BATH TOWNSHIP, OH (WLIO) - The governor and lieutenant governor have awarded Bath Local Schools to receive a little over $2 million in career tech grant money. With this multi-million dollar grant coming to the school district, school administrators will be using the funds to further expand and build upon career technical education in fields like health sciences, engineering, and manufacturing at Bath. To see what plans are in place, Your Hometown Stations spoke with Bath Middle School and High School Principals on what's next and the grant's impact on students.
"We're going to have some spatial transformations in places. A couple rooms, for example, that might become makerspace areas, career lab areas. We're going to develop a manufacturing and an engineering area in our building that currently does not exist. From the healthcare side of it, one of the things that our students get exposed to every year at Rhodes State College... brings out their mobile lab, and those students use that technology, so I think it would be pretty neat if our kids had access to some of the equipment that they have here in our building like an anatomage table or something like that for our anatomy and physiology kids to be able to work with," explains Brian Jesko, Bath High School Principal, Bath Local Schools.
"It's really about giving our kids opportunity and choice in their educational process where, you know, some kids are going to like to go to college. Then, we're going to have a lot of kids that are looking to go right into the workforce, two-year, four-year degrees. Some kids would take those technical skills even into the military or obviously go into trade school, so this is just another avenue to provide our students with a really well-rounded education, to provide our students with choice," adds Cam Staley, Bath Middle School Principal, Bath Local Schools.
Both Jesko and Staley also add that this grant will help students at Bath to become college and career-ready once they arrive at graduation.
