And good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome,
welcome. Media's time now for a community connection. If we can ever get
our TV thing to do right here, we'll get things rolling. Here.
We have Tara Galtwalt with us here and Tara, welcome to the show today.
Lots going on if you get ready for school huh absolutely, Tom,
It's an exciting time of the year. Tri County Tech's ready to welcome a
whole lot of new students and some returning students. So this is this is
kind of what we get excited about as the year rolls rolls, summer rolls
to a close, school year kicks off well, super duper. Now,
we've got just about anything and everything to do with Try County Tech that we're
going to touch on today. Yes, yes, I have quite a list
for your talk, Tara. Let's get rolling. Okay. One of the
things that I want to share that is an exciting update to our short term
programs is that we have decided to integrate a national certification into our phlabotomy certition
that we offer. Yes, and so we are in the process of working
with Ascension Saint John Jane Phillips, and we're going to add some clinicals to
our phlebotomy program that will make the people that come out of that more employable.
Of course, that's what we're looking to do, and so a national
certification, as we gathered feedback from past students and from industry, seemed to
be the direction we needed to go. So people will see that rolling out
this fall. That's very good. I mean, that is very good and
quite useful for folks. Absolutely. Absolutely. Another thing that we've got going
on is tonight we have a CPR renewal class for first responders that they can
do for free, Tom, because you remember Mikey Smith, the gentleman who
loved our community so much. Yes, well, a foundation scholarship was set
up for Mikey Smith from donors from the community and his family and lots of
people who just loved him. And we're able to offer a CPR renewal class
for first responders at no charge so they can be there tonight at five thirty.
That is amazing. And so many people showed up when he was sick
and we had that nice parade of our first responders is like, oh yeah,
and you know that just kind of tells everybody how important and how how
much everybody loved this young man, and now to have him kind of live
on with us with this type of event is even better. It's great,
it's wonderful. We're so blessed with that. And we'll hold with our new
focus on fire training with our rescue tower that we have on our campus.
You know, Judge Stroum helped us with that and all the good stuff.
Tom, Well, Judge thought it was going to be a treehouse. Well
it's a pretty amazing treehouse. I kidding. That is awesome. And what
that has done for not only our community but also for our school is really
it pained big dividends. Yeah, it's wonderful. And so we're offering Thursday
trainings to firefighters every month on the third Thursday. We're going to offer trainings
extended it at no costs as often as we can do it at no cost
to the volunteer training excuse me, volunteer fireman in our area. So that's
an awesome advantage that people have for for being here in our communities. Well,
Terry, I'll tell you what. The Craig County Tech has been such
a great resource for our community and it just keeps un giving. But it's
a partnership. There are a lot of different hands at play that make all
this work, and it's it's it's hands extended out in friendship and cooperation one
hundred percent. Tom. I tell you that as we move forward, our
partnerships with the businesses, the community organizations, the volunteers, the families,
it is so important to us at Tri County Tech. We we know the
value of that and really we're here to be a resource for communities. We
serve oh wow, And I gotta tell you goes hand in hand. We
supply the community with a lot of talent once they get their certifications and sometimes
their degrees and get them out there. And it's a great way also and
to kind of keep our kids kind of close by too. Speaking as a
parent, you always want to be able to watch your grandkids grow up.
You don't want to do it on FaceTime when they're out in Los Angeles or
New York. You like to have them kind of close by. This is
a great way to kind of do that too. Yeah. Our children,
both of our boys, went through programs at Tri County and you know,
I just wrapped up my thirtieth year there, Tom, and it's just been
part of my life. Oh yeah, very nice, very nice. So
some more things we have going on there. I think that the community has
probably heard a little bit about our partnership with the Bartlestl Police Department. Yes,
that's a very good, solid partner, it is, and we have
been working behind the scenes to be able to bring what is referred to us
BEPAC Basic Peace Officer Certification Academy to our local area. And I will tell
you that this will be so advantageous to both Tri County Tech and the city
of Bartlesville. When a police officer comes on to the team the department in
Bartlesville, they have to go through cleet training and previously they had to do
that out of town and it caught. It was four months long, Tom
and we're able to be able to bring that to hear local later on this
fall. So we're excited about that. And other folks are needed are going
to miss us, Yeah, absolutely, their hotels might, but it's great.
You get to stay home in your hometown, do your training here,
conserve your hometown. Yeah, that's what we're all about, you know.
Trying to strengthen our community is real important to us, just like it is
to you at the radio. Another date that we have, we have an
orientation for our beginning the new high school. Students and their parents are asked
to please attend an orientation at Tri County Tech on August this seventh at either
two thirty or four thirty. They pick one and this will be a way
that we can inform them so they feel like they are in the know as
they show up for school. It's always a good thing. Yes, kids
get the jitters a little bit. They want to come in fully prepared and
ready to go, like like they don't want to be spotted as somebody doesn't
found that's right. We you know, I stand out there on the first
day of school and watch them come in, and that's one of the highlights,
you know, of being an educator is that you see them so excited
to be there, yet they're so nervous. So we wanted to be prepared.
And our first day of school for full time programs is August the ninth,
so that is coming up very quickly. Bartlesville, as Chuck said yesterday,
starts on August tenth, so we are August ninth for our our programs
to start. The other thing we have coming up is our Tri County Tech
Foundation, which is really important to us. It provides tuition assistance to and
emergency assistance to students who otherwise would not be able to attend Tri County Tech.
And we have our first ever golf tournament coming up through the foundation.
I think Champagne came and talked about that a little bit. Yes, she
is her and Kim Smith and so that is October fifth, and I just
want people to remember that that's coming up out there. We've got a lot
of great sponsors already. And if people want to check that out, they
go to Tri County Tech dot edu backslash golf, so that's the website for
it. Yes. Yes, another thing that Chuck mcaulay yesterday referenced when he
was on here, I do love the radio, tom So. I listened
to you guys. Yes, yes, the news for me comes from the
radio. And he referenced that the school Resource Officers are ready to roll for
Bartlesville and reflecting back again on our partnership with Tri County in Bartso Police Department,
we are going to have a full time SRO this year on our campus.
So that is wonderful. We're very very pleased of that with that partnership
with Bartleswoll Police Department in the City of Bartelsville. Nice commitments we got from
our community. That's great. Yeah, yeah, this is going to turn
out to be a one whale of a semester. It really is. We've
got a lot going on. Another highlight that we had a few months ago,
we received a grant from our Progrants and that was for broadband training and
we have conducted one round of broadband training over in Pahuska at our facility at
the pahusk Business Development Center. But we are going to be scheduling one of
those here in Bartelsville this fall. That is a short term training for broadband
and will offer skills to the people to be hired in broadband. I great.
You know our footprint because keeps getting bigger and bigger. We're in pa
Husking and that's been very well received over the last few years. And of
course over No Wada, they're new, little, yes place we have over
there. It's really not that little, that's not that little beautiful facility.
Tom and we have had a lunch and learn one of the things through our
workforce and economic development, we're going to focus on some more lunch and learns,
So we will be having those in no Wada and we will be having
lunch and learns in Pawhuska as well, so that the communities can come out,
we can offer some information, perhaps some topics of training that they may
be interested in, and really start to be more visible in both of those
places with that. Nowada of course has a big project coming their way with
APEX, which is the Hickory Creek project with the wind turbans. And one
of the things that we're going to do with a lot with a grant that
we got from ARPA, we're building a polelyard on our campus in Bartlesville.
And the ripple effect of that tom is to be able to focus on training
for skill sets that will work for linemen, for broadband and for the wind
turbine industry. And so that's that's another piece of the puzzle. Wow.
I tell you, every time Drake County Tech shows up, there's something new,
there's something that you're like, wow, Wow, nobody thought about that.
Well, you'd already thought about it. I mean, it's like,
what a nice little thing. Yeah. We try to keep you know,
our ears and our eyes open to see what's needed in the industry, and
we know that there's a lot of still some gaps with the skills as far
as construction trades and some of the hands on trades, and so we feel
that this Poleyard will be an asset to help us along those lines. I'm
sure that it will. And do we stall flex class availabilities? We do
because I get kind us tight. Yeah, we have a little bit of
um, we have a small amount of space left in our flex programs.
Our high school or full time program excuse me, are very full, they
are. There's just a few slots literally left in that and so a little
bit left in flex and we are we are excited about a full year.
One thing you got to know about try County Tech. The people who work
there stayed there for a good long time. Why because it's a great place
to be. It's a great place to watch people learn, it's a great
place to help people learn. In fact, Right County Tech has won numerous
awards in that regard over the year. Yeah, Tom, I tell you
it's it's a fantastic place. We really do care about our people and we
care about our communities, and that right there helps us be successful and there's
only something new, so you can't get bored on the job. No,
there's not, there's not time to be on your tools. Yeah, I'm
so proud of I'm so proud of our staff at Tri County and I just
love the community being there to support us at all levels. So you guys
are absolutely amazing. And where can we find more on Tri County Tech on
the world Wide Web? Back It is simply tri County Tech dot edu.
Tom, and you can come out and visit us, and we're happy to
lead people on tours, answer questions whatever it might be that the need is.
We're happy to assist. Well, we're happy to have you here in
our own backyard. Thank you so much, God bless you. Thanks for
coming in and giving us all this great news. Absolutely, Tom, you
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