Hypertherm awards 2021 educational grants to 12 North American schools

Hypertherm, a Hanover, N.H.-based manufacturer of industrial cutting systems and software, has announced the recipients of its 2021 Spark Something Great educational grant. The grant program, now in its seventh year, is designed to place the latest plasma technology into schools so the next generation of metalworkers can train on the equipment found in workplaces.

This year’s winning schools were selected from a pool of 231 high schools, vocational schools, and colleges from the U.S. and Canada. Each of the 12 schools will receive a Hypertherm Powermax45 XP plasma system and in-person training from a Hypertherm industrial cutting expert. This year’s recipients are:

• Bluestone High School, Skipwith, Va.
• Clark County Area Technology Center, Winchester, Ky.
• Felicity-Franklin High School, Felicity, Ohio
• George Stevens Academy, Blue Hill, Maine
• Iron Eagle Welding Academy, Stockton, Mo.
• Morrilton High School, Morrilton, Ark.
• North American Trade School, Baltimore, Md.
• South Carolina School of Welding LLC, Beech Island, S.C.
• Spotswood High School, Penn Laird, Va.
• Terre Haute North Vigo High School, Terre Haute, Ind.
• University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, Tenn.
• Vincent Massey Secondary, Windsor, Ont.