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(WACO, Texas) – Earlier this year, four students took a new step in their lives in Texas State Technical College’s Precision Machining program at the Waco campus. The students quickly bonded over their shared background in the U.S. Marine Corps —  including one reservist — and are setting the standard for younger students in the...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – Long before she began studying at Texas State Technical College, Nancy Roblero understood the meaning of helping others. Growing up in Los Fresnos, Roblero spent most of her childhood alongside her parents, who operated a free developing center for children learning disabilities in Matamoros, Mexico. “I saw the compassion my parents had...

(HARLINGEN, Texas) – The hum of a household machine might be background noise to most people, but for Josue and Miguel Moncada, it was the start of a technical language. The brothers, students in the Mechatronics program at Texas State Technical College’s Harlingen campus, were first introduced to the electrical field growing up watching their...

(ROSENBERG, Texas) – When Deven Kalinec transitioned into the tooling department at HDH Instruments in Pattison, he realized that a technical education was the bridge he needed between his experience as a high-level deep hole drilling machine operator and his long-term career goals. Kalinec began searching online after he attempted to interpret complex blueprints on-the-job....

(ROSENBERG, Texas) – Rebecca Lara served for 22 years in the U.S. Army as a nuclear, biological and chemical warfare specialist. She found the transition to civilian life challenging — especially without the routine that had guided her for two decades. Lara was encouraged by a relative who first toured the Occupational Safety and Environmental...

(RED OAK, Texas) – As a military wife that frequently relocated, it was difficult for Cierra DeVoe to establish her own career. One day, she discovered the world of drafting. “I was working as a scheduler for a small, outdoor construction company in Florida,” the Las Vegas, Nevada, native said. “There was a person there...