{"id":3630,"date":"2018-11-28T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=3630"},"modified":"2019-05-03T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T13:56:37","slug":"san-antonio-resident-electrifies-his-goals-at-tstc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/?p=3630","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio Resident Electrifies His Goals at TSTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(WACO) \u2013 After Esteban Hernandez graduated in 2012 from Louis D. Brandeis High School in San Antonio, his parents lobbied for him to attend Texas State Technical College because of family ties to Waco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead Hernandez worked at a restaurant, a land-surveying business and a warehouse. He also dabbled in studying radiography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWow, I wasted so many years,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six years after his high school graduation, Hernandez is realizing his dream of being a college graduate with a transformed life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is a candidate for graduation with an Associate of Applied Science degree in Avionics Technology at Texas State Technical College\u2019s Fall 2018 Commencement at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7, at the Waco Convention Center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEsteban is an amazing student,\u201d said Marty Segraves, chair of the Avionics Department. \u201cHe is such an adept student that he has nearly maxed the program. His only B was in an electronics course. When he takes a test, I\u2019m almost disappointed \u00a0if he doesn\u2019t make a 100.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hernandez began working part time earlier this year at JAG Aviation in McGregor. He gets to work with employees on older and newer plane radio systems. He said the work is a way to use what he learns at TSTC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hernandez enrolled at TSTC in 2017 and moved in with his grandparents. His inspiration for studying aviation was his cousin\u2019s husband who is employed at Southwest Airlines and his own fondness for hands-on work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI like the group we have in the program,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are really fun and awesome. Learning how electronics work is really interesting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hernandez will not wait long to pursue his next goal. In January, he will start taking classes in the Aviation Maintenance program at TSTC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on Texas State Technical College, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tstc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Texas State Technical College Website link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.tstc.edu<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Waco-Esteban-Hernandez-edited.jpg\" alt=\"San Antonio Resident Electrifies His Goals at TSTC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3631\" src=\"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Waco-Esteban-Hernandez-edited-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"San Antonio Resident Electrifies His Goals at TSTC\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Waco-Esteban-Hernandez-edited-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Waco-Esteban-Hernandez-edited-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Waco-Esteban-Hernandez-edited-1024x646.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Waco-Esteban-Hernandez-edited-624x393.jpg 624w, https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Waco-Esteban-Hernandez-edited.jpg 1459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WACO) \u2013 After Esteban Hernandez graduated in 2012 from Louis D. Brandeis High School in San Antonio, his parents lobbied for him to attend Texas State Technical College because of family ties to Waco. Instead Hernandez worked at a restaurant, a land-surveying business and a warehouse. He also dabbled in studying radiography. \u201cWow, I wasted [&hellip;]<\/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-3630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-waco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630","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=3630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4343,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3630\/revisions\/4343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.tstc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}