RPTS Last Strike Welding Contest, largest contest in the program’s history. Sheri Baty/The Knox County News-Courier
RPTS Last Strike Welding Contest KCHS team (l-r) Luke McGaughey Xavien Patterson and Ty Fridlle work on the construction and welding challenge of the contest. Sheri Baty/The Knox County News-Courier
1st Place Team- Haskell CISD (l-r) Colton Willett, Luke Anderle, Austen Sanford. Courtesy Photo
RPTS Last Strike Welding Contest KCHS student Tristan Baxter reads the cutting challenge for the Last Strike contest. Sheri Baty/The Knox County News-Courier
ROCHESTER—The Rolling Plains Technical School held its ninth annual Last Strike Welding Contest this past Monday on the Rochester School Campus. Twenty welding teams, portable welders, equipment and personnel from participating schools stretched down 4th Street under a beautiful spring morning. Teams of three students following specific instructions were tasked with construction of a hay ring...
