ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Capital Region BOCES is shining a bright light on some of their female students during the month of March to highlight National Women in the Trades Month. One of those students ...

Chanda Maldonado picks up a welding torch and lowers her face shield. Sparks fly as she melts the metal to help the iron basket she is creating take shape. The task is both mechanical and artistic and ...

Thirteen female students are helping to blaze a new career path for women in the welding profession thanks to Georgia Northwestern Technical College (GNTC). This semester GNTC Welding and Joining ...

It’s projected the U.S. will need 314,000 new welding professionals by 2024. With women currently making up only 3.8 percent of the welding workforce, could recruiting and mentoring female welders be ...

CHICAGO -- Sparks fly everywhere as students wearing thick helmets observe their teacher carefully weld a piece of metal. As the flame settles down and dies, the students take off their protective ...

Butler Tech student Rhane Napier’s future is as bright as the white, hot sparks flying off her welding torch. The high school senior, who scored a 34 out of a possible 36 on her ACT college test, is ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Greenville Tech’s Brashier Campus is seeing a 10 percent increase of women enrolling into their welding department. Just five years ago, Greenville Tech didn’t have ...

During a welding class, instructor Aleasha Hladilek mentioned that women currently make up about three percent of welders. "Let's make it four percent!" called out a voice from the back of the room.

Zoe Stafford became the first female at Coshocton County Career Center to earn four major welding certifications. Stafford hopes to find a job as a welder and is applying for various positions.

Four years ago, Bailey Steele was working a minimum-wage job at Taco Bell. Now, she’s a full-time welder, making more money doing something she loves. “It's like meditation,” Steele, 21, said. “When ...