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Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success brings you conversations with students and educators that ignite and inspire dreams. Students from all levels of education share in their own words how learning connects them to achieving their goals and exploring their ambitions.This podcast series is hosted and produced by Kent ISD Communications Specialist Joy Walczak and the team at WGVU Public Media.Kent ISD is proud to partner with WGVU in showcasing student success and how teaching and

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5:40

Three Tech Center alum return to help lead today’s...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2026/09/23

A trifecta of talent returned to Kent Career Tech Center as culinary aides for the program they completed while in high school. All three share how the skills they learned as KCTC students help them now direct 11th and 12th graders enrolled in a program that prepares the next generation of bakers, butchers, sous chefs and chocolatiers.

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15:57

Lee High grad lands electric apprenticeship and hangs...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2026/09/11

From a work-based learning experience at CS Erickson emerged a full-time career as an electrical apprentice for Omar Rodriquez, a 2026 graduate of Lee High and West Michigan Construction Institute’s Electric pathway, a Kent ISD CTE program.

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6:13

Future teachers, artists and athletes share their...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2026/08/12

With the new school year about to get underway, we asked students enjoying Maranda’s Park Party Recess at Endeavor Elementary in Kentwood to share their dreams and how education may help them achieve their goals. Tim Hargis, the district’s Communications Director, joined us with insight from his years leading classrooms and as a school principal.

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17:26

From taking apart a laptop to getting IT certified,...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2026/07/29

Hands-on experience as an IT intern for Kent Career Tech Center is helping 12th grade student Grady Albin gain industry-specific skills to empower him achieve future goals in cyber security

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10:46

A dream of teaching comes true for East Kentwood High...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2026/07/01

When her Olympic hopes were dashed by a worldwide pandemic, Sekayi Bracey set out to cross another finish line, completing a unique teaching program and leading a fourth-grade classroom. West Michigan Teacher Collaborative helped remove barriers so she could continue to soar into teaching fourth grade at Grand Rapids Public Schools’ Mulick Park Elementary and coaching track at Godfrey-Lee Public Schools’ Lee High

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10:00

Meet Kenny Vi, tennis champ to entrepreneur

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2026/06/03

As an intern with Kent ISD’s Communications team, Kenny Vi took on the challenge of taking Kent Career Tech Center’s Tik Tok feed up a few notches…and he didn’t stop there. Kenny shares how Marketing + Design at KCTC sharpened his entrepreneurial and creative tools and helped prepare him to make an impact at his home school, on the tennis court and into the future

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6:40

Middle school students share big, beautiful dreams...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2026/05/04

When a gymnasium fills up with nearly 200 middle school girls from many area districts, the energy in the room is electric. Maranda of WOOD TV brought together this group for her annual Beautiful U, an event aimed at inspiring and empowering girls and encouraging them to dream big. Future marine biologists, entertainers, police officers and veterinarians from Comstock Park Middle school shared their aspirations while their school PBIS coordinator and Kent ISD’s Workforce Development Consultant

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16:20

From mechanics to auto racing, KCTC Alum drives his...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2026/04/02

George French completed an Auto Mechanics program at Kent Career Tech Center in 1976 and spent decades auto racing and in all kinds of roles as a mechanic. He shares how a CTE start helped drive his dream with City Middle High 7th grader Adam Milkovich who is interested in exploring a career behind the wheel. Workforce Development Consultant Krista Harmon adds some potential career pathways and benefits of joining KCTC’s Alumni Network

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6:53

Tech student to Electrical Instructor, now teaching...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2026/02/19

Brian Gall spent some thirty years as an electrician after completing a program at Kent Career Tech Center that introduced him to his trade. Now, he’s using his years of experience and industry expertise to teach students like Kent City High senior Bryer Armstrong in a Kent ISD CTE program at West Michigan Construction Institute

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14:31

From exploring health careers to teaching phlebotomy...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2025/12/18

When Ashley Sands started exploring health careers at Kent Career Tech Center, she didn’t know she would return there to teach students just like her what it takes to become a phlebotomist. Her connection with her first health careers instructor Linda Ford continues to inspire and drive her success

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12:38

Student Cadet to School Resource Officer: Dream...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2025/11/04

Soon after Karen Barrose started the Criminal Justice program at Kent Career Tech Center, this Godwin High grad knew law enforcement was in her future. Now she’s serving students and educators in her dream role as Community Patrol Officer at Kentwood Public Schools where she hopes young students see her as an example of what they could become, too.

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12:46

Future medical professional gains insight, experience...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2025/10/10

Orli is more convinced than ever that a career in the healthcare industry is in her future. She deepened this resolve during a six-week Kent ISD summer internship learning with BAMF Health professionals and career specialists at Kendall College of Art and Design/Ferris State University

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10:11

Dreams of giving back to family, going the distance...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2025/06/16

Angel wants to use his skills as a mechanical or software engineering to help his family get ahead. Kayd is driven to play college then possibly pro football, and Ryleigh is ready to pursue a career as a sports physician, all empowered by their high school education

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8:22

High School student leaders look to mentors and...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2025/06/16

Before careers as an orthodontist, sports psychologist, or mechanical engineer comes a lot of hard work and dedication in high school and beyond. Three students share how education is jump starting their drive to make their dreams possible

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10:43

Today’s Student Leaders, Tomorrow’s Leaders for our...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2025/05/16

Kent ISD’s Student Leadership Community is made up of students from many districts and a wide variety of educational experiences. Today we talk to a few of them about their aspirations and how what they are learning now will help them achieve their goals

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14:40

Dreams of building businesses are becoming realities...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2025/03/26

Jonas is getting a jump start as a social media influencer, Flora is using her marketing skills to craft effective messages and Kenny’s photography is a channel for his creativity. All are beginning to build their business dreams while still in high school

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12:13

Ninth grade soprano Morgan Marshall lands the lead in...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2025/02/19

Before she even entered high school, Morgan sang her way into the title role in Cedar Springs’ production of Annie. This year she’s back on stage as Jo March in Little Women and has big dreams of making it all the way to Broadway

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12:18

Sifa soars toward her dream through FutureSolve, a...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2024/08/21

With an interest in healthcare and a love of STEM learning, East Kentwood 12th grader Sifa Mulebinge took a chance on a summer experience to help solve real-world problems and gain college credit between high school semesters at BAMF Health

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16:15

Jon Greenhoe: Video Tech Time to Olympic Broadcast Team

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2024/07/08

When Charlie Vonk created a course called Video Tech Time, he didn’t know he would be inspiring a career that would lead one of his middle school students to join the Olympic Broadcast Team, not once but twice. Jon Greenhoe’s dream is taking him to Paris this summer

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19:05

Innovative IT dreamer achieves unparalleled...

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success ·

2024/05/31

In middle school, Eric Sorensen built himself a computer. By graduation, he completed the Networking & Cyber Security program at Kent Career Tech Center earning an unprecedented 21 certifications and more than 50 credits toward an Associate Degree in IT from Grand Rapids Community College through Launch U. For this Forest Hills Northern grad’s future, the cyber sky has no limit

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