White Family Foundation funds Scholarships

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Thanks to the White Family Foundation, The Steel Yard will be operating the biggest summer youth program in our history!  Every year, we host week-long educational summer camps in Metals and Jewelry for youth ages 14 through 18.  The Foundation has generously awarded us close to $10,000 to provide scholarships for youth to attend Camp Metalhead (welding) and Camp Copperhead (jewelry) in July 2020.

Camp Metalhead offers the opportunity to rip through steel with gas torches – and teaches how to fuse it back together with a 10,000-degree electrical arc. 

Camp Copperhead sees students sawing, filing, soldering scoring and bending their way to their own jewelry designs. 

And once the week-long camp is over?  All participants can come to open studio sessions – free of charge – to continue their work or learn something new.  Scholarships applications will be available later in the Spring of 2020 – so stay tuned!  Kudos to the White Family Foundation for opening the doors to the industrial arts for countless young people throughout Rhode Island.