Audio Transcript: 
NWTC – Youth Apprenticeship Student Interview 

Introduction


[Interview of a Northeast Wisconsin Technical College student who is describing her experience in the YA program.]

[The WI Technical College “We Are Future Makers” logo appears then fades to screen title “Youth Apprenticeship.”]

[“Rose” former Youth Apprenticeship student, begins speaking to an off camera interviewer] 


I was pretty good at school my freshman and sophomore years of high school and I was just kind of floating around and I didn’t really have any set goals.  I mean I knew I wanted to go to college, but I didn’t really have one picked out and I was just kind of doing my thing not sure what I’d go to school for and my Dad heard about youth apprenticeship and said Rose, this would be a great opportunity for you to - you know focus more on your studies and really give you some direction and that’s exactly what it did.

They helped me pick out a program and I’m in Financial Institutions Management and we decided – my parents helped me decide on that program, because with a background in money you can really do anything, anything.  If you want to open a business or even working somewhere, if you know a little bit about the background of the money on how its handled and just all about it, it’s very beneficial so that’s how I decided on finance and business.  And they helped me get an internship at Associated Bank and its fabulous.  I’m still working there actually so its been almost three years now and they give me or I guess paid for, but that’s not the words I want to use - they sponsored sponsored me to go and take classes at NWTC to get started in my major in program, so I started with just one class my junior year, and so I‘d go to high school in the morning and then I’d work at Associated in the afternoon and then I’d go to NWTC for class at night.  So I only took one, one college course during the first semester of my junior year and then another my second semester and then one during that summer and I worked up to two by my last semester of my senior year and then this past summer I began my journey as a full time college student and I took 15 credits so that was really really fun and I am graduating this May.  So I’m graduating in one year after high school, I just graduated from high school in June, so I’m graduating in less than a year later and it’s really cool because I’m transferring to the University of Wisconsin - Madison and I will be graduating in three years with the rest of my high school graduation class.  So some people could say - oh maybe a technical college would limit you because you have to do two years there and then sometimes you can’t transfer in as a junior, but for me I’m able to graduate with my class so I saved money, got more specialized education, not specialized but one-on-one and it was a great experience for me.  So many, I think so many of my friends have graduated from the university with no work experience and they go out there and they have to work at the entry level jobs to get that experience and I’ll have it, I mean I have three years of experience now in my field and I’m 18.  That’s invaluable, I mean I just I can’t even speak highly enough of the program it help me so much and gave me so much direction so and Associated is transferring me down in the fall to Madison so I’ll keep working my job and I’ll be taking more classes and then hopefully not this fall but next fall I’ll get accepted to the School of Business.

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[The WI Technical College “We Are Future Makers” logo appears then fades to blank screen]

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