Welding Journal

This year, the AWS Detroit Section is marking the 50th anniversary of its annual High School Welding Contest (HSWC). 

A part of the Metro Detroit region since 1924, the AWS Detroit Section has made it a mission to advance the science, technology, and application of welding via the HSWC. It was this motivation that drove Fred Ellicott, then a welding instructor at Schoolcraft College, Livonia, Mich., and member of the AWS Detroit Section Board, to come together with other volunteers and hold the first HSW..