{"id":8017,"date":"2011-05-17T03:25:12","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T08:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2011-05-17T03:27:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T08:27:04","slug":"schlosser-earns-pipe-welding-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/05\/17\/schlosser-earns-pipe-welding-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Schlosser earns pipe welding certification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent\/<\/strong><em>contributor content<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Vantage Career Center\u2019s welding senior Dylan Schlosser has a very bright future ahead of him.\u00a0 His classmates saw history in the making on May 10 when Schlosser passed the American Welding Society (AWS) pipe welding certification test &#8212; the highest and most difficult AWS welding certification to achieve.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8018\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8018\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8018 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Vantage-welding-milestone-5-2011-Schlosser.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8018\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vantage welding senior Dylan Schlosser of Lincolnview practicing pipe welding. (Vantage photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Dylan arrived at Vantage in August 2009, he had never done stick welding before. His welding teacher, Brent Wright (Vantage graduate 1996), recalled that, on the first day of school, Dylan said to him, \u201cI hear there\u2019s money in pipe welding.\u00a0 Can you do it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wright answered that he had the certification, to which Schlosser answered: \u201cThen you\u2019re the man to teach me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The past two years, the Lincolnview senior has been working toward the pipe certification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBar none, the pipe certification is the highest achievement a student could obtain in a high school welding program,\u201d Wright said. \u201cDylan was very determined to achieve this milestone and he did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has never been done before by a high school student,\u201d said AWS Certified Welding Inspector Patrick Vogel. \u201cTo be so young and to have this skill and certification will have a huge impact on Dylan\u2019s career. He will be able to go just about anywhere and get an outstanding job. He will be extremely well paid for his skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201dMy grandpa and my dad were welders, so were my uncles,\u201d Schlosser noted, adding, \u201cAnd I wanted to be a welder too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He made the decision to enroll in Vantage\u2019s welding program during Sophomore Visitation Day. When asked about the pipe certification test, he said, \u201cIt was hard, but other people had done it, so why couldn\u2019t I?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent\/contributor content Vantage Career Center\u2019s welding senior Dylan Schlosser has a very bright future ahead of him.\u00a0 His classmates saw history in the making on May 10 when Schlosser passed the American Welding Society (AWS) pipe welding certification test &#8212; the highest and most difficult AWS welding certification to achieve. 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