VoyageArc

Spark an Interest in Welding

The Voyage™ Arc Virtual Reality Welding Career Exploration Tool is an interactive and immersive classroom platform that introduces welding fundamentals to students. It simulates real-world scenarios in an exciting, fun and profoundly engaging VR environment to jumpstart conversations about what welding is, how it impacts our lives, and why it is an exciting career option.

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Why is Career Exploration Important?

of skilled manufacturing jobs go unfilled each year due to a skills gap

unfilled jobs expected by 2025 due to skills gap

new welders needed annually to offset retirements and keep up with growing demand

of companies are experiencing a shortage of qualified workers

Engaging Student Adventure

The Voyage™ Arc Virtual Reality Welding Career Exploration Tool transports students into a day-in-the-life adventure of the welding trade. Students navigate through practical welding applications at an amusement park and learn basic welding fundamentals - including the parts of a weld, what takes place to make a weld, what equipment is used, and more. Ten bite-sized learning lessons are guided by continuous narration and on-screen cues.

Understand Common Welding Terms and Applications

Learn Key Skillsets Necessary in Welding

Apply Knowledge in Realistic Welding Scenarios

Students Earn Points; Instructors Track Progress

Senior, St. Joseph Academy, OH

"It taught me the more nitty-gritty aspects [of welding], the different types of welds, as well as the different parts – the legs, the face and the toe of the actual bead itself. I loved the tutorial that provided the background and then gave you feedback at the end to show you how you did."

Samantha Krankowski

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A Classroom-Ready Tool Built with Educators in Mind

The Voyage™ Arc Virtual Reality Welding Career Exploration Tool is classroom-ready and runs pre-loaded software developed exclusively by Lincoln Electric. This welding discovery module can supplement existing curricula or become the foundation for new curricula.

• Students can save their progress and pick up where they left off
• Teachers can monitor scores, skills comprehension and
completed lessons
• The optional LAN Controller box provides analytic software
to track data

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Resources

Voyage Arc Helps Girls Summer Camp Introduce STEM & Skilled Trades Career Exploration

Vermont Works For Woman & Rosie’s Girls summer camp implement Virtual Reality to deliver engaging and cost-effective approach to introducing the welding trade.

VoyageArc Introduces Students to the Welding Trade

Students from the Honors Engineering and Design program at St. Joseph Academy, an all-girls high school in the west suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, got acquainted with the basics of welding via Lincoln Electric’s new Voyage Arc virtual reality headsets.

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Welding-focused VR Headset Designed to Inspire and Engage Younger Students with Immersive Experience

Lincoln Electric launches Voyage™ Arc Virtual Reality Headset to attract young people to welding careers. Students learn about GMAW and SMAW, and critical skills such as travel speed, position and contact tip to work distance.

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