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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

⚒️ Week 8 of 15 for Cohort 001. ⚒️ insPYRE students from Susannah's House helped set the horizontal bandsaw in the shop & made their first cuts on it. #knoxville #welder #charity #fabrication

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Cohort 001 spent a lot of this week at the table & in the classroom instead of the shop. They learned all about trophies & began planning for @redbull.com Gym Clash National Final happening in Nashville next month with @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social instructor Preston Farabow.

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Turns out you cannot weld a vibe. Last week Cohort #001 traded sparks for pencils and learned technical drawing in the @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social shop: blueprint reading, 3-D conceptualization & seeing one object from 3 sides (without breaking your brain). #knoxville #welder #charity #donate

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Hood down. Arc struck. Week 2 of insPYRE's Cohort #001, and the women of Susannah's House made their first welds. Week one was theory & forging. This week turned up the heat. Nobody forgets the first time they watch their own bead cool. Drop a 🔥 below for Cohort #001. #knoxville #welding

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social classroom teaches you what fire does. The shop teaches you to control it. Field trips allow you to see how things work in the real world. #knoxville #welding #welder #nonprofit

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

In the new @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social welding shop in Knoxville, there's little chance of high burns (due to pretty robust safety protocols!) despite working with fire on a daily basis. Stay safe out there, Knoxville! #charity #welding

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Before anyone touched an anvil, there was discussion and a solemn agreement. With @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social, you work as a team. You talk through what is hard instead of carrying it quietly. You ask. You listen. You communicate. #blacksmith #charity #knoxville #donate

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Every student who walked into @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social's first EVER day of welding school today already knew how to start over. Thread (1/5) #knoxville #welding #welder #charity #nonprofit

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social shop's rising, and so are the futures being built inside this classroom - back the work at inspyre.us. #charity #donate #nonprofit #knoxville #donor

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Most of insPYRE’s students will have worn labels they didn't choose - dropout, statistic, unemployable. This is one they get to choose for themselves. #nonprofit #knoxville #ppe #weldinglife

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Holston Gases has built a national footprint without losing the local feel - the kind of company that still shows up, still checks in, still treats a new #nonprofit shop like @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social the same as their biggest accounts. #knoxville #welding #welder

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The "One Hand One Pass" challenge is done. Welder Marissa Mitchell brought the fire: 1 welder walked away with eternal bragging rights, an ESAB Rogue EM 125 & a bespoke @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social trophy built live @ Pellissippi State Strawberry Plains, Knoxville. Drop a 🔥 if you were there.

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social shop is coming along with a fresh new look with 'Welding Arc Blue' - arc #welding uses a highly concentrated, intensely hot spark to create heat to melt and join metals at temperatures exceeding 10,000°F. Now that's a glow up. #knoxville #charity

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

insPYRE will be throwing sparks at the Dogwood Arts Festival this weekend! We're excited to partner with Dogwood Arts, The Maker City & Knox Makers on a brand new activation space at the Dogwood Arts Festival called the Maker Experience. #welding #welder #knoxville #nonprofit #DogwoodArtsFestival

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

insPYRE is hitting the local scene in Knoxville! Next up is the Dogwood Arts Festival on April 26-27. We'll be partnering with Dogwood Arts, The Maker City & Knox Makers on a brand new activation space at called the Maker Experience. Will we see you there? #welding #welder #knoxville #nonprofit

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Say hey to Preston! Preston bends metal for a living. He is a professional artist who also owns and operates Aespyre Metals at Ironwood Studios, a gallery and working studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. #welding #welder #knoxville #nonprofit

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

insPYRE will be throwing sparks at the 5th annual Day in the Dirt Down South this weekend. See you in Dade City! #dayinthedirtdownsouth #welding #welder #knoxville #nonprofit

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insPYRE @inspyreinstitute.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

insPYRE will provide the tools, through metalwork, to empower students to take steel & other scrap metals that have been left behind, abused and neglected, and we will transform them into beautiful works. The catharsis that occurs during the processes we teach will truly change the shape of things.

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