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(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...

(WACO, Texas) – Drivers looking to stretch their fuel dollars can boost efficiency through simple habits and routine maintenance, according to instructors at Texas State Technical College. According to AAA Texas, the state average price for a gallon of unleaded gasoline is $3.90, while diesel sits at $5.84 per gallon. Ty Liedtke, an automotive instructor...

(WACO, Texas) – For Samantha Higham, of League City, her days consist of metals and her weekends are for mammoths. Higham is a fourth-semester student working toward an associate degree in Texas State Technical College’s Precision Machining program at the Waco campus. Higham had some experience with machining when she was a student at Clear...