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Speaker 2: It's plenty back seven hundred WLW. So if you knew

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Speaker 2: this about our great state here in Ohio, we are

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Speaker 2: not just the birthplace of aviation. I believe that because

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Speaker 2: it says that right on your license plate. You know

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Speaker 2: it's also one of the top spots for aerospace, aviation

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you've heard about this. At Middletown Regional Airport,

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Speaker 2: Butler Tech just open a brand new, state of the art,

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Speaker 2: fifteen million dollar aviation center and this is for high

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Speaker 2: school students and it's underway right now. The ribbon has

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Speaker 2: been cut and in studios William Sprinkles, he's the superintendent

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Speaker 2: in CEO of Butler Tech. Welcome to the studio, William.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations by the way, on the on the ribbon cutting,

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Speaker 2: thank you for that, Sarah, thank you for having us,

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Speaker 2: of course, And I think the biggest question to have

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Speaker 2: for you, sir, is do you get to keep the

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Speaker 2: giant scissors? What happens to the giant scissors you cut

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Speaker 3: You know, the giant scissors didn't work at the ribbon cutting,

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Speaker 1: We had to have a pair of micro scissors.

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Speaker 3: You had a backup scissors shadowed underneath the giant scissors.

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Speaker 3: The giant scissors the blade was too dull and didn't work.

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Speaker 3: We had some nail clippers and some micro scissors. That's

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Speaker 3: not acceptable. It works, it works perfect. You're the CEO

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Speaker 3: heads need to roll for this? Would you agree?

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Speaker 1: Not at all? But in the world of career tech,

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Speaker 2: Okay, you made it happen. You think on the fly

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Speaker 2: We think aerospace, oh, ge, But there's so many more

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Speaker 2: Tech William But other companies involved are what like, how

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Speaker 2: Now, I often talk about this on my show, here

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Speaker 1: WILLIAMS.

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Speaker 2: Sprinkles is the superintendent CEO Butler Tech. They just opened

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Speaker 3: what we're seeing right now in industry is they're making

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Speaker 1: And that's a whole nother a.

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Speaker 2: I see AI managing air traffic too, air traffic controllers,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna be AI. It's gonna be a while before

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Speaker 2: one of us goes Yeah, I'm gonna get on this

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Speaker 3: Well, there's already the autonomous cars that are predominantly in

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Speaker 3: When I was in Phoenix for a conference, they're out

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Speaker 1: Yep, no driver in them. It's not that far off. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: It's just again, the early adopters will be like, I

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Speaker 2: we don't need it. It'll look like the Jetsons correct,

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Speaker 2: and we're headed that way. What is your completion rate

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Speaker 2: and also placement rate for new grads? Now, granted you

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Speaker 3: Our graduation rate at bull at Tech for the last

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Speaker 3: The students that complete our secondary pathway, which is the

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Speaker 1: And shout outs to not only our staff, but all.

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Speaker 3: Of the partner schools that have partner based relationships that

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Speaker 2: That goes to show you just how successful and why

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Speaker 2: I know, the median wage for someone in the aerospace

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Speaker 2: dollars people leaving with that degree leaving Butler Tech, what

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Speaker 3: Students are not leaving Butler Tech with a degree after

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Speaker 3: our Aerospace Center, students will filter through one of three pathways.

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Speaker 3: There is the aerospace pathway, which many students will lead

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Speaker 1: That's a four year pathway.

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Speaker 3: Students matriculate to four year universities if they want to

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Speaker 3: the opportunity to earn various different credentials for their private

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Speaker 3: which is huge in various different sub industries. Right now,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's fascinating.

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Speaker 2: So you're pretty much guaranteed a job, you know, and

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Speaker 2: not only that, the success rate is so high it's

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Speaker 2: pivot career. Why see adult education program is wonderful. It

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Speaker 2: is the brand new Butler Tech Aviation Center at Middletown

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Speaker 2: Regional Airport. William Sprinkle, Superintendent and CEO Butler Tech, thanks

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Speaker 2: for popping in today.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 3: And what would be important to also acknowledge is we

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Speaker 3: have a ribbon cutting for our brand new bioscience center

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Speaker 3: in one month on April thirteenth, which is strictly about

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Speaker 1: This state. Has gonna bring the good scissors this time

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Speaker 1: for that one. We're going to bring the good scissors.

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Speaker 1: Don't you can do it once and screw it up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can't have it twice though, You're gonna have to.

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Speaker 1: We're going to bring the great ribbons, practice ribbon, practice scissors.

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Speaker 1: Let's do put a little work in sprinkle. We got it, well,

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Speaker 1: got it. Appreciate you. Thanks for coming to all right,

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Speaker 1: thanks again.

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Speaker 2: Got to get the news update in here momentarily slowly.

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Speaker 1: Seven hundred win snat