{"id":246,"date":"2015-11-19T19:40:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=246"},"modified":"2016-03-03T19:41:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T19:41:57","slug":"vibralign-awards-scholarship-to-tstc-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"VibrAlign Awards Scholarship to TSTC Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(SWEETWATER) &#8211; TSTC Wind Energy student Kyle Everett won a scholarship and earned the TSTC&#8217;s Wind Energy Technology program a free state-of-the-art laser shaft alignment system from VibrAlign earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The national award is part of VibrAlign&#8217;s Realigning America scholarship program. Every quarter, the program awards scholarships to students who submit the best essays about learning machinery maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>Everett submitted an essay to VibrAlign describing his experiences as a student in TSTC&#8217;s Wind Energy Technology program. Everett&#8217;s essay was selected, winning him a $500 scholarship and a Fixturlaser GO laser alignment system for TSTC.<\/p>\n<p>According to David Zdrojewski, VibrAlign chief executive officer, &#8220;America&#8217;s industrial workforce is aging. As a country we face the challenge of training the next generation. We want to do everything we can to support the training of America&#8217;s future industrial workforce so they can compete on the world stage. Helping schools like Texas State Technical College is a big part of our commitment to Realigning America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zdrojewski founded VibrAlign in 1983 and has been serving as CEO since 1996. VibrAlign serves a wide array of industrial customers, from oil &amp; gas facilities to defense contractors to papermakers, and specializes in Fixturlaser alignment systems, training, and calibration, as well as Oneprod condition monitoring systems.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call VibrAlign at 800-394-3279. For more information about TSTC, visit www.tstc.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(SWEETWATER) &#8211; TSTC Wind Energy student Kyle Everett won a scholarship and earned the TSTC&#8217;s Wind Energy Technology program a free state-of-the-art laser shaft alignment system from VibrAlign earlier this month. The national award is part of VibrAlign&#8217;s Realigning America scholarship program. Every quarter, the program awards scholarships to students who submit the best essays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sweetwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}