I think we have more people in this studio than we've ever had in 100 years on the air.
I don't think we've had this many before.
All right.
These are students from Case High School and also, um, uh, Schulte High School.
Am I right there?
Shoot.
What is it?
Schulte.
Schulte Gifford.
Yeah.
Gifford too.
Okay.
So they're here.
See how I know?
I don't know with this stuff.
Okay.
I'm going to go around the room real quickly.
We're going to try to get everybody in on the full half hour.
Landon.
Yep.
Yep.
We got to speak up.
Get, you know, this radio.
Okay.
Landon.
Then we've got next up.
We've got Brindley.
Hello.
Yeah.
Then we've got Sophia.
Hey.
Hey.
We've got Lucy.
Hi.
Alexander.
Uh, yeah.
All right.
Okay.
These, these, these the students are from the skills USA Wisconsin Regional Competition,
which was held at Gateway on Friday the 13th last Friday.
Was that, uh, anybody have their rabbits foot with them or the four leave clover?
No.
No.
Oh, yeah.
I would have loaded up on that day.
Okay.
What is skill USA?
What is that?
And, um, it's a lowdown.
How you got started?
Who's going to be the first talker?
Um, well, skills you say is an organization that started at Gifford last year.
And case has been doing it for a while now.
But last year, it was a lot, it was very, it's very organized and it builds up leadership
in students and helps them build their careers when they're just starting to learn.
Okay.
What kind of skills are you talking about?
So it's a competition based program where they'll have a lot of different competitions
from job interview to job skill demo prepared speech.
Really?
So that you got to learn how to do a job interview, huh?
That's amazing.
I did in middle school and I'm now doing it in high school as well.
And she, she has won first three times for that.
So how many years, you know, you people, you must have started real early doing this.
Three years worth.
Well, no.
We were in eighth grade when it started and we're just now starting high school.
So we have now been in it for two years now.
I have won regionals for job skill last year and then state for, and I won gold at state
for job skills demo and welding sculpture and Madison.
And this year, last week, I had the gold for regionals.
What's the sound of this blazer?
You guys are all wearing nice red blazers.
What does it say on there?
Oh, this is so sad.
This is so sad.
Oh, skills you asked.
Oh, look at that.
They gave you those nice blazers too.
So these are loaned from the school and they're actually very expensive.
Oh, you don't get to keep them?
No.
No.
But they're about $100 each and the buttons are like $3.
Wow.
Okay, let's go around here.
Alexander.
Oh, yes.
We want to know your skill.
I did job skill demonstration where, huh?
Yeah, middle school and I did it on 3D printing.
So I can't comprehend 3D printing.
I can't comprehend how you can make something and use it from a 3D printer.
I know the public library has it here and we're seeing a 3D printer.
Yes, they do.
You've used one?
You must have used one.
Yeah, I've used the ones at the library a few times and Gifford has a few as well.
What do you make with it?
You can pretty much make anything that you want.
You would just have to either find a design or make it yourself on like a design software.
Oh, you lost me already.
You lost me already.
What was your skill?
I did job skill demonstration open for high school.
I made, I sold a circle skirt in front of the judge and I won third in that category for high school.
Okay, that was Lucy.
Yep.
Okay, and let's go to Sophia.
What was your job skill?
So my job skills, I do welding sculpture and jobs and job interview.
Welding sculpture.
You got the hat and everything with the fire torch and everything.
Wow.
Yes, so you make it at home and you bring it in and you have a binder with you with times and prices for everything.
So you will bring in a binder and you present your sculpture at state.
Wow.
Let's go to Brinley.
Hello.
In middle school, I competed in t-shirt design and now in high school, I'm doing pin design.
We say t-shirt design.
You mean like something on the t-shirt?
Something on the t-shirt.
So you basically have to make a design that represents both of your state and also skills USA.
Oh, okay.
That's good.
And finally, London.
What was your skill?
I did CO2 drags to racing for middle school and I got a second place.
Wow, this is good.
How did you find out about this?
The skill USA come to your school?
Um, actually Miss Allison just put up a poster one time in our hallway and we just showed up to a room.
And then we started competing.
We had officer elections and everything.
Wow.
How many students were at the regional's last Friday?
I want to say there were around 150.
Whoa.
It was the biggest group they've ever seen.
We actually, they're probably going to have to find a bigger venue next year because not everybody could fit.
So how many, now each person had a go deal with the judges, right?
Yes.
A hundred and some odd people.
I must take an all day.
Yep.
It is an all day thing.
We had passes from school and then we go represent our school in skills USA.
Well, that's right.
You guys should be in school now, huh?
Yep.
Yeah.
Do I have to sign a all pass or anything?
Do I get this?
No, you know.
Okay, because I'll sign your notes for you.
I don't care.
Now the region, the big one coming up is in Madison and that's in September or?
Yes.
It's an early April.
How many people are going to be a fat thing?
There's usually around a thousand.
Like, I think last year there were around 4,000.
Whoa.
And the judges have to speak to each one?
There are different judges for every competition and there's usually two or three judges.
So each judge probably talks to 45 people.
So job skill hat.
So job interview last year at state had around five other volunteers just for job, just for job interview.
As judges.
We got to run.
As judges and helping work with the kids.
Yeah, guys are amazing doing this.
Now, when we go back from the break, we're going to find out how you do in a school.
What you're taking subjects and everything because this is nice, but I want to know
where the A's are coming from, the B's, no D's.
Anybody get D's or F's in this class?
No.
Okay, that's good.
You can show.
Okay, you shook real fast, Alexander.
It's going to make sure you are real.
Okay.
I'll talk about all that coming up at just a moment.
We have students from Case High School.
Is it Shulti and Gifford?
Right?
I got all the schools here.
Yeah.
And these are students who were in the regionals for the skills USA competition.
And you guys all won.
I hate to say won, but you won, right?
Yeah.
We all placed with medals.
Really?
Where are the medals?
Some of them.
I have them.
Wow.
Let's see what they look like.
What are you hiding?
Whoa.
So this is the gold for regional.
Yeah.
Let me see that out.
Oh, that's very nice.
You got to keep these though, right?
Oh, yes.
These don't have to be returned with the blazers, right?
Well, these are nice.
And then these are the ones for state.
Whoa.
Look at these medals.
This is a gold state one.
Wow.
Very now.
I'm very impressed.
You should be wearing these around your neck today.
Wow.
I wouldn't hide them.
If I had these, I'd be wearing them 24 hours.
I'd wear them to sleep at night.
Well, congratulations.
Thank you, Alexander.
All right.
We've got students from all over Racine.
We've got Kate, Shulti, Gifford.
Missing any?
Nope.
Okay.
Now, some of you are in high school.
Yes.
We're at the hands of here in high school.
Okay.
We've got three in the middle high school.
You're in...
Eighth grade.
Eighth grade.
That's called middle school, junior high here.
What do they call it?
Middle school.
Junior high.
But they're not called junior high.
It's not junior high here.
No, it's middle school.
Middle school.
Oh, middle school.
But you want taking high school courses?
Yes, I am taking one high school class.
It is geometry.
Wow.
In high school, I tried to take chemistry.
I couldn't do it.
I couldn't figure it.
Anybody here taking chemistry?
Oh, we're taking it next year.
Yeah.
When do you get to chemistry?
I couldn't get the concept of moles.
I couldn't get that concept.
And the teacher brought me in one day and said,
you're holding the class back with your questions.
And so he said, maybe you'd like earth science a little better.
And so I took earth science.
And I'm going to tell you, I just couldn't get chemistry.
I just couldn't grab that.
Okay.
I'm going well here.
Land.
And you're in the first position.
Land in McCoy goes to Shulti School.
And how you doing in glasses?
Great.
Oh, yes.
I have straight A's right now.
Straight A's.
All right.
Brindley.
Brindley.
Brindley.
Brindley.
How are we doing in school?
Pretty good.
Mostly A's.
A few decenties.
But those are like.
Those are.
You went right over that real quick.
No, no.
Those are my advanced classes.
The businesses are my advanced classes.
What's advanced?
Um, literature is more like in depth than English.
So you analyze the text more.
And geometry is.
Hey, harder math class.
We all heard about it.
I know.
Oh, man.
My high school was a lot easier than this.
Okay.
How you doing?
Don't tell me yet.
Sophia, how you doing in school?
Okay.
So I'm doing pretty good.
I have all A's at the moment.
And I'm in some of the advanced classes that Brindley is in.
Like geometry and literature.
Wow.
And don't tell me.
Lucy.
Yep.
I'm in the basic math.
And I have a C.
I don't do math.
And then I'm in literature and I have an A.
Which is insane.
It's really hard to get an A in that class.
Okay.
So I worked really hard for you.
Alexander, we already know you're taking one advanced class.
Um, yeah.
I have an A in most of my classes.
I believe I have only one or two B's.
That's fine.
My dad, when he saw my report card and he saw a B's on,
he said, what's the problem here?
It says no problem.
It's a B.
You know, we had a problem here.
They said, well, by the way, my father never finished high school.
He went into the war.
World War II.
And he never finished yelling at me for getting a B.
Um, but that was what I got.
Okay.
So, um, and did we talk about on the air?
What you guys want to do after school?
We talked it.
No.
Okay.
After school.
We'll start off with Landon.
You're looking for what now?
Um, I want to be a civil engineer when I grow up.
Yeah.
When you grow up, just when you get out of school,
you want to be a civil engineer.
Yeah.
What?
Why that?
Um, because I think it's, um, really cool to, like, design buildings.
And pretty good for you because you need that.
Yeah.
I mean, this building we're in is not going to last forever.
We need somebody to design a new one after a while.
It's been here a long time.
Uh, friendly.
What do you want to do after school?
Um, still figuring out.
But I think I want to do something in design.
And with skills USA, it's kind of helping me discover these opportunities that I have.
Well, that's great because you design t-shirts.
Mm-hmm.
Impins.
Impins.
Yep.
Okay.
Like the pins you wear on your lapel.
Huh?
Oh, okay.
That's pretty neat.
Do you make them?
I don't make them.
I just design them.
Is there somebody else do that?
Yes.
Someone else do that.
Okay.
Sophia, what do you want to do after school?
So I would like to go into music teaching.
And that's actually one of the jobs that I applied for for my job interview at state.
Music teaching.
Do you play in a instrument now?
Yeah.
I played two different instruments.
French horn and guitar.
Now, I will tell you, my wife started teaching me to play the piano about a year ago.
Mm-hmm.
I just didn't practice.
I mean, I just started, I was in the, where I started to use my left hand as well.
I got the right hand down.
Now I got to use the left hand.
And I did simple songs.
But I got to tell you it's tough learning in this instrument.
My brother played the guitar, the organ, played the clarinet, played everything.
He was very musically talented.
He just picked it up and he can play it.
On the other hand, his brother couldn't do any of that stuff.
Yeah.
Practice makes perfect.
I thank you.
It sounds like my wife.
Well, that's good.
My wife who plays the piano and the guitar.
She wanted to learn the ukulele.
So I bought her ukulele for Christmas.
Oh.
And, you know, I just hear a, I feel like I'm in Hawaii in the house.
It's just from the ukulele around.
Okay.
We have Lucy.
Yep.
I would like to go into the Air Force or Marines.
I think I love helping people.
And I feel like that's one of the best ways I can do that is protecting people.
Yesterday in these chairs, I am one of those chairs anyway.
I had first older Malik Frazier was in here.
He's an older for the first district.
He's also a sheriff's deputy.
And he also is a lieutenant in the Army reserves.
So, I mean, this guy's doing all of it.
So, you want to go into the Air Force, huh?
Yeah.
One of my people I hired here years ago, Scott Malovak, he was a radio guy.
But he wanted to do something more so we went into the Air Force.
He was there eight years in the U.S. Air Force.
I remember when they called me up for a reference on Scott.
And they said, so he wants to go into the Air Force?
And they said, yeah, it's not going to let him fly any planes.
Oh, no, no, he's going to make computers in the Air Force.
I said, good.
I don't want to fly in planes.
See, he's not the, do you want to fly?
I want to fly planes for around 10 years.
And then the U.S. Army will pay for my college after that.
That's smart.
And I'd like to go into being a lawyer.
Learn how to somebody else is dying.
That's good.
College is expensive.
I would want that.
Alexander.
I would also like to do some form of engineering, probably mechanical engineering,
because I really enjoy designing things and trying to build things
so seeing how certain things look like work.
Yeah.
Well, that's great.
You know, you all have lofty goals.
That's good.
Because, you know, people here, well, high school and cancer always got in trouble.
They're going to have cops and the hallways and stuff.
But you guys are different.
It unfortunately is true like that in high school.
But there are still kids that try very hard to reach their goals
and build a career for themselves afterwards.
Some kids are just too busy to cause trouble.
Well, he wasn't a troublemaker in my high school, but he always had the parties at his house
with the liquor, the alcohol and stuff in high school.
He grew up, he got out of all that and became a surgeon.
And to this day, he's still a surgeon.
And who would have suspected that?
This guy was holding the drinking parties at his house, what he wasn't supposed to.
And now he's Dr. Dean Copley.
He's a surgeon.
Who would have funk it?
All right.
Well, you guys are good.
Let's do a quick review here.
You're all part of the skills USA competition.
You skills USA and Wisconsin, but this is nationwide or just Wisconsin?
Yeah, this is nationwide.
Skills USA.
There's some right skills USA.
And there's actually some, there's actually some international stuff.
That's why you guys are smart.
I didn't catch that skills USA.
And so you're one in the regionals.
Now it's not the Wisconsin.
It's the regional southeast Wisconsin area here.
Yes.
Wisconsin is divided into five regional five regions for skills USA.
We're in district five.
And I'm actually running for district five vice president with the state office team.
Well, that's pretty neat.
All right.
So now you got the region.
This was in a gateway here.
It was at the Racine Gateway.
Sturtman Gateway.
Yeah.
Sturtman Gateway.
Okay.
So you did a gateway.
Now you're going to go off in April to the state competitions.
Yep.
And that's going to be held at the alliance center.
Yep.
In Madison.
Then you go off to, is it the nationals in Atlanta?
The nationals in Atlanta.
Georgia, Atlanta.
I know.
I lived there for three years in Atlanta.
I worked down there and got to learn y'all.
And you get to go to the jokes and say, hi y'all doing.
Are you going to go like that?
You get right on the good side.
Right away.
Don't sound like Wisconsin.
You get down there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're nice down here.
I like it.
All right.
I proud of you students.
I mean, this is great.
I like the blazers.
I really didn't expect that.
That's really good.
And simple.
If you're just a second.
Come on.
This is your, um,
um,
I want to say advisor.
I can't see you can't do that.
Yeah.
It's good.
I'll think of advisor.
And your Adelson as well.
Yes.
Amy Adelson.
Amy Adelson.
And you are with which school now?
I'm with Gifford and Schulte this year.
In both schools.
Yep.
And all of the case students are alums from those schools.
Oh, that's great.
I had them last year.
I had the pleasure.
Do you get to go with them to all their competitions?
I do see in that regionals and at state and hopefully
nationals this year.
You get free trip to Atlanta, huh?
That would be nice.
Yeah.
Y'all.
Y'all.
Southern fried cauliflower.
Yes.
That's a Coke too.
Coca-Cola.
That's right.
That's the home of Coca-Cola.
That's right.
Very good.
All right.
Well, I'm very proud of you guys.
And so after the, um,
after the competitions in Madison,
you guys going to come back to the winners?
You're invited back of course.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Love to.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's really good.
You have any siblings who are in the same thing?
Doing the same thing?
Um, my older sister Olivia,
she goes to Union Grove.
She wanted to join skills you say,
but it's more technical.
Yeah.
And she, she doesn't really do construction and stuff,
but she next year probably will be joining as a junior.
And my wife said,
oh, I have Union Grove High School.
Yep.
Yeah.
Well, very good.
My wife has done everything.
She worked for the police department.
She worked for hospitals.
She worked with a phobautomist.
And you know where phobautomist is?
Blood work.
Yeah.
That's right.
Very good.
And she did everything.
This is the only thing I've ever done.
I just can't deal with the public.
Yeah.
Well, I'm very proud of you.
Let me get your names again here.
It's Lyndon McCoy.
Yep.
That's you.
Uh, we've got Brindley Adelson.
Yep.
Okay.
We've got Sophia Cress.
Hello.
We've got Lucy Bittner.
Hi.
Alexander Ditter.
Oh, yeah.
I'm Gifford.
Well, I'm very proud of you guys.
And I can't wait to get back here in April.
Yeah.
Win or lose.
You can come back.
Okay.
How's that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Great smiles, too.
Thank you.
Are you happy, Lyndon?
Okay.
I didn't see a big smile out of you.
And thank you very much for bringing them in here today.
I do appreciate that.
All right.
Guys.
All right.
Go set the world on fire.
That's what you got to do.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you for coming in this morning.
And I want to thank somebody else who set this up.
Thank you.
Daniel Beakles.
It's Dave Amoroso.
He's the one who first contacted me.
I'm skills USA.
You know him?
Dave.
Yeah.
He contacted me and set this up.
And I said, get him in here.