{
    "meta": {
        "api": "VoTechWorks Curriculum API",
        "version": "1.0",
        "base": "https://www.newschoolworks.online/api/v1",
        "docs": "https://www.newschoolworks.online/api/",
        "generated": "2026-09-26T09:15:21+00:00",
        "license": "Curriculum text © newSchoolWorks.com (Urbanicity). Free for study and non-commercial reuse with attribution to https://votechworks.com; commercial licensing on request.",
        "review": "Lesson pages, practice questions and resource lists are AI-drafted and carry status=draft until reviewed by a licensed professional in that trade or the certifying body; status=reviewed marks verified material.",
        "client": "anonymous",
        "rate_limit_per_hour": 300
    },
    "panel": {
        "id": 1,
        "slug": "trade-welder",
        "title": "Welder",
        "orientation": "portrait",
        "status": "reading",
        "word_count": 151,
        "qr_code": "FF9K7Z",
        "art_path": "/images/art/kpqr2n_20260925_065939.jpg",
        "pdf_path": null,
        "series_id": 1,
        "series": "A",
        "series_name": "What a Trade Is",
        "program_id": 1,
        "program_slug": "welding",
        "program_name": "Welding",
        "gallery_id": 10,
        "gallery": "G10",
        "gallery_name": "Hall of Makers",
        "updated_at": "2026-09-25 06:59:39.145812-04",
        "links": {
            "self": "https://www.newschoolworks.online/api/v1/museum/panels/trade-welder",
            "public": "https://votechworks.com/panel.php?slug=trade-welder",
            "program": "https://www.newschoolworks.online/api/v1/programs/welding"
        },
        "art_url": "https://votechworks.com/images/art/kpqr2n_20260925_065939.jpg",
        "body_md": "**What.** A welder joins metal with heat until two pieces become one. Every ship, tower, pipeline and bridge is held together by welds, and every weld is a decision: process, position, filler, heat.\n\n**Tools.** Arc machine (stick, MIG, TIG, flux-core), grinder, clamps, helmet with auto-darkening lens, chipping hammer, wire brush, the print with its welding symbols.\n\n**A day.** Read the print. Fit and tack the joint. Set amperage and wire speed. Run the bead in the flat, horizontal, vertical or overhead position the job demands. Grind, inspect, log. Repeat until the shift ends or the inspector signs.\n\n**Pay.** $40k entry to $75k experienced; pipe, pressure-vessel and underwater welders earn well beyond.\n\n**Path.** Universal core → SMAW → GMAW/FCAW → GTAW → pipe → fabrication. Credentials: AWS SENSE, NCCER Welding L1–4, AWS D1.1 Certified Welder, ASME Section IX pipe.\n\n**See it.** Live welding booth, Gallery G3, behind the glass. Wear the glasses.",
        "readings": [
            {
                "id": 6,
                "slug": "read-trade-welder",
                "panel_id": 1,
                "title": "Welder",
                "level": "general",
                "body_md": "## Welder\n\nThis reading sits behind the *What a Trade Is* panel for the trade named below. The panel gives the trade in 250 words; this gives the trade its context — what the work is, how it is learned here, and what it costs and pays.\n\n### The panel text\n**What.** A welder joins metal with heat until two pieces become one. Every ship, tower, pipeline and bridge is held together by welds, and every weld is a decision: process, position, filler, heat.\n\n**Tools.** Arc machine (stick, MIG, TIG, flux-core), grinder, clamps, helmet with auto-darkening lens, chipping hammer, wire brush, the print with its welding symbols.\n\n**A day.** Read the print. Fit and tack the joint. Set amperage and wire speed. Run the bead in the flat, horizontal, vertical or overhead position the job demands. Grind, inspect, log. Repeat until the shift ends or the inspector signs.\n\n**Pay.** $40k entry to $75k experienced; pipe, pressure-vessel and underwater welders earn well beyond.\n\n**Path.** Universal core → SMAW → GMAW/FCAW → GTAW → pipe → fabrication. Credentials: AWS SENSE, NCCER Welding L1–4, AWS D1.1 Certified Welder, ASME Section IX pipe.\n\n**See it.** Live welding booth, Gallery G3, behind the glass. Wear the glasses.\n\n### Reading further\nThe panel's series (What a Trade Is) hangs together in Gallery G10, the Hall of Makers. Each panel in the series is printed at 48 inches on aluminum composite, lent to schools and libraries, and archived here with its reading.\n\n### The program behind the panel: Welding\n9.0–12.0 months full-time. Curriculum: Safety; SMAW; GMAW; FCAW; GTAW; blueprint & symbols; metallurgy; oxy-fuel & plasma cutting; pipe welding; fabrication.\n\n**Courses**\n- 1. Universal Core: Safety, Math, Communication & Career — 148 hr (core), $1,185\n- 2. Safety — 103 hr (trade), $1,850\n- 3. SMAW — 103 hr (trade), $1,850\n- 4. GMAW — 102 hr (trade), $1,830\n- 5. FCAW — 102 hr (trade), $1,830\n- 6. GTAW — 102 hr (trade), $1,830\n- 7. Blueprint & symbols — 102 hr (trade), $1,830\n- 8. Metallurgy — 102 hr (trade), $1,830\n- 9. Oxy-fuel & plasma cutting — 102 hr (trade), $1,830\n- 10. Pipe welding — 102 hr (trade), $1,830\n- 11. Fabrication — 102 hr (trade), $1,830\n- 12. Capstone Project — 216 hr (capstone), $2,160\n- 13. Externship / Worksite Placement — 324 hr (externship), $1,295\n- 14. Certification Exam Preparation — 90 hr (exam_prep), $900\n\n**Credentials:** ASME Sec. IX pipe; AWS D1.1 Certified Welder; AWS SENSE L1-2; NCCER Welding L1-4.\n\nEvery course above carries a written exam, an observed skills demonstration, a signed log and a safety audit; the program ends with the capstone, the externship and the credential exam.",
                "published_at": "2026-09-07 03:59:18.782239-04",
                "links": {
                    "self": "https://www.newschoolworks.online/api/v1/museum/readings/read-trade-welder",
                    "public": "https://votechworks.com/reading.php?slug=read-trade-welder"
                }
            }
        ],
        "people": [],
        "infographics": []
    }
}