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  • Alex Houtchens

    Alex Houtchens Finds His Edge in the Skilled Trades

    February 03, 2026
    From GED to groundbreaking fabricator, Aims Community College alumnus Alex Houtchens built a Colorado business mastering thermoplastic welding. His skilled trades journey blends grit, precision, and a rare niche where plastic outperforms metal in demanding industrial environments.
  • Ben Marushack

    Ben Marushack Charts a Course in Air Traffic Control

    January 13, 2026
    From Colorado fairways to a control tower with one of the best views in America, Ben Marushack found his calling in air traffic control. His story is about thinking under pressure, embracing challenge, and guiding planes—and a career—with calm precision.
  • Saeed Saeed and Amiri Ellington

    Building the Future: Alumni Help Shape the Next Era of the Aims

    November 17, 2025
    Two former Aims students are returning to campus in steel-toed boots, helping raise the very buildings that shaped their lives. Their journeys, stretching from Iraq to Greeley classrooms and from high school shop floors to major construction sites, now stand poured into the foundations of Aims’ future.
  • Danielle Irwin

    Danielle Irwin’s Full-Circle Journey at Aims

    June 03, 2025
    Once a struggling student, now a campus changemaker—Danielle Irwin’s return to Aims transformed her path from recovery to leadership, art to advocacy, and student to mentor in the very halls that shaped her.