Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
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Speaker 1: Try County Tech are in on this Thursday, and we
Speaker 1: have Erica in with us today. Erica, first of all,
Speaker 1: good morning and welcome aboard.
Speaker 2: Thank you. It's great to be here.
Speaker 3: Nice bright sunshiny day before it all starts to rain. Anyway,
Speaker 3: We've got a busy summer lined up for young people
Speaker 3: at Try County Tech. Please tell us about it.
Speaker 2: So we have our steam Camp coming up.
Speaker 4: We're your steam so it stands for science technology.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what engineering, engineering, thank you, Arts and math.
Speaker 3: Very good, very good. So Steam Camp. This sounds like
Speaker 3: we've got a lot going on in a short amount
Speaker 3: of time. We do.
Speaker 4: So we have three different weeks happening in June, third
Speaker 4: and fourth grade, one week fifth and sixth grade, another
Speaker 4: week seventh and ninth. The last week we got art, aviation, babysitting,
Speaker 4: chef coding, creators, engineering, media makers, medical explorers, pe.
Speaker 2: We're excited about that one, by the way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, robotics, science and science and art of photography.
Speaker 2: So we're super excited about it.
Speaker 3: And this is just for kids. Man, that sounds like
Speaker 3: something a few adults would love.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, Yes, we're close to two hundred. Enrollments are
Speaker 4: a little over already, so if you're interested at all,
Speaker 4: go check out our website and get your kids enrolled.
Speaker 2: We're so excited.
Speaker 3: And that is Trientcounty Tech dot ebu.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 3: All right, very good. Now. Also, I remember a little
Speaker 3: bit ago, uh huh, this neat little thing got built
Speaker 3: out there at Tri County Tech, that fire tower.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been't.
Speaker 3: Getting a lot of attention, and now it's even going
Speaker 3: to get some more.
Speaker 4: Yes, we currently are running a volunteer or not a volunteer.
Speaker 4: We're running a fire academy out there right now. This
Speaker 4: is our second one. We have fifteen students. We're very
Speaker 4: excited about it. They're from volunteer and paid department's career
Speaker 4: firefighters from all over our three county area and then
Speaker 4: some so we're excited. We're one of the closest ones
Speaker 4: to a lot of people with easy access, so we're
Speaker 4: running that academy right now. And then what we're really
Speaker 4: excited about is on May second through the fourth at
Speaker 4: Tri County Tech, we are having our first ever, and
Speaker 4: we are calling it the Mikey Smith Memorial Regional Fire Conference.
Speaker 3: Nice remembers Mikey, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: Yes, we are so excited.
Speaker 4: Osu FS Fire Service Training has graciously allowed us to
Speaker 4: put our brand on it, and so we are going
Speaker 4: to make it bigger and better than any other in
Speaker 4: the state. They do have them all over the place,
Speaker 4: so any volunteer or career. It's free to everybody. All
Speaker 4: participants will have vendors food, everybody's going to hang out.
Speaker 4: There's like fifteen classes being offered again that are free
Speaker 4: that normally cost these people.
Speaker 2: It's being paid through the Safer Now grant.
Speaker 4: We also are going to kick off a has Matt
Speaker 4: Awareness and has Matt.
Speaker 2: Ops class that weekend.
Speaker 4: The classes will actually happen in June, but there is
Speaker 4: a meeting about it and those classes are vital for
Speaker 4: a lot of our fire.
Speaker 2: Folks around here. So we're really excited about it.
Speaker 3: You should be. This is going to be a happening
Speaker 3: period of time. It is.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 3: We're really excited, and I do want to touch on
Speaker 3: a class that's coming up to HVAC.
Speaker 4: Yes, we are now offering some different classes through our
Speaker 4: ACD flex short term classes. We have an HVAC class
Speaker 4: that's coming up. It starts May sixth, and we're looking
Speaker 4: forward to having folks enrolling that. It's an adult class,
Speaker 4: so it will be in the evenings. Tony Osborne will
Speaker 4: be our instructor and he's a phenomenal guy. If you
Speaker 4: don't know him, Osborne Heating and Air, and we're really
Speaker 4: excited to have him on board as well.
Speaker 3: Well. This is great and this is a great day
Speaker 3: career track thing for young people as well as folks
Speaker 3: who are looking for perhaps maybe their next job or
Speaker 3: a better job.
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, you get.
Speaker 3: Qualified that you're going to be pretty valuable to somebody.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and we're really looking to beef up our trades
Speaker 4: offerings over the next year or two through our ACD
Speaker 4: and our short term scheduling, and so be looking for
Speaker 4: those classes as well.
Speaker 3: You know, it never ceases to amaze me how Tri
Speaker 3: County Tech can take a look at the area around,
Speaker 3: ask a few questions and next thing, you know, we
Speaker 3: got a curriculum for it.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, we we thrive on flexibility.
Speaker 3: And it's been working really well.
Speaker 2: It has.
Speaker 3: There was a speaker that came into town and was
Speaker 3: talking about how educational you know, programs need to match
Speaker 3: up with work for us and this and that and
Speaker 3: the other. And I'm thinking to myself, dude, you're standing
Speaker 3: here at Try County Tech. That's what we do. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we've been doing for you and winning awards for doing
Speaker 3: it for years.
Speaker 4: We have, we have you are correct and we actually
Speaker 4: you know, we used to joke about how we were
Speaker 4: the best kept secret in town, and we don't want
Speaker 4: to be that anymore. You know, come to us, look
Speaker 4: for us. If you need something, we're here. We're here
Speaker 4: to help.
Speaker 3: Genuinely a diamond then, there ain't no rough around it. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: this is a shining gem. I want to go back
Speaker 3: to the Steam campus.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 3: For the youngsters, this really opens up a whole window
Speaker 3: of opportunity for kids who maybe thought I just don't know. Well,
Speaker 3: you know, you take a look at these offerings and
Speaker 3: you might just find your way into something that could
Speaker 3: lead into, you know, a lifetime's occupation.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, we've done a cheft again this year with it
Speaker 4: a little bit to try to gear it towards our
Speaker 4: program offerings. So we're hoping to expose some of the
Speaker 4: younger folks to what they can come to later on
Speaker 4: in high school and come see us and see those
Speaker 4: career paths and see how successful they can be. So
Speaker 4: these are just a tiny glimpse of what those programs
Speaker 4: can do for you and how those offerings can help you.
Speaker 3: I have a question how the Chef's class coming along,
Speaker 3: because I remember when my youngest daughter, she says, oh,
Speaker 3: I'm going to go into the culinary world. Said why
Speaker 3: he's been watching all these cooking shows on TV that
Speaker 3: we're so popular all the time, And I just wonder
Speaker 3: that still got It's a little magic there.
Speaker 2: It does. Yes, it's a great program.
Speaker 4: Chef is retiring this year and so we're bringing in
Speaker 4: Seth Day. He was formerly our hospitality person and he
Speaker 4: will shift that role into going into the classroom and
Speaker 4: teaching our kids how to be the best they can be.
Speaker 2: So we're really excited about that.
Speaker 3: That is so cool, and with the other programs too.
Speaker 3: Like I said, it's just a wonderful opportunity to kind
Speaker 3: of open your eyes and kind of see what's around you,
Speaker 3: what is possible somebody Kids sometimes kind of grow up
Speaker 3: with that idea that well, that's for somebody else that
Speaker 3: can't possibly be possible or meet. Well, we're showing the possible,
Speaker 3: are we not?
Speaker 2: We are for sure?
Speaker 4: And you know, our programs do drive people to better,
Speaker 4: bigger things. You know, we try to make them expose
Speaker 4: give them exposure to different areas and possibly even you know,
Speaker 4: I've been at tur County for a minute and so
Speaker 4: been through a couple of different positions, and when I
Speaker 4: was on the full time side of the house, I
Speaker 4: got to take students on field trips and stuff, and
Speaker 4: it was so interesting to me because a lot of
Speaker 4: them have never been outside of Bartlesville, you know, or
Speaker 4: even Tulsa, and so to be able to take them
Speaker 4: on those trips to Atlanta, to Orlando, you know, those
Speaker 4: different places. We went to Disneyland one time for a
Speaker 4: competition in Anaheim with marketing and so it's just it's
Speaker 4: a great experience for these kids.
Speaker 3: Wow. And I know so many of those kids that
Speaker 3: are like that. I was one of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 3: There's a world out there. Had a dog that's up
Speaker 3: mill growing up in a very small town, you know,
Speaker 3: things seem to be rather finite and that's just on TV,
Speaker 3: and realized that no, no, that's just in the real world.
Speaker 3: And you can get into it pretty easily.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and back on the fire tower a little bit.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we we're offering the obviously the original schools front
Speaker 4: of mine for me, but we also are doing monthly
Speaker 4: trainings for volunteer departments that are free of charge so
Speaker 4: that they can get some of the reup that they
Speaker 4: need in different areas. We just finished up an EMR
Speaker 4: series refresher series.
Speaker 2: With that, we have a board that we work with.
Speaker 4: And as we transition, because I don't know if you've heard,
Speaker 4: but we are going to have a full time fire
Speaker 4: and EMS program next year. It will be available for
Speaker 4: high school seniors and so they will get their AMT
Speaker 4: as well as get their firefighter one and a few
Speaker 4: other firefighter courses out of the way. And so we
Speaker 4: are really really excited about that and kicking that off,
Speaker 4: and we will work in conjunction conjunction with them to
Speaker 4: make other offerings available for our local departments as well.
Speaker 3: We cannot have enough first responders exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's we're trying to fill that and build our
Speaker 4: emergency Services division for sure. So we're look for exciting
Speaker 4: things in the next few years. We're very excited about it.
Speaker 3: All. You have to do, folks is to keep up
Speaker 3: with them. Is a check gap on their website that
Speaker 3: is tri Countytech dot edu. I don't know who put
Speaker 3: that together, but it's very easy to navigate. Even a
Speaker 3: guy my age can go on there and say, I'm
Speaker 3: not confused. I just go click and it's there. So
Speaker 3: it's really it's easy on the eyes. The information is
Speaker 3: right there in playing language. You're not going to get
Speaker 3: some IVY League you know, blah blah blah. When you're
Speaker 3: reading up on courses. It's easy to understand. And it
Speaker 3: even takes you places where you can apply. It takes
Speaker 3: you places where you can look at for financial aid.
Speaker 2: That's what we're trying to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, make it easy for everybody to get to this,
Speaker 4: and that's our fire star, our fire stuff. We have
Speaker 4: a page that has our offerings listed as well as
Speaker 4: a link to get registered for that conference that I
Speaker 4: was talking about. They actually registered through OSU FST and
Speaker 4: so there is a link there. It's tray Countytech dot
Speaker 4: ADU slash Training and there's also a button there that
Speaker 4: you can click and we will send you text messages
Speaker 4: with updates if you're interested in any of the new
Speaker 4: classes that are coming out, and what's happening with that
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: You know. The thing is is, yeah, I take a
Speaker 3: look at the at the building when when I'm driving
Speaker 3: by or picking up my daughter, and then I say, man,
Speaker 3: well they put all that underneath one roof. Then I
Speaker 3: go inside and it's like, Okay, there's some kind of
Speaker 3: losing because there's a whole lot of stuff in here
Speaker 3: that building that looked that big, and my goodness, there's
Speaker 3: a lot going on in.
Speaker 2: There, there is.
Speaker 4: And we're getting ready to finish up finally our health
Speaker 4: wing that we've been working on for about a year,
Speaker 4: so that should open up here pretty soon again, and
Speaker 4: then we will be starting on new buildings as well.
Speaker 2: So because with new.
Speaker 5: Programs, yes, yes, yeah, So we're constantly doing something right, yes,
Speaker 5: and and just trying to keep up with the technology,
Speaker 5: with the times, with all the things.
Speaker 4: And so we our administration does a great job. Doctor
Speaker 4: Strobel is amazing. Ta Gotwalt's our chief of instruction and
Speaker 4: she is is really really good at what she does
Speaker 4: and we're very lucky to have her. And you know,
Speaker 4: of course Kyle over us in the web department and
Speaker 4: h he's he's a gem as well.
Speaker 3: So he does how to motivate.
Speaker 2: He does, he does, he does.
Speaker 3: It's a lot of fun, he is. I want to
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you Eric and for coming in here
Speaker 3: today and spending enough time with us to get so
Speaker 3: much information out there for those who need it.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. I really appreciate it.
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