TOMAHAWK – Two Tomahawk High School (THS) students were recently recognized for their performances in a welding competition.
Recent THS graduate Nathan Kurth and current THS student Connor Vanderwyst were among area high school students honored at the 2025 Welding and Machine Tool Awards Banquet, hosted by the Central Wisconsin Manufacturing Alliance (CWIMA) in Wausau last month.
A total of 15 area high schools took part in the contest, in which students were provided materials and a blueprint and had to fabricate the weldment using their weld process of choice.
Kurth and Vanderwyst took first place overall as a team, and each placed in the top ten in the individual welding competition.
For his fifth-place finish, Vanderwyst received a $1,600.00 scholarship from CWIMA. Kurth was awarded $1,300.00 for placing eighth.
The scholarships were offered for Nicolet Technical College, Northcentral Technical College or Mid-State Technical College.
Techonolgy Education teacher Brian Schiltz thanked CWIMA for hosting the event and awarding over $30,000 in scholarships.
He also gave a shoutout to the School District of Tomahawk for offering tech ed programs and local partners, including Steve Daigle of Daigle Brothers Inc., “for supporting hands-on learning through the THS Youth Apprenticeship program.”
“Tomahawk has much to celebrate, and even more to look forward to,” Schiltz said.
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