Their Path is Our Passion

Jose Gonzalez is a Full Stack Developer for Encore Capital Group. He graduated from the West-MEC coding program in 2017 and has found success in the technical field.

Dani Torres uses her past as an inspiration to step into the medical field and to try to make a positive difference in people's lives.

When preparation meets opportunity. that's when great things happen. Joanna Pedraza Salgado is now reaping the benefits of that formula.

When a woman was on the verge of losing her house, students from West-MEC stepped up to help rebuild it back into a place she could call home.

TeamSmile is an advocacy group teaming up with pro sports teams to help underserved children receive dental care. Some West-MEC students joined in on the initiative.

Expecting a fun summer day at the river, Morgan Bosley had to unexpectedly help her friend in need. Thankfully, she had some training that prepared her for situations like this.

Max Woods, like a majority of high schoolers, didn't know what he wanted to do in the future. He never would've been able to guess where he would wind up working.

John Haggerty made a move across the country to Arizona in the middle of his high school career. He couldn't have imagined it may have been a blessing in dusguise.

Noah Meyers grew up in Surprise, Arizona, and knew what he wanted to do from a young age, kind of. A personality test he took in sixth grade, which offered career suggestions based on your results, told him that being a pharmacist would be a good fit for him.

Besides Smith's primary duties as a house person, he is a mentor for current Project SEARCH interns, teaching them the ropes and how to be successful during the internship.

Kaitlynn Trubl is breaking the narrative in the automotive industry. Trubl attended West-MEC and completed the Collision Repair and Refinishing program last spring, and now works as a Refinish Technician at Caliber Collision.

Barrington Henry made it a goal to become a CTE teacher but needed to take professional development courses first. He chose to come to West-MEC despite being from Yuma.

Connor Mattingly completed the EMT program at West-MEC in 2012. Today, he is the Associate Registered Nurse (RN) Director at Banner Health. He cites West-MEC as the jump start to his career in the medical field.