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You know what, one of their jobs you get paid to play

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sorry, kick a soccer ball around.

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It's been my favorite job to have so far.

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I'm Josh Bournemis.

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I'm our site director here at our court of Madera School

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for Coca-Cola Valley.

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I love being able to take a moment.

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And when the kid starts maybe asking some questions,

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just for the point of asking a question,

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I love being able to, let's look at a map.

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Let's hold this up.

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Let's actually dive in deep to that and learn something

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even if you didn't know about it.

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Whether it's workling robots and the coding stuff

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or doing arts or language stuff.

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And so with that big broad area of curriculum we cover,

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we're able to find each student's little interest

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and little niches.

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You really see a lot of students,

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maybe you wouldn't have given them this big project

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because they're a kindergarten or a first grader.

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They'll surprise you.

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We have such a great ratio of staff to students

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that I think I'm able to sit down and have like a one-on-one conversation

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with all of our students multiple times today

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for able to have like really good close relationships with the students.

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Kids are a lot of energy.

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Yeah, we'll just hold your water bottle.

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I don't want you to break it.

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But they're also a lot of potential.

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It's looking great and loving it so far.

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That's awesome.

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When I started here I was switching my major

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but I wasn't sure what I wanted to switch to.

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Being a part of this program,

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it definitely pushed me towards education as a majoring.

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Being a part of the alphabet's team really means a lot.

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I mean, I just have a blast out here.