The Don Rosen Show (Hour 2)

No matter what a president does, somebody's going to be unhappy.

Now, there's controversy about every decision.

Like whether or not we should put boots on the ground in the mid-east.

Some say yes, some say no.

I think when you hear that term, though, boots on the ground, you assume that means soldiers

in those boots.

I say we drop a bunch of boots on them.

Line load after plane load just keeps shoving boots out.

They won't know what hit them.

What is with all these boots on the ground?

Just keep dropping our best boots till they're up to their neck and them.

There's too many boots on the ground!

You ever try to be evil when you're up to your neck and boots?

It's practically impossible.

Problem solved.

I'll be there for you.

I'll be there for you.

Cause you're there for me too.

Still in bed I did.

I'll bring your breakfast so far things are going great.

Tomorrow won't you let me days like these.

I want you here to tell you where the world's from.

Tell your needs.

At 708 in WRGN Radio, I'm Don Rosen.

Thanks for joining us here on this Thursday morning.

It's gorgeous out there.

It's like almost springtime.

Think about this.

It's almost 30 degrees warmer than it was.

I got here the other day was 11 below zero.

And now it's 16 above.

Maybe a little warmer than you have now.

It's cloudy, partly sunny the day with 119.

Want the two inches of snow tonight.

Kind of that fluffy stuff you use out.

Leave below when you get up.

You drive away.

Close around 12.

Plenty chance of snow tomorrow with 1117.

Saturday sunny with 1116.

And sunny on Sunday with 1120.

All next week, guys in the mid to upper 30s with get this rain.

I think I've thought you see that again.

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I told you it was going to be a special program this morning.

We have the future of America here.

Aubrey Marques is here in the youth apprentice program at Washington Park High School.

You're a student in the key club member.

You know, when I went to high school, I remember the key club.

I forgot what it is.

What is the key club again?

It's a volunteer group led by mostly led by students.

That's it.

I was never a member of the key club in high school.

I was a member of the national honors society.

But that's a whole different story how I got into that organization.

It's not my grades didn't get me in.

And I'll tell you some other time how I got into that thing.

But anyway, so you're here today with some other people here.

Lisa Booker is here.

You're the HR director at Delta Hawk.

What is that?

Get close to that microphone.

So Delta Hawk is a startup company located right here in Racine.

And we are focusing on a two stroke diesel engine for the general aviation industry.

Okay.

Michael Lynch is here, workplace learning coordinator.

Yes, sir.

Good morning.

Thanks for having me.

So what do you do here?

I help students like Aubrey.

I start exploring her career options before she leaves high school.

We really try and connect or her classroom component to a real-life component work.

Enter in Lisa Booker in Delta Hawk.

So Aubrey has opportunities to start figuring out what it is she might want to do after high school.

You know what I wanted to do?

I wanted to do one of three things.

Be a stock hard driver, ice cream guy selling, you know, good humor, ice cream bars.

There'd be a discount key.

I still am looking at that ice cream job real closely.

It still looks good to me.

And also the man who got this whole ball of wax rolling, Jeffrey Wilkins is here.

He's the Academy counselor for automotive construction and robotics careers pathways.

Now, what is that job?

So Don, first of all, I got to say it's a little cold out there for ice cream.

Wouldn't you say we need some more hot chocolate or something like that?

You know what I'll tell you something.

You go to the supermarket and people buying tons of ice cream.

That doesn't stop them.

You're behind the monitor here.

So I can't see you, but I can see your hands.

That's good enough.

So I know you're here.

So I'm a Academy counselor at Park High School for the Academies and Pathways of Automotive, Construction and Robotics.

And so I help students pick classes that help them become college and or career ready, the RUSD mission.

Now, it's interesting that Aubrey is in the automotive pathway.

And it's interesting a lot of the students in the automotive pathway are working on four cycle engines in her class.

And she's working on two cycle engines.

And I got to say Aubrey, what's it like to work on an engine?

It's very interesting.

Bring that microphone closer to you.

Okay, yeah.

Now I want to hear everything.

So they're very similar with working at Delta Hawk and what I'm doing in class.

They kind of intermingle a lot.

So I learn from the books in class and then at work I get to really do the hands-on work.

And you know, really experience everything that I'm learning inside of my classroom.

Oh, here, Aubrey.

I'm 16.

16 years old.

Okay, and Jeffrey, want to tell everybody why we're here today?

Well, we're here to look at.

And I just want to thank you, Don, for having us here today.

And Lisa, for being here and Michael, for being here.

And for their mentoring.

The mentoring that they do to help students like Aubrey to reach their potential.

So we see the power of mentoring.

We see the power of youth, the apprenticeships.

And we see how that really impacts not only received unified school district,

but the community in general, the greater community benefits from these students learning on the job and learning in school.

And pushing those two, combining those two things together for success.

Not only in high school, but after high school in their fields.

Now Aubrey, tell me why we're here today.

You developed something.

How did you, first of all, how do you find the time to do it?

And how did you do it?

Tell us about the project.

Well, I could be as about your question.

Okay, there is, there's something, Jeffrey, didn't you tell me there was something that was developed that's going to be used?

There's a lot of research, right?

Ten, ten, ten plus years of research on the diesel engine.

And all the sudden it gets approved.

And then you were there when it was sent to NASA.

What was it like to be there when they sent it out?

Finally approved.

Yeah, it was really interesting to think that it would go to NASA, you know, such a big, like, you know, a big thing out there.

And to be a part of that was just a really great experience.

So what is this that you developed?

It got NASA interested.

It is a, you know, two-stroke engine.

Completely mechanical?

Yeah.

And what's your part?

What do you do when you go to work there?

What do you do in your youth apprenticeship?

So when I go, usually I'm putting together parts.

Usually I'm shown how to do it.

And then my, like, mentors, they will let me have the hands-on experience to put it together.

And then eventually once we have all the parts together we'll put it out of the engine.

So right now we're working on an oil pump.

And, you know, there's some tweaks we have to make here and there.

So usually when I go into work that's what we're usually working on right now.

And then, you know, just miscellaneous stuff that, you know.

When do you work on this during school time?

More after school.

No, I work.

After work.

After work, yeah.

After school, I did work.

You're 16 years old.

Mm-hmm.

You have a job?

Yes.

Whoa!

Okay, you know, I think a two-cycle engine, I think, in my lawnmower.

Yeah.

Is it like a lawnmower engine you're talking about?

Oh, much bigger than that.

I know, I know that.

You can picture.

I picture a two-cycle, although I have an electrical lawnmower.

I actually bought a re-operated lawnmower.

Yeah.

Because I got tired of schlepping to the gas station and getting gasoline for it.

Yeah.

And I thought it was better for the environment if I just got a battery-operated one.

But, so how long have you been working on this?

It's almost been about a year now that I've been working.

When your anniversary is coming up.

Now, what is NASA going to do with this engine?

Uh, I'm not completely sure.

I'm only on the building side of things.

Is this taking us to Mars and beyond this engine?

I don't think so.

Is this what we've been waiting for before we go to Mars?

I mean, I can't picture this.

I wish I had a picture of it so I can see what it looks like.

You said it's big, huh?

Yeah, it's pretty big.

So, when do you work on this?

Um...

I don't know.

I don't know.

Okay, so this is Delta Hawk.

So, what is Delta Hawk?

Yes, so again, as we mentioned earlier, Delta Hawk is a startup company.

It was actually founded back in 1996.

And it has been a long project in the making.

So, as you had mentioned earlier with us achieving a major milestone last year.

That major milestone was being granted the type certification.

And what that communicates to the industry is that we can now actually sell a

engine to the market that is completely certified by the FAA.

So, a big deal for us.

So, the next chapter for us in this story is to begin the path to production.

And that's what we are working on right now.

And who's going to buy it?

Well, there's a lot of different applications for the engine and a lot of interested.

I just picked your lawnmowers.

What can you use the engine for?

Well, there's, again, different applications.

So, a lot of it is for the small airplanes, like the, you know, the Sirus.

But there's also, you know, drone applications.

This is a military interest.

An engine that can fly an airplane.

Yes, sir.

Yes.

So, we're beyond lawnmowers.

Yes, sir.

Well, beyond.

And if I could just add something with that.

It's, I was able to get a tour of Delta Hawk a few months back.

And it's real interesting that the diesel power, because it's diesel powered,

it can fly at higher altitudes.

It's not a combustion engine.

It's a compression engine.

So, it doesn't need air.

So, it can fly at higher altitudes where there's not as much O2.

I can't even picture this thing in my head.

All I know is now I'm picturing it like a Cessna engine on a plane.

Is it that big?

It is big.

Okay, so it's that big.

All right, now I'm picturing it.

I'll have to link you to some videos later.

And how did you, where did you come in on this, Aubrey?

You, you helped develop it or came up with a design?

Oh, no.

I came in way after it was like, it has begun.

But as we were, you go ahead and say something.

Yeah, well, so I can maybe help bridge that gap a little bit.

So, Delta Hawk, a big part of our culture is, you know, really leaning on the community

and, you know, working to attempt to keep talent within the Racine community.

And we have been so fortunate to partner with RUSD and the Academy's program.

We work with all of the local high schools.

And, you know, a big part of our recruiting strategy is bringing in students, you know,

teaching them all the different jobs that we have.

We don't want to pigeonhole students into one particular field.

So, it is our goal to cross train them, give them as much experience as possible.

You know, typically students at this age, they don't yet know what they want to be when they grow up.

And we feel as adults, as leaders in the community, as their mentors,

it is our job, you know, to help them bridge that gap.

It's 1718 at WRGN Radio, youth apprentice program that we were talking about here

at Washington Park, high school, more coming up at just a moment.

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It's 1721 at WRGN Radio, hometown radio refreshed.

We're talking to a bunch of people here today.

I've never had this many people in the studio before.

From Washington Park, high school, we have Aubrey Marquez,

who is a junior, 16 would be junior at WRGN.

We have Lisa Booker here, HR director for Delta Hawk.

That's the company that's working with this whole project with this engine, right?

Yes, sir.

Delta Hawk sounds something.

Something you should be flying over with, maybe seals Delta Hawk.

That is dropping seals all over the place.

Michael Lynch is here, workplace learning coordinator and Jeffrey Wilkins is here,

the Academy counselor for automotive construction and robotics career pathways.

Do you work in Washington Park High School, aren't you?

That's right.

I've been at Washington Park since 2003.

Time has just fallen by.

I can't believe it's been that long.

Yeah, that's all.

I had my father-in-law as a teacher.

My first father-in-law, he was a teacher for years.

My aunt, my father's sister, was a teacher.

And I remember when she came over once she was doing some schoolwork

and she had teachers editions of the books.

And I said, ooh, would I love to have that?

Because here, you can have this one.

I actually had a teacher's edition of the book with the answers and everything in it.

But it didn't help because we didn't use that book anyway in school.

Did how you got into NHS?

With the teachers book?

No, you want a quick story here how I get into the National Honours Society.

They handed the assembly one day and my mother said to me,

she said anything going on in school.

And they said, well, the brainy acts are getting into the National Honours Society.

We got an assembly tomorrow.

She goes, you don't like those people.

It's other nice people.

This is brainy acts.

I don't have any to do with them.

Now, they had the tracks we had in high school were the honor track,

which was the H track gifted honor track.

Then you had the A track, the B track, and the C track.

These are the people that couldn't keep their hands out of the, you know,

oil at McDonald's when they do the fries.

Those were the C track people.

And the ones I had in the C track just didn't work in a making in life.

I just had a feeling they were going to have a tough time.

But very few people were in C track.

You were in B track, A track, or H track.

So anyway, so I was in the B track.

And I am in the assembly.

And they don't have any more words or important was a vocabulary book.

We had, yeah, look up the words and write the definitions down.

And I was copying it because I didn't have it for class coming up.

So I was copying it as someone else's book.

And they're reading off the names of the people to come on stage.

They give me a candle to hold.

And there are the inductees on the National Honours Society.

So I'm copying the book.

And somebody turns around, hey, Rosen, they called your name.

The guy behind me hits me in the back of the head.

He's Rosen.

Go up, they called your name.

I said, really?

And then I see people looking at me.

And I walk up there.

I have both books in my hand still.

The copying book.

This is for the National Honours Society.

A copying book in my book.

And I've got my pen in my hand.

And I take the candle.

And I see my friend's laughing.

And I say, oh, if they're short, one candle.

And I'm up here with 30 other people.

And I just sweat, you know, the fluff sweats.

They're torn off my forehead.

And the lights come on.

I see my parents in the back of the room.

And I get inducted.

My mother told me the story when they called her.

She goes, you sure Donald is getting in?

You sure you got to write Donald?

Because he, you know, he does okay.

But he's in B-track.

Years later, I went to my high school.

And it was sitting down.

And I said, how did I get into the National Honours Society?

So there are two ways to get in.

It's grades.

And all the teachers get to nominate one student.

And you were the nominee.

Wow.

And so all the teachers nominated you.

So you can get in from grades of personality.

I chose the personality row.

And I talked to my teachers.

And they said, yeah, I remember that.

Yeah, we were allowed to pick one student.

And put them in the National Honours Society.

The problem was, I didn't know any of these kids.

Because they were in the honor track.

So I didn't know.

But I had a car.

A 64 Chevy convertible.

My brother's car.

He gave it to me.

So I was, they liked me.

I was very important.

But you're probably getting in through brains.

I have a feeling.

Yeah, I was invited.

And it might sound crazy.

But I didn't end up joining this year.

I was probably my junior year.

I was really important.

And I didn't want, like, almost like the extra stress almost.

Oh, yeah.

So what are your interests, by the way?

Oh, my interests.

Outside of school.

Yeah.

Outside of school.

Well, I love playing music.

I am a percussionist.

But I am a self-taught pianist.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

So I like doing that.

And yeah, it's about it.

So what kind of percussion?

Like snare drum.

Yeah, like everything you have.

Like your mallets.

Like your xylophone.

Piano sometimes falls underneath that.

You have your drums.

And then, yeah.

You know, I was never able to play an instrument.

I tried the trumpet.

I just couldn't do it.

I tried the drums.

I was somewhat decent at that.

I just didn't have it.

My brother plays every instrument.

Oh, wow.

He plays the organ.

He could play the guitar.

And harmonica.

He could play the clarinet.

He could play all these instruments.

And he went on to make sort of a career of it when he was in high school.

And then when he got out of high school,

he played with these groups.

I'm going to sound familiar to you at all.

But he played with some of the biggest groups of the 1960s.

The charelles.

The changrelas.

Read the leader in the back.

Benny King.

Ruby and the Romatics.

Jay and the Americans.

The strawberry alarm clock.

You play with all those groups.

Because he was able to read music.

And when these groups came to the East Coast to play,

they just handed the sheet music.

And he rehearsed with his band.

And he was able to read the sheet music.

Which is how he had his music career.

He was a doctor now.

He just gave up on that.

But one quick story here.

You saw him.

He was playing guitar with a friend.

They're both doctors.

And they went to Greenwich Village in New York City.

And they're sitting on the sidewalk.

And the guitar case opened up for money.

And the people with the cops on the horseback

would drop a couple of bucks and then everything.

And they'd play guitar.

The next morning, on Monday morning,

one of those patients came in and said,

Dr. Rosen, I got to tell you something.

My daughter said,

she saw you sitting on a street corner

with a guitar playing from music.

Playing for money.

Playing your music on a guitar.

I said, can't be Dr. Rosen.

Because that was me.

So that's what he did.

Well, that's great to you.

Any interest in doing your music career?

Potentially like what is a minor study in college?

Yeah.

Potentially doing that.

And piano.

My wife teaches piano.

No.

I just can't grab it.

I don't know why.

I just can't grasp it.

It's definitely tricky.

You know, you have to mingle your fingers everywhere.

Well, she teaches a 10-year-old girl, a friend of ours.

She plays Viola.

And she also plays the piano.

And she caught on to this thing.

And she could read the music.

Mm-hmm.

And I sit there in wonderment.

Why can't I look at those song sheets and see music?

I see dots on a paper.

Yeah.

But she sees, she could picture music coming out of her head.

And I just can't, well, good for you.

Thank you.

So with the long range, what do you want to do?

Well, Dr. Hock definitely helped me with that.

Before them, I wasn't really exactly sure

what I wanted to do after high school.

Either go into college or, you know, if that end up working out,

then I'm not, wasn't sure.

But since I got this job with Dr. Hock, you know,

aerospace engineering or, you know, mechanical engineering

is definitely something I'd be interested in going to college for.

Okay.

That's great.

So you have kind of a future.

And that was going to hold you to.

I mean, you're still young.

Yeah.

You can change your mind.

You still go into radio via this jock.

You can do all that kind of stuff.

My mother up until her dying day at 92.

Still asked me, is this what you're going to do?

Is this what you're going to do with your life?

Is this what you're going to do with your life?

Is this what you're going to do with your life?

Is this what you're going to do with your life?

It's 51 years of doing it.

I think it's the end of the month.

Because my brother was a doctor.

So she kind of thought that, you know, I'd become a doctor too,

but somehow it didn't happen.

Coming up with the next day after,

I'm going to talk more about the program.

I just wanted to learn about you a little bit.

It's such a nice young lady with a bright future ahead of you.

And who knows?

You may be playing the piano in an orchestra.

You may be playing the other instruments

that you play percussion.

You may be with the symphony orchestra.

You never know what's going to happen.

You never know.

Hey, I'm big with you.

You were seeing concert band.

I've played with them before.

Really?

Yeah.

So me too.

I just do the announcing for them.

I don't play.

But I can always, I'd say I'm with the band.

So, all right.

All these guys here from Washington Park High School

for the youth apprentice program

or coming up in just a moment here.

At WRGN Home Town Radio,

who refreshed the civic media station.

All hotels are nice that first night, right?

You're like, this is pretty sweet.

And the next day, you're like, this place is a dump.

Because we get spoiled so quickly in hotels.

You know?

They can have the nicest amenities.

But after a couple days, you're like,

hmm, same chocolate on the pillow.

You think by now they know I like peanut butter.

I stayed at the animal kingdom lodge in Disney.

There were giraffes right outside my window.

But by the end of the week, I was like,

hmm, giraffe again.

How about a lion?

How about a lion eating a giraffe?

That would be magical, Disney.

Because we get spoiled.

In hotels, there's a sense of entitlement.

You're relieved for the day and you come back

and they haven't had a chance to clean your room.

There's a certain amount of outrage.

Excuse me.

There is a towel on the floor of my bathroom.

Can you send a maid or a manservant to pick it up?

I demand we burn the peasant village.

They spoil us.

I think it's awkward when someone knocks on your hotel door.

It's like, what?

Who even knows I'm in here?

Is it the FBI?

Then you have to look through that hotel door, people.

Has anyone on the other side of a people

not look like a serial killer?

I ordered a cheeseburger,

but I think it's the grim reaper.

I thought love was on the true and fairytale team.

And then for someone else, but not for me.

I thought love was out to get me.

That's the way it's seen.

Disappointed, hearted, all my dreams.

Then I saw her face.

Neil Diamond wrote that song and he gave it to the monkeys.

He also meant an old zoned copy of who's never went anywhere,

but that is to write him.

And give it to somebody who's going to get hit song out of it.

Of course, the monkeys did.

Only one monkey left.

That's the scariest thing.

The only one left is Mickey Dolan's.

He was kind of a star before the monkeys.

He started a show called Circus Boy back in the early 60s.

He was an actor beforehand.

And a few other things he acted in.

But if Peter Tark is gone,

like Nezmeth is gone,

and Davey Jones is gone,

they're all leaving us.

All leaving us.

Hi, Don Rosen.

Thanks for joining us.

It's 737 at WRGN Radio.

Partly sunny today with a high air 19 degrees.

One to two inches of snow expected tonight.

Kind of fluffy stuff where you can just use a leapblower to get it off.

Plows around 12.

Chance of snow for tomorrow with a high air 17.

Sunny Saturday with a high air 16.

Sunny Sunday with a high air 20.

And all next week, eyes in the mid to upper 30s right now.

It's cloudy 16 degrees.

In Racine 737.

We're talking to a bunch of people here today.

Aubrey Marques is here from the youth apprentice program at Park High School.

She's a student there.

Junior.

I want to get that right, Junior.

At Park High School.

Lisa Booker is here.

She's the HR director for Delta Hawk,

which is the company that is helping out with what Aubrey helped develop.

The diesel engine, which is going to take us to Neptune in Uranus.

I guess he Pluto, because that's not a planet anymore.

When did that happen?

By the way, when I was in school,

he had to learn the nine planets.

Pluto was one.

That Pluto is not a planet anymore.

So they just learn eight planets, right?

It didn't make the cut.

Yeah.

What happened there?

All the tests I failed, because I love Pluto a lot.

I want to go back and say,

can we regrade this paper?

I was actually right.

I didn't even know it.

Michael Lynch is here.

Workplace Learning Coordinator and Jeffrey Wilkins is here.

The Academy Council for Automotive Construction and Robotics Career Pathways

at Washington Park High School.

Thank you guys for being here this morning.

I don't appreciate it.

Let's talk about this program.

And you're probably the best person to talk about it, Michael.

Yeah.

So the youth apprenticeship program is an opportunity for students

to start their career exploration.

I don't know, when you were in high school,

was it about 10 years ago, right?

Did you take any technical classes, woodworking or automotive?

I graduated in 1972.

Yeah, about 10 years ago, right?

Okay.

There we go.

But they didn't offer that kind of stuff.

So they really did.

Woodworking or anything like that.

That's what they offered you.

So to that point, we offer these types of classes,

but a sequential order.

So students will take the same pathway class we call it.

In this case, Aubrey is an automotive student.

So she'll take three courses, sophomore, junior, senior,

all-related automotive.

And what that youth apprenticeship program does

is work with different community members

and industry partners, such as Elise over at Delta Hawk,

to grab these students while they're in high school

and really connect the dots between those tech-ed classes.

In this case, automotive, to real-work experience.

So Aubrey, while she's at Delta Hawk,

she is an employee of Delta Hawk.

She gets paid just as it is a normal job.

But it gives her that opportunity to really see

what she's learning in the classroom,

what that looks like in real life.

And I'm willing to bet that if we ask Aubrey right now,

being able to connect those dots,

what does that do for you in the classroom, right?

I don't want to brag a little.

It does put me a bit ahead of other students.

So I know the teacher.

He's always looking at me to be, you know,

this showcase they're like to show, you know,

how this works, because most of the things there,

I do already know, yeah, I do already know.

And he comes up picking on me,

because he doesn't like, he knows I don't like going

up for the class.

But, you know, it's really nice to be,

I guess, like, someone to, like, people look for,

or look to for help.

Would you say you're a mentor to other students then?

Yeah, for sure.

I know a lot of students have come,

or not, I want to say a lot,

because our class isn't too big.

But I know some students they do come to me for help.

And I do offer my help.

I don't want to be like, oh, you know, you need me.

You know, I don't want to be that type of person.

But I'm always like, you know, if you do have a question,

you can always ask me.

So, and to that point, so not only are you earning a paycheck,

but you're also really exploring, right?

These different options you have mentioned,

you weren't even sure what you wanted to do after high school.

This helps to maybe narrow that a little bit more.

Yeah.

Now, the other part that Aubrey just may not be thinking about right now,

but at the end of her apprenticeship program,

she will earn industry certification from the state of Wisconsin.

It's not something that, you know, I'm running off in my office.

It comes from the Department of Workforce Development.

It's an industry certification saying that number one,

you are highly employable,

and you sort of mastered these automotive slash diesel skills.

So, it gives her a jumpstart on her career, you know,

before she even graduates high school.

In addition, she's also earning what we call credits, right?

So, imagine this Aubrey next year,

you're going to be a senior.

Imagine coming to school maybe half days, right?

You're going to leave maybe around what 11 o'clock is at the end of second block.

11 o'clock to go to work.

For the rest of the time, you're going to get paid, right?

You're getting paid.

You're also earning those credits.

So, talk about really ingraining yourself into adult life.

This is a perfect opportunity.

We can't do it without the community.

So, partnering up with Delta Hawk and giving these students opportunities

that we otherwise wouldn't be able to afford to give them.

That's the long and short of the youth apprenticeship program.

It sounds like you're ready to retire at age 19.

I hope you got a nice benefits package.

So, they actually pay Aubrey, huh?

Yes, that's actually one of the conditions of the youth apprenticeship program.

You have to make at least minimum wage.

So, it's not your typical work program, you know,

maybe different work programs that we grew up with.

It is an earning.

She earns her credits by being in the program

because we're able to connect her classwork to real work.

You know, all I made in school in shop was this little metal box

and I still haven't used it to this day.

I could even tell you my teacher, Mr. Bash over.

He was, you know, always looking,

they don't tell the shop teachers.

They were missing like part of their fingers.

Aubrey, you still have yours, right?

I'll tell them that good.

But I remember making all these things,

but my metal box that I made

and it was really well, really well done.

He watched us use the welder because he didn't want.

Oh, no, someone's going over that welder.

But I still have the stuff I made.

I wasn't making engines,

but I still have my box that I made.

I still keep things in it too.

And we had a paint in everything.

That was great.

But this is way beyond.

And even, you know, there's the technical side, right?

The actual working on the engines

or, you know, if it's a carpentry construction, students such.

But there's also professional skills

that are built into this.

What?

How did Aubrey learn these?

How did you learn?

You're 16 years old.

How did you learn to work with engines?

Well, I say my liking for doing hands-on stuff

started way back in middle school.

I did do woodworking in middle school.

And so that really, you know,

it started my interest.

And then as I got to high school,

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, like, for the pathways.

So I went with something that would be more hands-on

because I was familiar with that, which would be automotive.

And that's how I got into automotive.

And then that's how I got into, you know, building airplane engines

and so on and so forth.

Wow, look at you.

I didn't know what I told you,

but on my career, so we're going to be when I was in high school.

Because I was in the light, I was in the drama club.

I couldn't act.

I just, I couldn't do it.

I tried once.

So I was on the, I was a stage director,

where the stage manager for the shows and everything.

But I never, I never thought it was going to do.

Yeah.

Although I will tell you,

I had my path set when I was nine years old.

My mom and dad bought me a Rempco caravill radio transmitter.

And I, my son recently,

about three or four years ago,

found one of the eBay and Mint condition

from the 90 early 60s.

And he got it for me.

And I have it in the home.

And I keep it there in my room just to remind me

of where I got started.

So they got me this Rempco caravill radio transmitter.

I set up a little basement radio station.

And here we are.

My dad worked in radio too for a short time in New York City.

But for the most part, that's what got me started.

So you never know when this is going to take you.

Yeah, for sure.

So college, is that in your horizon?

Obviously.

Yeah.

I'm definitely thinking about it.

There are some places, you know,

gateway, you know, the technical colleges nearby.

Yeah.

I've also liked in the Iowa State a bit further.

But nothing's like set so far.

Well, yeah, you're 16.

Yeah.

You have to set it what next year.

Yeah.

When you started applying for college,

I remember when I started applying,

but I don't know when.

Oh, I have no idea.

At least I knew Mr. Lynch.

That's a counselor question.

Right.

We're looking at the end of the junior year.

At the end of the junior year,

I recommend students actually take a couple of weeks or a week

and go through a college program during the summer.

So you get a taste of college.

What's it like at various colleges?

And so you might go to a local college

or go to a college that you're really interested in.

And then they might have a five day program

or six, seven, eight day program.

And then you learn different types of what it's like to go to college,

what types of majors you might be interested in.

And then, when you begin your senior year,

then all the fun begins with applying for colleges and financial aid

and now the FAFSA was just released.

So there's all sorts of things.

And I'll be there for you.

Thank you.

I'll be there for you.

That's what the son comes from.

When I went to college, I applied to three.

I had to go to a college I can drive to from home

because I was working in radio,

so I wanted to do,

and I got to all three.

I got in all three.

But I remember getting the acceptance letters in the mail.

And that is an exciting moment.

When you get those letters,

you're afraid to open them up

because the acceptance letter is the same size as the rejection letter.

And so I went to Hofstreet University,

which is, I don't know if you've heard of it.

It's all along the Hofstreet University.

It's a pretty big school.

And I went to become a geologist.

And I really love geology.

And the teachers were great.

I had a great time with them.

But it didn't pan out.

No pun intended.

I didn't go that route.

So if you were,

if you were going to college,

or eight-way technical college,

what would you want to go for?

So I know I talked to my,

my like mentor.

I talked to my mentor about this a little bit.

And he talked about going to gateway for like a diesel program.

And if I go there, you know,

I'd be able to get,

even if DeltaHawk doesn't end up working out,

I could get a lot more job opportunities

with the diesel program at Gateway.

So if I did do that,

that's what I would go for.

Well, look at you.

I see big things happening here.

Thank you.

I see a big future for you someday.

Let's talk more about DeltaHawk.

It keeps getting mentioned.

Tell me of all about it.

I don't want everything about DeltaHawk,

because I never heard of it.

It just sounds like something that's pretty impressive.

Like, you know, the Navy seals are in DeltaHawk.

Sure.

So tell me about it.

Yes, so DeltaHawk was founded back in 1996

by two individuals who were very passionate about putting

a diesel engine into the general aviation space.

And in 2015,

the Rude family of Racine.

Oh, yeah, Rude Lightning.

Yes, sir.

Yes.

I actually invest in DeltaHawk

and take over ownership.

And that is when I joined,

walked into a building that was under construction,

lights were flickering.

I had no idea what I was getting myself into,

but I had worked for the Rude family previously.

So really just entrusted in them.

And I loved the culture that they built at that company

and was really excited to help build that at DeltaHawk.

And I'm very passionate about the Racine community as well.

So in 2015,

came in as employee number three or four.

And today, eight and a half years later,

we're up to 56 employees.

Five of those 56 employees are youth apprentices

through the RUSD program,

which were very, very proud of.

Building for the future.

Out of those,

all five of those youth apprentices are females too.

Oh, wow.

Look at this.

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Oh, yeah, city.

We're talking about the youth apprentice program here at WRJN.

This morning, we'll find out a few minutes.

I want to know about a bunch of things here.

I want to know more about what's available.

We talked about the diesel engine

work that Armory's doing in the youth apprentice program.

But what else is available there?

So through the academies of Racine,

we have, I mean, over 10 different pathways.

You know, to name a few,

we have Health Science.

So students that Health Science Health Services,

students might be interested in any sort of medical.

They would take three sequential courses

in their high school career,

surrounding medical.

Carpentry is a big one of automotive.

Business marketing.

So manufacturing.

We offer these programs that these pathways

to align with our community needs.

So we figure out what it is that our community needs.

A great example is manufacturing,

Racine's manufacturing capital of the world.

We need to have people that can work at these facilities.

So the pathways really align to what our community needs are.

And working with businesses like Delta Hawk,

we really treat it like we would a normal application.

Job application.

We're just starting it a little bit sooner than we're used to, right?

So Aubrey, at the age of 15,

you know, went on a site visit with Delta Hawk.

We took some students over there.

We worked on a resume.

Where's that, by the way?

The Delta Hawk?

Yeah.

It's near Horlach high school.

Okay.

So it's local.

I didn't, we just talked about this yesterday.

I didn't even know where Delta Hawk was

until, you know, we went and had that visit.

So just that point where you don't know what we don't know.

But anyhow, we worked with Aubrey on a resume.

Some interview skills took her on a site visit.

She had an opportunity to interview and did wells.

But she did that at the age of 15.

So it's really getting a jumpstart on these skills.

And it's not, it's not only automotive.

Every student enrolled through the Academy's Racine

has a chosen pathway.

So students at the end of their freshman year,

towards the middle of their freshman year,