Students in the automotive technology program at Salina Area Technical College now have their own hybrid vehicle to work and learn on, thanks to a donation from Conklin Cars. On Monday afternoon, the Salina dealership donated a 2010 Toyota Prius to the college, the first hybrid in the college’s stable of vehicles from which students [...]
While it may not get the attention or national coverage from ESPN like high school athletes choosing what college they’ll be playing for, the National Technical Letter of Intent Signing Day will change the lives of those who participate all the same. Salina Area Technical College hosted its first signing day, with several dozen incoming students [...]
Chrisxavier Cease, a junior at Abilene High School, gets hands-on experience using a welding simulator Wednesday at Great Plains Manufacturing's inaugural Manufacturing Day. [ALLEIGH WEEMS / SALINA JOURNAL] Ellsworth High School junior Ashley Woods has a history of working with machinery. From growing up helping her father with the family ATV to taking small gas [...]
Enrollment at Salina Area Technical College rose 27% in the fall of 2018 compared to the previous fall, according to information collected on September 20th for reporting to the Kansas Board of Regents. According to the enrollment data, Salina Tech had a total of 435 Full Time Equivalent students, compared with 342 at this time in 2017. [...]
Salina Area Technical College on Friday inducted nine students into its chapter of the National Technical Honor Society. Inductees to Salina Tech's chapter of the National Technical Honor Society for 2017-18 are: Back row, Noah Pfannenstiel, Hunter Mendenhall, Joshua Gengler, Zaide Korb, Cheryl Gray. Front row, Laura Von Bergen, Erika Ruiz, Aubrey Bieker, Steven Weigand. [...]
“There’s a lot of room in there to work, but I don’t see much to work on,” was how Whitney England described her first look under the hood of an electric car Monday at Salina Area Technical College. England and Kody Nimmo, both juniors at Smoky Valley High School and enrolled in Salina Tech’s Automotive Technology program, got [...]
When Darcy Heitmann first saw the orange 1976 Firebird, he was working in the parts department of the Pontiac dealership in Grand Island, Neb. It was 1981, and the five-year-old car with a dented quarter panel was a trade-in, and was waiting to get the dent fixed in the dealer’s body shop the first time he [...]
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