Students of Texas State Technical College in Brownwood were honored with an award ceremony Thursday afternoon marking excellence and achievement during the Fall 2014 semester. Students receiving awards were nominated by peers, faculty and staff at TSTC.
Recipients were honored with program awards, leadership awards, outstanding graduate awards and several special honors.
Heather Cates received the President’s Award for the Brownwood campus. One graduate from each TSTC campus is selected for this award, the highest award given by TSTC each semester. Cates will graduate December 15th in Abilene with the Class of 2014. According to her instructor Jay Burks, Cates will make an excellent employee having an excellent work ethic, leadership and soft skills, what he described as “the total package.” Cates previously served in the military, is a wife, mother and decided to go into welding to start her own business in the future. Burks stated she was an excellent student and that he was honored to be her instructor.
Pictured above award recipients for the Fall 2014 semester.
Other honorees included:
PRESIDENT AWARD
-Heather Cates, Welding Technology (also pictured above Kyle Smith, Interim Vice President TSTC West Texas)
STUDENT SPEAKER
– Heric Bustamante, Welding Technology (pictured with Carminia Del Toro, Vocational Counselor)
LEADERSHIP AWARDS
– Heather Cates, Welding Technology (pictured with Welding Instructor Jay Burks)
– Christopher Romero (right), Welding Technology
– Dennis Myers, Chemical Dependency Counseling (pictured with CDC Instrutor Elizabeth Jones)
– Ethan Halydier, Computer Networking Systems
– Ruby Maldonado, Software and Business Management (pictured with Developmental Education Instructor Requel Mata)
PROGRAM AWARDS
– Tiffanie Kirkpatrick, Health Information Technology (not present)
– Heric Bustamante, Welding Technology
– Jason Riggs, Chemical Dependency Counseling
– Randy Northcutt and Todd Vance (left), Computer Networking Systems (pictured with CNS Instructor David Beauchamp)
OUTSTANDING GRADUATE
– Heather Cates, Welding Technology
About TSTC: Texas State Technical College (www.tstc.edu) serves Texas through eleven campuses in Abilene, Breckenridge, Brownwood, Harlingen, Hutto, Ingleside, Marshall, Red Oak, Richmond, Sweetwater, and Waco. TSTC is the only college in America to adopt a funding model based entirely on student employment outcomes – aligning with its purpose of strengthening Texas with a highly skilled, technically competent workforce. The college System will celebrate 50 years of service to the State of Texas in 2015.
