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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...

(MARSHALL, Texas) – It took less than two semesters at Texas State Technical College for Karson Shoemaker, of Jacksonville, Texas, to be hired by Vermeer Texas-Louisiana’s Kilgore location. It took him only a year to win the location’s Employee of the Award. “I’m very proud of him,” said Craig Morgan, a service manager for the...