From the lumber yard to the server room, Robert Randolph has made his own path to success. The California transplant moved to Tulsa shortly before the pandemic. As he tells it, he found a good job that paid the bills but it was not a career, and that is what he wanted.
Step onto North Greenwood, and the history of the area will hit you. Paintings, murals and lists of businesses destroyed a century ago line the street. But, there is a new buzz. Rose Tax Solutions is a business looking to follow in the footsteps of that historic area.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, employers have been looking for ways to say "thank you" in a big way. Tulsa Tech Foundations of Web Design student Hannah Brown entered a contest by Hillcrest Medical Center to do just that. As the winner she now has a large mural displayed at 11th and Utica downtown.
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” As adults, we throw this loaded question at our children from the moment they are old enough to talk. If you asked a child what they want to be every year for five years, you will likely get five different answers.
Depending upon perspective, forty years can seem like a long time, and it turns out to be the lineage of a unique place on the Peoria campus. The Children’s Learning Lab (CLL) can best be described as a small city unto itself. The DHS-rated daycare center offers students hands-on learning inside a working daycare.
Oklahoma summers can be brutal, one-hundred-degree heat, scorching sun and if your air conditioner is not working, you are miserable. Graduates of the HVAC/R program at Tulsa Tech, like Shawn Schubert, work hard everyday to help their customers stay cool in summer and warm during winter months.
When was the last time you used trigonometry? If you ask that of 2017 Tulsa Tech graduate David Patrick, he would tell you almost daily. Patrick is not boasting. It is just part of what it takes to run Computer Numerical Control or CNC machines. “When you are making parts, you have to do the math,” Patrick said with a grin.
Brick by brick, computer by computer, Tulsa Tech trains students for success in the workplace. For Julie Orellana, that time on campus was short. Orellana spent just one school year in the Mobile App Development program, but the program had a huge impact.
It has been a year unlike any other for Rian Page. Not only did he and the rest of us navigate the start of a pandemic, but he also started his path to a new career. Page and others walked in the newly-minted Light Diesel Truck Service Technician program last January. Less than a year later, he and other students are stepping into the workforce, ready to seize this new opportunity.
Our history is a part of our lives. Certain events have a big impact and you will always remember where you were on those days. Events like the September 11 Terror Attacks, Pearl Harbor and the Assassination of JFK. Like all of those events, the COVID-19 pandemic will be one for the history books.