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When Wyatt Jeffries started at IYRS in the fall of 2018, he had no idea that 6 months later he would be on a flight to the U.K. to embark on the adventure of a lifetime.
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![Finding a Path to Ground | Your Post-Military Career Path]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1563475223/iyrsedu/aktfy49nub5r0r9oij74/Glenn-Robbins-3-768x512.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1563475223/iyrsedu/aktfy49nub5r0r9oij74/Glenn-Robbins-3-768x512.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1563475223/iyrsedu/aktfy49nub5r0r9oij74/Glenn-Robbins-3-768x512.jpg","width":768}])
Glenn Robbins, Marine Systems Student Ambassador
Over the course of your military career, how many times did someone tell you to run something to ground? It’s a phrase that implies getting to the source…the bottom line…the ground truth.
![Spring 2019 Marine Systems Student Ambassadors]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1563475866/iyrsedu/oeezyu9m6uwereuqp71d/Spring2019groupphoto.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1563475866/iyrsedu/oeezyu9m6uwereuqp71d/Spring2019groupphoto.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1563475866/iyrsedu/oeezyu9m6uwereuqp71d/Spring2019groupphoto.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1563475866/iyrsedu/oeezyu9m6uwereuqp71d/Spring2019groupphoto.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1563475866/iyrsedu/oeezyu9m6uwereuqp71d/Spring2019groupphoto.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1563475866/iyrsedu/oeezyu9m6uwereuqp71d/Spring2019groupphoto.jpg","width":2200}])
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Introducing two of our newest Student Ambassadors: Will Ingram and Keith Gipple
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Sam Logler, Digital Modeling & Fabrication Student Ambassador
Wow. Survived my first month of school. I love it. It’s hard. I am out of practice. To be perfectly honest, it felt like I was just barely treading water this last month. After a relaxing summer with my kids, my world went from 0 to 100 flash.
![I’ve made it here and I feel like I’m making it here.]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1563472041/iyrsedu/mmomqa32neuipcj3iqin/KO.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1563472041/iyrsedu/mmomqa32neuipcj3iqin/KO.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1563472041/iyrsedu/mmomqa32neuipcj3iqin/KO.jpg","width":540}])
Kyle Orvis, Composites Technology Student Ambassador
In 1985 I was born in southern California. From surfing in Jamaica to giving bicycle tours over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, exploration has been a major part of my upbringing and life.
![The Mystical Skill of Lofting]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1563470403/iyrsedu/nrk7rqs5shw0suuu8ig4/JasonLofting.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1563470403/iyrsedu/nrk7rqs5shw0suuu8ig4/JasonLofting.png","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1563470403/iyrsedu/nrk7rqs5shw0suuu8ig4/JasonLofting.png","width":768}])
Jason Eldridge, Boatbuilding & Restoration Student Ambassador
When you first get started in boat building a lot of things will be utterly foreign to you. Some methods and processes for building a boat that has seemingly no origin other than “this is the way it has always been done.”
![Soul Plane]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1563469785/iyrsedu/tkgmxij2jt1g9tbadxls/Graduation2019-MelissaConlon.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1563469785/iyrsedu/tkgmxij2jt1g9tbadxls/Graduation2019-MelissaConlon.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1563469785/iyrsedu/tkgmxij2jt1g9tbadxls/Graduation2019-MelissaConlon.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1563469785/iyrsedu/tkgmxij2jt1g9tbadxls/Graduation2019-MelissaConlon.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1563469785/iyrsedu/tkgmxij2jt1g9tbadxls/Graduation2019-MelissaConlon.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1563469785/iyrsedu/tkgmxij2jt1g9tbadxls/Graduation2019-MelissaConlon.jpg","width":2048}])
Melissa Conlon, Boatbuilding & Restoration Student Ambassador
My decision to attend IYRS came to me like a period at the end of a sentence.
![On soundtracks and the start of the second year]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1563469142/iyrsedu/qgsvp5se9kz4bidy1d0y/DMSteamBox.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1563469142/iyrsedu/qgsvp5se9kz4bidy1d0y/DMSteamBox.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1563469142/iyrsedu/qgsvp5se9kz4bidy1d0y/DMSteamBox.jpg","width":540}])
Dan Mollett, Boatbuilding & Restoration Student Ambassador
Before I came to IYRS, a friend of mine used to say that I lived my life to the theme song of Bonanza...