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Three six. Yeah, Mondy,
good morning, good morning, welcome,

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welcome, welcome in this time now
for our community connection right here on K

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one, the one you try stand
we have with this year our friends from

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Bartisville Public Schools we have are Superintendent
Chuck McCauley. And we also have probably

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the best cheerleader for any program I
have ever met, in my wife,

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the FFA Marty Jones. Hey,
guys doing, gentlemen, Hey, we're

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doing great. Thank you for having
us. And I brought mister Jones along

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with us. It's National ff A
week and so we they presented at our

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board meeting, and I want to
give mister Jones an opportunity just to brag

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about what we've got going on with
our f FA program right here in Boultlesville.

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Well that that's going to be a
long list, so we could be

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here. How are you doing,
Martin, I'll try to keep it.

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Oh, you're doing. We're doing
great. Things are really awesome. We're

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excited this week to celebrate National off
of a Week. You know, I

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always like to look up a little
bit of history. The very first National

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off Fay Week was celebrated in nineteen
forty eight by the Board of Trustees at

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the national level, and so ever
since then, local programs have been celebrating

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nationalf Fay Week, highlighting the success
of their students and their involvement in the

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community. So we're excited that we
get to celebrate that here in Bartlesville.

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You know, we started our program
in twenty nineteen, and so this week

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is all about celebrating some of those
successes from our students and then giving back

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to the community. We did the
board meeting on Monday night, got to

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celebrate with our school board, and
yesterday we got to interact with some members

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of our community. We stopped by
a local nursing home and had some succulent

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plants so we could give away and
hopefully just be able to spread some positivity

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with some happy grams and some words
of encouragement to them. We're doing our

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staff appreciation day to day and so
excited that we could to celebrate, you

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know, together with our community there
in the school system, of our staff

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and all those support groups that help
us with our students every single day and

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allow them to be successful. Thursday, we've got our Chupter meeting. We're

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doing a riveting game of dodgeball.
Our students are very excited about some dodgeball,

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so I love it. Most of
them are very excited. They're warming

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up their arms already, but they're
excited and we get a chance to come

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together as a chapter and celebrate this
week and then Friday, we're encouraging everybody

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community and our school staff to wear
blue or gold or a combination of both.

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If you've got some old FFA shirts
or something like that that you can

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wear. But we'd love to just
be able to have lots of blue gold

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in our community and be able to
celebrate this National Affair Week. This is

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great, This is really awesome.
You know, there were two highly coveted

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jackets when I went to school.
One was the varsity jacket. The other

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one was the big blue FFA jacket, and there are a lot of lucky

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Cusses who had both. Absolutely absolutely, man, you're sat In Chack.

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This has been a great program and
a great addition to our school. There's

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no doubt. It's pretty incredible when
you think about this is our fifth year

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of the program and it all starts
with leadership, and Marty was our you

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know, we hired Marty in the
spring, and prior to that year,

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and we knew that we had some
interest in the program. I personally didn't

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know if we would ever be to
a place where we would need three teachers,

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but we quickly got there and that
was really I know, talking to

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mister Jones when we hired and we
got started, a lot of the decisions

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that we're making regarding the program were
fifty year decisions, really long term when

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you think about it, and it
just has obviously exploded. You know,

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we quickly recognize that we need to
hire a second teacher, Cameron Dale,

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that came in and has done a
great job, and then this year Ashley

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Darso started with us. So we
have three full time teachers working with kids

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eighth grade and above and providing some
great opportunities for students, which that's what

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we're all about. I know that
we're making some tremendous strides on the workforce,

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get our kids ready to go to
work. You know, we want

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our kids to be college and career
ready, and we really think that this

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opportunity for kids helps in both of
those areas. I know the kids that

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go through that program, I know
just interacting with them Monday night before the

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board meeting, kids are very well
spoken. Their communication skills are strong.

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I mean they have that, they
have the type of skills that anybody would

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want to hire them. And so
I'm just so pleased that we have this

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this program for our kids, and
so thankful for our community because part of

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that. We started the program with
just mister Jones in a classroom, and

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so I mean literally that's what that's
what we did, and things quickly.

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You know, there was strong interest
in it. I know that we had

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lots of community members. I had
lots of former students or uh, you

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know, mister mcaulay, why didn't
you start to us We're in school and

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so uh, but we we got
it started. And so obviously we have

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this part of a couple of bond
issue packages, and we built a classroom

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and shop space right next to our
indoor facility next on Bartsville High School's campus.

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Uh. And then now obviously our
outdoor facility agriculture facility that is by

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along Shawnee, which we're substantial completion
is scheduled for right around first of April,

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which they are working on the greenhouses
right now. So if you happen

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to drive down drive by the facility, you can see that and so that

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all the weather looks great and we
have all they have all the materials that

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they need to finish the building.
So then we think our kids are going

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to be in that by the end
of the school year. And it's really

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really exciting about what our kids will
have the opportunity to do now and also

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in the future. Wow, that
is tremendous. And to think, you

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know, they hurried in and then
you had to get two buildings, I

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mean a lot of space. I
guess it is. Mister McCaulay said,

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you know best, I think this
job is. I tell people all the

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time, I have the best job
in the world. We get to interact

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with the best community in our state
and our country. The community has been

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so supportive of our ACT program.
We have phenomenal students, and honestly,

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I'm really blessed to have two fantastic
teaching partners that keep me corralled and keep

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us focused every single day and working
with students. We hope that we can

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just continue to instill some of these
really good life left of students. We

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hope that they, you know,
take some knowledge of agriculture. We know

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most of them aren't going to go
into production agriculture, but we want to

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give them as many experiences as we
can so they can ultimately become informed consumers

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in our community and be a great, you know, invested citizens here in

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Bartleschooll. That's important to us,
and we're going to continue to grow our

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program in those aspects as well.
One thing is really nice is that I

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have to cover the junior livestock shows
that's coming here in a little bit and

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also the County Fair. And you
know, you're always going to see Copin,

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You're always going to see Dewey,
You're always going to see Candy Valley.

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But shows Ziam, here's Bartlesville right
there making the appearance and representing and

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it really looks good. It looks
good seeing all those kids from all those

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different schools. And the thing is
there's quite a camaraderie once once they get

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out there in the paragraund It's like, hey, what are you doing?

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How's this working for you? You
know, they compare notes and then I

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realized that, you know, when
you get into business or even in agriculture,

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everybody shares a little bit about what
they know in order to make the

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product stronger for everyone. Absolutely,
you know, we really try to teach

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our students about being informed consumers.
We want them to know where their food

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comes from. That's important. We
hope that we can develop some of those

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communication skills, being able to have
a conversation with somebody who they may or

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may not know. That's that's important. Those are important skills that our students.

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We hope that they learn from our
program and we give a unique opportunity

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for them. Students found a home
in our ACT program, and so that

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was the need for more facilities,
bigger and better. It is because the

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need continues to grow and that home
that our students are part of continues to

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grow. I know we do a
big student spotlight, but I understand we

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got some swimmers that did anything.
Yeah, we do. I think this

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week is really it's a great example
of what our schools have to offer for

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our kids. You know, we're
talking about our national FFA week and that's

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a nationally recognized program now, so
proud of mister Jones and his team.

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You know, on the athletic side, that's right, our swim teams.

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I've heard of debate that we won
forty one or forty two state championships and

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swimming, So I'll just say over
forty. But our girls won. Our

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girls won the state championship, which
is not a surprise. They look,

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we're a half point from winning it
last year and they have two the two

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returning individual state champions from the team. They had two girls win two events

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you can only could meet in two
individual events. We had a freshman and

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a sophomore that both won both events
that they were in set state records and

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so they'll be very good for years
to come. Our boys team finished second

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their runners up, so really proud
of that. Over on the athletic side,

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fine arts wise, we recognized our
all state music students Monday night,

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and so we have kids in our
vocal music program, our instrumental band,

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and also an orchestra, very strong
programs that are big parts of what we

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do and so really proud to recognize
them as well and give you good and

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lass. Kids are involved in multiple
things. I know our Luke Olsen one

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of our all state orchestra students.
You know, he's one of our outstanding

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swimmers, and I know on they
over in our FFA program, I mean

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we have our kids that are also
rules you know, big parts of our

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football program or all part of it
too, so really together. Yeah,

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I'm really proud of that. And
then I'm also continuing on the academic side

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as well. Our Madison kids,
our Math Counts program. They won their

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regional competition. Actually they weren't unable
to compete last year. They won this

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area's region, but this year they
had to go to the Southwest because it

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conflicted with our district Science fair.
Yeah, so the kids they went over

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there and won that, and so
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And we just found out in the
last couple of days too, we have

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two Academic all Stators. There's only
one hundred of those in the state of

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Oklahoma. We've got to that's right, Lauren Lee and John Ortiz, a

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couple of seniors. And we have
multiple kids that have the academic qualifications to

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qualify, but we had two that
were selected, and there's only a handful

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of schools that have more than one
kid selected, and a lot of schools

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don't have anybody selected as academic all
Stators. So it's really been a great

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week, I think, just to
kind of show all the different opportunities for

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our kids on kind of whichever direction
you want to go. And I did

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want to update just a couple of
things to moving along. There is next

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week we are hosting our two big
things. But one I want to mention

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specifically is our pre kindergarten and kindergarten
roundup that's on Tuesday and also on Tuesday

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from five thirty to six thirty at
all of each of our elementaries and we

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have six. I know it's a
big decision for parents on when to start

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school, and so if you have
a kiddo that is going to turn forward

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before September first, and you're not
sure or you are sure, either way,

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we encourage you to go to the
school. There's an opportunity to visit

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with the principal, the teachers to
really see what school is like. So

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we offer full day pre k at
all of our schools, and so it's

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from five thirty to six thirty on
Tuesday. Parents will have the opportunity they

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can enroll right then. We also
know that some families they choose to keep

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their kids home and maybe they start
in kindergarten, which is fine, and

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so they'll have the opportunity to see
what that's like. And some kids even

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choose to wait until they're in first
grade. But we're opening up our elementaries

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on Tuesday because we know there's lots
of families that really can use that resource.

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They need that additional support being at
school and make sure they've got good

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meals for our kids and transportation,
all those different types of things. And

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really it's a good start for them
getting ready to print their elementary school because

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you know they're going to be there
for seven years, and really good academic

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preparation for them. Also wanted to
mention on Monday, Conical Phillips is hosting

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a they're putting on a math and
science night for middle school kids. It's

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called hands On, hands On,
minds On Event, and this is the

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first time they've offered it after COVID. We've got this started a few years

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ago, but it's over at Madison
Middle School at six point thirty for every

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middle school and even if you're a
kid that doesn't go to Bartlesville, you're

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a go to a private school or
your homeschool, or you're in the area

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that's come on over. Conical Phillips
is a great job. They feed everyone,

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they provide pizza, They have drawings
for kid I think they end up

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giving up two or three laptops at
the end, but they bring in their

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folks that are in their young engineers
or those folks that are doing some really

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neat things to interact with kids parents
and so really encourage folks, any middle

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school age family. We encourage them
to come on Monday at six point thirty.

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And then also just wanted to share
just a couple of things if we

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have time, just a couple of
things too. So thinking about this is

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an exciting time. We have a
lot of things going on that we've talked

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about right now as it's gonna be
a spring break here before you know it.

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But obviously speaking of the pre k
in kindergarten role that we're preparing for

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next year, and so as we
think, we think about those things too.

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You know, I think our FFA
program, our AG program has been

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by any measure, has been a
great success and we're so proud to have

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that part of our school. We've
also provided additional opportunities for kids. We've

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also always had the Fine Arts program, but over on the STEMS side and

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in career tech ready side, you
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our AG program was within Bartlesville School. Our STEM program, which you know

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is nationally recognized. We have four
different levels of computer science. We are

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adding UH in terms we have green
architecture, Civil engineering we're we're adding at

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Bartlesville High School on campus UH and
now all of those in pre engineering that's

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all gonna be housing our campus.
Students will not be going over to Track

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County Tech for part of that.
They're gonna be housed at Bartlesville High School.

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So we'll make sure that as people
are making choices, especially I I

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was meeting yesterday, even at the
middle school level, to be able to

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offer these courses, whether they're computer
science or architecture or civil engineering, kids

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can get exposed to that right here
at Central and Madison Middle School. So

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as they're making choices on enrollment,
to think about that. You know,

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till we talked about our construction course
we're going to offer that, We've we've

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kind of the first thing we did
was we put it together a course description

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and and shared that with our kids
as part of the enrollment PROSS. We've

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had over eighty kids select that,
so that's enough to say we're going to

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offer. It's at Bartlesville High School. So we're gonna start with a construction

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course it's going to be housed on
our campus. You know, our long

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term vision for that program is eventually
we'd like to have a program excuse me,

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where our k kids are building a
home a year. That's going to

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take us a while to get there, but we're getting started. We felt

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like carpentry was a place to start
because they'll get exposed to several different trades,

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and we really think that program has
a lot of promise and that's all

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gonna be housed on our campus at
Bartlesville High School. Or aviation program has

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gone from actually high tower excuse me. We went from a year ago she

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taught a part time schedule. This
year she's teaching full time aviation. Next

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year, we're going to need more
than one teacher to teach the class because

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we're gonna it's grown and it's developed, and we're seeing that there's a need

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for kids that are interested in being
a pilot or drones. But then secondly,

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also over on the mechanics side,
and so we're going to open up

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a pathway for kids to take that
over on the canon side. You know,

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there's such a it's such a viable
job opportunities for kids in that career

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right here, especially with American Airlines
right down the road that we can provide

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for our kids. So anyways,
want to share all those different opportunities that

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we have that are you know,
right here on our campus. And uh,

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we'll continue to obviously hit on the
academic sides as well. You know,

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we had over two we had two
hundred and eight kids last year that

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that scored three or better on an
AP test on their so that's a college

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level test that they took and passed
it to get college credit. For those

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are our students. So I know
a lot of times we sit here we

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talk about all these new opportunities for
kids, but we have obviously, we

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know a very strong option for many
of our kids is going on that college,

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that college bound route, and we
want to make sure they're ready for

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that as well. Alrighty, I
want to thank you both for coming in today.

