good morning friends Josh here from the Air Academy Gym where I'm hanging out with about a hundred of my new friends out here guys go crazy say hi you're on TV you're on TV yeah guys they're so well behaved in disciplined are yall always like this just like yeah
chilling I love it yeah no they're actually really impressive guys before we get to them once again Dan Olsen can I can I say your nickname Dan sure principal Dan swon yeah you work out a little bit yeah and not only are you in shape I mean the student body is in
shape some some really highly disciplined kids there's something called like career Pathways you guys are doing this year talk about that that's one thing that makes Air Academy unique yeah we have a lot of things that are unique here we have the greatest School in the country in my opinion right
guys but that is what we are super excited about this year we're starting our career our career Pathways and we are pumped we've got a lot of people here today to talk to you about it we've got Colonel Huber we got Ally Johnson we got AJ Long Henry we've got coach Schwarz we got all kinds of people all kinds of kids here to talk about all the
great things that are happening so what I would like to do is bring two of our best and finest Liza and Luke Madam president we've got two kids that we would like to come over here and talk a little bit about what aemy is all about so come on in guys so these are guys this is Liza she's our student body president and this is Luke he is our
speaker of assemblies and so they're going to talk a littleit about what makes Air Academy unique and that's the culture and the kids and the staff here at Air Academy so Madam president would you like to talk to him about it of course so one thing I find really fascinating at this school is like we're the only Cadet in the nation you got your Rams you got your Bulls you know
you got your Eagles but we're the only Cadet and so I think that just makes our bond like so much better as a class and you can like tell like as soon as you walk into school like everybody's so happy everybody's talking yeah I love this school you're actually excited to come back to school oh definitely okay Luke you know when you hear about Air
Academy it's like well you're on you're on the Air Force Academy base I mean that alone is cool in and of itself but then you ask yourself okay what's after that is it truly remarkable what makes you proud to be a kadet oh you know I think we got a lot of really cool things about Air Academy I think we're only public school on military installation
in the country it provides a really different feel for most schools you know being a military child myself I've moved around 13 times been to you know I don't even know how many schools and I can really say this is you know one place that uh you know you can't really replic replicate you can't find it else in the
country you know the staff here is geared to help you succeed at every level the kids here love be here um the assemblies are great um everyone gets really pumped for it so overall it's just a great feel thanks for coming out so early guys Luke Liza remarkable students and Dan uh before we we get back to the band real quick again those
career Pathways we're talking like programs that allow kids to become pilots in high school that's insane yeah we're starting the aviation pathway this year we've got an Entrepreneurship Academy that we're starting up a media arts pathway we have opportunities for every kid if you have a passion you can
find it here at Air Academy and you can succeed best high school in the state of Colorado and we're going to be the best high school in the country band I want you to play us out go ahead do your thing guys it is so much fun being at here this morning D20 again freshman come back today here at the Air Force
Academy grounds here at Air Academy throughout the morning we're going to tell you more about what makes this school so special guys back to you kids get ready for the big day we are checking back in with CIO 13 Scott uh Josh helmouth who is live right now from Air Academy High School in District 20
having a great time Scott Josh we're both you're both doing school stories I apologize I know yeah I'm like the school Buzz Warrior right I'm I'm the school Warrior and today we are kadet warriors if you will you know coming in to the installation this morning Brandon
it's like 4: or10 in the morning and there was a whole line of cars almost look like the ending of Field of Dreams like what's going on surely they're not all here for us oh they are they have been they're here it's rockus it's a lot of fun you're on TV guys go crazy yeah say
hi the kadet Ally is with me right now and Rama Ally you teach business entrepreneurship how to be a leader and and these uh these students have are demonstrating just that absolutely they're remarkable we have uh students
starting businesses already they create really amazing things in fact uh several of our students are showing our apparel business k Enterprises right behind me uh we've got some amazing shirts that we've made for other schools uh for our Sports programs um and this is a
student-led business 100% uh they from top to bottom it's remarkable I was lucky to make a CA average in high school and they're making businesses uh Rama is with me right now Rama you are an incredible student athlete who also uh has quite the title with Deca in the
state remind me your title and and and for those who are unfamiliar Deca is and what it's done for you so I serve as the Colorado Deca State publicity director but on overall like Deca what it means to me is It prepares me to be an emerging leader through business scenarios but it's not just for the
business World Deca prepares me to lead in my classroom in the real world in my family and just in my community in general it teaches me how to be a problem solver a great communicator and of course a great like part of a family to kind of be part of a community and show um kind of who I am and it's helped
me Express that I bet I could beat you in Mario Kart I don't know I'm also a pretty good Mario Kart player of course of course no see Rama is a perfect example all these students are of just how remarkable the school is guys not only are they so impressive academics uh through
Athletics through music I mean they got up in the middle of the night to come here to be on TV to show off their school that shows how excited they are to be back and we forgot to mention guys they have KET coffee we've featured that on school Buzz as well two locations that's a student run business that is
profitable that shows them leaders ship entrepreneurship so many great programs here at Air Academy just one of the many great schools here within D20 freshman start today it's going to be a lot of fun they're excited band I want you to go ahead and start taking it away again as we showcase once again what makes
this scho remarkable on day one today coming up later in the show we're going to continue showing what makes Air Academy unique guys tossing it back to you love to see it Josh a dedicated group there we hope we have oh just listen to him know we have the best
school year as they play us out to commercial break really nothing better to get into the school spirit on this Tuesday morning love to see it we'll check back in with Josh the marching band and those cheerleaders as well as school representatives in just a few
[Music] minutes our school Buzz segment is on the road again to Air Academy High School this morning our K 13's Josh helmouth is there right now speaks with staff and students as they all get ready for the first day of classes Josh I didn't go to high
school I was homeschooled because of skating I never really feel like I missed missed out but now I'm seeing the school spirit all the fun to be had and I want to go back to high school now yeah Bren I'm right through with you I'm like I love my job but should I
consider also being a teacher or at least I don't know like a spirit coordinator just make up a title for me I'm here guys show them some school spirit let's show them what Air Academy is all about yeah and if you didn't notice um this trophy that's literally like s feet tall
taller than me uh Colonel Huber is with me right now uh Colonel you guys have a fitness team I was like is that like a crossfit for like Cadets they won the national champion Championship describe ex exactly what that is and you actually
lead the whole RC program I do I've got the best job in the world here at Eric Cad and we have over 270 Cadets it's the largest JTC program in Colorado and our fitness team won the National Championship in Florida last year five events it's a run on the sand on the beach obstacle course on the
beach pull-ups uh standing broad jump and a weighted ball throw where the five events unbelievable and we have three of those uh Fitness Allstars with us right now uh guys just kind of you know introduce yourself and then and and tell me I guess you know what makes you so
proud to be a kadat especially one who's part of the fitness team who who are national champions I'm Trent I'm proud to be a Kad because you know we have a lot of opportunities here we have opportunities for like uh academics we have scholarships and J Ry and just a lot of opportunities to
succeed in whatever you want to do uh I'm zav I'm just really proud to be a k because we have uh like Trent said we have a lot of opportunities and since we're in Raider team we get to travel a lot and do a lot of competitions against other schools and stuff and I just find
that really exciting my name is Lena and I I love to be a kated because it just builds a sense of community that's more than you and it helps you kind of get better by participating in all the things that we have here such as clubs that we have here that are program specific for us such as uh academic
clubs such as academic team Stell explorers and such as fitness clubs such as Raider team and I just I just love it here because the people are so nice and it's such a good Community to be and yes I asked Lena how many push-ups she can do you said 83 and then Trent goes 84 yeah without stopping and I want to
introduce you guys to one more very unique kadet this is Erica and Erica you're not wearing this for show you are a 17-year-old pilot I am you have to be 25 years old to rent a car guys she can fly on her own how is that possible I
went through a program called Flight Academy it's an Air Force scholarship and in 48 days from start to finish I got my private pilot's license down in Miami Florida going through Florida Memorial University and Wayman Flight Academy have you met any other high school students who can fly only one and
he is not here today but he went to air academ goes he goes to Air Academy and he went through the same program I did unbelievable so guys this just showcases how incredible the programs are here at Air Academy freshman come today all the other students arrive tomorrow it's a
very special district and a with a very special school of course on a military installation and we're not done yet guys we're going to Showcase again what makes this whole program all the programs here at Air Academy unique coming up again you know what we're going to do we're going to have the Air Academy band play us out one more time
talk about school spirit guys take it away we'll see you here and back in a few guys back to [Music] you hey welcome back guys Josh outh here at the Air Academy this morning kicking off school back to school here at D20
with school buzz on the road and now we've been introducing all the incredible programs Air Academy has to offer just in and of itself and now we're going to introduce you to AJ who runs the broadcast journalism program here at the school AJ you want to switch roles for a day uh no I'm going to pass you have like the perfect job look at
these students like this I'm not going to pass this up this is an awesome opportunity so so you know a lot of schools have a broadcast program maybe they dabble and editing maybe they dabble in videography and Reporting what do you guys do that really sets you apart so we're developing a program where you don't just leave with the
skills to put your ideas together in a cohesive Manner and supplement that with video but building character telling uh building empathy through telling other people's stories I have two my students here Luke and Farah they're seniors this year they've been in the program for a while and it's it's incredible to see kids get bit by that journalism bug all
right Luke have you been bit I definitely have yeah yeah I think you know this program has been so much fun it's helped me so much developed not as not only as a soon but as a person you know it's not just about getting a video out and not just about getting a highlight tape out he sets deadlines and gives you the tools to develop uh and a
young adult and set you up for a very successful future Farah why are you part of this program I think it's a great program I talked to Mr Long Henry long before the program started and we got like that connection and it was really cool to learn deep how like broadcast
journalism works and how he was a broadcast journalist and it was really great to learn about that program and be a part of it to start off that was really great have you guys seen Anchor Man oh yes and we make jokes about it constantly AJ's already killing it yes
okay Okay who wants to do their best Anchor Man impression they Brian Fantan you you got it here you go I Love Lamp I like the part when he's like Panda watch guys we're on kadet watch this morning guys take it away once
again thank you so nice to meet you Farah Luke you guys are incredible AJ hey you want to say hi Mom for sure hi Mom hi Otis Hi Guess hi Ma guys I'm tossing it back over to eage for weather as our band plays us out once again hopefully weather again relatively dry
for your first day of school guys back to you good morning Colorado at 6:30 on Tuesday August 13th I'm Brin Carman a special show for you this morning School buzz on the road continues today our next stop this morning is at Air Academy High School in District 20 and that's
where we join Kio 13's Josh helmouth who is having a great time on assignment learning more about the impressive school spirit here and a remarkable group of students and teachers Bren how often have I said in school busz I wish I would have had that
in high school all the incredible morning here at Air Academy one thing I want to point out right now all the time right this Banner back here Pete zoom in for me girls cross country not state champions national champions are you kidding me and this morning we have the entire boys and girls team here with us
and their coach coach Schwarz talk about running and if Bren knows anything about me or our audience they know I love running um coach it's got to be a little mix of talent but also really hard work talk about how your girls achieved this well it was an incredible amount of hard
work I mean we're not talking about days you know we're talking more like years okay some of these kids have been you know part of our program for a long time and they've just put in a lot of Blood Sweat and Tears and I bragged about uh I'm not sure how many of you are seniors the the boy the boys team okay
okay so two of you you don't know it but three years ago in Garden of the Gods and you're a freshman I kept up with you kids for about a half hour and that made my week yeah you guys are fast I don't leave the boys out of this either your boys are just as impressive yes absolutely absolutely how do you do it
how do they do it um you know really I mean I mean running is one of those things that you know consistency is really the key and they just get out there every day and they they put in what it takes and when it comes to competition really we've just learned that putting you know something higher
than yourself is is the real key and that's what makes you get through the pain you make it sound so simple push through the pain like Prefontaine you guys know who Prefontaine was okay your coach is doing something right Tess Tess you're a senior yes how are you so fast
um hard work that's how so it's kind of true just train really hard push through the pain yes exactly all right well thank you for being out here so early this morning guys uh these fine young ladies and gentlemen they've been out here since 4:00 this morning show going off what makes Air Academy so special
we've showcased you know the special programs academic and Athletics Wise Guys it truly is a remarkable school just one of the many gyms within D20 freshman show up today hopefully hoping hoping of course for a very successful uh fun school year the band's going to play us out again and coming up we're
going to talk about uh some measures the school's trying to take to try to revitalize this area coming up later in the next half hour don't go anywhere guys take it away [Music] welcome back everyone parents and kids are getting ready for school this
morning we do want to check back in with K 13's Josh helmouth who is live right now from Air Academy High School in District 20 Josh having a great morning learning about these really impressive students you know Bren you we always knew the Air Academy was special in and of itself itself because it's on you
know Air Force Academy grounds but I've always asked myself what makes a Cadet what makes the school truly unique we've learned that this morning the programs the athletics they're all incredible and to talk more about that Ginger habber our superintendent here with D20 with me right now Ginger thanks for waking up with us absolutely so early in the
morning me here it's got it's got to be exciting the first day of school every year it's amazing I love the first day of school what are you excited about this year in particular I am really excited about the fact that we have amazing teachers and amazing D20 staff and they make academic excellence and uh
academic growth a real priority and having fun with students and really helping students to personalize their learning and find out what they're excited about and they help them relate their learning to real life experiences sure so this year real focus is to expand our Career and Technical
education opportunities which I know our students and our staff have shared with you already uh but we really want to be able to do more of that because that gives students an opportunity to earn industry certific tion and college credit while they're in high school which really puts them ahead of the game
when they graduate and helps them to have that plan for Success uh we're also uh excited about developing those careeres which you heard about this morning where um students actually get to travel in a cohort with similar interests uh and we're really
intentional about connecting what they learn in a Content uh level class with their Career Academy class so like here at Air Academy we are building an aviation Career Academy and so students uh while they're learning about aviation
in their Career Tech class maybe they're taking a chemistry class and they're learning all about how all the molecules and everything fit together in jet fuel so that's just an example it takes remarkable teachers to lead these remarkable programs I've been wondering all morning long if you have any openings Ginger seriously no I I love my
job but maybe I could uh you know do like some some some nights side work or something but but all seriousness we also want to mention we only have a minute left uh you know there's a big initiative a bond initiative you know you come out here it's a beautiful campus but it's aged it's what roughly
60 years old and so talk about that Bond initiative why it's important what you guys are trying to accomplish here absolutely so we're super excited about this possibility uh because if the bond were to pass we'd be able to build a brand new Air Academy High School and a career center of excellence as well
which would be open for all students across the district to access with no increase to taxes for our community members and if the bond passes we're able to partner with the Department of Defense uh where they would pay
80% of what would be approximately a $240 million cost to rebuild a brand new Air Academy and a center of excellence they would pay 80% and the district would pay about 20% of that cost uh
another again with no increase in taxes to our community members another huge Advantage is that um right now we have about over $70 million worth of repairs that need to be done in this about 65 year old building so if the bond were to
pass we would be able to take that money and instead of repairing an old building we'd be able to give it to other needs across the district for Capital repairs so we really want viewers to know please go to asd20.org there we've got all the factual information including advantages
and disadvantages of the bond to be aligned with the fair campaign Practice Act and we just want people to be well educated uh on this bound initiative but thank you so much for asking me about it I I appreciate you coming out so early this morning and all these students remarkable students guys the
discipline's insane you could hear a pin drop during that interview right and now they're ready to rock and roll guys play us out one more time from the Air Academy on the Air Force Academy grounds I'm Josh helmet with school buzz on the road guys back to you
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