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Talk Line: Jim Grot shares updates from Sauk Valley Community College · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Sock Valley. You're back with the Waking Crew
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  Speaker 1: here on FM ninety five one and AM fourteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: w I XN. It's eight fifteen on your Thursday morning,
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  Speaker 1: and that means it's time for talk line and I'm
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  Speaker 1: joining the booth once again by our good friends from
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  Speaker 1: Salt Valley Community College.
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  Speaker 2: Jim, how are you, Brandon doing fantastic? It's it's sunny
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  Speaker 2: and warm out, so this is finally it is not
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  Speaker 2: fifty mili hour winds, so yeah, it feels good to
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  Speaker 2: be outside.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was one or the other. Man. It was
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  Speaker 3: like you would either have.
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  Speaker 1: Like the the deesely warm weather, but it would be
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  Speaker 1: so windy, ridiculous. I was so waiting for I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to have a couple of bonfires, and it was like
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  Speaker 1: not without setting a forest fire.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I know this. This weather's feeling fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, well, well I'll hold on to it. The
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  Speaker 1: rain's coming back. I don't know if you looked already,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, the rain's coming.
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  Speaker 3: Back for like we need a little bit, we do. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I can't complain. That's how the crops grow right right,
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  Speaker 3: right exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But speaking of water and weather and just fantastic stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It never stops over at saug Valley Community College.
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  Speaker 2: No, things are always going, even though we've hit summertime
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  Speaker 2: and you know, students have have kind of cleared out
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, although summer classes have just started up,
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  Speaker 2: so there's a little bit of you know, action going
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  Speaker 2: around the college. But we do have we still continue
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  Speaker 2: to do a lot of summer events. And one that's
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  Speaker 2: a little bit later summer is Lake Michigan Lunch Cruise,
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  Speaker 2: which I talked about the last time I was here.
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  Speaker 2: But and that's one that fills up fairly quickly, and
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  Speaker 2: but there's still some spots open from my understanding, and
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  Speaker 2: that's just it's a lunch cruise to cruise along Lake
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  Speaker 2: Michigan and get the views of the Chicago skyline. And
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  Speaker 2: of course, just like with all of our trips, we
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  Speaker 2: you know, you leave from the college, you take a
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  Speaker 2: nice charter bus downtown Chicago, someone else does all the
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  Speaker 2: driving and drops you off at Navy Pier. You hop
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  Speaker 2: on the boat, go cruising around the lake, and then
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  Speaker 2: they bring you back. So that one is Thursday, August
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  Speaker 2: twenty seventh, so a little bit towards the end of summer,
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  Speaker 2: but Thursday, August twenty seventh is that trip, and the
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  Speaker 2: trip's one twenty nine per person. But again those that
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  Speaker 2: the last time we offered this trip, it did fill
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  Speaker 2: up pretty quick, so I just like to make sure
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned that out there, you know, early on, so
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  Speaker 2: just in case that does fill up. So but that's
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  Speaker 2: that's just one event going on the summer. And then
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  Speaker 2: after that we do have we have an information sent
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  Speaker 2: information session for our e m T Basics program. So
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  Speaker 2: that's just basically it's an information center just to meet
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  Speaker 2: the instructors, learn about what the class is about, about
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  Speaker 2: taking an EMT class, you know, and how to get
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  Speaker 2: into you know, preparing yourself for the workforce and that
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing. So just an information center on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: July seventh for the EMT Basic program.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you you you uh, you're so modest
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  Speaker 1: here me and you talked about these information sessions the
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  Speaker 1: last time, and I think it's really important. Even if
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  Speaker 1: somebody already is like e m T is what I
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  Speaker 1: want to go for, or any kind of information session
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  Speaker 1: that you offer, like go to this.
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  Speaker 3: This is where you're.
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  Speaker 2: Really right to learn, just to even if you're not
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  Speaker 2: sure that's what these information sessions are about. Is just
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  Speaker 2: that then go is this what I.
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  Speaker 3: Want to do? What is it?
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  Speaker 2: What does it mean to be an EMT?
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  Speaker 3: What is it?
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  Speaker 2: You know, what does it all entail? The classes? What's
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  Speaker 2: that life like that kind of thing. So if it's
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  Speaker 2: one of those things where you're not sure about your
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  Speaker 2: career and you're not sure what you want to do,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what's so great about you know, the classes
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  Speaker 2: that we offer at SoC It's like a lot of
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  Speaker 2: these things are kind of exploration kind of things to
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  Speaker 2: where it's just like learn and understand and have these
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  Speaker 2: go to these Information Center sessions just to learn about
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  Speaker 2: what these things are about, because you know, like for
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  Speaker 2: I don't know a whole lot about what it is
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  Speaker 2: to be an EMT, and so it's kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if is this something that I think I
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  Speaker 2: want to do, let's go find out. And that's what
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  Speaker 2: these information sessions are about. So Tuesday, July seventh is
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  Speaker 2: our next one. We just had one about a week
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  Speaker 2: or so ago, but we have one more coming up
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  Speaker 2: July seventh, because then the classes start end of July
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  Speaker 2: for that AMT session and then the we have college
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  Speaker 2: going on for kids too throughout the summer, and so
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  Speaker 2: we call.
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  Speaker 3: You we're starting them earlier.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, get them through, get them through. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: College for Kids it's just a fun summer program that
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  Speaker 2: we offer for kids from entering third grade going into
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  Speaker 2: eighth grade. And it's just a bunch of different classes.
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  Speaker 2: And they've added a bunch over the last couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Last time I was on with you, we talked about
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  Speaker 2: it and about needing instructors and things like that, and
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  Speaker 2: we actually we got a lot more instructors coming in
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  Speaker 2: than offering a lot more variety of classes. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 2: it's so you know, we've we've gone, we've added there's
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  Speaker 2: some art classes, fashion design, making three D video games,
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  Speaker 2: some cooking classes, some science ones, and the acting classes,
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  Speaker 2: which you kind of know a little bit about, which
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  Speaker 2: I just found out this morning. But yeah, they have
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  Speaker 2: some acting classes and that kind of thing. So, but
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  Speaker 2: in a lot more so, there's there's classes that go
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  Speaker 2: on every single week at the College for College for Kids,
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  Speaker 2: and some of them are just sessions. Some of them
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  Speaker 2: are you know, two three four day sessions and so
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  Speaker 2: and most of them are maybe hour to three hours long,
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  Speaker 2: and so you just kind of sign up your kids
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  Speaker 2: for whichever kind of things that they're interested in, and
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  Speaker 2: it gets them to meet other kids. I was just
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  Speaker 2: walking by one yesterday that was like a computer programming
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  Speaker 2: class and it was full maybe I don't know, ten
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  Speaker 2: twelve kids and they were just having a blast and
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  Speaker 2: having a great time. And so it's just a cool
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  Speaker 2: way to just something to do, get out of the
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  Speaker 2: house in the summertime and just get them meeting some
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  Speaker 2: other kids and just doing some other fun things. So
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  Speaker 2: but those classes kind of go all summer long, and
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  Speaker 2: you just go onto our website at SVCC dot edu
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  Speaker 2: slash cfk for College for Kids, and it will show
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  Speaker 2: all the classes on there and you can register online
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  Speaker 2: and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: So that's so cool. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So, so just a handful of things for me to
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  Speaker 2: talk about this time. And then of course always we
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  Speaker 2: talk about signing up for Impact because if you have
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  Speaker 2: not signed up for Impact, if you have a kid
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  Speaker 2: going into your freshman year in high school, now is
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  Speaker 2: the time to sign up for Impact because the summer
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  Speaker 2: is the best time to get these hours done. And
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  Speaker 2: so if you have a child going in their freshman
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  Speaker 2: year in high school, they can earn their tuition. They
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  Speaker 2: volunteer twenty five hours through every year throughout high school.
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  Speaker 2: They earn their tuition and fees at Sock Valley Community
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  Speaker 2: College to take any kind of classes. It can be
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  Speaker 2: weld in classes, ad nursing, transfer classes, any of that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff. Covers all your tuition and fees for that.
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  Speaker 2: But you can even still sign up if you didn't
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  Speaker 2: sign up your kids their freshman year, the sophomore, junior,
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  Speaker 2: senior year, they can still register as long as they
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  Speaker 2: have not registered before, they can still register for the
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  Speaker 2: Impact program. And so sophomore year you get seventy five
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  Speaker 2: percent of your tuition and fees covered. Junior year you
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  Speaker 2: get fifty percent. So it's a tiered program, but you
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  Speaker 2: can still do it if you haven't done it yet.
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  Speaker 2: So it's any little any money.
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  Speaker 1: Helps, Yeah, so, and it's it's a fantastic program. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can and it goes so far beyond just that
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  Speaker 1: paid tuition. Honestly, kids getting involved first get this firsthand
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  Speaker 1: experience with these different businesses and organizations throughout the community.
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  Speaker 1: They're making connections, which I know kids, I think they
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  Speaker 1: think connection and networking is a buzzword adults adult thing. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: but networking has to me been as valuable, if sometimes
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  Speaker 1: more than even some of my own degrees have been.
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  Speaker 2: It's so important. Yeah, especially in this you know, in
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  Speaker 2: a small kind of town area, that networking is absolutely imperative.
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  Speaker 2: And I've talked to a lot of these kids, and
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  Speaker 2: I've mentioned this before where it's talked to a lot
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  Speaker 2: of these kids, and they do that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: first things they talk about, is meeting the people and
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  Speaker 2: kind of getting breaking out of their shell and learning
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  Speaker 2: to talk with adults and that kind of thing. Is
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's because of your freshmen in high school
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of a hard time to get out there
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  Speaker 2: and you know, mingle with adults and things like that,
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  Speaker 2: and so but it has helped them tremendously. And I've
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  Speaker 2: talked to so many of them. They're like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so glad I did it because it just made a
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  Speaker 2: difference with how I learned to just talk with people
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  Speaker 2: and also meet new people. They're just like, they're like,
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  Speaker 2: that's actually the best thing about it. They don't even
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  Speaker 2: talk about the tuition.
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  Speaker 3: Part of it.
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  Speaker 2: The kids talk about doing the work and doing this
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  Speaker 2: work that makes them feel good. That they're helping out
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  Speaker 2: and so they get to experience that that feeling of
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  Speaker 2: helping out other people, and that's what they talk about
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  Speaker 2: when you ask them like, hey, how is the Impact program?
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  Speaker 2: Those are the things they talk about how they feel
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  Speaker 2: about that they help people. And then they got to
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  Speaker 2: meet so many new people, so it's great and then
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  Speaker 2: you get college tuition when it's over with. So we
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  Speaker 2: just started our We just had our summer orientations the
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  Speaker 2: last two weeks and we had quite a few Impact
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  Speaker 2: students in there and so it's just fantastic to see
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  Speaker 2: these now our first district wide corehort coming through. So
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  Speaker 2: the previous years we had Profitstown in Fulton. Last year
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  Speaker 2: that was our first group coming in. They were our
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  Speaker 2: pilot group. And now this is our first year of
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  Speaker 2: district wide students and so we had quite a few
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  Speaker 2: students just in the summer, one of Impact students. So
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  Speaker 2: it's so good to see. It's like, yeah, like here
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  Speaker 2: they come.
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  Speaker 1: And you've been seeing the different communities throughout the Soug
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  Speaker 1: Valley rallying and starting, you know, getting their own chapter
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  Speaker 1: of getting this thing funded and making their own efforts
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  Speaker 1: to do it so that they know the kids in
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  Speaker 1: their community are going to be covered and it's just great,
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  Speaker 1: Like you're you're going to see it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a unified Sock Valley movement.
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  Speaker 3: It really is.
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  Speaker 1: The Last time I was talking about this, I said,
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  Speaker 1: you need to get so many people who are like,
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  Speaker 1: why isn't college free for our kids? And I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: because it's a nice idea. But what we've done, we've
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  Speaker 1: done like I had.
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  Speaker 3: Any the community. Yeah, the community.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah has done is they took that good idea and
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  Speaker 1: ran and did something better with it, because it's not
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  Speaker 1: just again, it's not just about the paid tuition. You
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  Speaker 1: are absolutely right. These kids by this age is as
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  Speaker 1: much as some of them might want to complain about
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  Speaker 1: working or doing this or that, they love and they
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  Speaker 1: feed on that sense of accomplishment and sense of absolutely
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  Speaker 1: having been important to something right.
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's great for character building and that kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing. So it is it's such a it's such
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  Speaker 2: a well rounded program. It's just a great program. And
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  Speaker 2: then to have that kind of bonus at the end
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  Speaker 2: of it, it's so good. And for those students that
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  Speaker 2: don't go on to SoC and that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 2: they still got a lot out of the program. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if they just went to four year university
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  Speaker 2: or straight into the workforce, it's like they still actually
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  Speaker 2: got a lot out of the program. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: even if they didn't use the tuition part of it
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  Speaker 2: for SOCK, So it is, it's such a great program.
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  Speaker 2: And so and and for those those impact students have
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  Speaker 2: not signed up for college yet for classes that we
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  Speaker 2: classes are still registration is still open for classes for
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  Speaker 2: this fall. So summer classes have started that registration is closed,
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  Speaker 2: but you can still sign up for fall classes. So
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  Speaker 2: anybody out there that you know I was thinking about
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  Speaker 2: attending SoC register for those classes because it's coming soon.
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  Speaker 3: It's like we were just going.
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  Speaker 2: They had a meeting yesterday out eight weeks. We start
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  Speaker 2: our our orientations back up right before classes start. So
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  Speaker 2: summer's going to go fast. It's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 1: As a former SoC student, I'm telling you if you're
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  Speaker 1: if you're going, just.
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  Speaker 3: Just do it early.
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  Speaker 1: Not only are you going to get the pick of
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  Speaker 1: the classes that you want, but when your friends are
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  Speaker 1: panicking trying to make their sketchule yeah work, you'll just
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  Speaker 1: be sitting back ready for class.
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  Speaker 2: Not procrastinate. Yes, get that done, and registration is open
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  Speaker 2: and it's it's open all summer long. But you're right, Brandon,
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  Speaker 2: is just get those classes. Sign up for those classes
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  Speaker 2: as early as again.
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  Speaker 1: So absolutely, And if anybody wants any more information on
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  Speaker 1: anything we've talked about or anything else, what's the best.
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  Speaker 3: Way to do as well.
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  Speaker 2: Always the website is a great place at SBCC dot
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  Speaker 2: eed u and you can find anything there. But we
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  Speaker 2: are the people at soccer are so helpful and it's
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  Speaker 2: so it's wonderful working there. Yeah, And so you can
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  Speaker 2: call anybody there and anybody will get you to whoever
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  Speaker 2: they you know, whoever the best person is to talk to.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, either check out the website or you
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  Speaker 2: can just call the main number and just say like,
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  Speaker 2: I need help, and they'll get you to the right person.
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  Speaker 3: So they absolutely do.
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  Speaker 1: That's the benefit about the college of our size, even
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  Speaker 1: though it's growing and expanding in so many ways, is
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  Speaker 1: we still have that personal touch. I had an advisor
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  Speaker 1: talking with me from the first day I started signing
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  Speaker 1: up trying to figure out to change in my major
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  Speaker 1: to walk in the stage. I had the same person
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  Speaker 1: talking with me, or at least the same group as
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  Speaker 1: time went on, and you want to take advantage of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd like to say we treat everybody like family there,
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  Speaker 2: and that's the way we do it. That's our attitude.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, you know, it's kind of like our own
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  Speaker 2: kids or our own brothers and sisters coming through and
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  Speaker 2: we want to help you out.
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  Speaker 1: So absolutely well, Jim, thank you so much for coming,
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  Speaker 1: sharing the information, and as always, just the dedication and
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  Speaker 1: the work that you and everyone over at the college
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  Speaker 1: does for higher education in the Sock Valley.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: I always appreciate being here.
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  Speaker 3: Brandon