Helen Ginger is the author TSTC Publishing has tapped to write many of the books in our Tech Careers series. There was an article about her last week in the Dallas Examiner with the catchy title, Helen Ginger goes from mermaid to Wonder Woman.  She gives some details about the hard work she puts into researching and writing each one of these books on a three month deadline.

Although I have met a number of our authors, I haven’t had that honor with Ms. Ginger.  She sounds like a very interesting person and she’s also a blogger!

The 2009-2010 Student Government Association Officers (from left) Vice President Aaron Jones, President Jay Hicks, Treasurer Joshua Norvell, State Host Representative Jessica Skinner.

The first of many New Student Orientation groups for the fall 2009 semester. (Photo by M. Jordon Pollock, MCI Student)

Hispanic Student Association members watch as Avionics student Fernando Lopez flips burgers at the HSA free burger event held at the gazebo. (Photo by M. Jordon Pollock, MCI Student)

Summer 2009 Commencement at the Heart of Texas Coliseum

For more TSTC Waco pictures - visit the Flickr page.

Follow this link for a video explanation from TSTC’s GIS expert Lee Hilliard.

GIS is a very cool and underexposed area of study.  A lot of great jobs are available in the public and private sectors.  In my waning days of teaching database management courses I loved my GIS majors.  I had several distance and hybrid delivery students who were active in the field.  They turned in fascinating projects.

For more information on GIS, start here.  For more on GIS at TSTC, check out this link.

Via Micheal Bettersworth, please take a look at this piece from Inside Higher Ed about Kellogg Community College’s efforts to provide skills training that is flexible and customized.  Also, be sure to look at the college’s Program Builder program all done up in ASP.NET.  They will sell training in increments like .17 or .58 credits. What great way to deliver technical education!  No more “one size fits all” philosophy at Kellogg!

A great article at the magazine site with a whiteboard talk on the Merlin engine by propulsion engineer Tom Mueller…