin-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.carmenelectrode.com/2010/02/15/welding-a-tin-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the best kind of person who takes inspiration from adversity. When Lee Soucie was laid off from his job with ONG Industries, he decided to start on a project that he&#8217;d been waiting years to do: welding a full-size Tin Man, with heart. Playing Tin Man with heart Wednesday, January 6, 2010 10:08 [...]]]></description>
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