High school students from around Wisconsin got a glimpse this week of career opportunities in wood manufacturing technology and residential building construction at our S.J. Spanbauer Center in Oshkosh.
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FVTC’s specialized airport firefighting center is attracting participants from around the world. Fox Valley Technical College’s Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF) Training Center continues to draw firefighters from around the world. This summer, firefighters from Costa Rica joined a growing list of international participants coming to Appleton for specialized airport emergency response training. The firefighters
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On a warm summer day in July, a group of Residential Building Construction students could be found perched on the roof of a home they had built from the ground up. It’s not your typical classroom setting, but it perfectly reflects the hands-on approach that defines the program. Students begin by learning concepts in the classroom, practice those skills in the shop and then apply them on a full-scale home build.
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Precision Machining instructor Chris Boede knows firsthand the value of a technical education. As an FVTC apprenticeship graduate who spent two decades working in the manufacturing industry, he returned to the college to share his expertise with future machinists. Today, he teaches a wide range of courses and enjoys helping students discover what they’re capable