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Under the Surface: Disabled Navy Veteran Rediscovers His Skills and Confidence with TSTC’s MEI Program Texas State Technical College’s North Texas campus partnered with Compass Datacenters, a data center developer, to create the MEI (Mechanical, Electrical and Information Technology) Data Center Pathway program. The 12-week program trains participants to maintain equipment in the rapidly growing...

(HUTTO, Texas) – Charli Wright wants the next generation of women welders to walk into the industry with confidence. Once one of the few women in a male-dominated field, she now helps students believe in their skills and their place in the trade. Wright entered almost on a whim. She initially took welding to support...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Much like skilled tradespeople preparing for a project deadline, 16 Building Construction students from Texas State Technical College’s Harlingen campus are preparing for the ultimate test of their technical mastery. The students will compete at the 2026 SkillsUSA Texas Postsecondary Leadership and Skills Conference in Corpus Christi April 8-11. The group is...

(ROSENBERG, Texas) – Six HVAC students from Texas State Technical College’s Fort Bend County campus traded their lab time for a front-row seat at the Fluke Xcelerate Thought Leadership Day on Monday, March 9, in Austin. Xavier Gonzalez, Austin Marshall, Edwin Padron, Ari Rauda, Jesse Tabango and Kory Walther attended the event, which was a...

(SWEETWATER, Texas) – A strong bond has formed among many of the welding students at Texas State Technical College’s Sweetwater campus. From helping each other in the lab to playing pool in the student center, these second-semester students are making sure teamwork pays off with a certificate of completion. “There is a lot of fun...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – Aaron Norman, of Big Sandy, was eight years old when he decided he wanted to work for mining equipment manufacturer Komatsu like his father. “They had a family day, and I said, ‘One day I want to work here,’” he said. “I wanted to build the loaders.” After graduating from high school,...