META24 WORKFORCE LAB · GRADED TO THE CORE · PROJECT-BASED · A COURSE IN WELDING · MIDDLE SCHOOL · UPPER SCHOOL · GRADE 6–12 · 0.25 CREDIT · AWS SENSE LEVEL 1
Welding Fundamentals
Blueprint · in YWC Welding Courses · Weld for Real
3 weeks of YWC Welding Courses · Weld for Real: What to Learn First · Flux-Core, Hands-On · Flux-Core, Flat Position
The weeks are the course’s own, read from the lab; the catalog pads the last weeks with the capstone and the floor so the course fills a whole term.
THE MIX · HOW MUCH OF EACH CORE SUBJECT THIS COURSE CARRIES · IN ORDER
TECHNOLOGY & TRADESMATHREADING & WRITINGSCIENCEART & DESIGNBUSINESS & ENTERPRISE
The squares are a picture of a course — how much of each core subject its own rooms carry, read from the rooms’ text — never a score of a student. Every course in a lab is graded to the core across the board; the squares say which columns it feeds most.
LEADS TO · THE CERTIFICATION
AWS SENSE Level 1 · the welder performance qualification (WPQ) IN PERSON · issued by American Welding Society · a certified welding inspector. In the booth. A test plate welded in position, bent and judged by a CWI — there is no virtual weld test.
EVERY CERTIFICATION →WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
- Ask the internet “what should a beginner learn first?” and everyone argues about processes
- Week 1 was the plan
- A student’s real first day on flat
AT A GLANCE · 9 WEEKS
Q1 What to Learn First → The floor — The assignments · weeks 1–9
ALSO IN WELDING · YWC WELDING COURSES · WELD FOR REAL
A quarter
9 WEEKS · ONE QUARTERQuarter 1 · What to Learn First → The floor
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1What to Learn FirstBLUEPRINT
Ask the internet “what should a beginner learn first?” and everyone argues about processes. Joe’s answer cuts through all of it: don’t start with a process at all.
WK 2Flux-Core, Hands-On
Week 1 was the plan. Week 2 is the first real arc. Joe takes students outside to run flux-core — because that’s where flux-core lives — and coaches them by feel and by sound, one bead at a time.
WK 3Flux-Core, Flat Position
A student’s real first day on flat. Joe isn’t chasing fancy positions yet — he’s building the one habit that makes everything after it easier: follow the toe of the last bead, hold your distance, and let the sound tell…
WK 4–9The floor
The floor: the work is done in the room, logged in the room, kept in My Work.
THE PROJECT · WHAT THE QUARTER IS FOR
The assignments · weeks 1–9
The question. What does Blueprint ask you to be able to do by week 3?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: What to Learn First · Flux-Core, Hands-On · Flux-Core, Flat Position · The floor
The evidence. Handed in through Blueprint inside YWC Welding Courses · Weld for Real, kept in My Work; the Report reads it from there.
A course is a quarter, a semester or a year — nine, eighteen or thirty-six weeks — a project a quarter. Offered as the year, a semester or a quarter, it is the same course seen through a window. A lab is a family: its year, each of its tracks as a course, and its rooms. The evidence is what a student hands in through the room; the Report reads it from there. Nothing in the catalog is a grade.
THE PASS · THIS COURSE AND EVERY OTHER ONE
One pass includes Welding Fundamentals and every course in the catalog. Pick a pass, or enter a school code; checkout stays on this page.