Andy Houltberg, Executive Director of the Ashby House, points to one of the Ashby House facilities while teaching the Salina Area Technical College construction students what services the shelter provides for the community. The students will be helping with the electrical work and construction inside the historical house that was moved to the Ashby House over [...]
About 60 students attended the third annual Salina Area Technical College Summer Camp Tuesday through Friday. The camp teaches students in late elementary school, middle school, and early high school about the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering, and math. The students were divided into six classes: hydraulics, welding, construction, machine tool, electrical, and medical. One of [...]
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. [...]
Rising Salina South High School freshman Colton Jensen has aspirations of becoming a welder. “It’s what I love to do and if I could pick any career it would be in welding, for sure,” he said. Kirk Heimer, 12, of Assaria, works on a project in the diesel and hydraulics class during the Salina Area [...]
Dustin Pestinger, president of Pestinger Heating and Air Conditioning and chairman of the Salina Area Technical College Board of Trustees, told graduates Saturday to embrace three words as they enter their professional lives: “go, see, and do.” Graduates Tamre Petree and Vonetta Robinson, of Salina Area Technical College, wear the graduation caps they decorated outside [...]
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. [...]
Driving a big rig down a stretch of highway was fun for Tripp Goossen until he ran into a wall and shattered his windshield. Tripp Goossen, 16, of Beverly, uses a truck driving simulator Tuesday afternoon during an open house at Salina Area Technical College. [TOM DORSEY / SALINA JOURNAL] Luckily, the 16-year-old Beverly teenager [...]
After years of building homes with Salina Habitat for Humanity, about 40 Salina Area Technical College students got the opportunity this year to be a part of building a more elaborate house from the ground up. The students, who were a part of four Salina Tech programs -- HVAC, computer-aided drafting, construction technology and electrical technology [...]
![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]](https://www.salinatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/PKMSteelDay.jpg)
![Kirk Heimer, 12, of Assaria, works on a project in the diesel and hydraulics class during the Salina Area Technical College summer camp. Syringes and colored water are used to simulate hydraulic functions. [TOM DORSEY / SALINA JOURNAL]](https://www.salinatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/20180525-Summer-Camp.jpg)
![Graduates Tamre Petree and Vonetta Robinson, of Salina Area Technical College, wear the graduation caps they decorated outside the Stiefel Theatre before commencement on Saturday. [AARON ANDERS / SALINA JOURNAL]](https://www.salinatech.edu/wp-content/uploads/20180505-Graduation.jpg)
