Featured Pathway Program Stations

Music, Dance, and Drama Performances

View the evening’s performance schedule:

• 5:30-6:15 p.m.
  • Keyboard Performance at Garage Entrance
  • String Quartet
  • Theatre monologues
• 6:15-7:30 p.m.: A program of 5 short performances between speakers with musical support off stage
• 7:30-8:30 p.m.: Jazz Ensemble

Radio, Television, and Film

Attend a student-operated active film set where a short scene is continuously rehearsed, performed, filmed, and reset. Drama students serve as the on-camera performers while Radio/TV/Film students fill production roles such as director, cinematographer/camera operator, sound mixer, and production crew.

Become part of the production as guest crew by using the slate, assisting with the boom, observing the camera operation, sitting in the director's chair, viewing the live feed, or calling “action!”

Visual Arts

The Visual Arts station will feature an interactive art installation with students actively working on current creative projects. Observe the artistic process in real time and explore digital and physical displays of student artwork. Engage with students to discuss their creative techniques as they showcase the skills and artistic perspectives developed through TCC's Visual Arts programs.

Aviation Maintenance Technology

Visit student-led stations highlighting essential aircraft-maintenance skills: precision measuring, precision torque application, and aircraft fastener safety. At each station, students will demonstrate tools and instruments while guests have a chance for hands-on participation. Engage with students about topics such as internships FAA standards, technical principles, and safety requirements.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Work through real-world logistics challenges and see how products move from suppliers to customers. Students demonstrate how logistics professionals respond to disruptions, balance inventory and customer needs, and make decisions that keep supply chains operating efficiently.

Construction Management Technology

Experience a student-led demonstration of concrete testing and analysis project. Observe a comparison of multiple concrete mix designs, engineering specification requirements, curing practices, compressive-strength/load-testing results, and structural performance. You will hear about students’ methodology, testing procedures and results, lessons learned from structural-failure analysis, and recommendations for concrete selection and quality control.

Automotive Service Technology

Observe students leading portable automotive-diagnostics demonstrations using lab-scope technology, low-voltage trainer boards, and simulated automotive systems. Students will work through diagnostic challenges and explain how evidence leads to a diagnosis rather than relying solely on a scan tool.

Culinary Arts

Join us for a salad bar and dressing showcase! Learn how to build a composed salad using different ingredients and a choice of protein. You’ll get to create your own salad while students explain how ingredients and sauces are prepared, describe flavors and textures that work together, and demonstrate professional plating techniques.

Hospitality Management (Mixology Station)

Attend a preparation of cocktails and mocktails  . Students will explain the recipe, list the ingredients, and demonstrate the proper sequence in which the products should be mixed. This station serves as an opportunity for students to demonstrate hospitality, beverage-service knowledge, presentation, and guest interaction.

Business, Management, and Entrepreneurship

Students and alumni from Business, Management, Human Resources, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Accounting, and Office Technology will present their ventures, projects, and achievements.

Presenters will share their concepts, target markets, value propositions, successes, and challenges while discussing how TCC prepared them for careers in business, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Demonstrations may include marketing challenges, business and management education projects, an International Global Solutions Challenge, and digital marketing initiatives.
Afterwards, students and alumni will engage you in a discussion to gather feedback, mentorship, and industry perspectives on their ventures, projects, and professional development.

Nutrition and Dietetics

Compare food labels, estimate portions, and identify fiber-rich foods through student-guided activities. while discussing how nutrition contributes to health and disease prevention. Students connect these activities to health, disease prevention, and the practical skills used by nutrition professionals.

Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene

Observe a piezoelectric ultrasonic scaler in action. Dental hygiene students will explain how vibration and water irrigation help remove dental deposits. Students will also display Guided Biofilm Therapy (GBT) equipment and explain how ultrasonic instrumentation with air-polishing technology supports preventative care based on patient needs.

Examine a NOMAD hand-held dental X-ray device.  Dental assisting students explain its use in different dental settings, its integrated backscatter protection shield, and established radiation-safety procedures.

Physical Therapist Assistant

Participate as the patient in this student-led demonstration that includes topics like posture assessment, fall risk assessment, and office ergonomics.

Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) & Paramedic

Observe a simulated emergency medical services (EMS) response involving a patient experiencing chest pain that progresses to cardiac arrest. EMT and Paramedic students will manage the call from beginning to end. The demonstration gives attendees an opportunity to see the teamwork, communication, assessment, decision-making, and critical-care skills required to manage a complex emergency.

Respiratory Care

Engage in a demonstrate on clinical intervention. Presenters will explain skills that communicate the importance of respiratory professionals. Students demonstrate respiratory care skills, from diagnosis to clinical interventions such as opening the airway, ventilating, intubating and administering oxygen.

Nursing

View a gallery that represents the nursing program and have meaningful conversations with our students regarding their practice.

Child Development and Teacher Education

Experience a process-focused art experience and learn its benefits in early childhood learning. Engage with students to learn the difference between process-focused art and product-focused art.

Paralegal Studies

Participate in a spin the wheel game featuring legal scenarios and different industries in which paralegals work. Spin for a scenario and try to identify connections between the facts presented, applicable precedent, and the area of law from which the case might draw.

Criminal Justice

Engage with students and faculty from Trinity River and Northwest campuses to learn about academic opportunities available to students pursuing the A.A.S. and/or certificates in CRIJ. Discover information about program growth, student engagement, student success stories, and partnerships supporting career pathways in criminal justice and public service.

Law Enforcement Academy

Take part in a scenario to evaluate the situation and guide its outcome using training props and an officer de-escalation checklist. Instructors will guide you through decision points, explain the constitutional and legal authorities governing those decisions, and debrief afterwards using academy evaluation guidelines. The experience demonstrates the Academy's emphasis on Reality-Based Training (RBT) and operational readiness.

Fire Protection Technology

Participate an interactive video simulation of a mock structural fire. Make command decisions, change your choices, and observe different outcomes while students explain the role of strategy, accountability, communication, coordination, and command decision-making in successful incident command.

Cybersecurity

Join our student-led demonstration of an automated cloud-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Witness how cybersecurity professionals detect, monitor, and respond to suspicious activity in today’s cloud environments.

Within a simulated cloud environment, the demonstration may feature suspicious activities such as unusual login attempts, unauthorized access attempts, port scanning, malware-like behavior, or abnormal data movement. The experience will provide an engaging look at cloud security while showcasing the practical cybersecurity knowledge and skills TCC students are developing.

Engineering

Interact with student-designed and built robots and engineering projects developed as part of their coursework. Get an inside look at the engineering design process: from concept and construction to programming, testing, and real-world application.

Student presenters will demonstrate their robots, explain the engineering and programming concepts behind their work, and share their experiences in the Engineering program. Attendees will have a chance to operate the robots with student guidance.

Horticulture

Experience an interactive, student-led exploration of modern horticulture through hands-on stations focused on sustainable agriculture, plant propagation, and landscape design technology. Student presenters will discuss the science and technology involved at each station, assist with activities, and answer questions. You’ll be able to see a tabletop hydroponic growing system in operation, propagate a plant cutting to take home, and explore how modern measurement technology supports professional landscape planning and design.

Robotics & Automation

Work directly with a collaborative robot (cobot) to complete a short programming and puck-sorting activity that simulates a common automated manufacturing process. Guided by Robotics and Automation faculty and students, you will learn basic robot-programming concepts, operate the cobot through an intuitive programming interface, and see how industrial robots improve efficiency, precision, and productivity.