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(RED OAK, Texas) – U.S. Army veteran David Eastep, of Crandall, was hesitant to get his college degree, until he took a fellow veteran’s advice and enrolled at Texas State Technical College. “He started going to school here and was telling me about it,” Eastep said. “I came up and talked to an enrollment coach...

TSTC’s Building Construction program expands to meet statewide need   As Texas continues to experience rapid growth, the demand for skilled construction workers is outpacing the supply — a gap that Texas State Technical College has worked to fill through the expansion of its Building Construction program across the state. TSTC now offers its Associate...

(ROSENBERG, Texas) – Following a five and a half-year tenure as an educator and department lead, Brookshire native Melody Jenkins realized that the leadership skills she honed are just as valuable in her new career direction. Jenkins, a student at Texas State Technical College’s Fort Bend County campus, is working towards an Associate of Applied...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Texas State Technical College’s accelerated training solutions department at the Harlingen campus recently launched a weeklong America’s Cutting-Edge (ACE) computer numerical control (CNC) machining boot camp, an initiative designed to sharpen the skills of the regional workforce through a continued partnership with the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES). The program served...

John Green’s muscles relaxed as dust fell from the chalk he’d just applied. Despite his 6-foot-1-inch, 340‑pound frame, the Texas State Technical College HVAC graduate never imagined he’d earn a shot at the Arnold Strongman stage. He gripped the Viking press machine, cold metal against his palms and drove more than 300 pounds through rep...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Within just 60 days of entering the workforce, Luis Alvarado proved that a technical education in Auto Collision and Management at Texas State Technical College can prepare graduates to become successful in the industry. “I have a passion for this trade,” the Harlingen native said. Alvarado was hired last October as a...