Welding Digest

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Hip Hop Meets Welding 

Marc and Adina Levin, cofounders of Welder Underground (WUG), a welding and metal fabrication apprenticeship program, took an audacious approach to entice six young, diverse New York City, N.Y., apprentices into trades career opportunities: They recruited the young adults to fabricate an 18-ft-tall steel statue of Rappin’ Max Robot, a hip-hop comic book character developed by Bronx, N.Y., artist Eric Orr.