Graduate Connections

Graduate Connections – Diani Spradley

Diani, 23, from Camden, New Jersey, graduated from (what is normally) the seven-month Professional Welder program at Tulsa Welding School in Jacksonville in September 2021.   Thanks for sharing your story, Diani. Tell us why it took you longer than seven months. Between catching COVID, being in a car accident, and then having to rephase, […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Lloyd Simon Jr

Lloyd, 21, from Houston, Texas, graduated the Professional Welder program at Tulsa Welding School & Technology Center in Houston in August 2021.   Thanks for your time, Lloyd; what did you do before coming to welding school? I graduated high school in 2018 and went to school for a while at Texas A&M Kingsville to […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Faith Tarver

Faith, 34, originally from New York, graduated from the Professional Welder with Pipefitting program at Tulsa Welding School in Jacksonville in June 2021. Thanks for sharing your story, Faith. Tell us what you did before coming to Tulsa Welding School. I went into fast-food out of high school. My goal was to be a store […]

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Graduate Connections – LaNorris Campbell

LaNorris, 30, from Immokalee, Florida, graduated from the Professional Welder program on April 26, and then started the Pipefitting course in May. He graduated the Professional Welder with Pipefitting program at Tulsa Welding School in Jacksonville in August 2021.   Thanks for your time LaNorris. Did you enroll in the pipefitting from the start? Yes, […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Keyronic Stewart

Keyronic, 37, from Jackson, Louisiana, graduated the Professional Welder program at Tulsa Welding School & Technology Center in Houston in July 2021. Thanks for your time Keyronic; tell us a little about your background. I graduated high school in 2003, but it took me a while to find a direction. I went to a driving […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Dallan Johnson

Dallan, 19, from Santa Fe, Texas, graduated the Professional Welder with Pipefitting program at Tulsa Welding School & Technology Center in Houston in July 2021. Thanks for your time Dallan. Did you go straight to welding school out of high school? I actually started in July after graduating high school in June. I had one […]

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Graduate Connections – Meet Summer Erickson

Summer, 28, from Hinton, OK, graduated the Professional Welder program at Tulsa Welding School in June 2021. Thanks for your time, Summer. What did you do before coming to welding school last year? I didn’t really have a career before this. I was mostly a stay-at-home mom. At one point, I had a pretty cool […]

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