Graduate Connections

Graduate Connections – Meet Gino Marks

Gino, 22, from Coleman, Texas, graduated the Professional Welder program at Tulsa Welding School & Technology Center in Houston in spring 2017.   Thanks for your time, Gino. Did you enroll in welding school right out of high school? I did. It was a big change for me, moving to Houston to go to welding […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Jeremiah Kantun

Jeremiah, 21, was born in Fresno, CA; he was raised in Mexico before moving back to the U.S. at the age of 14. The family settled in Houston in 2014, where Jeremiah attended high school. He graduated from the Welding Specialist program at Tulsa Welding School & Technology Center in Houston in August 2020.   […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Cali Edwards

Cali, 35, from Baton Rouge, LA, graduated from the Professional Welder with Pipefitting program at Tulsa Welding School in Jacksonville in July 2020. Thanks for your time, Cali. What did you do in the years before coming to Tulsa Welding School? I’m a multi-faceted person and a free spirit, so I tried a lot of […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Tracy Cook

Tracy, 32, from Houston, Texas, graduated from the Welding Specialist program at Tulsa Welding School & Technology Center in Houston in August 2020. Thanks for your time, Tracy. Tell us what you did before coming to welding school? I had a bunch of different jobs, mostly in customer service, which I hated. Welding is a […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Kris Robinson

Kris, 35, from Houston, Texas, graduated from the Welding Specialist program at Tulsa Welding School & Technology Center in Houston in March 2020.   Thanks for your time Kris; tell us what you did before coming to welding school? After high school I tried community college, to major in business. I was doing okay in […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Judge Leiter

Judge, 27, from Bridge Creek, Oklahoma, graduated the Professional Welder program at Tulsa Welding School in late July 2020. Thanks for your time, Judge. Tell us what you did after high school. I went to OU. I graduated with a major in Political Science, and a minor in History. What they don’t tell you when […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Cassie Duncan

Cassie, 31, from Sand Springs, Oklahoma, graduated the Professional Welder program at Tulsa Welding School in September 2020. Thanks for sharing your story, Cassie. Tell us what you did before welding school. I had two kiddos—my daughter is 12 and my son is 10—and I worked at Whirlpool for four and half years building stoves. […]

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