{"id":41112,"date":"2025-09-19T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/union-county-students-earn-welding-certificates-before-graduation-dual-enrollment-program-launches\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T20:00:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T00:00:34","slug":"union-county-students-earn-welding-certificates-before-graduation-dual-enrollment-program-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/19\/union-county-students-earn-welding-certificates-before-graduation-dual-enrollment-program-launches\/","title":{"rendered":"Union County Students Earn Welding Certificates Before Graduation | Dual Enrollment Program Launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N4KELkujnmM?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Thanks to a new dual enrollment welding certificate course at Spartanburg Community College\u2019s Union County campus, 16 students are gaining hands-on experience and industry credentials \u2014 all before they even graduate high school.<\/p>\n<p>The program is made possible through a generous donation from Barbara Rippy, which covers equipment, materials, and scholarships in perpetuity for future students. Students in this program will finish high school career-ready, equipped with certifications that are highly sought after in local manufacturing and welding industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a new dual enrollment welding certificate course at Spartanburg Community College\u2019s Union County campus, 16 students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}