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Speaker 2: with the president of Southeast Technical College. We've got President
Speaker 2: Klossman on the line. They've got an amazing program happening
Speaker 2: later today. We'll chat about that in a bit, but first,
Speaker 2: thank you for joining me today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: So let's talk a little bit about this event STC
Speaker 2: students to present flags to local emergency responders. That's going
Speaker 2: to be today at eleven am. Do you know approximately
Speaker 2: how many flags are going to be presenting today?
Speaker 1: Yeah, we will be giving out flags to six different
Speaker 1: local agencies here in the Suppault area.
Speaker 2: I love that and there's a nice presentation of people
Speaker 2: have the ability to get there at eleven am to
Speaker 2: watch this. This would be a really nice thing to watch.
Speaker 2: And if you can't make it, I guarantee you of
Speaker 2: be able to see some images on social media as well.
Speaker 2: And what led up to this. Do you know what
Speaker 2: kind of led the students in the Southeast Tech to
Speaker 2: decide to do this today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it actually started as a project for our veterans
Speaker 1: where our welding and our collision repair students. We're originally
Speaker 1: creating one flag for a veterans program that we are
Speaker 1: going to sell as a fundraiser and then raffle off
Speaker 1: to somebody who won that. And it just turned out
Speaker 1: so well and it was such a great learning experience
Speaker 1: for our students that the idea kind of built from there.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't it be great if we did this for
Speaker 1: some of our other local agencies as well and gave
Speaker 1: it to them as a gift, just as the way
Speaker 1: to say thank you for everything that they do for
Speaker 1: the community.
Speaker 2: I love that that is such a neat thing. And again,
Speaker 2: Southeast Technical College and it's always fun because it's southeast,
Speaker 2: but it's on the northwest corner of Sioux Falls, yes,
Speaker 2: but in southeast South Dakota. If you'd like to get
Speaker 2: out there and be a part of the program, it
Speaker 2: is today at eleven am. And like I said, you'll
Speaker 2: also be seeing images on social media. And let's talk
Speaker 2: a little bit about Southeast Technical College. You guys have
Speaker 2: been around a while, haven't you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were founded in nineteen sixty eight. We moved
Speaker 1: to our current location here on the northwest side back
Speaker 1: in the early nineteen nineties. So in three years we'll
Speaker 1: be celebrating our sixtieth anniversary here in the suit Falls area.
Speaker 2: I love that we used to have an office right
Speaker 2: next door to you guys. We were in the It
Speaker 2: was called the South Dakota Business Technology Center when we
Speaker 2: moved in, and then it was known as ZEAL for
Speaker 2: a little while.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: And again it was always wonderful and it was the
Speaker 2: beginning of every year. We'd have students come in there
Speaker 2: looking for classes and I would be like, Ah, this
Speaker 2: isn't quite the right building, but you have a wonderful
Speaker 2: campus and a lot of the students that are there
Speaker 2: are are people from this area, but they come from
Speaker 2: all over the place, don't they.
Speaker 1: They really do? You know, we have about eighty percent
Speaker 1: of our students come from South Dakota, a lot of
Speaker 1: them from the Suit Falls area. But we do have
Speaker 1: you know, with the other four technical colleges, we try
Speaker 1: not to have a lot of overlaps, so we do
Speaker 1: have some programs that are unique to us, some that
Speaker 1: are you know, then in multiple campuses across the state.
Speaker 1: So we do draw from you know, from Rapid City,
Speaker 1: from the Pier area, but then also from southwestern Minnesota
Speaker 1: and northwestern Iowa as well, just because we do have
Speaker 1: great programs, we do draw from all over the region
Speaker 1: as well. So we're you know, we're.
Speaker 2: Always glad to have them here, absolutely and help.
Speaker 1: That they stay in South Dakota.
Speaker 2: When I graduated, I was going to say, we can
Speaker 2: use the people here too in the workforce. So once
Speaker 2: you come here and you go to school at Southeast
Speaker 2: Technical College and you fall in love with the community,
Speaker 2: hopefully you'll stick around and you know, take one of
Speaker 2: the many jobs that are available in this community as well.
Speaker 2: So thank you for doing what you're doing to bring
Speaker 2: wonderful people to the community. And thank you again for
Speaker 2: what you're doing today. I think this is a really
Speaker 2: neat thing.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it and glad we can help get the
Speaker 1: word out. We would love to have people come to
Speaker 1: campus and help us celebrate today again.
Speaker 2: Today is today Southeast Technical College students presenting flags to
Speaker 2: local emergency responders. The event is today at eleven am.
Speaker 2: It's at the STC Collision Repair and Refinished Technology Lab
Speaker 2: at the Edwood Trade and In Industry Center. And I'll
Speaker 2: throw a link to all of the information because there's
Speaker 2: no way you're driving down the road. You're like, how
Speaker 2: am I going to remember that? Don't worry, I've got
Speaker 2: a link all the information at Facebook dot com slash
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