Nebo Student Recognized in the State

Submitted by lana.hiskey on

A Nebo student, Kaitlin Hallam, was honored by Bryan Kwapis from Miller Electric at the Nebo School Board meeting for her accomplishments in the state and national welding competitions.
For the third year in a row, Kaitlin won the Utah State Fair Welding and Fabrication contest. She designed and fabricated a trailer each year in the Spanish Fork High School welding program and directed the skills she learned in the classroom to three large custom trailers.

Each trailer was designed to increase her skill level in the process, which included a standard 18-foot flatbed the first year where she won the Utah Valley Welding Expo and then the Utah State Fair. The second year, Kaitlin designed and built a 16-foot electric over hydraulic dump trailer and received a perfect score at the state competition. This past year, Kaitlin fabricated a 32-foot electric over hydraulic tilt deck, goose neck equipment trailer and won the Sweepstakes at the Utah State Fair once again. 

Kaitlin and her sister, Allison, have together won the State Welding Fabrication Competition for five straight years giving Spanish Fork High some deserved recognition. Both girls credit their teacher, Shaun Black, for their accomplishments in the welding field. 

The Hallam sisters consider Mr. Black to one of the best in the field of welding and teaching. They stated, “Without Mr. Black’s vision of what is possible and his constant encouragement to step out of our comfort zone and be more, we would not have been able to pull this off.” 

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