(RED OAK) – Gerdau\u2019s Midlothian Steel Mill has pledged to donate over $10,000 for scholarships to Midlothian ISD students to attend Texas State Technical College.<\/p>\n
For the first year, Gerdau pledged $3,000, which will be matched by The TSTC Foundation to provide six $1,000 scholarships to students in the college\u2019s Industrial Maintenance program. The second year will bring another $3,000 for first-year students, with at least $4,000 more for second-year scholarships.<\/p>\n
Gerdau\u2019s relationship with TSTC began in 2015, when the company sent 13 of its employees to train at the college\u2019s North Texas campus in Red Oak. Gerdau later received a Texas Workforce Commission Skills Development Fund Grant to train an additional 189 employees at TSTC.<\/p>\n
\u201cGerdau has had a very strong relationship with TSTC for the last couple of years and currently sends over 50 — and growing — of their employees to North Texas to get their associate degree in Industrial Maintenance,\u201d said Jessica Ford, field development officer at TSTC.<\/p>\n
With these scholarships, Gerdau hopes to help fill the expanding shortage of skilled workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a growing resource gap in skilled trades across the U.S. And in a booming area like Dallas-Fort Worth, that gap is becoming even more challenging,\u201d said Gerdau Midlothian Human Resources Manager Ryan Hube. \u201cEncouraging today\u2019s youth to enter into these programs will be instrumental in attracting them to careers at Gerdau and other domestic manufacturers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hube also hopes the scholarships will encourage local high school students to look into technical fields like Industrial Maintenance at TSTC.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal is to recruit young talent with the technical aptitude we need directly from TSTC\u2019s program,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are confident that this scholarship is a great first step in attracting local talent to manufacturing in order to meet our future needs while at the same time continuing as a partner for this community for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hube said the company is proud to support the local community.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe scholarship presented itself as a unique opportunity to give back to our community while at the same time developing a pipeline of talent to fulfill future people-needs at the mill,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had great success thus far by partnering with TSTC to develop our own employees through the Industrial Maintenance program. We\u2019re hoping to build on that success by providing scholarships to local high school graduates and eventually give them opportunities with Gerdau.\u201d<\/p>\n
Besides TSTC, Midlothian students are the winners overall, Ford said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis benefits TSTC by allowing us to provide scholarships to students from Midlothian ISD that we could not do otherwise,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The TSTC Foundation supports the Texas State Technical College campuses across the state, supporting the critical needs of students and providing funds to enhance TSTC\u2019s ability to provide new and emerging technical programs to support the Texas workforce.<\/p>\n
For more information on The TSTC Foundation, visit tstc.edu\/tstcfoundation.<\/p>\n
TSTC is registering now for the fall semester. For more information, visit tstc.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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