Toyota in Georgetown is partnering with Scott County High School to give juniors and seniors hands on educational experience in manufacturing.

Here's how it works in today's Education Matters report.

From Toyota's perspective, it was it was to provide an opportunity in the community to get engaged with the school system.

The 40 Academy is is not new.

It's just new to Kentucky.

And so seeing the benefits that Indiana and West Virginia have have gained in their community and at their at their facility was something we definitely were interested in here.

It's like a completely different world for classes like math or English or science.

A lot of it is you just pay attention, write stuff down, memorize it.

But here you really have to develop your skills instead of just taking something at face value.

You really have to think about it how you can apply it.

They learn a lot through this program.

You know, one thing we do almost daily is we get up and we do public speaking right in front of the class to where they get to, you know, feel comfortable talking in front of in front of their classmates.

And that way, when they when they go to the manufacturing setting, you know, they're there, they're able to communicate effectively and I think that's an important trait for for all these students to have going forward.

So, you know, just to enable them to be successful.

This is a what we call a dojo for manufacturing, for assembly.

To get practice at some of the skills shooting about shooting and not handling an impact ranch, they're going to get training on how to do all that safely, have good quality and do it efficiently.

Technology is becoming more and more important.

Certainly when I started 25 years ago, it was vastly different than what it is now.

And preparing those students to be successful in that environment is critical.

Toyota We talk about having a capable processor and a capable operator, and this this program will help our future employees be a more capable operator from the start.

It's my belief that maybe college isn't for everybody.

They're unsure of exactly what they want to do.

This gives them an opportunity to go into the workforce.

You know, test it out.

And the great thing about this Toyota partnership is if they do decide that they want to further their education, Toyota has a program, you know, onsite that can help them, you know, further their education at that point.

So really, it's a win win for these students.

I'm just being able to get like a head start on working there.

I'd already intended to work at Toyota previously because my mother has been working there for like I think 25 years now, something around around there.

So she's been working there for quite a while and she's a little bit of an inspiration.

She's super involved there.

She speaks highly, highly of it.

You know, I think she loves working there.

I think all of it, too.

So second year students can earn $18 an hour during their 48 class time.

The 40 Academy has also been implemented at schools in West Virginia, Indiana and Mississippi.