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Business & Development

Free training program connects veterans, young adults with entry-level IT jobs

by Jasper Kenzo Sundeen October 30, 2025October 30, 2025

NPower’s free 20-week course that gives students professional development and technology training and tries to connect them with new jobs.

Business & Development

Toyota to spend $6.5M to boost STEM and workforce development at East Central ISD

by Shari Biediger February 10, 2025February 10, 2025

Abby Montoya, a graduate of the Ready to Work program, now works at UT Health’s new Outpatient and Surgery Center on Kyle Seale Parkway.

Business & Development

Ready to Work will spend up to $32.5M on additional partners to serve more residents

by Tracy Idell Hamilton November 6, 2024November 6, 2024

UTSA’s new School of Data Science and National Security Collaboration Center, decked out in the school’s colors, stands out on downtown’s west end on Friday.

Business & Development

Here’s why the brightest minds in cybersecurity descended on UTSA

by Tracy Idell Hamilton October 16, 2024October 21, 2024

Unique pathways to higher education could ease looming workforce shortage

by Isaac Windes September 7, 2024September 7, 2024

Business & Development

Meet a San Antonio HVAC company using Ready to Work money to defray training costs

by Tracy Idell Hamilton June 4, 2024June 4, 2024

The city's Ready to Work program paid tech training school Codeup roughly $25,000 to defray the cost of tuition for 13 students, but the school closed before they completed their certificate programs.

Business & Development

City’s Ready to Work program defends inclusion of for-profit schools in training catalog

by Tracy Idell Hamilton January 31, 2024January 31, 2024

Sam Ximenes stands near what he calls his “Frankenbot” - a robot that is capable of excavating the lunar surface and create bricks from the moon dust - at the Boeing Tech Port, Area 21 SAMSAT Museum on Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. Ximenes is a pioneering Mexican-American space architect and educator. In 2007, he founded Exploration Architecture Corporation (XArc) to serve the commercial space market. Ximenes is helping to devise equipment that will build material from moon dust and create habitats on the lunar surface. Ximenes is also using his extensive experience in the aerospace industry and started the WEX Foundation which bolsters science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs to middle and high school students. His vision is to have robotics that he created be in use on the moon’s surface to build human habitats on future missions.

Sam Ximenes is a pioneer of the new, foreign world of architecture in space

by Raquel Torres December 25, 2023December 26, 2023

Business & Development

New Ready to Work advisory board members see ‘a lot of work to do’

by Tracy Idell Hamilton September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

Shop technician Vaneza Zepeda (left) and Maria Mendez, lead technician, both worked as interns at Holt Cat before securing jobs there.

Business & Development

Employers, take note: High school internship programs help fill workforce pipeline

by Tracy Idell Hamilton August 30, 2023