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Perhaps Camp can even cull his employees from another
graduating class of TCTC’s welding program to begin that
ripple effect by elevating another student.
PRACTICAL SOLUTION
Many students who live in low- to middle-income families
need to find employment immediately after high school.
TCTC can speed up the possibility that they can make a livable
salary soon after graduating, especially in courses that
offer dual enrollment.
All of TCTC’s programs can be completed in a year or less
and lead to an industry certification at an affordable cost.
What can cost in the tens of thousands of dollars in tuition,
housing, food costs, books and course materials at a university
are available for under a third of that at TCTC.
“What would have cost me $22,000 at Florida universities
cost just a little over $7,000,” says Taylor Davis, a practical
nursing graduate. “Almost everyone in my class also had
some kind of funding which helped, such as Pell grants,
scholarships, or money from the workforce agency, Career-
Source Research Coast.”
Davis is the daughter of Indian River County Property
Appraiser Wesley Davis. She and 47 other students from the
medical program graduated Dec. 14, 2018, at a formal ceremony
held at the Vero Beach High School.
“It was a yearlong project and I am really proud of her,”
says her father. “I am also proud that we have this kind of
program right here in our backyard. What I hope happens is
that they continue to grow the program, because the number
of people that applied this time and didn’t make it could
have a graduation class three times this size. This is some- >>
Practical nursing graduate Taylor Davis receives her nursing pin and diploma
at graduation from instructor Dale Chambers.
Students of the most
recent nursing and
medical assistant classes
graduated in December
as parents and friends
celebrated with them.
MAIN CAMPUS
Treasure Coast Technical College
4680 28th Court
Vero Beach, FL 32967
Phone: 772.564.4970
https://tctc.indianriverschools.org
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