January 25, 2024 • 17 mins
This episode takes you on a fascinating tour of South Technical High School as five juniors from Affton High School discuss the academic programs shaping their future in Cosmetology, Pharmacy Science, Construction Innovations, Networking and Robotics. Hear firsthand the extraordinary learning experiences students are engaged in - each unique to their individual interests, supported by expert knowledge from industry-experienced educators. The episode allows listeners to gain an insight into the dynamic learning environment, as students share their journey, including their favorite experiences and their aspirations beyond graduation, nurtured at South Tech. The podcast also highlights the camaraderie and collaboration between the different programs and students from various backgrounds. You will also get to hear from the Principal at South Tech, Dr. Jacob Lohse, and the Superintendent of the Affton School District, Dr. Travis Bracht. The partnership between Affton and South Tech reinforces that in the Affton School District, education indeed is the most important thing they do.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
(00:00):
Music.
(00:20):
Welcome to Afton Unplugged, a podcast by the Afton School District that highlights
the people and stories that make the district great.
I'm your host, Superintendent Travis Brock, and in the Afton School District,
education is the most important thing we do.
Music.
(00:50):
All right, thanks for joining us for this episode of the Afton Unplugged podcast.
I'm here at South Technical High School, or South Tech as most people call it, and I'm joined by Dr.
Jake Losey, principal of South Tech, and I also have some students from Afton High School.
They happen to all be juniors at Afton High School, so we're going to hear a
(01:11):
little bit about what drew them to South Tech, what individual programs they're
involved with, and how it's going. me.
Without further ado, we're going to do a round of introductions here real quick
so that everyone knows who's joining the program.
And we'll start with Dr. Losey. Tell us a little bit about yourself,
what you do here at South Tech, and then what else have you done in education before this position?
(01:32):
Yeah, thank you. And thank you for being here at South Tech. We really enjoy it.
My name is Jake Losey. I'm the principal of South Tech High School.
And I've been the principal for 10 years.
I've worked for a special school district for 13 years. And before that,
I was was an industrial arts teacher for the Ladue School District.
And I've just been incredibly fortunate to work in CTE for a very long time.
I'm grateful and proud of our school, our amazing staff, and our phenomenal
(01:55):
students, some of which you're going to meet today.
All right, thank you. Well, let's go ahead and meet some of our students.
And Amelia, you want to go first? Yeah, just tell us your name,
grade, what you're involved with here at South Tech, things you might be involved
with back at Afton High School.
Hi, I'm Amelia Sella, and I'm a junior.
I'm involved in the cosmetology program at South Tech.
(02:18):
And back at Afton, I play multiple sports, including volleyball, basketball, and track.
And after graduation, I plan on going to college and continuing cosmetology. All right.
I'm Natalie Evans. I'm a junior back at Afton High School.
I'm involved at South Tech in the Construction Innovations Program,
(02:41):
and my plans after graduation are probably going to a further trade school. All right.
I'm Owen Bell, and I am in Cisco Networking.
I do track at the high school, and then my plans for after graduation are to go to the Air Force.
All right. Hi, Walter.
I'm in in tech for robotics, and yeah, that's about it. All right. Hi, I'm Michelle.
(03:05):
I'm in junior year. I'm involved with the pharmacy science program.
At Afton, I do volleyball, swim, soccer, and I'm also involved in a club called HOSA.
After high school, I plan on going to a college with a pre pharmacy program.
All right. Well, thanks for those introductions. We're going to dive a little
(03:27):
little bit deeper into some specifics about the programs you're involved with.
But Dr. Alosi, kind of from a big picture perspective, what would people need
to know about South Tech or what's kind of your elevator pitch?
Yeah. So South Tech's just, it's a wonderful program. It's, we have multiple
programs of study for students to participate in.
And what you would do is as a 10th grader, you'd come visit and explore what
(03:51):
we have to offer and apply.
But one thing I think to note that I'd like to highlight today is the fact that
our instructors are a bit different than what you might see at a great school like Afton.
They have to have 10,000 hours within some sort of an industry before that they
can actually teach on a CTE setting.
So that really highlights their experience and the legitimacy of our programs
(04:12):
here so that students are going to get a real world experience kind of embedded
in the programming, the tools, the equipment, the curriculum,
things like that, that they're going to go through at South Tech.
Yeah, makes sense. And that's a good point to highlight.
You guys are going to get instruction from people who can probably tell you
what they used to do before being in the classroom here with you.
(04:33):
So that is definitely a unique aspect.
So let's hear a little bit more about some details about programs that you're involved with.
Michelle, do you want to go first? Tell us a little bit more about pharmacy
and what are you doing? Yeah.
In pharmacy science, what we basically do is we have two classrooms,
a lab technically and a math room.
(04:53):
For our math classroom, we learn how to calculate different medications to how
many milligrams, how many milliliters, how many grams, all of that fun stuff.
And for the lab, we learn how to compound medication to liquid oral suspensions. We learn how to...
(05:17):
Fill up capsules, make lotion, ointments, all that fun stuff.
How did you become interested in pharmacy, or what drew you to choosing this program?
Really, it was my dad that drew me, because since he has a lot of medication,
which really gravitated my attention, which there was just a lot of medication,
(05:41):
and I just got really interested with what they really were.
All right walter you want to tell us a little bit more
about what you're doing in your program yeah so right
now we and since the beginning of the year we've been working
on a robot his name's dave we take him
to competitions where he like
(06:01):
lifts these little things we call them pixels puts him
aboard um lifts himself launches paper
airplanes all that stuff and yeah
that's that's kind of what we do we just design it work
on it that kind of thing okay and how did you
either find out about the program or what what drew you
to wanting to be involved with it i mean i like
(06:21):
playing with robots so i saw the class and i was like okay that sounds fun yeah
that's about it all right owen how about you tell us a little bit about your
program so in my program we're learning how to network like run wires and code
different setups routers and switches and whatnot not.
I became interested because I've always liked computers and I've always liked
(06:45):
setting them up and whatnot.
So I feel like this will help me get a better basis on what I'm doing to help set them up easier.
I'm in the construction innovations program and kind of what we all do,
you go to four different things in your junior year that you get to pick from.
I've done plumbing and then now I'm in interior design and finish.
(07:05):
And right now we're doing drywall, trim and like painting.
And I think what really drew my attention to
this is even from when I was like little I always got
to help my grandparents and my dad like in the shop and so I think that's what
drew me to come and do it and being like a girl in that field it's definitely
you're the odd man out but you got to be like able to kind of go with it and
(07:30):
don't let that stop you from it so all right and then Dr.
Leslie this is a little bit unique because she is getting exposure to
a couple different things and then what will be her
options next year yeah so as a junior
she's in the construction innovations program and she's gonna
do four different quarters of instruction through different
programs as a senior she'll be able to choose a focus program and she'll be
(07:54):
able to highlight one particular aspect like electrical trades general construction
trades carpentry HVAC and so she'll be able to kind of pick which program she
likes the best which instructor she likes the best and sign up for that for
next year right Emilia, how about you?
So in the cosmetology program, it's hair, skin, and nails focused.
(08:15):
So there's two classrooms, and our classrooms are split up. So every two weeks, we switch.
We learn a lot about, like, it's not only just, like, coloring, cutting.
We're learning a lot about, like, microbiology, diseases, how to spot these
different kinds of things. And then we just recently like did coloring,
(08:40):
highlights, lowlights, things like that.
Yeah, I know you were talking before we started about maybe a little bit about
the science and biology of hair as opposed to just what it looks like,
you know, from the outside. So that was a good point to bring up.
All right. Let's go kind of back around again. We'll start with you, Amelia.
Has there been favorite experience or favorite memory so far about South Tech
(09:05):
that you could tell us about? out?
Yeah, I definitely really have enjoyed like just meeting a bunch of people.
There's 33 kids in our class.
So that's obviously a lot of new people that I've gotten to meet.
And with South Tech, there's a lot of programs.
So one of them being like the early childhood, I think.
(09:26):
So one of the days the kids actually went over and we got to work,
like paint their nails, do their hair. So that was really fun.
All right. Great. What about you?
A memory I have is I've had the same teacher since I got here. I've had Mr. Petras.
And I think just getting to hear how he's done this job for a while and kind
(09:49):
of hearing the difference of changes and how everything has changed since he
started compared to now.
It's nice to get to know a teacher and that you can ask him any questions and
not really be afraid to ask.
And you always have a special spot. And I think that teacher will always have
a good spot in my mind for when I go further places.
All right. How about you? My favorite thing that we've done is we were making
(10:13):
wires for different cable wires.
And I really enjoyed that. A lot of my friends in that class really enjoyed
that. It was a lot of fun. All right.
So the main thing that I've really enjoyed so far is, and we're going to do
more, but I've only gone to one competition as of now.
And it was really fun. You get to see the robot that you've worked to create actually do its thing.
(10:36):
Dave did pretty well. And you get to see other people's robots,
what they did. I don't know. It was really fun.
Where did that competition take place?
Some Lutheran school. I don't actually remember what it was called.
All right. The school hosted it. Yeah.
How about you? I'm in pharmacy science. What I thought was really fun for me was...
(10:58):
During our sub days, we just were able to bond with each other as a whole class
instead of, like, learning, which, like, helped us know each other better.
Okay. And then, Dr. Losey, I know you've probably got a lot of favorite memories.
I'm sure there's a lot that you enjoy.
What sticks out for you about what you enjoy most about being here and doing what you do?
(11:22):
Yeah. You actually kind of stole my memory that I was going to bring up today,
but I'm going to say it anyway because it's important.
I also want to mention like for our cosmetology program, like one of the cool
things about that is they're going to be a Missouri board certified cosmetologist
by the time they get done.
However, right next door to them, we have the early child care program,
which my son actually participated in.
(11:43):
He's nine now. And to this day, he still wants my wife to paint his nails about
every three to four weeks because he came down to the cosmetology program and
painted his nails black and orange for Halloween.
And ever since then, he has continued to want around the holidays,
red and green or on 4th of July, red, white and blue.
(12:06):
And I blame the cosmetology students completely for him wanting to do that,
which is really super cute because as a nine year old, he likes to show it off.
But, you know, that's just the connection that our high schoolers can make with other programs.
The collaboration that we have between groups of students is really cool to see. Yeah.
And one thing that you guys kind of spotlighted is that this isn't just a program
(12:28):
for Afton High School students.
There's lots of other high schools involved here. Sounds like you've gotten
a chance to meet some new people, make some new friends.
And obviously you guys have shared interests because you're in the same program.
So that's that's also nice that you get to meet people that maybe you wouldn't have otherwise.
And you already kind of have a shared interest or a shared connection there.
(12:50):
As we wrap up the episode, anything else you want to share?
I know you guys are juniors. Given your experiences so far, I assume you're
strongly considering coming back next year.
Is that a fair statement? What do you think other people might benefit from
knowing about just the experience here or if people are wondering whether this
(13:11):
is the right choice for them or if they're considering programs,
any advice that maybe a freshman student or a sophomore student or even their
parents might benefit from knowing that you can think about?
I'd say like definitely know what you're getting into. It's not necessarily
a bad thing, but you're basically going to two high schools every day.
(13:31):
So just like be prepared, but also be prepared to like have fun and learn a lot of things. So, yeah.
I feel like it's really good to come here. It's a great opportunity because
you kind of get to start a young age of like what you want to do as your final career.
And if that ends up not being what your final career is, well,
at least you've got to try it out.
(13:53):
But you do get a good learning experience. And like Amelia said,
yeah, you put a lot on your plate going to two different high schools.
But in the long run, I think it's definitely worth it.
I would say, yeah, do your research, you know, and know what you're getting
into, because some things aren't what you expect.
And, you know, you're not going to find that out unless you do your research.
I'd say, I mean, I can't speak for every class, but at least for mine and from
(14:16):
what I've heard of others, it is very hands-on.
Like, yes, we do have to do electrical theory and stuff.
Right now we're taking a test on Ohm's law, but like the majority of the class
is you are in the room spinning wrenches, making robots.
Like, it is very hands-on.
Yeah, so like you just have to...
(14:39):
These programs are great. It helps you learn what you really are meant to do
if you're really interested in it and just knows that you're really committed.
All right. Yeah. A lot of good points to bring out. Definitely very hands-on,
not really sitting around, just, you know, doing nothing.
And then also, you know, it can be a little bit maybe intimidating going to
(15:01):
another high school, but it sounds like you guys have found that that's actually a good thing.
And that if it it was intimidating or if you were concerned,
you, you've kind of put that to rest. So I think you get brought up a lot of
good, a lot of good points.
Dr. Losey, anything that comes to your mind that maybe people considering the
program might want to know?
Yeah. Again, the students here have stolen my thunder. They've got all the major
(15:25):
points that are, that we're supposed to put out there for folks.
But, you know, I would just say if you're interested, you know,
give us a call, come take a tour. We have an open house typically in November.
Afton's been a great great partner. And, you know, we have a great,
great team, great communication and, and come on over and see what we can offer.
We want to be a good partner for you and for Afton and for the students that can come.
(15:46):
All right. Well, again, we'll go ahead and wrap this episode up.
Thanks for joining me. It sounds like you guys are well on your way,
very impressed with what you've done already.
Maybe I'll come back next year and you can tell me what you're going to do as
seniors years and would echo what Dr. Losey said.
Definitely a very great opportunity for our students at Afton High School.
(16:06):
We're very fortunate to have this as something they can choose to do on an annual basis.
And so with that, again, guys, thanks for joining me. Thank you so much.
Music.
(16:30):
Thanks for listening to Afton Unplugged, a podcast by the Afton School District
that highlights the people and stories that make the district great.
In the Afton School District, education is the most important thing we do. We'll see you out there.
Music.
Music.
(00:20):
Welcome to Afton Unplugged, a podcast by the Afton School District that highlights
the people and stories that make the district great.
I'm your host, Superintendent Travis Brock, and in the Afton School District,
education is the most important thing we do.
Music.
(00:50):
All right, thanks for joining us for this episode of the Afton Unplugged podcast.
I'm here at South Technical High School, or South Tech as most people call it, and I'm joined by Dr.
Jake Losey, principal of South Tech, and I also have some students from Afton High School.
They happen to all be juniors at Afton High School, so we're going to hear a
(01:11):
little bit about what drew them to South Tech, what individual programs they're
involved with, and how it's going. me.
Without further ado, we're going to do a round of introductions here real quick
so that everyone knows who's joining the program.
And we'll start with Dr. Losey. Tell us a little bit about yourself,
what you do here at South Tech, and then what else have you done in education before this position?
(01:32):
Yeah, thank you. And thank you for being here at South Tech. We really enjoy it.
My name is Jake Losey. I'm the principal of South Tech High School.
And I've been the principal for 10 years.
I've worked for a special school district for 13 years. And before that,
I was was an industrial arts teacher for the Ladue School District.
And I've just been incredibly fortunate to work in CTE for a very long time.
I'm grateful and proud of our school, our amazing staff, and our phenomenal
(01:55):
students, some of which you're going to meet today.
All right, thank you. Well, let's go ahead and meet some of our students.
And Amelia, you want to go first? Yeah, just tell us your name,
grade, what you're involved with here at South Tech, things you might be involved
with back at Afton High School.
Hi, I'm Amelia Sella, and I'm a junior.
I'm involved in the cosmetology program at South Tech.
(02:18):
And back at Afton, I play multiple sports, including volleyball, basketball, and track.
And after graduation, I plan on going to college and continuing cosmetology. All right.
I'm Natalie Evans. I'm a junior back at Afton High School.
I'm involved at South Tech in the Construction Innovations Program,
(02:41):
and my plans after graduation are probably going to a further trade school. All right.
I'm Owen Bell, and I am in Cisco Networking.
I do track at the high school, and then my plans for after graduation are to go to the Air Force.
All right. Hi, Walter.
I'm in in tech for robotics, and yeah, that's about it. All right. Hi, I'm Michelle.
(03:05):
I'm in junior year. I'm involved with the pharmacy science program.
At Afton, I do volleyball, swim, soccer, and I'm also involved in a club called HOSA.
After high school, I plan on going to a college with a pre pharmacy program.
All right. Well, thanks for those introductions. We're going to dive a little
(03:27):
little bit deeper into some specifics about the programs you're involved with.
But Dr. Alosi, kind of from a big picture perspective, what would people need
to know about South Tech or what's kind of your elevator pitch?
Yeah. So South Tech's just, it's a wonderful program. It's, we have multiple
programs of study for students to participate in.
And what you would do is as a 10th grader, you'd come visit and explore what
(03:51):
we have to offer and apply.
But one thing I think to note that I'd like to highlight today is the fact that
our instructors are a bit different than what you might see at a great school like Afton.
They have to have 10,000 hours within some sort of an industry before that they
can actually teach on a CTE setting.
So that really highlights their experience and the legitimacy of our programs
(04:12):
here so that students are going to get a real world experience kind of embedded
in the programming, the tools, the equipment, the curriculum,
things like that, that they're going to go through at South Tech.
Yeah, makes sense. And that's a good point to highlight.
You guys are going to get instruction from people who can probably tell you
what they used to do before being in the classroom here with you.
(04:33):
So that is definitely a unique aspect.
So let's hear a little bit more about some details about programs that you're involved with.
Michelle, do you want to go first? Tell us a little bit more about pharmacy
and what are you doing? Yeah.
In pharmacy science, what we basically do is we have two classrooms,
a lab technically and a math room.
(04:53):
For our math classroom, we learn how to calculate different medications to how
many milligrams, how many milliliters, how many grams, all of that fun stuff.
And for the lab, we learn how to compound medication to liquid oral suspensions. We learn how to...
(05:17):
Fill up capsules, make lotion, ointments, all that fun stuff.
How did you become interested in pharmacy, or what drew you to choosing this program?
Really, it was my dad that drew me, because since he has a lot of medication,
which really gravitated my attention, which there was just a lot of medication,
(05:41):
and I just got really interested with what they really were.
All right walter you want to tell us a little bit more
about what you're doing in your program yeah so right
now we and since the beginning of the year we've been working
on a robot his name's dave we take him
to competitions where he like
(06:01):
lifts these little things we call them pixels puts him
aboard um lifts himself launches paper
airplanes all that stuff and yeah
that's that's kind of what we do we just design it work
on it that kind of thing okay and how did you
either find out about the program or what what drew you
to wanting to be involved with it i mean i like
(06:21):
playing with robots so i saw the class and i was like okay that sounds fun yeah
that's about it all right owen how about you tell us a little bit about your
program so in my program we're learning how to network like run wires and code
different setups routers and switches and whatnot not.
I became interested because I've always liked computers and I've always liked
(06:45):
setting them up and whatnot.
So I feel like this will help me get a better basis on what I'm doing to help set them up easier.
I'm in the construction innovations program and kind of what we all do,
you go to four different things in your junior year that you get to pick from.
I've done plumbing and then now I'm in interior design and finish.
(07:05):
And right now we're doing drywall, trim and like painting.
And I think what really drew my attention to
this is even from when I was like little I always got
to help my grandparents and my dad like in the shop and so I think that's what
drew me to come and do it and being like a girl in that field it's definitely
you're the odd man out but you got to be like able to kind of go with it and
(07:30):
don't let that stop you from it so all right and then Dr.
Leslie this is a little bit unique because she is getting exposure to
a couple different things and then what will be her
options next year yeah so as a junior
she's in the construction innovations program and she's gonna
do four different quarters of instruction through different
programs as a senior she'll be able to choose a focus program and she'll be
(07:54):
able to highlight one particular aspect like electrical trades general construction
trades carpentry HVAC and so she'll be able to kind of pick which program she
likes the best which instructor she likes the best and sign up for that for
next year right Emilia, how about you?
So in the cosmetology program, it's hair, skin, and nails focused.
(08:15):
So there's two classrooms, and our classrooms are split up. So every two weeks, we switch.
We learn a lot about, like, it's not only just, like, coloring, cutting.
We're learning a lot about, like, microbiology, diseases, how to spot these
different kinds of things. And then we just recently like did coloring,
(08:40):
highlights, lowlights, things like that.
Yeah, I know you were talking before we started about maybe a little bit about
the science and biology of hair as opposed to just what it looks like,
you know, from the outside. So that was a good point to bring up.
All right. Let's go kind of back around again. We'll start with you, Amelia.
Has there been favorite experience or favorite memory so far about South Tech
(09:05):
that you could tell us about? out?
Yeah, I definitely really have enjoyed like just meeting a bunch of people.
There's 33 kids in our class.
So that's obviously a lot of new people that I've gotten to meet.
And with South Tech, there's a lot of programs.
So one of them being like the early childhood, I think.
(09:26):
So one of the days the kids actually went over and we got to work,
like paint their nails, do their hair. So that was really fun.
All right. Great. What about you?
A memory I have is I've had the same teacher since I got here. I've had Mr. Petras.
And I think just getting to hear how he's done this job for a while and kind
(09:49):
of hearing the difference of changes and how everything has changed since he
started compared to now.
It's nice to get to know a teacher and that you can ask him any questions and
not really be afraid to ask.
And you always have a special spot. And I think that teacher will always have
a good spot in my mind for when I go further places.
All right. How about you? My favorite thing that we've done is we were making
(10:13):
wires for different cable wires.
And I really enjoyed that. A lot of my friends in that class really enjoyed
that. It was a lot of fun. All right.
So the main thing that I've really enjoyed so far is, and we're going to do
more, but I've only gone to one competition as of now.
And it was really fun. You get to see the robot that you've worked to create actually do its thing.
(10:36):
Dave did pretty well. And you get to see other people's robots,
what they did. I don't know. It was really fun.
Where did that competition take place?
Some Lutheran school. I don't actually remember what it was called.
All right. The school hosted it. Yeah.
How about you? I'm in pharmacy science. What I thought was really fun for me was...
(10:58):
During our sub days, we just were able to bond with each other as a whole class
instead of, like, learning, which, like, helped us know each other better.
Okay. And then, Dr. Losey, I know you've probably got a lot of favorite memories.
I'm sure there's a lot that you enjoy.
What sticks out for you about what you enjoy most about being here and doing what you do?
(11:22):
Yeah. You actually kind of stole my memory that I was going to bring up today,
but I'm going to say it anyway because it's important.
I also want to mention like for our cosmetology program, like one of the cool
things about that is they're going to be a Missouri board certified cosmetologist
by the time they get done.
However, right next door to them, we have the early child care program,
which my son actually participated in.
(11:43):
He's nine now. And to this day, he still wants my wife to paint his nails about
every three to four weeks because he came down to the cosmetology program and
painted his nails black and orange for Halloween.
And ever since then, he has continued to want around the holidays,
red and green or on 4th of July, red, white and blue.
(12:06):
And I blame the cosmetology students completely for him wanting to do that,
which is really super cute because as a nine year old, he likes to show it off.
But, you know, that's just the connection that our high schoolers can make with other programs.
The collaboration that we have between groups of students is really cool to see. Yeah.
And one thing that you guys kind of spotlighted is that this isn't just a program
(12:28):
for Afton High School students.
There's lots of other high schools involved here. Sounds like you've gotten
a chance to meet some new people, make some new friends.
And obviously you guys have shared interests because you're in the same program.
So that's that's also nice that you get to meet people that maybe you wouldn't have otherwise.
And you already kind of have a shared interest or a shared connection there.
(12:50):
As we wrap up the episode, anything else you want to share?
I know you guys are juniors. Given your experiences so far, I assume you're
strongly considering coming back next year.
Is that a fair statement? What do you think other people might benefit from
knowing about just the experience here or if people are wondering whether this
(13:11):
is the right choice for them or if they're considering programs,
any advice that maybe a freshman student or a sophomore student or even their
parents might benefit from knowing that you can think about?
I'd say like definitely know what you're getting into. It's not necessarily
a bad thing, but you're basically going to two high schools every day.
(13:31):
So just like be prepared, but also be prepared to like have fun and learn a lot of things. So, yeah.
I feel like it's really good to come here. It's a great opportunity because
you kind of get to start a young age of like what you want to do as your final career.
And if that ends up not being what your final career is, well,
at least you've got to try it out.
(13:53):
But you do get a good learning experience. And like Amelia said,
yeah, you put a lot on your plate going to two different high schools.
But in the long run, I think it's definitely worth it.
I would say, yeah, do your research, you know, and know what you're getting
into, because some things aren't what you expect.
And, you know, you're not going to find that out unless you do your research.
I'd say, I mean, I can't speak for every class, but at least for mine and from
(14:16):
what I've heard of others, it is very hands-on.
Like, yes, we do have to do electrical theory and stuff.
Right now we're taking a test on Ohm's law, but like the majority of the class
is you are in the room spinning wrenches, making robots.
Like, it is very hands-on.
Yeah, so like you just have to...
(14:39):
These programs are great. It helps you learn what you really are meant to do
if you're really interested in it and just knows that you're really committed.
All right. Yeah. A lot of good points to bring out. Definitely very hands-on,
not really sitting around, just, you know, doing nothing.
And then also, you know, it can be a little bit maybe intimidating going to
(15:01):
another high school, but it sounds like you guys have found that that's actually a good thing.
And that if it it was intimidating or if you were concerned,
you, you've kind of put that to rest. So I think you get brought up a lot of
good, a lot of good points.
Dr. Losey, anything that comes to your mind that maybe people considering the
program might want to know?
Yeah. Again, the students here have stolen my thunder. They've got all the major
(15:25):
points that are, that we're supposed to put out there for folks.
But, you know, I would just say if you're interested, you know,
give us a call, come take a tour. We have an open house typically in November.
Afton's been a great great partner. And, you know, we have a great,
great team, great communication and, and come on over and see what we can offer.
We want to be a good partner for you and for Afton and for the students that can come.
(15:46):
All right. Well, again, we'll go ahead and wrap this episode up.
Thanks for joining me. It sounds like you guys are well on your way,
very impressed with what you've done already.
Maybe I'll come back next year and you can tell me what you're going to do as
seniors years and would echo what Dr. Losey said.
Definitely a very great opportunity for our students at Afton High School.
(16:06):
We're very fortunate to have this as something they can choose to do on an annual basis.
And so with that, again, guys, thanks for joining me. Thank you so much.
Music.
(16:30):
Thanks for listening to Afton Unplugged, a podcast by the Afton School District
that highlights the people and stories that make the district great.
In the Afton School District, education is the most important thing we do. We'll see you out there.
Music.
Popular Podcasts
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Nikki Glaser Podcast
Every week comedian and infamous roaster Nikki Glaser provides a fun, fast-paced, and brutally honest look into current pop-culture and her own personal life.