Fall 2021

Patrick Volkmann’s love of woodworking and drive to finish school created a unique educational journey. Patrick Volkmann of Oshkosh discovered his fascination for woodworking in seventh grade, when he took his first woodworking class. Now, at the age of 18, he has already turned his passion for building furniture into a career. “I took every

Combining a love of aviation and fixing things, Eric Barry found fulfillment maintaining airplanes.  When Eric Barry was 12 years old, he fell in love with airplanes.  “After high school, I went to flight school and gained my private pilot’s license and an instrument rating,” he says. Marriage and kids came next, and flight school took a back