Do you like to play with fire? Do you enjoy building projects? You’ll do both in this camp while exploring the basics of welding in a state-of-the-art shop! You’ll use industrial grade equipment and start by learning safety and the fundamentals of Gas Metal Arc Welding (MIG or wirefeed) and Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (TIG). You’ll learn how to control the all-important molten puddle of metal and then apply these skills to make creative and useful projects. Steel will be our primary metal, but you may also have the opportunity to weld aluminum and stainless steel. Using the VERTEX 360 virtual reality welding simulator we will see how our eyes and hands work together to make a great weld. Moving into the shop, sparks will fly as we fuse metals together, learning to control the process, making it do what we want. Finally we will use the computer controlled plasma cutter and other fabrication machines to cut and shape metals.