JEFFERSON — Jefferson High School’s automotive program is making state headlines with a page-and-a-half feature in the current issue of Transportation Today Wisconsin, according to a story in the Watertown Daily Times. 

The article highlights the Jefferson’s role as one of only 19 school districts statewide to offer ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) certification programs. Student Korbin Simdon said the high school auto students fill out work and repair orders just as commercial shops do. He said he uses the lessons he has received in the classroom on the job every day.

Simdon also expressed great enthusiasm for the new SkillsUSA project, re-engineering and racing a Formula race car.

“I’ve never had a chance to work on a formula car before,” Simdon said.

Read the full story here.

Students at Clark Street Community School, a public charter school in the Middleton-Cross Plains School District, enlisted music to assist the memories of older adults, according to a story in the Wisconsin State Journal. It was part of a music and memory seminar — a nine-week class, which ended last week.

As part of the seminar, the students interviewed some residents at Heritage Senior Living and at Sage Meadow senior living community in Middleton, to learn about their tastes in music so they could put songs on a player for them.

Clark Street junior Binta Jammeh said she has family members with dementia so she is glad she can use what she learned in school to help others.

“It’s really cool to see their smiles when they hear the music,” junior Chloe Gallenbeck said.

Read the full story at the Wisconsin State Journal.

Students at McFarland High School have started a student-run manufacturing business by creating and selling products they make in their school, the television station WMTV-15 reports.      

Students coordinate each element of the business, including information technology, shipping, marketing, wood shop, metals and embroidery.

“It’s a legitimate business that’s basically a capstone class for a lot of the courses we have here,” teacher Steve Pennekamp said in the story. “We’re a student-run business. We pay taxes like any other business.”

Visit the station’s website to read the full story.