UBTech graduate Chandler Vincent has accomplished so much in his 20 year of life and a recent article in ‘The Welder’ magazine shares his story. About five years ago he was dropping out of high school and his future was unsure. It was at this time his mother urged him to try skills classes and that’s when he found welding. It was his mother and his welding teachers that changed his life, shares the magazine article. It was his passion and goal setting that lead him to open his own welding company at 16, earn a two year welding degree at UBTech, win the U.S. Invitational Welding Trials and then represent the U.S. at WorldSkills in Abu Dhabi in 2017. There was a drive and commitment that few would know. “I shut down my business temporarily when I moved to college because I knew I would be training for the competition every day. I decided at a really young age that I was going to be the U.S. representative at WorldSkills no matter what it took. I started training about a year before the first pretrial process,” Chandler explains in the article. “When I got invited to compete at nationals, I shut down everything and I went without having an income for about two years. I lived off of nothing and trained 15 to 16 hours every day for a solid year.” After all he has achieved he is giving back in all ways he can, including partnering with the American Welding Society and Lincoln Electric to aid the next group of U.S. welders to prepare them for WorldSkills 2019.
