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ANNETTE PARKER: Josh, what are
you setting up to run today?

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JOSH: So right
here is our program

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that we went in the classroom
and programmed on Master Cam.

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ANNETTE PARKER: I used to have
to trig out all my coordinates,

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and write the code, and then I'd
feed the tape into the machine

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to make the cut.

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TEACHER: So let's just start it up.

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All right.

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ANNETTE PARKER: It's
very exciting for me

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to go down to the classroom.

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TEACHER: And then it drips out.

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So what's happening is we
know that this switch is bad.

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It's just an easy way
to troubleshoot it.

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ANNETTE PARKER:
Technology is creating

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more highly skilled jobs.

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STUDENT: There will be a motor
that will move the rod, which

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will pull this up and down.

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ANNETTE PARKER: Right.

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The best place for our
students to learn those skills--

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STUDENT: So much
problem solving.

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ANNETTE PARKER: 
--Is through partnership

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with community colleges.

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MAN: So this is what
I'd need you to do today.

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ANNETTE PARKER: And
industry partners

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that show how that's
applied in the workplace.

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I know that as a community
college President,

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I need to invest in that.

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MAN: So this
conveyor, that conveyor.

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ANNETTE PARKER:
South Central College

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is one college
with two campuses.

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ANNETTE PARKER: They are
two great communities

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that drive our economy.

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And so partnership with
business and industry

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is critical to the
success of our students.

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DOUG LAVEN: In 2008,
I left industry

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to come to South
Central College to start

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the mechatronics program.

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Mechatronics is the combination
of a couple of disciplines,

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mainly mechanical, electrical.

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To kind build on what we did--

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ANNETTE PARKER: I see
Doug as someone being out

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on the forefront really
trying to do innovative work.

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DOUG LAVEN: Hello, Dr. Parker.

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ANNETTE PARKER: Hey, Doug.

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Nice to see you.

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DOUG LAVEN: Nice to see you.

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So when we talk about
embarking on an NSF grant,

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I feel that we are going to do
something nationally with this.

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I think there's a
lot of eyes on this.

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We don't even get
the sentence out,

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and she's, yes,
go, start writing.

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DOUG LAVEN: The grant
in 2013 with ATE

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was designed around
these trainers.

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These panels tie right
into different processes

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in any production setting.

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The impact that we have is the
equipment that we're building

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is very in line with what
our industry partners do.

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So when our industry
partners said

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this is what we're starting to
experience on our production

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floors, we've answered
that call by making sure

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that we can make that
happen on our trainers.

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DOUG LAVEN: We treat this
program as a business.

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You're working in
an industry where

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you're responsible for
multimillion dollar processes.

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And the stuff that you learn
on these little trainers,

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you're seeing it come to life.

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There's a lot of pride in that.

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That's the ATE link, putting
technicians back to work.

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And we're doing that
with this program.

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ANNETTE PARKER: We see
South Central College

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as critical to our
industry partners.

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We've created that vision
here in Southern Minnesota

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that we're in this together.

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GREG PACKER: SageGlass
is paving the way

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for showing what a small
town can do when it

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partners with a local college.

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DARIO GARCIA: The main
one was this one, right?

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The program that I was doing

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was the mechatronics program.

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It deals a lot with
machinery automation.

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You understand a little
bit of electrical and PLCs.

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Got it onto the [INAUDIBLE]?

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STUDENT: Vacuum lines
are out the back.

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GREG PACKER: We've
partnered with South Central

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to help some of our
internal candidates

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become maintenance personnel.

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DARIO GARCIA: I started
off as an operator,

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started moving up to eventually
Senior Process Technician.

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DARIO GARCIA: These
are team members

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that came from production,
and then learned maintenance.

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To the mechatronics program,
they're ready to go.

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It feels great.

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ANNETTE PARKER:
And so as we were

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trying to create a vision
for the future, South Central

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College and Faribault
Public Schools

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agreed that we
together would address

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the vision of
excellence in education.

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So we would create
our own program

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that's called H2C, High
School to College to Career.

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DOUG LAVEN: We received
another grant in 2020.

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TEACHER: This is Doug Laven.

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He's one of the gentlemen behind
the scenes for mechatronics.

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DOUG LAVEN: In
the 2020 grant, we

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were looking at taking
what we had already

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done, this time, however,
focusing just on high schools.

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Once you build that
trainer, everything after that

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are really just labs
on that trainer.

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DOUG LAVEN: We've selected
five schools here in Minnesota,

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and five schools in Nebraska.

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DOUG LAVEN: A trainer like
this in the hands of a student

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who's on the fence, who doesn't
think they could do this,

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but then they do a few
labs and they have success,

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that's where I'm going.

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Make sure when you
put them in, they're

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all kind of the same way.

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My passion is in
reaching students

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who may not think they have
that skill set to go out

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and be successful in
this type of industry.

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STUDENT: Yeah, got it.

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DOUG LAVEN: And I
was that student.

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I was not the STEM
student in high school.

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The minute I signed
up a vocational class,

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it changed me.

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ANNETTE PARKER: We are
part of this community.

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We're giving back
to the community

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by creating the
future workforce.

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We have some exciting work
going with the National Science

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Foundation that we
would love to share.

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The ATE mission, it
can be bragged about,

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because I think we're
making the difference

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in the lives of students.

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And that's really,
really exciting.

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That's what drives me.

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