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From Service to Success Veterans, career-changers power TSTC’s HVAC program In Texas, a properly functioning heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system isn’t a luxury — it’s an absolute necessity. To meet the soaring workforce demand in this essential industry, Texas State Technical College launched its HVAC program at the Abilene campus in 2025. Led...

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...

(BRECKENRIDGE, Texas) – The high school welding competition scene is heating up across Texas. What began at Texas State Technical College’s Breckenridge campus as a small event during the pandemic has evolved into a high-stakes “build-off” spectacle.  “I am glad to see more people coming to our event in Breckenridge,” said Stephen Hope, the TSTC...

(ABILENE, Texas) – More than 1,000 high school welders will converge in Abilene from May 6-8 for the 2026 Texas High School Welding Series state championships. The event will be hosted at Texas State Technical College’s Industrial Technology Center and the Abilene Independent School District’s Leadership and Innovation in Future Technologies (LIFT) Center. Both facilities...

(ABILENE, Texas) – An emergency room can be a blur of chaos when a mass casualty event occurs. That high-pressure environment is exactly what Texas State Technical College’s LVN to RN Transition Nursing students experienced during the recent spring semester’s extrication day exercise at the Industrial Technology Center in Abilene. “We are finally getting some...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Texas State Technical College’s Emergency Medical Services program continued its winning streak at the SkillsUSA Texas Postsecondary Leadership and Skills Conference held in early April in Corpus Christi, with students from the Harlingen campus sweeping the top three spots in the EMT competition. Joseph Amaro and Liana Rios earned the gold medal...