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So I haven't been able to access my senior blog for about a week... I wrote this entry a while ago but only now have I been able to post it.

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Friday was the last day of my first week of senior projects! Lisa and I walked all around the Clackamas location taking pictures and filming for the new OIW promotional video on the website. Lisa let me

This was the first time I’d really seen the inside of all the bays. Some of the bays were dirty and gritty, and just what you would expect the inside of a welder’s workshop to look like. But other areas were spotless with white walls and linoleum, like the laser room where I even got to see some of the nuclear products they’re working on.  There was another machine that looked just like the laser, but it was an automatic welder. You can program the machine to move in certain ways, and then it uses its mechanical arm to weld things together at ridiculously high temperatures, that the welders can’t. One other thing that was pretty cool was the water buoy they were building that would harness wave energy and would produce enough energy to power 40 homes. 

After we filmed the Clackamas location, we went out to lunch at The Ram, (DELICIOUS cheeseburgers btw) and then headed over to the Vancouver site.

The Vancouver trip turned out to be kind of a bust though. 3 of the 4 things we came to film were under construction or tucked away under white tents. Although there were only two bays at the Vancouver facility, they were probably twice as big as the ones at Clackamas. But Lisa and I were definitely feeling it after filming for five hours and walking around the bays.