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
Weld Certification Prep
The Test Camp · in YWC Welding Courses · Weld for Real
6 weeks of YWC Welding Courses · Weld for Real: The Credential — WPS, PQR & WPQ · The Test Positions — 3G & 4G · The Test Plate — Prep & Fit · Running the Test · The Judgment …
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 & TRADESMATHART & DESIGNREADING & WRITINGSCIENCEBUSINESS & 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
- Before you weld a test, you have to understand what a welding certification actually is — and it’s not a diploma
- Test Camp targets two positions on purpose: 3G vertical and 4G overhead
- Half of passing the test happens before you strike an arc
- Now you weld the coupon for real: root, fill, cap, in position, to the procedure
AT A GLANCE · 9 WEEKS
Q1 The Credential — WPS, PQR & WPQ → The floor — The assignments · weeks 1–9
ALSO IN WELDING · YWC WELDING COURSES · WELD FOR REAL
A quarter
9 WEEKS · ONE QUARTERQuarter 1 · The Credential — WPS, PQR & WPQ → The floor
WEEKS 1–9 · IN THIS OFFERINGTHE WEEKS · THE ROOMS EACH ONE OPENS
WK 1The Credential — WPS, PQR & WPQTHE TEST CAMP
Before you weld a test, you have to understand what a welding certification actually is — and it’s not a diploma. It’s a document that says you welded a specific joint, a specific way, and it passed.
WK 2The Test Positions — 3G & 4G
Test Camp targets two positions on purpose: 3G vertical and 4G overhead. Together they’re the hardest plate positions — and passing both certifies you for every position on plate.
WK 3The Test Plate — Prep & Fit
Half of passing the test happens before you strike an arc. The test coupon has to be beveled, gapped, aligned, and tacked exactly to the WPS — because a sound weld on a badly prepped plate is impossible.
WK 4Running the Test
Now you weld the coupon for real: root, fill, cap, in position, to the procedure. Each pass has a job, the root is where tests are won or lost, and the whole thing is disciplined — in the parameters, clean between…
WK 5The Judgment
Your coupon doesn’t pass because it looks good — it passes because it survives being bent nearly in half. This week is exactly how a test weld is judged: visual first, then the guided-bend test that pries open…
WK 6Test Day + The Card + The WPQ
The finish line: a real, witnessed test. Prep the plate, weld it in position to the procedure, and let a Certified Welding Inspector judge and bend it.
WK 7–9The 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 The Test Camp ask you to be able to do by week 6?
The make. Every week's assignment and the quiz as practice: The Credential — WPS, PQR & WPQ · The Test Positions — 3G & 4G · The Test Plate — Prep & Fit · Running the Test …
The evidence. Handed in through The Test Camp 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 Weld Certification Prep and every course in the catalog. Pick a pass, or enter a school code; checkout stays on this page.