{"id":52,"date":"2019-06-03T17:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/alumni-success-recent-mech-graduate-on-cover\/"},"modified":"2019-07-05T22:07:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T22:07:02","slug":"alumni-success-donald-blankenship-reinvents-himself-for-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/alumni-success-donald-blankenship-reinvents-himself-for-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Success: Donald Blankenship Reinvents Himself for Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Droid Sans';\">After moving to Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula and realizing the need for additional technical expertise to obtain viable local employment, Donald Blankenship walked into Bay College for help. Don immediately felt welcomed and a sense of family.\u00a0 \u201cI think that is an important quality in a college that helps mold our younger generations AND our non-traditional, older adults who have decided to alter their career paths.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Droid Sans';\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/Don-Blankenship-Mechatronics-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/Don-Blankenship-Mechatronics-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/Don-Blankenship-Mechatronics-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2019\/06\/Don-Blankenship-Mechatronics-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/span>Don enrolled in the Mechatronics and Robotics program to achieve his goal. Bay accepted his prior degree courses, allowing him to get on a fast track to reinventing himself.\u00a0 He learned basic electrical circuit fundamentals to programing robots to complete complex tasks. \u201cI had a great experience in Bay\u2019s robotics program, I even spent extra time in the lab obtaining more hands on experience.\u201d\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Droid Sans';\">While completing his mechatronics and robotics degree at Bay College, Don was offered a part time job at Pisces Fish Machinery. Upon graduation in May, Don works full time for Pisces using his new technical training to program equipment and work on electrical schematics that make their way around the world in the fish processing industry.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After moving to Michigan\u2019s Upper Peninsula and realizing the need for additional technical expertise to obtain viable local employment, Donald Blankenship walked into Bay College for help. Don immediately felt welcomed and a sense of family.\u00a0 \u201cI think that is an important quality in a college that helps mold our younger generations AND our non-traditional,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/alumni-success-donald-blankenship-reinvents-himself-for-employment\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31,20],"tags":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-continuing-education","category-manufacturing","category-robotics-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baycollege.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-3-issue-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}