Mobile Welding Lab Rolling Into Crenshaw County

 

It is something you do not see on wheels everyday, a mobile welding lab. The $470,000 lab is part of the Alabama Florida Technology Education Network Grant.

 

It has six welding stations and two virtual welders, “It simulates the actual welding without using the consumables or the gas. It’s safer. It’s much more user friendly. The kids seem to have no problem operating it,” says welding instructor, Scott Cooper. 

 

It is not just colleges students using the lab; Crenshaw County’s Career Technical Center kicks off its first year in August. 24 high school students in the county are enrolled in the welding program, which will take place on the LBW Luverne campus with the mobile welding lab. 

 

The students will be dually enrolled, earning nine hours of credit towards certification, “If they continue with this program, they would earn nine, and thus they will have a year completely behind them. Then, they go to LBW after that, all they lack is a year for graduation, so they can get certificated at the high school level,” says Crenshaw County Interim Superintendent, Terry Holley. 

 

LBW’s president says before the mobile welding lab, they only offered welding courses in Opp.

 

School officials say the mobile welding lab is one of only two in the entire state. The other mobile lab is at Wallace Community College in Dothan.