Walking into welding class you see five dumpsters, nine welders, nine people and five groups getting the River View Sanitation dumpsters welded and grinded.

The welding class has been working on these dumpsters for the past 3 weeks.

Senior welder Emerson Struiksma said, “The first step was to prep the metal before we could do anything else.”

Prepping the metal involves wire-wheeling the entire dumpster. All the groups are pairs and share one dumpster. They then start welding all the dumpsters.

Welding the dumpsters, the class is using MIG welding, which is an automatic wire feed welding. The class has to do many different types of welds, which are vertical, horizontal, overhead, and other random positions, to get the job done.

The dumpsters need to be waterproof, so it has a draining hole in the bottom.

Emerson said, “The dumpsters are for River View Sanitation.” RVS gets all the dumpsters tacked and put together, then they put them in a big truck and send them down to the CTE center.

Emerson said, “We weld the dumpsters and clean them all up so that RVS can get more dumpsters out into the public.”

The next steps after the welding class are to get the dumpsters done and welded. Then they are sent over to the Auto Body class, where they will paint them. After they get all painted, they will get picked up by River View Sanitation (RVS) and sent out to the public.

After Thanksgiving break, the advanced welding class will then start the next set of 9 dumpsters, where each kid will have their own dumpster to work on.