I am excited to be entering my 2nd year as a welding teacher here at Sentinel High School. I very much look forward to teaching students the many aspects of welding, and the many career paths that it can open up for students. Here at Sentinel I am working toward building a program where students can leave high school with the skills needed to enter the workforce if they so choose. In class, we will learn to use welding and hand tools to go through all the welding positions for groove welds and fillet welds using all processes. This includes stick welding, MIG, TIG, and dual shield flux-core welding. Students will also learn about general workplace safety, how to use a wide variety of tools, how to use a plasma-cutter, and oxy-fuel cutting. I am basing the curriculum off of most college-level welding programs. A little about my experience. I completed an NCCER-based welding and safety curriculum at Palm Beach State College. I obtained an American Welding Society (AWS) 6G pipe welding certificate which I still maintain. After welding school, I was hired by Ingalls Shipbuilding a contractor for the Department of Defense. It was an amazing experience. I started as an apprentice and became a first-class journeyman level welder. I was x-ray certified on many types of metal in all welding positions. The last year and a half there, I was a welding foreman leading a crew of about 15–25 welders.