Richard Christianson

Castle USA Accepting Entries for Student Woodworking Contest

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Castle USA is accepting entries for its student woodworking contest, “What’s Your Angle?.” until April 15, 2023.

Entries will be evaluated based on the overall look and presentation of the project as well as the most effective and innovative use of screw pocket joinery. The use of Castle machinery or products is not required.

Contestants will compete in three categories: Individual Student, High School Program/Class, and Secondary or Vo-tech Program/Class.

Winning prizes include the Castle 110 Pocket Cutter, a TSM-12 Pocket Cutting Machine, or the foot-pedal operated, TSM-22 Pocket Cutter. These prizes have MSRPs ranging from $659.99 to $4,899.00.

The judging panel includes:

  • Will Sampson, Editorial Director, CCI Media/Woodworking Network, FDMC Magazine, Closets & Organized Storage
  • Rob Johnstone, Publisher, Woodworker’s Journal
  • Logan Wittmer, Editor in Chief, Popular Woodworking
  • Jim Heavy, Master Woodworker, Wood Magazine

“We are thrilled to announce our judging panel – each of these guys is so highly respected, not just as editors or publishers, but as highly skilled, expert woodworkers,” says Mathias Forsman, CEO of Castle. “Working with such a distinguished panel of judges will help us encourage student woodworkers and provide an incentive for students and educators to learn more about pocket joinery, whether they use our machines or not.”

Entry forms and more detailed information can be found on the Castle USA website.

Winners will be announced May 15, 2023.

Richard Christianson

AWI Education Foundation Awards First $100K in Grants to Schools

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Pittsburg State University architectural woodworking

Pittsburg State University was one of three college woodworking programs to receive funds from the AWIEF.

The “giving arm” of the Architectural Woodwork Institute, its Education Foundation, has launched a new Institutional Grant Program for schools whose wood programs help prepare students for careers in the architectural woodwork industry. In its inaugural year, the AWIEF awarded $108,000 in grants among six accredited institutions whose programs impact nearly 1,000 students.

AWIEF’s new Institutional Grant Program is made possible by a contribution of $1 million in 2021 from the Quality Certification

The “giving arm” of the Architectural Woodwork Institute, its Education Foundation, has launched a new Institutional Grant Program for schools whose wood programs help prepare students for careers in the architectural woodwork industry. In its inaugural year, the AWIEF awarded $108,000 in grants among six accredited institutions whose programs impact nearly 1,000 students.

AWIEF’s new Institutional Grant Program is made possible by a contribution of $1 million in 2021 from the Quality Certification Corporation (QCC), which merged its Quality Certification Program into AWI that year. That QCC endowment specifies that $100,000 be awarded in institutional grants each year for 10 years.

Six accredited institutions from among nine applicants won funds for their wood program plans: Fort Atkinson High School, Fort Atkinson, WI; Medina Valley School, Castroville, TX; Shaker Heights Middle School, Cleveland, OH; Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS; and Selkirk College, Sudbury, BC, Canada. Madison College and Pittsburg State University are EDUcation members of the Woodwork Career Alliance.

“Four grant winners participated at the $10,000 or below level and two grant recipients — Madision Area Technical College and Pittsburg State University — secured matching funds to boost their eventual grant award well above the $10,000 level,” said Doug Hague, AWIEF board member and AWI CEO. “Their matching funds combined with the total AWIEF grant funds deliver an overall industry impact of $181,014.10.”

All award winners were selected based on the impact of the Grant Program required all schools seeking awards to work with local businesses, secure letters of reference and gain matching funds as applicable to the dollars requested in their application.

The AWI Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity, on-profit foundation that seeks to identify resources that provide opportunities for education and professional development in the architectural woodwork industry. Its Vision is to support education and training for careers in the architectural woodwork industry. One of the AWIEF’s annual initiatives is awarding and distributing scholarships to worthy students who are promising future employees in the industry workforce. To learn more and to make a contribution to the AWIEF visit www.awinet.org > AWI Education Foundation.

 

Richard Christianson

President’s Message: Reasons to Celebrate

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The Woodwork Career Alliance ended the first six months of 2022 by setting a new threshold of candidates entering our Passport credentialing program, a whopping 892 new enrollees. We also awarded a record 852 credentials to students and professional woodworkers during the first half of the year. I am hopeful this is a tread that will continue because the woodworking industry needs qualified workers more than ever.

Greg Heuer

On a personal note, it is with great pride that I announce that the WCA Board of Directors has bestowed greatly-deserved recognition to one of our founding executives, who was a major contributing author to the WCA Manufacturing Skill Standards. Our education fund is being named “The Greg Heuer EDUcation Scholarship Fund.” Greg is retiring from WCA at the end of this year and his expertise will be sorely missed. Please join me in thanking Greg for all the many things he has done for our industry!

The first donation to the newly named fund was a $1,000 check from Greg and his wife, Linda, in the name of Greg’s mentor, teacher, fellow woodworker and father, Al Heuer. The second donation of $1,500 we received was from the Woodworking Machinery Industry Association (WMIA) and Wood Manufacturers of America (WMMA) stemming from a fundraiser held during the Woodworking Industry Conference in May. Thank you Greg and Linda! Thank you WMIA and WMMA!

Speaking of fundraisers, the International Woodworking Fair is organizing a silent auction with net proceeds benefitting the WCA. Dozens of items, including helmets signed by NFL starts Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes, and a guitar signed by rock legend Mick Jagger, are on the auction block. If you’re going to IWF, be sure to stop by  booth C2123 to see all of the bid items. Even if you are not attending the show this year, you can still participate in the auction online at expobid.co.

Also at IWF next week, WCA Board Member Bruce Spitz and I will present a three-hour workshop, “Building a Training Program for Your Workers.” The program is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Georgia World Congress Center.

Lastly, I would like to invite all to stop by our IWF boooth #A10809. We enjoy this opportunity to engage in one-on-one discussions with wood products manufacturers about how the WCA can help you find employees and develop your own training programs.

SEE YOU THERE!!

Scott Nelson
President
Woodwork Career Alliance of North America
snelsonwca@gmail.com

Richard Christianson

Welcome New Members & Sponsors!

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The Woodwork Career Alliance of North America is pleased to welcome the following new members and renewing sponsors.

Thank you for your membership and support!

New EDUcation™ Members
Bruce High School, Bruce, WI
Hacketstown High School, Hacketstown, NJ

Find WCA EDUcation™ woodworking programs in your area.

New MANufacturing™ Members
ACS Inc., Buford, GA

New Gold Sponsor
Diamond Vogel, Orange City, IA

INDustry™ Gold Sponsor Renewal
SCM North America, Duluth, GA
ShopBot Tools, Durham, NC

New Silver Sponsor
Accu-Router, Morrison, TN
Kreg Tool, Ankeny, IA

INDustry™ Silver Sponsor Renewal
Daubert Chemical, Chicago, IL
IMA Schmelling Group USA, Morrisville, NC

View all WCA INDustry™ Sponsors & Supporters.

Learn more about the benefits of becoming a WCA sponsor.

Richard Christianson

WCA Names Scholarship Fund in Honor of Greg Heuer

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Colleagues laud Heuer for his vision, dedication and leadership to create the WCA’s credentialling system.

NELLYSVILLE, Va. – As a fitting tribute to one of its most influential founding fathers, the Woodwork Career Alliance of North America announced the renaming of its teacher financial aid program to the Greg Heuer EDUcation Scholarship Fund.

Heuer, secretary of the WCA Board of Directors since its inception in 2007 and one of the first WCA chief skill evaluators, recently retired from the board. He is credited by his colleagues for being the driving force that led to the development of the WCA Skill Standards and Passport credentialling system. Together, the Skill Standards and Passport form the foundation of new and evolving WCA programs used by a growing number of schools and wood products companies to teach and train the next generation of woodworking professionals.

The scholarship fund benefits WCA EDUcation member schools. Woodworking instructors can apply for financial aid to help defray the cost of travel to industry events like the International Woodworking Fair or to cover the WCA membership fees for their students.

Greg and Linda Heuer

“The WCA Board of Directors chose to rename our scholarship fund The Greg Heuer EDUucation Scholarship Fund in honor of Greg’s lifetime of work dedicated to educating those of us within the woodworking industry,” said Scott Nelson, WCA president. “Greg has always been an advocate for the need of skill standards in the industry. He worked tirelessly to help create the Woodwork Career Alliance of North America and see his vision come to fruition.”

Heuer was a staff member of the Architectural Woodwork Institute (AWI) when he got involved with the WCA on the ground floor. During his 29-year career with the AWI, Heuer was especially instrumental with helping update the AWI’s Quality Standards. That experience, coupled with his prior career running an architectural woodworking company, made him uniquely qualified to lead the development of WCA’s consensus standards. He took the lead to create a wiki that allowed members of the WCA Skill Standards team across North America to collaborate online.

“Without Greg Heuer, the WCA wouldn’t exist!” said Patrick Molzahn, director of the Cabinetmaking and Millwork program at Madison College, and a founding board member of the WCA. “His vision and leadership early on helped shape this organization. We were able to pull together an impressive set of standards on a shoestring budget by utilizing a wiki. In a post-Covid world, we take online collaboration as routine. However, back in 2007, the world was a much different place. With Greg spearheading the charge, we accomplished this task with minimal face-to-face meetings, creating a set of standards for the wood industry at about one-tenth of the cost compared to the standards for the metal industry. Greg’s ability to leverage technology was just one of his many skills.”

“It’s hard to believe the WCA would be as successful as it is today without Greg’s guidance and dedication early on,” added Greg Larson, vice president of the WCA. “His ability to keep us on track, inspire us during our brainstorming sessions, and his relentless attention to detail certainly helped guarantee our success. I will always remember how he pushed us during our skill standard writing sessions to create the most concise and usable standards we could; I can’t imagine where we’d be today without Greg’s early support and hard work.”

Greg Heuer, one of the original WCA chief evaluators, leads a training workshop for woodworking instructors aspiring to become accredited skill evaluators.

Duane Griffiths, another founding member of the WCA board of directors, also gave high praise to Heuer for his indispensable contributions to the WCA. “Without a doubt, Greg has been one of the major leaders in WCA. Through his numerous contacts and hard work, he has advanced the organization. When individuals think of WCA they think of Greg.”

For his part, Heuer said he is humbled to have the “ongoing fund associated with my name.”

“Years ago, I felt my legacy to our industry would be the AWI Quality Standards. That turned out not to be the case. In fact, I couldn’t be more proud and grateful that my legacy to our industry includes the founding and nurturing of the Woodwork Career Alliance. This trade/craft has given so much to me and our family. The feeling that I may have returned a small portion of those gifts is heartwarming.”

Heuer added that he has been gratified to played an active part in helping a growing number of woodworking teachers join the WCA. “Influencing young people to think of our industry as a career, more than just a job, and showing them the pathways to success is vital for the continuation of woodwork manufacturing in North America. I think the future is bright and the possibilities are endless. I hope we can effectively track the young people who earn credentials in their careers. I hope we can tell success stories of WCA folks who rise to their full potential, contribute to their companies, and take personal pride in being practitioners of our trade.”

 

Richard Christianson

IWF Auction Supports Developing the Next Generation of Woodworkers

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Dozens of items including sligned collectables, get-away packages and much more will be displayed at IWF booth C2123.

Net proceeds from the special event will help fund woodworking skills development programs offered by the Woodwork Career Alliance to students and professionals.

ATLANTA – Early bidding is open for an online silent auction benefiting the Woodwork Career Alliance of North America (WCA). The auction will culminate with a live showing and final bidding of the lot items at the International Woodworking Fair (IWF). Net proceeds of each winning bid will help support WCA programs geared to develop and grow a skilled woodworking workforce in the United States and Canada.

A helmet signed by Patrick Maholmes is among the bid items that will support the Woodwork Career Alliance.

The digital auction will feature dozens of bid items spanning autographed collectibles, framed sports and entertainment memorabilia, fun-filled travel packages, jewelry, and much more. Among the auction items that will be displayed at booth C2123 include:

  • Tom Brady signed Tampa Bay Buccaneers helmet;
  • Patrick Mahomes signed Kansas City Chiefs helmet;
  • More full-size helmets signed by Dan Marino, Alvin Kamara, Tyreeq Hill, Rob Gronkowski, Jordan Davis, and many more;
  • John Smoltz and Tom Glavine signed baseball;
  • Bo Jackson signed baseball bat;
  •  Mick Jagger signed guitar;
  • Framed collectables including University of Georgia National Championship collage, Atlanta Braves World Series Champtionship collage, William Shatner signed Star Trek, and many more;
  • Tuscany (Italy) Luxury 7-Night Stay for 2;
  • Mykonos (Greece) Escape 5-Night Villa Stay for 4;
  • Plus, necklaces, pendants, bracelets, rings and more jewelry.

Join the Auction

The special fund-raising event to support the not-for-profit WCA is being presented through the collaboration of Expo Auctions of Sugar Hill, Ga., and IWF, North America’s largest industrial woodworking event. The show is owned by the Wood Machinery Manufacturers of America (WMMA) and the Woodworking Machinery Industry Association (WMIA).

The WCA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing and growing a skilled woodworking workforce in the United States and Canada. The WCA works with high school and postsecondary woodworking programs, as well as the woodworking industry. The backbone of WCA programming is its Skill Standards and Passport credentialing program.

“It’s the generous support of tradeshows like IWF and our industry sponsors that have helped WCA continue to develop new programs to better serve educational institutions and the industry to train the next generation of skilled woodworkers,” said WCA President Scott Nelson. “Our ultimate goal is to highlight the industry’s advances and best practices to get people interested in woodworking, while also offering them a professional career path.”

Separate silent auctions will take place on each of the first three days of IWF, Tuesday, Aug. 23 through Thursday, Aug. 25. Show attendees and exhibitors will be able to view most of the auction items displayed on tables located at booth C2123 of Building C of the Georgia World Congress Center. In addition, auction items are now available for preview and early bidding online.

Expo Auctions’ mobile bidding platform allows bidders to participate from anywhere in the world using their smartphones. Individuals who are unable to attend this year’s show can still bid on items to support a good cause.

As Easy as 1, 2, 3
To participate in the silent auction and review all auction items:

  1. Visit the official auction website expobid.co.
  2. Register your mobile phone number, email, and name.
  3. Submit your bid on the item or items of your choice.

A five-night stay for four at a villa in Mykonos, Greece, is on the auction block.

Note: Five selected bid items will close each day at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23, and Wednesday, Aug. 24. All remaining items will close at 4 p.m. EST on Thursday, Aug. 25. Text notifications will be sent to bid winners at the close of each day’s auction communicating payment options. All winning bids include free shipping within the continental U.S. Bid winners may also choose to pick up their items during designated hours at booth C2123.

Learn more about the WCA, its skill standards and credentialing programs at booth A10809 of Building A or visit woodworkcareer.org.

Join the Auction

About IWF
The International Woodworking Fair® is North America’s largest woodworking technology and design trade show and conference and a top destination for the global woodworking sector. IWF delivers the latest solutions in architectural woodwork, cabinetry, flooring, furniture manufacturing, engineered products, doors, windows, machinery, tools, metals, plastics and more. IWF is where the woodworking business does business. For more information, visit iwfatlanta.com.

About the Woodwork Career Alliance
The Woodwork Career Alliance of North America was founded in 2007 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation and is governed by a volunteer board of directors. The WCA’s mission is to develop and administer a unified set of Skill Standards for the wood products industry. Since 2011, WCA has developed observable and measurable performance standards and assessments for more than 300 woodworking machine operations. In addition, WCA has issued over 4,000 Passport credentials, a portable, personal permanent record documenting each holder’s record of woodworking skill achievements. More than 150 high schools and post-secondary schools throughout North America are WCA EDUcation™ members and a growing number of woodworking companies have joined the WCA as MANufacturing™ members. To learn more about the WCA and how to get involved with its programs, including sponsorship opportunities, visit WoodworkCareer.org.

Richard Christianson

Young Cabinetmakers Strut Their Stuff at SkillsUSA

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The reverberating buzz of saws cutting wood in the cavernous Georgia World Congress Center was music to Kent Gilchrist’s ears, technical chair of the annual SkillsUSA Cabinetmaking competition.

After having been cancelled in 2020 and held virtually last year, the national SkillsUSA Cabinetmaking competition returned as a live event in June. Some 45 high school students and 10 postsecondary students from across the country travelled to Atlanta to put their woodworking skills to the test. Each of them qualified to participate in the national competition by virtue of being crowned champion of his or her respective state’s contest.

In the end, three high school students and three postsecondary students stood triumphantly on the podium to receive their medals. The 2022 SkillsUSA Cabinetmaking winners included:

Secondary/High School
Gold: Hayden Clarke, College Station High School, College Station, TX
Silver: Joseph Heuberger, Area Career Center, Hammond, IN
Bronze: Clay Beal, West Henderson High School, Hendersonville, NC (WCA EDUcation member school)

Postsecondary/College
Gold: Brigg Edwards, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
Silver: Duncan McLeslie, Hennepin Tech College, Brooklyn Park, MN
Bronze: Alyssa Bealow, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI (WCA EDUcation member school)

SkillsUSA 2022 medclaists: Hayden Clarke, left, Joseph Hauberger, Clay Beal, Brigg Edwards, Duncan MacLeslie, and Alyssa Buelow.

“All-in-all it was a very positive experience,” Gilchrist said. “I think the students were excited to be back together again. Some of them competed in the virtual contest last year and now they are back together and competing live. You could tell that they really enjoyed being back together and being on a live stage with people watching them.”

The SkillsUSA Project
Gilchrist, a member of the WCA Board of Directors, has been involved with SkillsUSA for approximately 20 years as a member of the Architectural Woodwork Institute’s (AWI) SkillsUSA Committee. During the past 10 years he has pulled double duty by also serving directly with SkillsUSA as technical chairman of the cabinetmaking competition.

“The AWI SkillsUSA Committee is made up of industry professional who design the project for the contest and determine what tools, machinery, and techniques will be used to build it,” Gilchrist said. “We strive to design the project to match what industry is looking for in employees. We take into consideration what industry wants from an employee — the skills they need, and the machines and tools they use. We also look at the WCA Skill Standards as a guideline for the abilities that the students need and the expectations that we have for judging their performance at SkillsUSA.”

Gilchrist described this year’s project as an end table that included a cabinet with a skeleton frame. “It had contrasting solid wood and a top, with contrasting core material with a contrasting solid edge around it. There were lots of dadoes and half-lap joinery in solid wood.

“It was a challenging project from a number of perspectives because of all of the joinery involved and understanding the sequence of events that had to take place, how to read the drawings, and so forth,” Gilchrist continued. “I spoke to some of the advisors who were brand new to SkillsUSA and they were excited about being there and really appreciated how much more interesting this contest is than others they have been involved with. They start to understand more about what they should be teaching. One of our goals is to show schools what industry is looking for.”

Students had 8.5 hours to complete their project. Whereas some rose to the challenge, others buckled under the pressure of performing before a live audience with the added stress of a time limit.

Industry Suppliers Step Up to the Plate
The challenges were not limited to the student contestants. The cabinetmaking competition organizers faced obstacles as well.

“It was obviously a challenge having not being able to be in person together for the last two years,” Gilchrist said. “We experienced some unexpected challenges, some logistical and some related to finding replacements for some of the suppliers who decided not to return this year. But with every change comes opportunity and our team came through. We made new connections and brought in some new sponsors to our contest. Grizzly Industrial is now part of the contest and is very much interested in participating more in the future. SCM participated by providing the edgebander and taking part in the student orientation.

“One of the biggest changes was with the joinery the students used. Colonial Saw provided us with six Lamello Zeta P2 biscuit joiners. Another new sponsor, Rockler Woodworking, provided dust collection for the machines.”

2022 SkillsUSA Cabinetmaking Competition Contributors
American Packaging
Blum
Boyce Highlands
Darlington Veneer
DeWalt Power Tools
Flexible Materials
Grizzly Industrial
Hafele
Irwin Industrial Tools
Lamello/Colonial Saw
Richelieu
Rockler Woodworking
Rugby Architectural Building Products
Sawstop
SCM North America
Woodwork Careeer Alliance of North America

2022 SkillsUSA Cabinetmaking Competition Committee
Kent Gilchrist, Fremont Interiors, SkillsUSA technical chair/AWI SkillsUSA committee member
Kristine Cox, Rowland Woodworking, AWI SkillsUSA committee chair
Tony Aubin, Aubin Woodworking, AWI SkillsUSA committee member
Ted Robinson, Technique Manufacturing, AWI SkillsUSA committee member
John Volpe, Volpe Millwork, AWI SkillsUSA Committee member

More About SkillsUSA
SkillsUSA’s National Leadership and Skills Conference is the annual showcase for the best career and technical education students in the nation. This multi-faceted convention features the SkillsUSA Championships. where state champions from across the nation compete head-to-head for bronze, silver and gold medals in over 100 different trade, technical and leadership competitions.

Cabinetmaking was one of 16 manufacturing competitions at SkillsUSA held June 22-23, 2022, in Atlanta. There were 107 student SkillsUSA contests, each held with the help of industry, trade associations and labor. More than 6,500 students competed. They were supported by nearly 2,000 judges and contest organizers.

The competition and meeting space occupied 1.79 million square feet of the Georgia World Congress Center, equivalent to 31 football fields or 41 acres.

SkillsUSA will return to Atlanta June 19-23, 2023. Learn more at SkillsUSA.org.

Richard Christianson

President’s Message – Passport Credentialing Program Going Gangbusters

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WCA is truly experiencing a breakout year for new candidates entering our Passport credentialing program!

As of early May, we have issued Passports to over 750 new candidates. In addition, we have already awarded 336 credentials to students and professional woodworkers.

I believe the video we produced with AWFS and AWI last year has really helped our industry attract young people into the woodworking profession and made parents aware of all the viable careers in the secondary wood processing industry.

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Speaking of young woodworkers, the SkillsUSA National Cabinetmaking competition is just around the corner. It will be held June 20-24 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA. The AWI and WCA are among the proud partners of this annual event. If you have a chance to attend, so so. I guarantee that you will be totally amazed by the skills demonstrated by students of all levels.

Speaking of the Georgia World Congress Center, IWF 2022 is just around the corner. WCA Board Member Bruce Spitz and I will present a three-hour nuts-and-bolts workshop focused on helping woodworking companies develop in-house training programs.

The session, “Building a Training Program for Your Workers,” will be led by Scott Nelson, president of the WCA, and Bruce Spitz, former owner of Classic Millwork & Products and a member of the WCA Board of Directors. It is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Aug. 25 at the Georgia World Congress Center.

We’ll also be on hand at the WCA’s booth #10946. Stop by and learn more about our nationally-recognized Passport credentialing system, Woodworking Skill Standards, and opportunities to help us develop and grow a skilled woodworking workforce.

I hope to see you there!

Scott Nelson
President
Woodwork Career Alliance of North America
snelsonwca@gmail.com

Richard Christianson

Welcome New Members & Sponsors!

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The Woodwork Career Alliance of North America is pleased to welcome two new EDUcation™ member schools, one new MANufacturing™ members, and 10 renewing INDustry™ Sponsors.

Thank you for your membership and support!

New EDUcation™ Members
All Hands Boatworks, Milwaukee, WI
Green Hope High School, Cary, NC

Find WCA EDUcation™ woodworking programs in your area.

New MANufacturing™ Members
MJB Wood Group LLC, Dallas, TX

INDustry™ Gold Sponsor Renewals
Daniels Olsen, A Metro Hardwoods Company, Sioux Falls, SD
KCD Software, Cataumet, MA
National Building Material Distributors Association, Chicago, IL
Stiles Machinery, Grand Rapids, MI
Thermwood, Dale, IN
Wurth Group NA, Vernon Hills, IL

INDustry™ Silver Sponsor Renewals
Aiken Controls, Lenoir, NC
CR Onsrud, Trautman, NC
Sorrelli Woodwork Consultants, Brooklyn, NY
WDLusk Consulting, Lancaster, TX
Weima America, Fort Mill, SC

View all WCA INDustry™ Sponsors & Supporters.

Learn more about the benefits of becoming a WCA sponsor.

Richard Christianson

Video: Cat (Ross) Cole Discusses Her Project Management Career

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Cat Cole, then Ross, talks about her role as a project manager at Wisconsin Built. She also traces her pathway to a career in woodworking, including the training she received at Madison College’s Cabinetmaking and Millwork program.

Watch the video.

Read Cole’s Long & Winding Road Leads to a Woodworking Career.