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Good morning, good morning, good
morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.

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It's time for our community connection right
here on K one, the one

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you dressed in. We have Randall
Jones in here from Try County Tech.

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How you doing man, Man doing
good? Always an great opportunity when I

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get to come over here and talk
about all the great things going on.

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Well, we have a great thing
coming up. We have a what a

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career pairs. Yeah, so it's
been a while since we've hosted one,

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but we're hosting a career fair and
so we've got some of our partner high

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schools that'll be coming, all of
our students will be coming over to it.

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We'll have a morning session in an
afternoon on the twenty eighth, and

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where we've got to hold this right
right there in our Tri County campus.

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So we're going to have we've got
rooms ready and we'll have tables set up.

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But if you're a business and you
kind of looking for employees, man,

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this is a great opportunity to come
and get get in front of our

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students and they're gonna have resumes ready
and kind of talk about why your business

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would be a great place for our
students to come to work and we'd love

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to have you coming soup table.
If I have a business and I'm interested

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in this, how do I get
a hold of it? And who do

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I get a hold of it?
Tricottie. Yeah, yeah, you can

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shoot me an email at Randall dot
Jones at Tri Countytech dot edu. But

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there's a link for the vendor registration
on our Facebook page. We've shared it.

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There's an event there. You can
go there, click that event and

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it'll open the registration and you can
register just a few short questions. It's

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a simple form. It's free of
charge, so we're not even charging you

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to come up, and we'll even
feed you lunch. So yeah, hot

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dog. And of course you got
the best students around, all best and

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that's you know. One of the
things that I love about Tri County is

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we don't just want students to come
and attend and get certifications. We want

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to see them because real success comes
if after they leave our doors, when

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they step into the workforce, and
so we're preparing them for that. But

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we also want to help make connections
for them for their future success and the

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career that they want to choose.
And we want to help get them and

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that happens when we partner with great
businesses here and to get our students there

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and get them jobs and get them
working. Ever since Trike County tackles up

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and running, and we've been partnering
with each other, with the community,

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with the businesses, and with the
folks who really need good skilled workers.

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Yes, sir, absolutely, and
it's been a partnership that has worked hand

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in glove for several decades. Absolutely, and we just excited to see that

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continuing to grow. So, I
mean, we have students that are coming

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to us and they're you know,
maybe when they graduate, they want to

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go on to college. So we've
got some we're gonna have universities there that

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are gonna be able to talk to
those students. We have students that want

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to leave us and go to the
military to use their certifications in the service,

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and so we're gonna have recruiters there
and talking to students that want to

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go that route. And then some
of our students are going to go right

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to the workforce and start a career
and build on that. And that's what

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we want businesses there for to get
get them going. And this is a

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great place to get it done,
Like you said, if business has not

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going to cost to anything, not
even feed and you probably walk home with

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the good recruits as far as their
resumes are concerned. For sure, this

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is the place to make it happen. It's a win win for everybody.

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And that's the kind of solutions that
we expect to try. Everybody win.

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Absolutely. I'm gonna like to encourage
you if your local business and say,

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hey, you know, I'm fully
staffed right now, but you know,

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you don't know when that's gonna change, and you don't know when that's going

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to happen. And even if it
doesn't happen for a while, I mean,

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just being a part of an event
like this to get our students really

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great practice and meeting you and you
meeting them and helping them develop as an

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employer or you as an employer and
them develop as an employee is a great

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aspect and we'd love to have you
come out and be a part of that.

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Oh. Indeed, indeed, indeed. Now, one thing that's great

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about Trike County Tech is that when
the students leave, they usually don't owe

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a dime. Yeah, And so
if you're an employee, you have to

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worry about that right then, I
got a lot of student debt coming over

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their heads and so and know that, you know the guys that the teachers

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that are teaching them in those in
their programs are coming from industry, and

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we have advisory boards that are a
part of our programs as well. So

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our students aren't just setting in a
classroom, they're working in labs, hands

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on experience, hearing from experts who
have been in the industry for a while.

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So they're coming out ready for the
career field that they're going into.

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And that's great. And if you're
thinking of this, if you're a student,

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or if you're a parent or guardian
or a student. As far as

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becoming a student a Try County Tech, it's nothing but pluses across the board,

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absolutely because you can either just walk
out after you get certified, go

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to work, or if you want
to go to college. You have ways

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of even integrating the hours of Try
County Tech with partnering universities. Right we

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have articulation agreements and with the State
Career, the Career of Oklahoma sign a

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deal where we've got some especially for
our nursing students, with multiple options for

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different universities that will recognize those hours. We have one right here locally with

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Oklahoma Westland recognizing those hours and giving
a tuition scholarship or waiver for our students

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that leave from up to fifty percent
scholarship. So that's amazing deal. And

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that comes across any of our programs. And we're we're recruiting right now for

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our adult programs coming up in August. Braid's getting ready to do high school

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enrollment. He's been out recruiting really
heavy and we'll let them know the first

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week of April. So that's coming
out real quick too. So lot's going

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on. You know. The thing
is with the adult programs, Folks were

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saying, well, how does that
work? Well, usually it happens well

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when you have been out in the
workforce for a little bit and you realize

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that you've got something going on here, but maybe you could do a little

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bit better. Yeah, and that's
where folks start to challenge themselves a little

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bit. And I got to tell
you, if you're on the fence,

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don't sit there too long, because
these classes for adults fill up. For

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Yeah, we get a lot of
them filled up, and we're kind of

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changing dynamics of some different things.
Too, looking at some quarterly enrollment,

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so we'll offer where you know,
our welding class will be you can every

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three months, we're going to take
openings. We'll have openings for welding class

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so you can try to help get
more students in and more and more students

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out. We're going to be structuring
some of other programs just like that here

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in the real near future. So
I'm really excited about it to get more

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students the help that they need so
that they can have the future and success

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and the career that they want.
And you know something I don't oh of

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a welder that's ever been without work, No, because there's a high demand.

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It's not going away. Yeah,
it's a high demand skill for sure.

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And you know, every one of
the guys I've worked with have always

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been busy. Yeah. Another problem. We just restructured our so we used

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to be medical office Specialists. It's
now certified Medical Assistant administrator. Okay,

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a couple of nights a week and
you get the intro to anatomy and physiology

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and so it's a great class.
The enrollment for its open right now and

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that class will start in April.
So we've got some openings coming up for

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that, so nice. Yeah,
paramedic, We've got openings coming for paramedic

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too. We're going to start offering
that once a year. But our Anatomy

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and Physiology, which is an intro
course to that program, starts in April.

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So if that's something any of you
EMTs out there who are interested to

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take it to the next level,
want to become a paramedic, shoot me

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an email, give me a call, Mike. Goodness sakes, it's always

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happening and you're taking a little bit
of time for like spring break or fall

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breakdown. Other than that, it's
just constant and it's really a good thing

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because as you're seeing students come in, you're seeing students graduate, and every

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now and then, if you of
them come back, just say how do

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you see how things are going?
Don't They absolutely? And we love it.

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It's an awesome thing to get them
to come back and share with our

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students of the success they've had after
they finished. We have so many of

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those and so it's great to have
that opportunity. Well, okay, here,

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so how you can be a part
of that success story. If you

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have a business and you're looking to
hire people or maybe perhaps down the road

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thinking about adding on some positions.
This is where you need to go to

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set up your booth yea, And
it doesn't cost a die and Randlem's going

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to feed you. And it's all
out there at Track County Tech. And

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the date is March twenty eighth,
So I have two sessions. We want

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you to stay the whole time with
us, but we'll have a morning session

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from nine to noon and then you
come back at twelve forty five until two

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forty five. Oh, they'll be
camping out there. Let's go. Just

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get a hold of Rantle there at
the Universe right County Tech, and we'll

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get you all situated. This is
gonna be a good time. This is

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gonna be really an eye opener here
too, not only for the students,

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right, but because they're ready to
go for sure, but also an eye

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opener for maybe businesses who have heard
of try County Tech but not really have

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been, you know, uh meshed
in with them to the point where others

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have. Now there are a lot
of businesses in town who have and they

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kind of rely on what we are
trying to try County Tech. We trained

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to work for us and everything else
like that. But if you're new to

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the game a little bit, hey, this is this is a great way

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to spend your day. This is
a great way to talk to some prospective

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employees. Yeah, without a doubt, it's a it's a great opportunity for

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you to see the kind of students
that we have here locally, that that

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are that are coming out ready to
go, and we'd love to have you

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be a part of it. So
alrighty, hey, thank you, Randa,

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I know problem, thanks for having
me. All right, folks,

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you've been listening to our community connection