Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It is time now for our community connection right here
Speaker 1: on Kay one, the one you trust. And today we
Speaker 1: have our friends in from Tri County Tech. We have
Speaker 1: Jennifer and we also have Sarah here with us today.
Speaker 1: And by the way, congratulations because I guess Tri County
Speaker 1: Tech's educators a bunch of them took home some big
Speaker 1: awards here recentlyly, so way to go. Good on you there.
Speaker 1: It just kind of speaks well, it's about the whole school.
Speaker 1: Now today we're gonna first of all, get into it
Speaker 1: with Jennifer about the dental hygiene clinic.
Speaker 2: You got some new digs, yes we did.
Speaker 3: We just got newly renovated and we started moving in yesterday.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so this is kind of like a first day.
Speaker 4: And where is everything exciting?
Speaker 2: I bet it is.
Speaker 1: Now when we talk about the dental hygiene clinic, what
Speaker 1: what what did students learn here? I mean the basics,
Speaker 1: the introduction.
Speaker 4: To everything about dental hygiene.
Speaker 3: Yes, they'll have their bachelor's degree in dental hygiene.
Speaker 4: So there it's a two year program.
Speaker 2: Okay, And what what all goes on in there?
Speaker 1: If I were someone saying I'd like to, you know,
Speaker 1: be a person for one of your students to work on.
Speaker 2: What can we expect? What what services are offered?
Speaker 3: Just like a regular dental office. Really come in and yes,
Speaker 3: you would get your teeth cleaned. You're the students are
Speaker 3: supervised by instructors and a dentist.
Speaker 1: Wow, so you get the full treatment, full treatment. Now,
Speaker 1: Now do you have to be someone with a like
Speaker 1: a like a special number.
Speaker 3: To be a anybody can come in right, anybody can
Speaker 3: get their teeth cleaned and we take everybody.
Speaker 2: Wow. So it's just like the real deal.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Trick County Tech is very good
Speaker 1: at mirroring the real world for the students to go
Speaker 1: out there and really take it on.
Speaker 2: Ahead on wants to get out.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes they do.
Speaker 3: All of our students go and get placed in dental offices.
Speaker 1: Now, if someone wants to become a patient, how do
Speaker 1: we go about getting into the mix.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a screening process where they would call me
Speaker 3: and I would make an appointment for them for a
Speaker 3: screening process where they would fill out some health history
Speaker 3: paperwork and they would take a brief look at their
Speaker 3: teeth and classify them and then we would get them
Speaker 3: assigned to a student just like that.
Speaker 2: Huh, just like that. Oh, my goodness sake, you make
Speaker 2: it easy.
Speaker 1: But you know something, you also make it a pretty
Speaker 1: good challenge for the students, getting real world experience in
Speaker 1: real time.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely is. I mean that's what they want, is
Speaker 4: the real time experience.
Speaker 2: Oh they do. Now, how long you been with the program?
Speaker 4: I have been there almost sixteen years, you.
Speaker 1: Know, be anywhere sixteen years. But I'll take your word
Speaker 1: for it. Hey, look at that beautiful smile too. If
Speaker 1: you're watching on the K one TV and also on
Speaker 1: Facebook live.
Speaker 2: As she's proved positive, it works, It works all right.
Speaker 4: And I did get my teeth glean there.
Speaker 2: I bet you do.
Speaker 1: Sarah, come on up to the microphone a little bit
Speaker 1: so we can hear you here. Tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about what you got going on here.
Speaker 2: You're in cosmetology, right.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes.
Speaker 5: And we also have a new salon, and they redid
Speaker 5: the salon in the classroom and so we have a
Speaker 5: whole new space for students and four clients.
Speaker 1: Wow, we and another real time real world experience for people.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, they get to come in and get that
Speaker 5: whole salon experience and students get to practice.
Speaker 1: Now by your youngest daughter, youngest of seven, is now
Speaker 1: attending Tri County Tech part time while going to school
Speaker 1: at Bartlesville High School, and she said, guess my, dad,
Speaker 1: I can get my hair done, I get my teeth cleaned,
Speaker 1: all right to school. And I said, really, what do
Speaker 1: you get acause well, I'm going to try to talk
Speaker 1: to mom and see if I can try something there
Speaker 1: over there with cosmetology. She says, I think it's really
Speaker 1: going to be cool, so she'll be making an appointment.
Speaker 2: So see, dad gave the blessing.
Speaker 5: You know, yeah, it's really nice. The high school students
Speaker 5: are able to come in for three hours. It's a
Speaker 5: two year program that they're able to do to get
Speaker 5: their certification for cosmetology and then adults. So we now
Speaker 5: have it to where they can go in for a year,
Speaker 5: which is a new, a new opportunity that they have.
Speaker 5: It used to be a year and a half program
Speaker 5: for them, but now we've increased our hours to where
Speaker 5: they can get it completed in a year.
Speaker 1: Now, I understand this works really well for traditional non
Speaker 1: traditional students. And I understand because I remember a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, we had a non traditional lady, I
Speaker 1: come in from No Water. She was just bringing up
Speaker 1: first so happy with this this new career field she
Speaker 1: was getting into.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, it's one of those where people get to
Speaker 5: express themselves and you know, it's at art and they
Speaker 5: also get to make a career out of it. So
Speaker 5: it's something that they're usually very excited to do. And
Speaker 5: being able to do it in high school is fantastic.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, because you know high schools they see how
Speaker 1: people who are older then present themselves and it's all
Speaker 1: about figuring out this, that and the other, and they
Speaker 1: want to know how it's done.
Speaker 2: And you know, whether.
Speaker 1: It's hygiene, whether it is cosmetology, whether it's anything.
Speaker 2: They all want to know how do you do that?
Speaker 2: And Trike County Tech is the best platform around for
Speaker 2: how it gets done. You got to be proud to
Speaker 2: be out there.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, for sure.
Speaker 2: Oh how long you been with the program.
Speaker 5: So I've only been out there this is my first year,
Speaker 5: but I did graduate from Tri County whenever I was
Speaker 5: in high school back in two thousand and eight, and
Speaker 5: so I've got first hand experience on going out there
Speaker 5: and then also getting training and doing this as a
Speaker 5: career since then.
Speaker 2: Understand, the Trick County Tech has quite a record.
Speaker 1: Of what you call comebackers, folks who graduate and then
Speaker 1: come back and work there.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, while you're out there, you can just tell that
Speaker 5: it's the place to be and everyone's super friendly and helpful,
Speaker 5: and so you want to come back.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, what colleges are you affiliated with? As far
Speaker 1: as with the I Dental Hygiene Clinic or is it
Speaker 1: all colleges?
Speaker 4: Our students are from ou Oh.
Speaker 1: You okay, so they come back here after their bachelors.
Speaker 4: No, they're completing their bachelors here.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, Well that's rightened me out there, real good.
Speaker 1: So they're all ready to go by the time they
Speaker 1: get over there. They got it all down path.
Speaker 4: They're ready to go.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, sakes.
Speaker 1: Well, I tell you what, I don't know how you
Speaker 1: fit all that knowledge under one roof out there at
Speaker 1: Trick County Tech. But the programs are so wide and
Speaker 1: so varied, and they're so applicable for today's world. It's
Speaker 1: really amazing when you think about what a gem we
Speaker 1: have in Tri County Tech right here in our own
Speaker 1: back are good to take care of it.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. Now, we've got the high
Speaker 2: school students already funneling and they've been there for about
Speaker 2: a week now, haven't.
Speaker 4: They Yes, Thursday?
Speaker 1: Yeah, since they're yeah, and you know they're they're all
Speaker 1: puffed up and pretty proud about being there too. Now,
Speaker 1: when it comes to non traditional students in at Tray
Speaker 1: County Tech, I understand we have flex hours and things
Speaker 1: like that that could apply to a variety of different studies.
Speaker 2: Would cosmetology be one of those who would fit in.
Speaker 5: There or you No, but the high school. So it's
Speaker 5: able to go in for the credits.
Speaker 2: For the high school.
Speaker 1: Okay, I just wanted to make sure on that. But
Speaker 1: like I said, it's a wonderful opportunity. So if you
Speaker 1: have a student who's in high school or approaching high school,
Speaker 1: it's always a good idea to have a little little conversation. Hey,
Speaker 1: you ever thought about maybe going to school and maybe
Speaker 1: not walking away with a whole lot of debt. Try
Speaker 1: County Tech and get that done. You guys got great programs.
Speaker 1: Your foundation is wonderful.
Speaker 2: Boy.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, the foundation is great.
Speaker 1: And they take care of students to make sure that
Speaker 1: you know, everything gets taken care of in a timely manner.
Speaker 1: So when you walk out of there with your certificate
Speaker 1: or your diploma in hand, you're not carrying this great,
Speaker 1: big negative balance around with you going, oh, how am
Speaker 1: I going to repay this? You get it all take
Speaker 1: you get it taken care of as you go. That
Speaker 1: is really a wonderful thing. This is a model I
Speaker 1: wish the larger schools would go by.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be great what they could learn from? Try
Speaker 2: County tag.
Speaker 1: Now, when we get back into the recruiting of patients
Speaker 1: for the hygiene clinic, can we go on the website?
Speaker 1: Can we fill out some basic information? There is that
Speaker 1: a good place.
Speaker 3: Instormation If you would like to get an appointment, there
Speaker 3: is a place on our website that you can do that.
Speaker 3: Fill it out and it sends an email to me
Speaker 3: and I can give you a call to set up.
Speaker 4: There's a point.
Speaker 1: Sweet and same with the cosmetology if you're taking into clients.
Speaker 5: Yes, you can go online and fill out a form
Speaker 5: for if you want a service and what kind of
Speaker 5: service you would like you and also call and leave
Speaker 5: us a message. And we have the phone set up
Speaker 5: twenty four to seven, so you can leave a message
Speaker 5: and then we get back a hold of you and
Speaker 5: find out what time and day works for you.
Speaker 1: Just like that sinse you make you guys make it
Speaker 1: sound so easy.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: That's why you've been there for sixteen years. You know,
Speaker 1: you get a good thing and you stay with it.
Speaker 1: By the way, I understand that sixteen years is kind
Speaker 1: of about the average because a lot of people go
Speaker 1: there and stay there.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, it's a great place to work.
Speaker 3: I mean there's people there. I think we just had
Speaker 3: one that hit thirty wow.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's it. Take care of us out there.
Speaker 1: You know something, there are a lot of companies that
Speaker 1: can't say that anymore.
Speaker 2: It used to be the norm.
Speaker 1: Not so much why getting repotted like a plant sometimes
Speaker 1: every seven years or so.
Speaker 2: But this is great and that kind of stability.
Speaker 1: Parents ought to let you know that your kids are
Speaker 1: very good hands. And if you're a non traditional student
Speaker 1: at how to make you just shake off any kind
Speaker 1: of worry, concern, or a little bit of anxiety you
Speaker 1: might have had and take that step right in the
Speaker 1: front door and to.
Speaker 2: Get yourself acquainted with drag County Tech. Have I missed anything?
Speaker 5: I think that's it. We do have more hours in
Speaker 5: the afternoon now. Yes, we're from twelve until five or
Speaker 5: it used to be a twelve to three program. Yes
Speaker 5: for cosmetology, Yes, yeah, for cosmetology. So we have more
Speaker 5: spots available for appointments now, so a little bit more availability.
Speaker 5: And so that's a new thing that we're trying this year.
Speaker 2: And what about you for the hygiene.
Speaker 3: We are only we see patients several days a week.
Speaker 4: They vary per per semester.
Speaker 3: So if you call, I can let you know what
Speaker 3: those times are per day for which day.
Speaker 2: It is all right, very good.
Speaker 1: So everything's just a click or a phone call way,
Speaker 1: isn't it again?
Speaker 2: So easy? My goodness.
Speaker 1: I want to thank you both for being here with
Speaker 1: us today and representing Tray County Tech. So well, thank
Speaker 1: you folks. You've been watching and listening to our community
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