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Students with disabilities ‘bring a light' to welding group

Student volunteers with AWS CEO Gary Konarska (third from right) in September.Miami-based AWS has partnered with local school for more than 30 yearsAll those thousands of annual mailings from the American Welding Society don't stuff themselves.For more than 30 years, the Miami, Fla.-based Society has sent important industry news to its members around the world with help from students of the Miami Learning Experience.The school is dedicated to children and adults with intellectual disabilities. For an hour every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, MLE high schoolers aged 18 to 21 are bused to AWS headquarters to support the association's education and certification departments… Read More