Ethan, Reilly and Jordan are pushing ahead in the Welding Club.

Ethan finished the stand for his D6 (six sided) dice and cut & drilled the D4 (four sided) dice parts.

Once welded, Ethan has ground & prepared it for powder coating.

Jordan managed to resume the welding club activities and finished welding his D6 dice (left). Reilly is progressing solidly and has ground his D6. Next, he will drill the holes for the numbers on each face, then he will powder coat the dice.

Open Day - ITD Displays

Welding Club display: Ethan and Reilly’s D6 (standard 6 sided) dice, with stands; along with two D4 dice & a D8 dice. In the background is a trial of the D20 dice, which is the next project. The blue powder coated tool is a “Third Hand,” used to help steady work pieces when welding. Students will also make this.

Cert I in Construction display: The saw horses pictured are all hand cut by Aperila (April). These came out perfectly -  rigid and stable without needing any fine tuning. April managed to make both of these before any other students completed their first.

Cert II in Engineering Pathways and Year 12 Engineering Skills: The Year 11, Cert II Engineering students have completed the folding shovel and are now working on their BBQ. The Year 12 Engineering students have finished a toolbox, hasp and staple, and are now fabricating their bench vice.

Year 11 and 12 Furnishing Skills: A sample of furnishing skills projects from Years 11 and 12.  The small coffee table and monitor stand are Year 11 projects. The dining chair, bedside cabinet and mantle clock are Year 12 projects.

Other miscellaneous projects: The steel base and timber bedside cabinet is one of the Year 10 projects, along with the folding camp stool. The cigar box guitar, open to design variations, is a Year 9 project.

Developing a Centre of Excellence

The ITD (Industrial Technology and Design) faculty has the goal of developing into a Centre of Excellence in our region. This lead to the creation of the Welding Club, open to Year 10, 11 and 12 students. The goal is to include teachers as well, and become a centre for teaching skill, knowledge and professional development.

With that in mind, Meg Cohen, a Griffith University teaching student (who is completing her teaching placement with us at CBSHS) was keen to learn to MIG weld and test our workshop training.

Meg had never welded before, so it would be a very effective test of welding training capacity. After a full safety induction it was straight into MIG welding. Naturally, her first weld beads were crooked and uneven, but she had a very steady hand and quickly started producing straight, even weld beads on flat metal. She was then introduced to pad welds, tack welds, butt welds, fillet welds and lap welds, which she progressed quickly through.

From there she progressed to the project critical open external corner welds. Once comfortable with these it was time to start the PD formative assessment project, a welded D6 (six sided) dice.

Mr Jim Kettle

Engineering, Construction & Furnishing Teacher