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Black Hawk College recently hosted the 5th Annual T-Joint Fillet Weld Invitational at the college’s Welding and Skilled Trades Center in downtown Kewanee.

The goal is to provide a competitive welding contest in a state-of-the-art welding facility that gives high school students an opportunity to test their skills. Forty students from six high schools were registered for the competition.

Top 3 teams

  1. Sherrard High School
  2. Kewanee High School
  3. Knoxville High School

Top 10 individuals

  1. Keegan Miller – Sherrard
  2. Brandon Hahn – Knoxville
  3. Hunter Timerman – Sherrard
  4. Jaiden Little – Kewanee
  5. Hunter Breiby – Sherrard
  6. Andrew Nortman – Kewanee
  7. Hunter Cederstrom – Sherrard
  8. George Brown – Knoxville
  9. Parker Debord – Kewanee
  10. Robert Johnson – Sherrard

Also participating were students from Mercer County High School, Orion High School and ROWVA High School.

View the team photos on Facebook.

Martin Engineering in Neponset sponsored the contest for the fifth year.