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Speaker 1: Our quarter past the hour. This is Thursday. It's the
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Speaker 1: fourth of September. The year is twenty twenty five, and
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Speaker 1: it's time for another informational edition of talk line here
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Speaker 1: at w i X and Radio. Good morning, I'm Steve Marco.
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Speaker 1: First Thursday of the month. Dollars reserve for our friends
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Speaker 1: from Sock Ballet Community College. We call our programs SWK
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Speaker 1: Talk and it is news and information from Sock Ballet
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Speaker 1: Community College that we get every month. This is our
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Speaker 1: September twenty twenty five report with our marketing director at
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Speaker 1: s Sock Valley Community College who is live at the
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Speaker 1: microphones with us this morning. Our good friend Jim Grot
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Speaker 1: joins us for the Sock Talk talk line this month.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Steve. Good to have you with us.
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Speaker 2: That's always a pleasure. I always say it. I always
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Speaker 2: say it, but act I genuinely mean it. Well, like
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Speaker 2: genuinely mean it.
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Speaker 1: We really appreciate your bad I tell you, taking time
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Speaker 1: out of a busy day like Jim Groats, and you
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Speaker 1: know he is busy at Stock Valley Community College to
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Speaker 1: manage some minutes with us to talk about the good
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Speaker 1: things going on. And it's always good things really, it's
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Speaker 1: always good things going on.
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Speaker 3: It's a fun place to be when when you're always
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Speaker 3: you are, you're always talking about positive things, you're always
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Speaker 3: talking about the future, and so it's fun.
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Speaker 1: Yes, and we got some really neat information that Jim's
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Speaker 1: going to talk about today. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: we're going to go out of STCK Valley Community College
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Speaker 1: for a portion of our talk line today and talk
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Speaker 1: about a trip coming up that Jim's going to mention,
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Speaker 1: plus some other very interesting areas of the of SVCC.
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Speaker 1: But we wanted to start and backtrack a little bit
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Speaker 1: because we talk about this every time we have our
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Speaker 1: good friends from STCK Valley Community College, it's either a
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Speaker 1: spokesperson or again Jim talking about the Impact program, and
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Speaker 1: that's where we wanted to talk start our program today
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Speaker 1: because the Impact program at stock Valley Community College just
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Speaker 1: passed by three days ago.
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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, the deadline just passed. The September first was
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Speaker 3: the deadline to sign up, so it is now the
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Speaker 3: fourth So you are too late if you'd forgotten to
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Speaker 3: do it, but you will open back up April first.
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Speaker 2: But we did.
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Speaker 3: We got we got over six hundred. I don't I
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Speaker 3: just saw the number this morning, and I want to
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Speaker 3: say it was like six twenty five something like that,
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Speaker 3: which is a fantastic number for you know, we're hoping,
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Speaker 3: you know, I think we usually get around the five
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Speaker 3: hundreds and that kind of stuff. To sort of have
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Speaker 3: over six hundred students sign up for it is fantastic.
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Speaker 2: So it's just great.
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Speaker 3: And then this is our first full like all four
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Speaker 3: year all we have all you know, freshman, few seniors.
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Speaker 3: We have full district wide classes signed up, So this
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Speaker 3: is exciting. You know, you've been working on this program
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Speaker 3: for the last five years and and you know, hoping
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Speaker 3: to see it grow, and you don't know what you're
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Speaker 3: going to get when you start it, and you just
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Speaker 3: kind of cross your fingers and everybody works hard, and
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Speaker 3: you're just you're kind of working a little blind because
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Speaker 3: you just don't know what's going to happen. So to
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Speaker 3: see that it's actually working out and that the numbers
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Speaker 3: are actually growing, it is fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Over six hundred have registered for their opportunity at
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Speaker 1: free tuition from Stock Valley Community College with their work
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Speaker 1: in the communities.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so they volunteered twenty five hours a year. They're
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Speaker 3: you know, each freshman, sophomore, junior, senior year at high
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Speaker 3: school twenty five hours, which is super easy to do.
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Speaker 3: And then and and to earn your you know, you're
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Speaker 3: you volunte hear those hours and then you get to
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Speaker 3: go tuition free for up to three years.
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Speaker 2: That's all.
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Speaker 1: That's tuition free, paid for education by working in the community.
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Speaker 1: It's just a win win. And we've talked about this
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Speaker 1: and again, as Jim pointed out, the deadline for this
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Speaker 1: period has just recently passed. You had into labor day
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Speaker 1: in order, and these were the people just entering.
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Speaker 3: Their freshman year in high school. Yeah, so their freshman
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Speaker 3: year in high school. There the ones that's signed up and
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Speaker 3: it's now, what what deadline has not passed because there
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Speaker 3: is not one is to be a volunteer partner. So
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Speaker 3: if you have a non for profit and you want
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Speaker 3: to join the Impact Program, you know in the sense
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Speaker 3: of being on our calendar that the students can look
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Speaker 3: up and that kind of stuff. You know that anytime,
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Speaker 3: you know, if there's a volunteer is there there's a
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Speaker 3: charity out there that needs volunteers, you know, just contact
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Speaker 3: the Impact Program and they can get you signed up.
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Speaker 3: Get your registered and that kind of stuff to get
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Speaker 3: you put on there so that kids can just online,
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Speaker 3: do you just set your date? How manytudents you need
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Speaker 3: and they just go in there and fill that up.
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Speaker 1: Proof of the pudding, I'll tell you. And I could
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Speaker 1: just think right out the top of my head. But
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Speaker 1: the Petunia Festival, you know, obviously, was one that included
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Speaker 1: a lot of impact participants. I know that Dixon Chamber
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Speaker 1: and Main Street and their yearly calendar of happenings always
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Speaker 1: includes it seems like impact students to help out with
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Speaker 1: their again activities throughout the entire year. Those are just
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Speaker 1: a couple of examples, and there are many more. Money,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's over two hundred volunteers that we have so
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Speaker 3: that we have, Yeah, so it's it's tremendous. And they're
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Speaker 3: students who do other volunteer work even that you know,
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Speaker 3: if volunteer partners are not registered with us, they can
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Speaker 3: still do things with like their schools. You know, they
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Speaker 3: volunteer at the concession stand and that kind of thing
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Speaker 3: that all counts towards their impact hours exactly. We have
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Speaker 3: them out at the college. They help us do stuff
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Speaker 3: around the college and that concludes for their hours. So
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Speaker 3: it's it is it is a win win and it's great.
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Speaker 3: And like I've mentioned before, I have interviewed some of
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Speaker 3: the students that have done it, and and we get
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Speaker 3: every now and then we get emails, you know, from
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Speaker 3: parents and that kind of stuff, just saying how how
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Speaker 3: a difference it made in their kids' lives. Being you know,
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Speaker 3: freshman year in high school, you're kind of you're quiet,
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Speaker 3: you're timid, and you have to go out and you
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Speaker 3: have to do this volunteer work with these adults, and
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Speaker 3: it says, you know, these parents have been excited that
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Speaker 3: their kids are coming out of their shelves. You know,
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Speaker 3: they're getting they're getting more comfortable talking to adults, they're
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Speaker 3: getting out and so it's helped out tremendously, not just
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Speaker 3: in doing the volunteer work, but also just in you know,
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Speaker 3: character building and that kind of stuff. So that's a
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Speaker 3: great it's a great win win thing.
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Speaker 1: Yep. Even though the deadline has passed, as you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: the next window then will.
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Speaker 3: Come April first. April first is when you can start
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Speaker 3: back up again. And even if if you miss this
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Speaker 3: window and your your students are freshmen, well, they can
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Speaker 3: sign up their sophomore year and then they get seventy
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Speaker 3: five percent of their tuition covered at SOCK, so which
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Speaker 3: is still a.
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Speaker 2: Nice pretty good Yeah, nice savings there, so.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely pretty good. Again, check it out if your students
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Speaker 1: plan to attend Soft Valley Community College, because this is
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Speaker 1: the opportunity that you really need and you need, as
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Speaker 1: Jim mentioned, to check in with Soft Valley Community College
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Speaker 1: before they even enter high school. The freshman's in high
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Speaker 1: school again, get started, because that's the period that you
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Speaker 1: want to register your students if they plan to stay
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Speaker 1: and go to school at Stock Valley Community College Impact Program.
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Speaker 1: We talk about it to start off our talk line
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Speaker 1: today with Jim Groad here at w I Exam. Now
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Speaker 1: let's go to our main agenda and talk about some
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Speaker 1: activities again that are coming up through s Sock Valley
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Speaker 1: Community College. And one of those activities actually we go
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Speaker 1: out of the country. There's a trip. There's a trip
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Speaker 1: coming up that you want to do. Tell us about that.
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Speaker 1: We're planning a preview.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, tonight tonight, there's a preview. You don't have to
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Speaker 3: go out of the country tonight tonight. You just stay
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Speaker 3: in You're going to stay at Sock Valley Community College.
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Speaker 3: So tonight from six to seven, there's a trip, a
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Speaker 3: Spain trip preview and so basically a travel agent will
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Speaker 3: be there to showcase the trip and answer any questions
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Speaker 3: you might have. You know, this is a free informational
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Speaker 3: session to join, but you know you can register online
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Speaker 3: go to SBCC dot edu slash trips or because you
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Speaker 3: know it's it's last minute, it is tonight call us
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Speaker 3: at eight one five, eight three five six two one
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Speaker 3: two and there's you know, no pressure to this. This
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Speaker 3: is strictly just this is a fun thing. Hey, do
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Speaker 3: you want to go to Spain with a group of
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Speaker 3: other people, all local people and go There's there's a
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Speaker 3: handful of different areas they're going to go to, so
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Speaker 3: they're just going to explain all the different areas they're
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Speaker 3: going to go explore in Spain. So tonight from six
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Speaker 3: to seven. So if you want to just go check
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Speaker 3: it out and see if you want to take a
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Speaker 3: trip to Spain, come out to the college.
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Speaker 1: This is the best thing, you know, the Stock Valley
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Speaker 1: Community College again goes the extra step and again offers
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Speaker 1: these trips and they may be area trips, they may
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Speaker 1: be global trips. As Jim just mentioned, this one to Spain,
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Speaker 1: which will be taking place. This is a preview of
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Speaker 1: that trip that Stock Valley Community College offers. And obviously
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Speaker 1: when you get a group, you're going to get a discount.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be discounting.
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Speaker 1: It is it's gonna because you're.
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Speaker 3: Saying that, and it's yeah, it's going to be affordable.
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Speaker 3: But mostly yes, it's fun that you can share these
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Speaker 3: experience with local people because they're all going to be
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Speaker 3: from the Suck Valley most of you know the majority
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Speaker 3: of people, so you know, get to know people from
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Speaker 3: around here that maybe you haven't met before, and go
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Speaker 3: and enjoy a great time and your meals are included
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Speaker 3: and you don't have to do anything.
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Speaker 2: I have to do is show up and they'll have fun.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a package trip. It's a package trip to Spain.
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Speaker 1: This is the preview for that trip to Spain. I
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Speaker 1: believe it will be taking place next year, if I'm
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Speaker 1: not mistakes next year, Okay, that this will be.
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Speaker 3: We like to do these previews plenty because there's a
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Speaker 3: Spain one. There's another europe Christmas trip coming up that
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Speaker 3: will have another preview for so every year there's a
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Speaker 3: couple of big trips that are planned.
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Speaker 1: So Man and Stock Valley Community College again goes the
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Speaker 1: extra step in offering these opportunities. This is not just
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Speaker 1: for students, this is for the public. This is for
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Speaker 1: everybody to take advantage of to go on these you know, trips,
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Speaker 1: whether they be like I said, regional trips or global trips.
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Speaker 1: Stock Valley Community College has ranged against all of these
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Speaker 1: travels through SBCC. So again, if you are interested in
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Speaker 1: going to Spain tonight six until seven at stock Valley
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Speaker 1: Community College, go to SBCC dot edu. That's the hub
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Speaker 1: of stock Valley Community College information here at wixend. Jim Well,
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Speaker 1: I want to skip ahead to just one reminder of
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Speaker 1: an upcoming activity that's taking place in early October, and
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Speaker 1: that is your open house that you have coming up
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Speaker 1: again at stock Valley Community College. This offers students the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to again familiarize themselves with the area.
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Speaker 3: So on October seventh, we're going to have an open
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Speaker 3: house from four thirty to six six o'clock. So it's
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Speaker 3: this is something that's it's kind of new, but we've
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Speaker 3: done it in the past, but it's a different This
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Speaker 3: is a different version of what we've done in the past.
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Speaker 3: And so this open house is going to be a
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Speaker 3: chance for not just you know, potential college students, but anybody,
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Speaker 3: anybody who just what we're talking about some of these
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Speaker 3: trip previews and things like that. Will have all different
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Speaker 3: departments of the college out you know, out in the hallways.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna have tables out there. They're going to be
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Speaker 3: out there just for you to walk through the building,
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Speaker 3: ask questions for you. There's gonna be faculty there, There'll
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Speaker 3: be different resources like resources like student services, so disabilities
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Speaker 3: support services, financial aid advising, they're all going to be
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Speaker 3: out there, and it's just a very casual experience to
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Speaker 3: just walk in talk to anybody you want to ask
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Speaker 3: them questions, what it's like to go to college, what
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Speaker 3: do you have to do. So we're just gonna have
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Speaker 3: this big open house October seventh. We want it to
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Speaker 3: be packed. We want to have lots of people. Come
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Speaker 3: check out the campus if you haven't been there in
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Speaker 3: a while, because things are changing. We just did a
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Speaker 3: renovation on the second floor. It's going to be it's
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Speaker 3: gonna the campus is looking beautiful. So and we'll do
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Speaker 3: campus tours every half hour. So you know, not that
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Speaker 3: our campus is enormous, but it's just nice to have
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Speaker 3: someone walk you through and explain what is this, what
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Speaker 3: is that?
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Speaker 2: That kind of thing.
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Speaker 3: So we'll have campus tours, We'll have faculty there to
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Speaker 3: talk about their programs, so all the different kind of
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Speaker 3: programs that go on to you know, there's psychology, the
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Speaker 3: nursing department will be there. There will be all sorts
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Speaker 3: of faculty to just talk about what it is. You know,
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Speaker 3: students can talk to them about what they might use
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Speaker 3: those degrees for in the future and that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: What kind of jobs are available, so they're there to
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Speaker 3: talk to you about that. And the big part of
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Speaker 3: that is going to be the FESTSPA, which is a
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Speaker 3: great little acronym to try and say the FASTPA completion workshop.
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Speaker 3: So if you've if you've never had to fill out
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Speaker 3: a FESPA before, it's a fun experience. And so we
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Speaker 3: will have a group of financial aid people there to
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Speaker 3: help you walk you through those steps. They'll have computers
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Speaker 3: set up. You'll just walk in in a section of
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Speaker 3: the reverview room and they'll help you step by step
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Speaker 3: fill out that fast FA. Get you, get you set up.
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Speaker 3: There might be stuff that you have to go and
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Speaker 3: do later on, but least you'll have the majority of
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Speaker 3: it done. And so if you've never done it before,
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Speaker 3: it's really nice to have someone who's experienced in it
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Speaker 3: and knows what they're doing to explain it and also
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Speaker 3: kind of relieve some of your fears of doing that fastpa.
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Speaker 2: So I've dabbled in it.
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Speaker 3: I have four kids and three of them have gone
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Speaker 3: to college and and thankfully my lovely wife has taken
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Speaker 3: care of the majority of that. So I have not
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Speaker 3: experienced I've dabbled in it, and it is not the
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Speaker 3: It's just it would be great to have somebody walking
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Speaker 3: through it if you've never done it before.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I can attest to my daughters both again
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Speaker 1: signed up through FASCIA and both received you know, a
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Speaker 1: critic and financially it's it's very important to do it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I find that a lot of students don't
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Speaker 3: do it because they're not whether they don't know about
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Speaker 3: it or they're not comfortable doing it. And they would
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Speaker 3: qualify for that and they get grant money, they get
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Speaker 3: work studied. That's there's so many things that you benefit
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Speaker 3: from it if you fill it out and it doesn't
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Speaker 3: hurt you anything to fill it out.
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Speaker 1: No, absolutely nothing. Really, it's just yes, the formality of
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Speaker 1: filling out information and sending it again to the proper
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Speaker 1: authorities again for a faster grant money as Jim mentioned,
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Speaker 1: and again this will be a part of the open house.
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Speaker 1: Then this is all part.
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Speaker 3: Of the open house. Yep, Tuesday, October seventh. Wow, and yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's going to be. We're excited. So that's why we
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Speaker 3: hope lots of people show up, because we're excited to
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Speaker 3: do it because it's.
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Speaker 2: Going to be you know, it's just a new thing
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Speaker 2: for us.
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Speaker 1: It's starting at four thirty at Sock Valley Community College
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Speaker 1: on Tuesday, October seventh. Jim's going to stick around. We've
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Speaker 1: got another area that Jim is going to talk about
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Speaker 1: today from Soft Valley Community College. This is our stalk
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Speaker 1: Talk talk line, but we're going to take a break
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Speaker 1: for news first. At the half hour, we continue our
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Speaker 1: conversation with our good friends from Stck Valley Community College.
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Speaker 1: This is an expanded Salk Talk talk line for September
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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five. Our marketing director is Jim Grot
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Speaker 1: and he is live with us this morning here at Wixon.
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Speaker 1: Thank you sir for spending the extra time. It is
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Speaker 1: kind of bringing us again into perspective with the open
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Speaker 1: house taking place on Tuesday, October the seventh, starting at
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Speaker 1: four thirty. This is going to be a really full
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Speaker 1: filled open house. I mean it's it's a very it's
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Speaker 1: a very length.
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Speaker 3: Kind of on all hands on deck kind of thank yeah,
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Speaker 3: to just help out just inform people as much as
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Speaker 3: we possibly can about what we have to offer.
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Speaker 1: So well, yeah, packed into a very kind of a
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Speaker 1: you know, a very short period of time. You know,
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Speaker 1: you're going to get a lot of information on campus tours,
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Speaker 1: a showcase, a resource fair, you know, a fafts of.
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Speaker 2: Workshop, faster for workshop.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and so it's it literally, it's it's just to
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Speaker 3: make people comfortable being, you know, just being on campus
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Speaker 3: and understanding what it is to go to college and
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Speaker 3: that kind of thing. So it's just you know, it's
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Speaker 3: stop over and just out of curiosity and even if
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Speaker 3: you want to help ask questions about transferring to a
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Speaker 3: university and that kind of stuff, it's like we're there
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Speaker 3: to help you. And that's even let's say the fast
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Speaker 3: foot Completion workshop. You don't have to go to SOCC
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Speaker 3: to come and do that exact completion workshop. We just
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Speaker 3: want to help you get all the funding you can
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Speaker 3: to go to college. So if you're not thinking about
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Speaker 3: going to SOCC and you want to go to a university,
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Speaker 3: but you still got to fill out this fast, but
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Speaker 3: still come out and will help you. We're absolutely we
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Speaker 3: are here for the community. That's part of you know,
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Speaker 3: that is what we do. We just try to help
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Speaker 3: out as much as we can.
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Speaker 1: Public welcome. This is a public public is invited open
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Speaker 1: house on Tuesday, October seventh. Tuesday October seventh. I'm not
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Speaker 1: sure if that will be after or before the time
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Speaker 1: that Jim visits with us next month, but nonetheless we're
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Speaker 1: going to get the word out now. Again, that's Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: October the seventh. I believe there are a couple of
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Speaker 1: days in that prior week that we might be able
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Speaker 1: to squeeze Gym in and maybe maybe we'll get to
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Speaker 1: hear about it.
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Speaker 2: Get to hear about it right.
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Speaker 1: There you go again from Stock Valley Community College. But
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Speaker 1: again it's Tuesday, October seventh at SVCC that campus open house. Jim,
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Speaker 1: we wanted to talk about another area of Salk today
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Speaker 1: that you wanted to spotlight because you personally are involved.
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Speaker 2: I have actually done this. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So we're looking for non credit instructors. So non credit
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Speaker 3: instructor it just means anybody can instruct, you know, teach
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Speaker 3: a class. So this is something to where you do
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Speaker 3: not have to be a certified teacher. You don't have
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Speaker 3: to have a degree in anything. All you have to
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Speaker 3: do is have a genuine interest in whatever your hobby.
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Speaker 3: It could be guitar lessons, it could be drawing, you know,
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Speaker 3: art classes. We'd really like to have. There's a couple
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Speaker 3: of new ones that we'd like to try and get
15:49
Speaker 3: people to do. Is someone to teach AI classes and
15:53
Speaker 3: someone to teach like chat GPT classes, which you know,
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Speaker 3: obviously is new stuff and some people really love that
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Speaker 3: and they want to show their passion to other people
16:04
Speaker 3: as to why they like using it and that kind
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Speaker 3: of thing. So we want people to teach those classes.
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Speaker 3: And the great thing about it is, again you do
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Speaker 3: not have to have any certification to do it. All
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Speaker 3: you have to do is have a passion and you
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Speaker 3: get paid to do it. That's the other nice thing
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Speaker 3: about it. This isn't a volunteer thing. This is actually
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Speaker 3: something to where Brenda Helms, who runs our business and
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Speaker 3: community education area is she takes care of everything. So
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Speaker 3: that's the reason why this is a nice thing to
16:31
Speaker 3: do from coming from someone who's done it before, where
16:34
Speaker 3: they take care of all the advertising for it, they
16:36
Speaker 3: take care of all the registration for it. If you
16:38
Speaker 3: need copies made of stuff, if you need supplies bought,
16:42
Speaker 3: they take care of all that kind of stuff for you.
16:44
Speaker 3: And you don't have to do anything besides show up
16:47
Speaker 3: and kind of teach your class. So I taught photography classes.
16:50
Speaker 3: I've been doing that for off and on for I
16:53
Speaker 3: don't know, ten fifteen years, and I'll probably go back
16:55
Speaker 3: on again. I just did it a couple of years ago,
16:57
Speaker 3: and I'll probably do it again. And the great thing
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Speaker 3: about doing that is, you know, I've done photography now
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Speaker 3: for thirty years, and it's just fun teaching your passion
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Speaker 3: to other people who are genuinely interested. Don't They don't
17:13
Speaker 3: sign up for these classes because they have to take it.
17:15
Speaker 3: So you know, it's like when you're going to college
17:17
Speaker 3: and you have to take a course that you really
17:19
Speaker 3: don't necessarily care, but it's a gen ed class or
17:21
Speaker 3: something like that this is something that people sign up
17:24
Speaker 3: because they are genuinely interested in what you're going to
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Speaker 3: talk about. And so, you know, the first time I
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Speaker 3: did it, I was very nervous, you know, teaching, you know,
17:32
Speaker 3: in front of a group of people. And I think
17:33
Speaker 3: I had fifteen to twenty students sign up for my
17:37
Speaker 3: class and to go in and just to I don't
17:41
Speaker 3: see their faces that they're actually like focused on you,
17:44
Speaker 3: and they're paying attention and they have question after question.
17:47
Speaker 3: It's like it's not necessarily teaching, you know. I try
17:49
Speaker 3: to prepare my class as much as you can. It's
17:51
Speaker 3: more talking and just sharing your passion with somebody. So
17:55
Speaker 3: if you have a passion on anything in my classes,
17:58
Speaker 3: it can be a one time class. It can just
17:59
Speaker 3: be a one day, you know, two hour class. I
18:04
Speaker 3: did a two day beginner class that was three hours
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Speaker 3: a piece, and then I did a four day like
18:10
Speaker 3: intermediate class that was I believe it was three or
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Speaker 3: four hours because we spent more time just on very
18:15
Speaker 3: specific things in photography. And so you choose, you choose
18:19
Speaker 3: if you want it to be a one day if
18:21
Speaker 3: you want to last one day a week for four months,
18:23
Speaker 3: you can do that. It doesn't really matter. It's whatever
18:25
Speaker 3: you feel the amount of time you need with a student,
18:30
Speaker 3: and you set those things and then Brenda takes care
18:32
Speaker 3: of the rest. She puts it in her catalog. You
18:33
Speaker 3: guys have probably seen the catalog come out over the
18:36
Speaker 3: last like a month or so. It all went out
18:38
Speaker 3: into the mail to the entire area that you get
18:42
Speaker 3: those catalogs in the mail, and that's what these catalogs
18:44
Speaker 3: are all about. There's professional development where you might do
18:48
Speaker 3: things for your job. You might learn Excel or Microsoft
18:51
Speaker 3: Word or something like that. So those there's those things
18:54
Speaker 3: for professional development, and then there's the personal development side,
18:57
Speaker 3: which is more of these art classes and that kind
18:59
Speaker 3: of stuff. And I mean they literally teach I want
19:02
Speaker 3: to say, like basket weaving, like it's and and you know,
19:04
Speaker 3: growing plants and that kind of stuff. So it's there's
19:08
Speaker 3: there's no exclusions as to what you can cover. So
19:13
Speaker 3: if you have a passion for something, we we really
19:15
Speaker 3: basically we're recruiting instructors now for the spring semester because
19:20
Speaker 3: we have to get this catalog developed and we have
19:23
Speaker 3: to get it all designed and laid out and then
19:25
Speaker 3: get it in the mail. And that goes in the mail.
19:27
Speaker 3: I think around in January. So now we prepap, we
19:29
Speaker 3: prep and getting those people to teach those classes. So
19:33
Speaker 3: you know, it's and we offer online classes and that
19:36
Speaker 3: kind of stuff too, which is great. There's a there's
19:38
Speaker 3: a piloting class. There's all sorts of things like that
19:40
Speaker 3: that you can do, but we really want those in
19:43
Speaker 3: person teachers, you know, those like and you can do
19:46
Speaker 3: it on campus. You can do it on site if
19:48
Speaker 3: you'd rather do it at your place. I debated about
19:50
Speaker 3: doing that, doing photography classes at my studio and that
19:53
Speaker 3: kind of thing, but you know SoC has they have
19:56
Speaker 3: the dry erase boards and the desks and all that
19:58
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. So I chose to do it on campus.
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Speaker 3: And then people just bring in their own cameras and
20:03
Speaker 3: I would teach them literally how to turn their camera
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Speaker 3: on and like what button meant what, and so it
20:09
Speaker 3: can be extremely basic and or it could be extremely advanced.
20:14
Speaker 3: And that's why I wanted to do two different classes,
20:16
Speaker 3: so I could have helped those people who literally didn't
20:18
Speaker 3: know what the buttons meant on their camera. But they've
20:20
Speaker 3: got this camera for a gift, or they wanted to
20:22
Speaker 3: get into photography. But they just never took the time
20:24
Speaker 3: to sit down and learn all the different little buttons
20:27
Speaker 3: about their cameras and what buttons don't actually mean anything,
20:30
Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about using them. And then
20:32
Speaker 3: the more intermediate classes we're really trying to dig down
20:36
Speaker 3: deeper into oh, just more advanced kind of lighting settings
20:41
Speaker 3: and all that kind of thing. So if you have
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Speaker 3: a passion again, we're looking for some art people drawing.
20:47
Speaker 3: It could be painting, it could be any of that
20:49
Speaker 3: kind of stuff. It could be something that's more you know,
20:52
Speaker 3: work with your hands kind of sculpting kind of things.
20:55
Speaker 3: And then some of these AI things. Those are those
20:57
Speaker 3: are a few things that we'd love to add to
20:59
Speaker 3: the to the list. But there's there's no there's nothing. Okay,
21:04
Speaker 3: you know, everything's on.
21:05
Speaker 2: Everything opens, opening, everything. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So again, if you have a passion and you'd like
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Speaker 1: to again teach your passion at Soft Valley Community College,
21:15
Speaker 1: here's your opportunity. And for stipend is j you mentioned
21:19
Speaker 1: you will be paid again if they accept you in
21:22
Speaker 1: with your courses at Sock Valley Community College. What does
21:25
Speaker 1: it take to give you the Yeah, so you.
21:28
Speaker 3: Just go online, you go to SVCC dot edu slash
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Speaker 3: ced and click on the instructors wanted and then you
21:34
Speaker 3: kind of fill out a proposal as to what it
21:36
Speaker 3: is that you want to offer, or you could even call,
21:39
Speaker 3: you know, call in to their called to Brenda which
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Speaker 3: is eight one five eight three five six two one two,
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Speaker 3: and just talk to her, tell her what you think
21:46
Speaker 3: about what you want to do. She can explain to
21:48
Speaker 3: you what other people have done maybe similar to those
21:50
Speaker 3: kinds of things. And there are some people who offered,
21:53
Speaker 3: i mean, dozens of classes in just different things, like
21:56
Speaker 3: Microsoft is one where we have instructors who offered just
21:59
Speaker 3: multiple different disciplines across that kind of thing. And some
22:03
Speaker 3: of them are short, beginner less than some are more
22:05
Speaker 3: intermediate and expert and that kind of stuff. So you know,
22:08
Speaker 3: feel free to explore and at least talk to Brenda
22:11
Speaker 3: and that kind of thing and find out what it
22:13
Speaker 3: is that you think that you should offer if you're
22:15
Speaker 3: not even sure. But it's fun, it's fun to do.
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Speaker 3: It's actually enjoyable.
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Speaker 1: From one who knows, one who's again again taught at
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Speaker 1: Soft Valley Community College part time again. His passion is
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Speaker 1: photography and he does offer the courses or it did
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Speaker 1: offer the courses.
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Speaker 2: We'll see if he does be back.
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Speaker 1: No, all right, okay, all right, all right at Sotck
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Speaker 1: Valley Community College. But here's your opportunity. Go online SBCC
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22:40
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