San Antonio livestock show and rodeo

  The Welding Skills Demonstration will include entries from the following divisions.  

• DIVISIONS 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10 AND 11
• The skill will be a welding demonstration that will be held at the Salado lot. 
• The skills portion will START at 7:00 AM and will END at 3:00 PM. 
• Each project will have 1 student that will be asked to weld a coupon. The      AST/CEA will choose one (1) student to represent each project to complete the welding skills demonstration. If multiple projects are completed by a single individual, that individual will take their weld with them to each project judged.
• The student MUST be on the official entry card as a participant in the building of the project.
• A student can only weld once, even if they are entered on multiple projects. Each chosen student may only represent ONE project, regardless of the number of projects on which he/she is entered on.    
• THE STUDENT WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING THEIR OWN PPE.   NONE WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE STOCK SHOW. PRESCRIPTION GLASSES AND SUNGLASSES ARE NOT ALLOWED. HEYDUDES AND OTHER SIMILAR FOOTWEAR ARE NOT CONSIDERED CORRECT PPE.  
• The stock show will provide the coupons to be welded. Coupons will be 3/16th thickness.
• The student will be randomly assigned a basic weld to complete. They will be allowed two attempts to complete the assigned weld. The basic weld could be one of the following weld joints: AWS D9.1 T-Joint, AWS D9.1 Lap-Joint or AWS D9.1 Butt-Joint. 
• The student will have the opportunity to earn an AWS Visual Inspection Certification during this process. Certified Weld Inspectors will be on site to provide this opportunity to each student. 
• The student must pick up the weld tab and if they earned a certification on Saturday morning beginning at 7:00 a.m. 
• The students will be welding on a Millermatic 252 or industry equivalent.
• The coupons must be displayed with the projects on Saturday during judging.
• Every project from the afore-mentioned divisions MUST HAVE A PARTICIPANT IN THE WELDING DEMONSTRATION-NO EXCEPTIONS.