Speaker 1: Welcome. It is time now for our community connection right
Speaker 1: here on K one, the one you trust and like.
Speaker 1: We do about this time every month we talk to
Speaker 1: our friends from cry County Tech and we have Miss
Speaker 1: Heather with us today and Heather, it's great to have
Speaker 1: you on board. We've got something exciting for summer coming up.
Speaker 2: We sure do you. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: You're welcome. Now. Tell us a little bit about the
Speaker 1: Steam Camp and we all know it gets hot, but
Speaker 1: it's not that kind of steam.
Speaker 2: No, but it does get pretty steamy. Are out there?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Bet so.
Speaker 3: Steam is our science, technology, engineering, our arts, and our math.
Speaker 2: That's what it stands for.
Speaker 3: And we run for the first three weeks of June
Speaker 3: and have third graders all the way through ninth graders
Speaker 3: come out and enjoy a week of Steam Camp.
Speaker 1: Now I understand that the young younger portion of the demographic,
Speaker 1: they are gung ho and ready to go.
Speaker 3: We have an amazing turnout for the third and fourth
Speaker 3: and then the fifth and sixth. Are are almost at
Speaker 3: capacity for those two age grades.
Speaker 1: We still have room.
Speaker 2: We have a little bit of room for those those
Speaker 2: age rooms.
Speaker 3: Yeah ok, yeah, Now seven through ten, seventh through ninth, Yeah,
Speaker 3: through nine.
Speaker 1: That's that's the one where we have some opening.
Speaker 2: You know, that is the age group.
Speaker 3: I have a son that is around that age, and
Speaker 3: usually when summer hits, they think, oh, I can sleep in,
Speaker 3: play some video games, and uh, you know what's what's
Speaker 3: a week of still getting those kids up, getting them
Speaker 3: out to Steam Camp and getting away from the video
Speaker 3: games just for a little bit and enjoying some hands
Speaker 3: on activities.
Speaker 2: It's a really great time.
Speaker 1: Well, it is tell us a little bit about the
Speaker 1: different types of classes because it's wide, that's a big spectrum.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So for seventh and ninth grade, we have we
Speaker 3: are offering nine camps. We have our chef camp, actually
Speaker 3: eight camps, I'm sorry, eight camps. Chef Camp, which is
Speaker 3: always a big popular one. They get to cook, get
Speaker 3: a lot of hand on skills, learn how they're way
Speaker 3: around the kitchen, come home with a nice cookbook of
Speaker 3: different recipes.
Speaker 2: And then we have our coding creators.
Speaker 3: Those are our ones that love video games, so they
Speaker 3: can learn how to program some computers. And that's a
Speaker 3: little bit more out of my realm, but they have
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. Joshua Stewart is our instructor for
Speaker 3: that and he does a great job.
Speaker 2: And then we have our robotics.
Speaker 3: They build robotics and at the end, I know, it's
Speaker 3: pretty cool and at the end they have a lot
Speaker 3: of challenges and it can run those robotics and do
Speaker 3: a lot of games throughout that, so that's fun. We
Speaker 3: have our science, which I'm really surprised that not many
Speaker 3: kids like the science or want to get into that,
Speaker 3: but it is one of when they take it, it's
Speaker 3: one of their favorites. We do a lot of hands
Speaker 3: on experiences. And one of my favorites is they take
Speaker 3: our Steam Camp shirt because everybody gets a shirt at
Speaker 3: the end of camp and they do a reverse tiedie
Speaker 3: on that shirt and it's a really cool design. They
Speaker 3: get to design it and do a reverse tied eye
Speaker 3: on that T shirt and so that's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Now, science it's so practical because once you have a
Speaker 1: little bit of scientific knowledge, yeah, you've got pretty much
Speaker 1: clear pathway to figure out problems moving.
Speaker 2: Forward, moving forward, a lot of debasis.
Speaker 1: It's not all science, but the methodology. Yeah, you'll find
Speaker 1: the truth in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: And our instructors for that make it so fun and intriguing.
Speaker 2: And the kids.
Speaker 3: I tell you, we get a lot of feedback that
Speaker 3: they had a lot of fun in our science class, so.
Speaker 1: Your whole life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And that's the one I like to visit
Speaker 3: most often because I know they're going to be doing
Speaker 3: you know, making goop and slime and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: So that's and they made homemade bubbles one year. So
Speaker 3: they do a lot of fun things in the science class.
Speaker 2: And then we have our art.
Speaker 3: Art is always one of the favorites, you know, making
Speaker 3: that creativity really starts to stir around, and kids really.
Speaker 2: Enjoy enjoy the art. Engineering. That's when we're bringing back
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 3: We didn't have that one last year, and it's one
Speaker 3: of our most popular.
Speaker 2: Ones is the engineering class.
Speaker 3: And they get to to build mouse trap cars.
Speaker 2: And they do amazing things.
Speaker 3: David is our instructor for that and he does a
Speaker 3: great job for the engineering.
Speaker 1: So it's like creativity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, building bridges, how to how to build a bridge
Speaker 3: is designed and built, so they do a lot of that.
Speaker 1: People take that for granted.
Speaker 3: There is a method to that, and and you know
Speaker 3: a lot of math and science, but you know, our
Speaker 3: instructors make it fun and and a lot of hands
Speaker 3: on so they don't feel like they're in class and
Speaker 3: doing you know, math and science and they're doing things
Speaker 3: hands on activities.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 3: And then we a new thing we're having this year
Speaker 3: is baby City and for our seventh and ninth graders,
Speaker 3: they actually get certification and for STAATEE and CPR.
Speaker 2: Wow, and that's big.
Speaker 3: They'll get their actual CPR car hard and learn all
Speaker 3: those you know, the first aid basics and CPR which
Speaker 3: is something that a lot of times parents are looking
Speaker 3: for when they're looking for a babysitter. We're going to
Speaker 3: help them learn how to promote their babysitting, how to
Speaker 3: you know, get it out there, spread the word that
Speaker 3: they're babysitting, what's the going rate for babysitters this, you know, now,
Speaker 3: help them create a flyer kind of a business plan,
Speaker 3: and how to get the word out that they're you know,
Speaker 3: they're newly certified in babysitting. So that's a fun one
Speaker 3: that's that's coming up and I can't wait to see
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 1: That is going to be cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we have a couple of our childcare teachers
Speaker 3: that are going to come out from our E L
Speaker 3: and Step up and teach that class. So I'm so
Speaker 3: excited about this one. That's kind of been my passion.
Speaker 3: So I'm excited about the babysitting class.
Speaker 1: My goodness sakes, this is going to be a fun
Speaker 1: month of June.
Speaker 2: Is going to be It's going to go fast, and
Speaker 2: it's going to be a lot of fun. I can't wait.
Speaker 1: Okay, now we've set the table. Yeah, how do we
Speaker 1: get the ticket? How do we play the card? How
Speaker 1: do we get our child en roll?
Speaker 3: So you're going to go to our website at Tri
Speaker 3: County Tech DIEDU and it is on the very main page.
Speaker 3: You're going to click Summer Camp and you're going to
Speaker 3: register there and you have until May twenty fifth. That
Speaker 3: is our deadline. That is our hard deadline.
Speaker 2: It is coming up just about a week away.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we need to know those ones that your
Speaker 3: your child wants to come into.
Speaker 2: We need the T.
Speaker 3: Shirt sizes, we need all of those things so that
Speaker 3: we can get our supplies ordered and get our our
Speaker 3: teachers all ready to go.
Speaker 1: Now, how do you like that you send your kids
Speaker 1: off to get smart? Yeah, and they come back having
Speaker 1: fun and a little bit brighter that I mean, that's.
Speaker 3: That's a two for get them out of bed, get
Speaker 3: them away from the you know, the video games for
Speaker 3: a little bit, and enjoy it.
Speaker 2: It'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness sakes. And of course out there at
Speaker 1: the Try County Tech, beautiful campus, thank you, beautiful facility.
Speaker 1: Every time I go out there, I'm amazed. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: you know, you see the building from the but once
Speaker 1: you go on the inside, you're like, how do you
Speaker 1: fit all this in here?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It is is beautiful, it is. It is engineering, yeah,
Speaker 3: very strategic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you had great use of space. And I
Speaker 1: got to tell you, your whole staff out there is
Speaker 1: just wonderful. I've had the playsure to work with them
Speaker 1: and then observe them while I'm at different functions, and
Speaker 1: it's wow.
Speaker 3: It is like a fan fantastic place to work. It
Speaker 3: is a great place to work. I've been there for
Speaker 3: twenty one years, so it's pretty fantastic.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, you guys won all kinds of awards for
Speaker 1: just being cool, haven't you.
Speaker 3: Yes, we've won multiple awards, Baldage Award, you know, best
Speaker 3: place to work award.
Speaker 2: We're pretty proud of that.
Speaker 1: Very good and you keep adding things on all the time.
Speaker 1: And now we've got the kids who can go to
Speaker 1: Trick County Tech while they're still in high school. Yes,
Speaker 1: and getting them introduced to, you know, learning a little
Speaker 1: bit more than what's on the blackboard with the steam classes,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Yeah, So if your child might be a
Speaker 1: little bit timid, this will be a good glass breaker
Speaker 1: for them.
Speaker 3: You know. And what I like about the seam camp,
Speaker 3: especially the seventh through the ninth graders, and they get
Speaker 3: a little bit of about what Tri County is and
Speaker 3: what they're going to see.
Speaker 2: If they do enroll into one of our programs all time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll like it. You've got it.
Speaker 2: Takes a visit, as they say it does.
Speaker 3: You'll be hooked once you step foot into our doors.
Speaker 3: You'll fill at home.
Speaker 1: You will, you very much will. So once again, the
Speaker 1: website is Trycounty Tech dot e d U, Yes, and
Speaker 1: you'll find it.
Speaker 2: All the information you need is right there, easy.
Speaker 1: To navigate, folks. I can do it, and I'm sixty five,
Speaker 1: so it's okay, it's okay. It's good. If you're a grandparent,
Speaker 1: you can take a look there and then maybe a
Speaker 1: whispering mom and Dad's here. You know Junior and Sissy
Speaker 1: just might do well with this. We'd appreciate that kind
Speaker 1: of encouragement too, because they will do well with this. Yes,
Speaker 1: oh oh my goodness, sakes anything that we might have missed.
Speaker 3: The only thing I want to just shout out to
Speaker 3: our donors that have helped because we have offered scholarships
Speaker 3: to some students and girls. Talk Tech has offered some
Speaker 3: scholarships to some of our girls in the community. Barzew
Speaker 3: Education Promise has donated, and Play for Burke Foundation has
Speaker 3: donated Truity and our.
Speaker 2: Tri County Foundation as well.
Speaker 1: All the cool kids. Yeah, oh my gosh, that is great.
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming out.
Speaker 2: And busus, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: You know, every time we have someone from Trick County Tech,
Speaker 1: it's nothing but good news. It always is. And folks,
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