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NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — As instructor William Ogburn called each student’s name, the certificate and handshake came with a personal nickname: Big Unc, Captain America, Big Red. “This is a lively group. They’re very passionate, but they’re also very hardworking,” Ogburn said of the class’s collective character. “Their personalities are great. They work well together,...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – As collision-repair technology continues to change, Hacienda Ford Collision is searching for technicians willing to keep learning with it.  Hacienda company representatives brought that message straight to Texas State Technical College’s Auto Collision and Management students on Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the Harlingen campus. “What we look for is having technicians with...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – Brooke Schenck, the manager for the office of contract administration for Texas State Technical College, was recently honored with the Chancellor’s Cornerstone Award. “It was very humbling to me,” she said. “You don’t think of how other people perceive your work, so knowing that someone saw enough in me to put my...

  From Four-Year Degree to Two-Year Career: One Grad’s Detour to a Career She Loves   Recent Texas State Technical College graduate Payden Parsons doesn’t dread work anymore.  “It’s exciting to see the work I do in the office actually put into the field,” she smiled. “In my previous positions, I dreaded going to work...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Five years after graduating from Texas State Technical College’s Harlingen campus, Elizabeth Garza walked into an interview at Garver with a determination to learn a new field. Today, she helps lead Garver’s computer-aided drafting production (CAD) resources division and mentors its drafting professionals. Garza joined Garver, an engineering, planning and environmental services...

Every Building Starts Here: Inside TSTC’s Blueprint-to-Building Process Long before digital design, architects relied on drawings to communicate how a building should come together. Renaissance architect and theorist Leon Battista Alberti helped formalize the connection between design and construction, establishing a principle that still guides the industry today: a building begins with a plan. Before...