Marion High School students received fourth place March 4 at the Kansas Metal Inert Gas Welding Institute invitational welding contest in Beloit.

Team members were required to interpret blueprints to correctly place and perform five welds, and were given a written test on MIG welding.

Students competing from Marion included William Adame, Nicholas Stuchlik, Bryce Shults, and Jeremy Hett.

Adame placed 7th, Stuchlik placed 14th, and Shults placed 28th individually.