{"id":1572,"date":"2017-05-12T23:58:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T23:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2017-05-12T22:30:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T22:30:24","slug":"tstc-in-marshall-receives-equipment-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"TSTC in Marshall Receives Equipment Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(MARSHALL) \u2013 Texas State Technical College has recently received several financial and equipment donations to benefit students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Komatsu in Longview has donated $45,000 in hydraulic motors, a hydraulic cooling unit and pieces of steel plate for students to use. The company specializes in manufacturing mining equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe items we use for testing cannot be sold as new pieces,\u201d said Sean Hopkins, manager of product training and technical development at Komatsu. \u201cWe have done multiple visits at TSTC looking at the setup and thought it was a good idea to get some of our products on the benches in front of the students.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The technical college also received in late April a John Deere bulldozer and two pieces of Cub Cadet outdoor power equipment valued around $8,500 from David Henderson of Belcher, Louisiana. This equipment will be used by TSTC\u2019s Diesel Equipment Technology program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy son works there at the technical college, and he said they had a need for it,\u201d said Henderson, a retired construction company owner. \u201cMy hope is the students will gain some valuable experience and hands-on experience so they can transfer into the real world of the job market.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eastman Chemical Co. in Longview recently gave $15,000 for its sponsorship program for students. Area high school seniors can receive scholarships from the company to study welding, industrial maintenance or industrial controls technology at TSTC. Recipients who maintain a high grade-point average can pursue internships at the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on Texas State Technical College, go to tstc.edu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(MARSHALL) \u2013 Texas State Technical College has recently received several financial and equipment donations to benefit students. Komatsu in Longview has donated $45,000 in hydraulic motors, a hydraulic cooling unit and pieces of steel plate for students to use. The company specializes in manufacturing mining equipment. \u201cThe items we use for testing cannot be sold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marshall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","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=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}