Team places at welding contest

Marion High School students placed fourth out of 30 teams Thursday at a Kansas Welding Institute contest at North Central Kansas Technical College in Beloit.

Students Bryan Barrel, Jackson Bitonti, Xavier Hurt, and Lane Smith were required to read and interpret blueprints and correctly place and perform five welds on a three-eighths-inch plate and to perform five other welds on quarter-inch plate.

They also completed a written test on gas metal arc welding.