Lennox, a national provider of home heating and cooling systems, has donated a Variable Refrigerant Flow (VRF) Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) unit to Salina Area Technical College. The donation will allow students to learn about a state-of-the-art technology that is becoming increasingly common in the U.S. The equipment is worth about $20,000. VRF systems [...]
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. [...]
A May graduate of Salina Area Technical College and Salina South High School placed fourth in the nation in his competition at the SkillsUSA national event in Louisville, Kentucky. Savio Nguyen placed fourth in the high school division of the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning competition at the national event. He qualified for nationals by placing [...]
Students from Salina Area Technical College brought home 10 medals from the Kansas SkillsUSA contest, held in Hutchinson this past week, and four students qualified to compete at the national conference in Louisville, Kentucky in June by winning gold in their competitions. Read more at KSAL.com
Students from Salina Area Technical College brought home eight medals from the Kansas SkillsUSA contest, held in Wichita and Hutchinson recently, and four students qualified to compete at the national conference in Louisville, Kentucky in June by winning gold in their competitions. Winning gold medals were: · Noah Hanson, a senior at Smoky Valley High School, [...]
Four students from the Salina area did well at the 52nd National Leadership and Skills Conference sponsored by SkillsUSA from June 22-23 in Louisville, Ky. More than 6,000 students competed in 100 occupational and leadership skills. From Salina South High School, Trevor Hawk competed in prepared speech, placing eighth in national, and Alvaro Escobedo represented SSHS [...]
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 [...]
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