{"id":1059,"date":"2016-11-28T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2016-11-29T22:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T22:57:17","slug":"houston-student-aims-to-fly-from-tstc-into-avionics-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=1059","title":{"rendered":"Houston Student Aims to Fly from TSTC into Avionics Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

(WACO) \u2013 Savannah Little is looking forward to seeing how far her interests take off.<\/span><\/p>\n

Little, 20, of Houston is the only student graduating with an Associate of Applied Science degree in Avionics Technology from Texas State Technical College at Fall Commencement at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9, at the Waco Convention Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSavannah is a remarkable student,\u201d said Martin Segraves, lead instructor in the Avionics Technology program at TSTC. \u201cHer ability to complete the degree program a whole semester faster than most students directly reflects her ability to master a subject quickly and to multitask effectively. She regularly hosts a study group for her peers, who tend to score better on their exams after they meet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Little grew up in Houston and in third grade started Irish dancing in an after-school program. She continued dancing for 10 years and hopes to perform again in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a lot of money for the dress, the hard and soft shoes, the socks,\u201d Little said. \u201cMy lucky outfit color was blue. I think this made me ritualistic \u2013 I am particular in sitting in front of the white boards as close as possible in class.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the summer between her junior and senior years at Northbrook High School in Houston, she studied electronics at a physics camp at Tarleton State University in Stephenville.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where I really fell in love with electronics,\u201d Little said. \u201cEverything was super cool and I got to use the equipment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The trip spurred thoughts about attending a four-year university, but she chose not to go due to affordability. Her parents suggested TSTC \u2013 Little\u2019s mother had studied computer science and met her best friend while in Waco, and her father noticed there were programs that interested their daughter. Little eventually settled on Avionics Technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

Little graduated in 2014 from Northbrook, where she was on the Bandoleras dance team, in the theater group and in the Math League. She took two years of physics, which she said helped her in her technical college studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Little said she applied to TSTC before seeing the campus and quickly adjusted to her classes in electrical principles, avionics electronics system installation and contemporary mathematics. She also learned she had a knack for determining wiring lengths for aviation radio components.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI took all Advanced Placement classes in high school, so I was used to information being thrown at me all the time,\u201d Little said. \u201cI was hoping for hands-on work and I was pleasantly surprised.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Little said she had no regrets switching plans to attend a two-year technical college.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI see my friends on social media pages working late,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m glad my workload was not as stressful. I liked receiving individual attention from instructors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After graduation, Little wants to work on a startup business idea for what she called a \u201crepair station\u201d for airlines. More than half of Texas\u2019 estimated 1,630 avionics technicians in Texas work in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington and Houston-Sugar Land-The Woodlands areas, according to the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics from May 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Graduates from TSTC\u2019s Fort Bend County, North Texas and Williamson County campuses will also receive certificates and associate degrees at the Waco graduation ceremony at the convention center at 1100 Washington Ave.<\/span><\/p>\n

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(WACO) \u2013 Savannah Little is looking forward to seeing how far her interests take off. Little, 20, of Houston is the only student graduating with an Associate of Applied Science degree in Avionics Technology from Texas State Technical College at Fall Commencement at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 9, at the Waco Convention Center. \u201cSavannah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}