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March, 13, 2008
Greenville Tech Welding Student Wins Big …. Again!

(GREENVILLE, SC) -- Addison Greenway, a welding student at Greenville Tech, won first place in the Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Craft Championship in welding. The competition was held March 5-8 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Greenway is the third Greenville Tech student to capture this award, and he was taught by the college’s first winner, Austin Childress, who won this prestigious award in Orlando, Florida, in 2005. In 2007, Brody Ledford became the second Greenville Tech welding student to win a gold, traveling to Nashville, Tennessee to receive his award.

Greenway is also the youngest person to have achieved this recognition. Last year, as a student at Mauldin High School, he was named the state champion in welding through the Skills USA competition. Greenway was a dual credit student, earning credits through Golden Strip Career Center and Greenville Tech while in high school.

“Due to the nationwide shortage of welders and the amount of maintenance, repair work and new construction in the coal fired, hydro, gas fired and nuclear power industry, thousands of qualified welders are needed. This award will open many doors for Addison,” said Jack Wilson, Greenville Tech’s Department Head for Welding. “He can gain employment anywhere from the local fabrication shop to the nuclear job sites with the largest construction companies in the nation.”

Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) is a national association representing more than 24,000 merit shop construction and construction-related firms in 78 chapters across the United States. ABC's membership represents all specialties within the U.S. construction industry and is comprised primarily of firms that perform work in the industrial and commercial sectors of the industry.

Welding instructors at Greenville Tech are certified by the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) and teach from the Contren Learning Series. Fluor is Greenville Tech’s sponsor to NCCER.