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Claims Top Honors in 36th NTMA/NIMS National Competition
Seven regional champions - Craig W. Hargrave, Rachael Lockett, James Moody, Andrew Sears, Lucas Starch, Michael Villegas, and Brendan Wimer - from around the United States converged in Cleveland in late April to participate in the 36th annual NTMA/NIMS National Apprentice Competition.
These regional champions spent two grueling days producing projects with lathes, mills, and surface grinders and demonstrating their general knowledge in a written exam.
Andrew Sears of Six Sigma Inc. (www.sixsigmausa.com) took first place in the competition. Sears has been in the apprentice program at Six Sigma, a shop that designs, engineers and builds assembly equipment for large manufacturers, for nearly five years.
His shop foreman, Robert Anderson, said one of Sears's best talents is his ability to listen and absorb whatever's being told to him, then he carries out the jobs he's given.
Lucas Starch of Mahuta Tool and Manufacturing (http://www. mahutatool.com/) came in second and James Moody of R & M Manufacturing, of Niles, Mich., finished in third place.
The champions were named at an awards banquet on April 26, presided over by the Roy Sweatman of Southern Manufacturing Technologies, Inc., of Tampa, Fla., chairman of the National Tooling & Machining Association.
Sweatman linked the availability...