Program: Pipefitters Apprenticeship Training Partner: RK Industries Tell us about yourself. What influenced you to become an apprentice? I was inspired to become a pipefitter apprentice when I joined the […]
Apprentice Q&A: Kelly Ann Vanhoudt, IECRM
Kelly Ann Vanhoudt Program: Electrician Apprenticeship, IEC Rocky Mountain Tell us about yourself. What influenced you to become an apprentice? I grew up with an electrical engineer as a dad. […]
Apprentice Q&A: Nicole Kester, IECRM
Nicole Kester Program: Electrician Apprenticeship, IEC Rocky Mountain What influenced you to become an apprentice? It was a natural progression for my career choice. I spent 14 years learning about […]
Q&A with Year 2 Sheet Metal Apprentice
Program: Sheet Metal Apprenticeship Training Partner: RK Mechanical What influenced you to become an apprentice? I’ve been working in the sheet metal trade for about three and a half years […]
GIS grad discovers dangerous patterns in Sangre de Cristo 14ers
Between 2015 and 2020, seven people died attempting to ascend peaks in the Crestone Group, a dramatic and notorious cluster of five 14,000-foot peaks in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo mountains. […]
Soup, scholarships and scrubs
How Emily Griffith is continuing a legacy of above-and-beyond student support into its 106th year On Sept. 9, 1916, educational pioneer Emily Griffith opened the Opportunity School, a place where […]
Re-engineering a career by helping students start theirs
For Juan Fernando Pineda, a trained engineer turned life coach turned admissions counselor, the path to Emily Griffith seems oddly inevitable. Born in Colombia, Juan grew up in the Miami […]
Born for This
Emily staff member is a natural at helping students craft their paths How many undergraduates make a hobby out of curating their friends’ class schedules, so they graduate efficiently with […]
Building a Career in Construction
A new journeyman finds construction to be rewarding and a rush When Adrian Quinonez graduated from Northglenn High School, he wanted to be an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps. […]
The Electrician’s Apprentice
After 10 years working in Texas oil fields, Cory Oakes was done. Tired of the boom-bust cycle of oil-industry employment and looking to spend more time in the mountains, Cory […]
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