{"id":670796,"date":"2026-05-28T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670796\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:00:09","slug":"boone-county-technical-center-students-win-nucor-steel-sculpture-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/670796\/","title":{"rendered":"Boone County Technical Center students win Nucor steel sculpture contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>APPLE GROVE, W.Va. (WCHS) \u2014 Nucor Steel West Virginia recognized a team of students for transforming metal into a sculpture representing Mountain State culture.<\/p>\n<p>Boone County Technical Center students won a sculpture competition with a piece entitled \u201cTiny the Coal Mining Bear,\u201d according to a news release from Nucor.<\/p>\n<p>The release said a team cut and welded strands of steel to create a bear donning a helmet and belt while carrying a hammer and lunchbox.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tiny finds a new home at Nucor's Apple Grove office. (Nucor Steel West Virginia)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/bcc9130e-4c4e-4689-a514-feae84d33b9b-Screenshot20260528145647.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tiny finds a new home at Nucor&#8217;s Apple Grove office. (Nucor Steel West Virginia)<\/p>\n<p>Nucor provided 500 pounds of steel along with the theme of hometown pride to five teams, including students from Lincoln County High School, Mason County Career Center, Putnam Career &amp; Technical Center and Roane-Jackson Technical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Technical judges and thousands of community votes were considered to select a winner.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Tiny will be displayed at the entry to Nucor\u2019s Apple Grove Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"APPLE GROVE, W.Va. (WCHS) \u2014 Nucor Steel West Virginia recognized a team of students for transforming metal into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-670796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}