GEAR Up Waco
GEAR Up Waco
supports
outreach to the students in the Waco
Independent School
District.
TSTC’s role in the GEAR Up project includes professional
development opportunities for WISD teachers, support of curriculum
development
related to Analytical Integrated Mathematics (AIM), support of the Physics
Circus, and summer camps designed to introduce students in the grant’s
cohort group to science and technology based career paths. To learn more about Gear UP, please
call
Sheryl Kattner-Allen at 254.867.3875, or visit the project’s website
at http://www.baylor.edu/thinkcollege.
WELD-ED
Center
TSTC’s
Welding
Technology is part of the WELD-ED
Center funded by the
National Science Foundation. The
center
works to integrate training opportunities for partnering colleges and
industries, with the aim of providing standardized skill sets in welding for
this rapidly growing segment of the economy. For additional information, please
contact Frank Wilkins at 254.867.3540 or visit www.weld-ed.org.
Renewable Energies
Funds made
available
through the State Energy Conservation Office support TSTC’s growing
effort to provide training in stationary fuel cells and other forms of
renewable or alternative energy.
Through the newly formed Texas Renewable Energies Education
Consortium
(TREEC), TSTC has partnered with two-year and four-year colleges and
universities across the state to provide outreach to middle and high school
students and teachers as well as to provide focused training experiences for
Texas college students interested in energy careers. For additional information, please
contact Sid Bolfing at sid.bolfing@tstc.edu
or 254.867.3206.
CASPER
Baylor University’s Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics &
Engineering Research (CASPER) locates its experimental research lab on the
TSTC
campus and is funded by NASA, NSF, the US Department of Education, and other
agencies. The Center’s
partnerships extend worldwide, and link TSTC students to active research in
shock physics, space physics, and nanoscale plasma applications. TSTC students working with CASPER receive paid
internships as well as research-grade work experience. Through a new partnership with the
University of Stuttgart
(Germany), TSTC will
partner
with CASPER
in
a small satellite space operations program. For additional information, please
visit
the website at www.baylor.edu/CASPER.
Biotech Manufacturing
Funded by a
Wagner-Peyser award from the Office of the Governor, this project partners
TSTC
with the Biotech Manufacturing Center of Texas to provide dual credit
manufacturing coursework to high school students in the East
Texas area. For
additional information on this project please cont5act Gary San Miguel at
903.675.6036 or e-mail him at gmiguel@bmc-texas.org.
Congressional Award / Robotics Training Lab
TSTC has received
notification of a congressional award to create a robotics training center
for
use in a wide array of manufacturing environments. Funds will be used to purchase
industry-grade robots and related systems.
For additional information on this project, please contact Bob
Lovelace
at 254.867.3152 or e-mail him at robert.lovelace@tstc.edu.
High
School Summer
Bridge Program
TSTC has received
funding from the Texas higher Education Coordinating Board to support a
six-week high school summer bridge program designed to improve student
performance in language arts and mathematics while increasing their
awareness
of (and interest in) technical career paths. For additional information on this
program, please contact Sherry Hill at 254.867.3071 or e-mail her at sherry.hill@tstc.edu.
Math & Science Summer Camps
Through funding
received from the Texas Workforce Commission, TSTC will be offering summer
camps for area high school students interested in exploring technical
careers. Please click the
‘news’ link in the sidebar menu to read the news release
accompanying this announcement.
For
additional information on the summer camps, please contact Sheryl
Kattner-Allen
at 254.867.3875 or e-mail her directly at sheryl.kattner-allen@tstc.edu.
Nuclear Power Institute
TSTC Waco is
partnering with Texas
A & M University’s
Nuclear Power Institute to provide training related to technical and
engineering related positions in the state’s rapidly growing nuclear
power industry. Funding will
support digital instrumentation training and curriculum development for
students on track to gain post-graduate employment in Texas nuclear power facilities. For additional information on this
program, please contact Linda Morris at 254.867.2952 or e-mail her at linda.morris@tstc.edu.
ACTS II
Funding received from the TG Public
Benefit Grant Program supports a variety of retention interventions for TSTC
students, designed to increase the percentage of new students retained to
graduation and successful employment.
For information on the ACTS program, please contact Larry Davis at
254.867.4818 or e-mail him at larry.davis7@tstc.edu.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Trade
School
Scholarships
The
TSTC NRC Trade School Scholarships program provides scholarships to students
enrolled in programs leading to employment in the state’s nuclear
power
infrastructure. This award not
only
provides financial assistance to students, but also works to place them
directly in employment in this high growth, high demand area of work. For additional information, please
contact Linda Morris at 254.867.2952 or e-mail her at linda.morris@tstc.edu.
