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June 30, 2024
Navy veteran’s former military job and encounter with popular actor lead him to TSTC
(HARLINGEN, Texas) – For U.S. Navy veteran Axel Iracheta, his former job as an aviation boatswain’s mate on an aircraft carrier docked in California — and a brief handshake with a movie star — led him to pursue an education in aviation maintenance at Texas State Technical College. “My job was doing some maintenance on...
June 30, 2024
TSTC students get hands-on with robotic surgical system at area hospital
(HARLINGEN, Texas) – A group of Texas State Technical College Surgical Technology students recently engaged with one of the latest technological medical advancements, the da Vinci Xi robotic surgical system, in a one-day hands-on training session at Valley Regional Medical Center in Brownsville. The training was provided by American biotechnology company Intuitive Surgical Inc. It...
June 28, 2024
Culinary students showcased at food festival
(HUTTO, Texas) – Sugar, spice and everything nice happen at Texas State Technical College’s East Williamson County campus restaurant, Level 3. TSTC Culinary Arts program students Francisco Delatorre, Jacob Johnson and Arcadia Montez designed a three-course-style menu for the food festival held on June 27. All three students are in their fifth semester at TSTC....
June 27, 2024
TSTC students compete in and experience 2024 SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference
(ATLANTA, Georgia) – Students representing six of Texas State Technical College’s 11 campuses have taken part this week in the 2024 SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 40 students from the Abilene, Harlingen, Marshall, North Texas, Sweetwater and Waco campuses arrived on Monday, June 24, and early Tuesday, June 25,...
June 27, 2024
TSTC students feel confident about testing for their CDLs
(ROSENBERG, Texas) – After weeks of training, students could recently be seen inspecting the truck that will carry them over the finish line of the Professional Driving Academy program at Texas State Technical College. Each student must pass a series of upcoming tests designed to showcase their skills and aptitude in order to earn their...
June 27, 2024
TSTC introduces Hometown High School Opportunity Scholarship
(ABILENE, Texas) – Texas State Technical College is offering financial assistance to students from four West Texas school districts. The Hometown High School Opportunity Scholarship focuses on 2024 graduates of the Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood and Sweetwater school districts. Once an eligible student completes the enrollment process, funds will be put into the student’s bank account....
June 27, 2024
Vigilance is vital to road safety, TSTC CDL trainers say
(MARSHALL, Texas) – Wayne Bradley, a commercial driver’s license (CDL) trainer for Texas State Technical College’s Professional Driving Academy at the Marshall campus, works hard to instill safe driving habits in his students. “When they come to a CDL program, we’re taking an existing driver and we’re upgrading them to a professional driving operator so...
June 27, 2024
NexTier representatives discuss career opportunities with TSTC students
(ABILENE, Texas) – Some Texas State Technical College students learned during a recent employer spotlight that they may find a successful career with NexTier Completion Solutions, an oil field service provider. NexTier representatives Jim Jenson and Mike Johnson discussed the company’s job opportunities with Electrical Power and Controls program and Industrial Systems program students. Many...
June 26, 2024
TSTC graduate continues grandfather’s lineworker legacy
(MARSHALL, Texas) – The Career Services department at Texas State Technical College recently estimated that Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO) has hired about 90 of the college’s Electrical Lineworker and Management Technology graduates in the last 10 years. One of those graduates is Marshall native Ryan Hall, who followed in his grandfather’s footsteps and became...
June 23, 2024
International Women in Engineering Day: TSTC celebrates women pursuing technical careers
(HARLINGEN, Texas) – International Women in Engineering Day, observed annually on June 23, not only honors the achievements of women in engineering-related fields, but also celebrates the young women who will follow in their footsteps or blaze trails of their own. Two such young women are Texas State Technical College students Ana Garcia and Taylor...
June 23, 2024
TSTC instructor shares importance of safety training for future workers in building construction
(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Safety is a top priority in many of the programs taught at Texas State Technical College not only during National Safety Month in June, but also throughout the rest of the year. Hector Rosa is TSTC’s Building Construction Technology program team lead at TSTC’s Harlingen location. Recently he talked about how safety...
June 21, 2024
TSTC staff members participate in Waco Habitat for Humanity Women Build 2024
(WACO, Texas) – Several women from Texas State Technical College’s Waco campus donned hard hats and pink T-shirts to participate in the Waco Habitat for Humanity Women Build 2024 on Friday, June 21. The volunteers worked at a home under construction at 2807 Flint Ave. in Waco. The project began on June 8 and is...
June 21, 2024
TSTC program prepares graduates to change lives for the better
(ROSENBERG, Texas) – Connie Schaaf, statewide department chair for the Chemical Dependency Counseling program at Texas State Technical College, has found that nearly everyone she has ever met has been or knows someone who has been affected by substance abuse. Schaaf said substance abuse affects not only the person who is struggling with it, but...
June 21, 2024
TSTC graduate, now associate provost, has long history with the college
(MARSHALL, Texas) – Texas State Technical College graduate Nathan Cleveland seemed destined to be a machinist from an early age. No one could have predicted that someday he would become associate provost at the college’s Marshall campus. Cleveland said growing up in a family interested in science, technology, engineering and math gave him and his...
June 21, 2024
TSTC student eyes career in underwater welding
(BROWNWOOD, Texas) – Dakota Jones hopes to break barriers in the welding industry. Studying for a certificate of completion in Welding Technology at Texas State Technical College, the Wyoming native and Bangs High School graduate has her sights set on a career in underwater welding. “A lot of people never expected me, as a female,...
June 20, 2024
TSTC students ready to represent West Texas at SkillsUSA national conference
(ABILENE, Texas) – When college students begin competing at the 2024 SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference on Monday, June 24, Texas State Technical College’s West Texas locations will be well represented. Five students, representing TSTC’s Abilene, Breckenridge and Sweetwater locations, will be in Atlanta, Georgia, along with fellow state gold medalists. TSTC’s students are...
June 19, 2024
Want to know about to-go boxes? Just ask these TSTC Industrial Systems grads
(MARSHALL, Texas) – When restaurant customers are handed to-go boxes for their leftovers, most do not know where the boxes come from. But Texas State Technical College Industrial Systems graduates Hunter Burney and Matthew Ham know all about them. Both are employees at food service packaging manufacturer Genpak’s Carthage plant, which ships out an average...
June 19, 2024
TSTC’s student-operated restaurant to open July 3
(WACO, Texas) – Texas State Technical College’s Culinary Arts program in Waco opens its student-operated restaurant for the summer semester on Wednesday, July 3. The restaurant is at the Greta W. Watson Culinary Arts Center on Campus Drive. The restaurant is open to the public, but reservations are required. Meals will be served from 11...
June 16, 2024
Representatives from Clean Energy Services visit TSTC for employer spotlight
(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Representatives from Clean Energy Services visited with some students and graduates of Texas State Technical College’s Electrical Lineworker and Management Technology program during a recent employer spotlight at TSTC’s Harlingen location. Clean Energy Services is a Texas-based independent service provider for the wind energy, solar energy, and battery energy storage industries. Alicia...
June 16, 2024
TSTC’s TECHcelerate conference is eye-opening for high school counselors, CTE teachers
(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Texas State Technical College recently welcomed more than two dozen high school counselors and career and technical education (CTE) teachers to experience the college’s technologies and hands-on labs during its second annual TECHcelerate, a weeklong technical education conference with two different sessions at TSTC’s Harlingen location. Rebeca Villanueva-Hernandez, TSTC’s enrollment lead in...
June 16, 2024
Hacked off about getting hacked, TSTC student pursues Cybersecurity degree
(HARLINGEN, Texas) – When he was a teenager, Texas State Technical College student Seth Cancino’s love for video games sparked his interest in video game design — until he became the victim of a dastardly deed. “I used to have a Microsoft email account that was set up so I could play video games on...
June 14, 2024
Father and son bond over welding experiences at TSTC
(WACO, Texas) – Bill Martin and his son, Zander, see a lot of each other. The Martins live in Killeen and commute together to the Welding Technology program at Texas State Technical College’s Waco campus. They are both pursuing certificates of completion and are scheduled to graduate in August. “It makes it a lot easier,”...
June 14, 2024
TSTC hosts TECHcelerate technical education conference
(WACO, Texas) – Several career and technical education counselors and teachers from throughout Texas learned about technical programs at Texas State Technical College’s second annual TECHcelerate conference held June 10-11 and 13-14. The conference’s purpose was to show how TSTC fits into building a strong Texas workforce. “I hope they take back basically to the...
June 13, 2024
Personal challenges strengthen TSTC Chemical Dependency Counseling instructors’ resolve to help others
(MARSHALL, Texas) – Three Texas State Technical College graduates, Ivy Delong, Amy Gonzales and Jamie Thompson, proved that the path to success can be found even in the hardest of times and now are instructors for the college’s Chemical Dependency Counseling program. Connie Schaaf, director of alignment and program team lead for the program, said...
June 11, 2024
June 14 has special meaning for three TSTC Paramedic students
(ABILENE, Texas) – For many people, June 14 is observed as Flag Day. For three Texas State Technical College Paramedic students, the date has added meaning. U.S. Army veterans David Aman, Sarah Franklin and Shawn James take a few minutes every year to celebrate June 14 as the birthday of their military branch. On June...
June 11, 2024
TSTC program prepares students for occupational safety careers in any industry
(ROSENBERG, Texas) – Almost any industry, from retail and medical to construction and manufacturing, needs to comply with safety and environmental standards. These standards help protect people as well as the earth from dangerous situations and materials. The Occupational Safety and Environmental Compliance program at Texas State Technical College provides students with the knowledge and...
June 10, 2024
TSTC offers students opportunities to learn about forklifts
(WACO, Texas) – Some students at Texas State Technical College get to learn about forklifts through inspections and hands-on experience. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration sets standards for the use of forklifts. Workers under 18 years of age in nonagricultural employment cannot legally operate forklifts, according to the federal Fair...
June 9, 2024
TSTC degrees lead husband and wife to jobs with wind turbine manufacturer
(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Ruben Lopez and Reyna Cardenas-Lopez are not a typical married couple. Not only did they recently graduate together from Texas State Technical College with associate degrees in Wind Energy Technology, but they also found jobs before they graduated with German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex Group and are helping with its installation of...
June 9, 2024
Air Force veteran and TSTC graduate finds job success with state military organization
(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Juan Dominguez knew he would find his niche in the Texas workforce after serving for 22 years in the U.S. Air Force, but first he had to figure out what he wanted to do. Dominguez said he became interested in the field of heating, ventilation and air conditioning after being introduced to...
June 9, 2024
TSTC students increase auto collision repair skills with suspension overhaul
(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Some students in the Auto Collision and Management Technology program at Texas State Technical College’s Harlingen location are sharpening their skills by learning how to do a suspension overhaul on a 1993 Chevrolet Silverado. TSTC instructor Jesus Reyna assigned the hands-on project at the start of the summer semester as part of...
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