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🗓️ 7 June 2025
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0:00.0 | At this time of year, there's a question on the minds of both parents and teachers. |
0:05.4 | What did you learn this year? Students at a school in Austin, Texas, had a chance to hone their |
0:10.3 | financial and leadership skills by running a food truck. |
0:14.5 | Hi, my name is Blake, and I am in sixth grade. |
0:17.4 | Hi, my name is Baby and I'm a fifth grade. |
0:20.3 | Hi, my name is Eddie, and I'm in sixth grade.. Hi, my name is Eddie and I'm in sixth grade. |
0:22.7 | Hearing it would be, we would actually be inside a food truck and cooking and like learning financial |
0:27.1 | literacy and everything. It sounded like an amazing opportunity. It took us some time. We went from |
0:32.1 | dinner to lunch to sushi to Chinese, but we ended up with breakfast. When we first started, I was definitely a little nervous. |
0:39.7 | I really didn't know how to cook, but as the sessions progressed, I definitely learned a lot more |
0:45.7 | in teamwork skills and just embracing change. When I got elected to be a head chef, I wasn't really |
0:52.4 | ready to take on that role, and I kind of had to |
0:55.2 | adjust and adapt to be more of a leader. I've learned financial literacy. I've learned teamwork. |
1:00.9 | I've learned a lot of things from the street truck. |
1:04.6 | Our favorite dish is probably the French toasts. |
1:07.3 | It tastes high quality, and it's also it's pretty easy to make, and I've had seven kids come up and ask for the recipe. |
1:14.6 | I mean, who doesn't want a good tasty meal in the morning? |
1:17.6 | I know I could take this into real life for like future things. |
1:21.6 | Now Ali Rogan is back with a conversation with Brian Gordon, the teacher who worked with the students |
1:28.0 | on this project. |
1:29.3 | Brian Gordon, thank you so much for joining us. Where did this idea for a food truck come from? |
1:35.3 | The food truck is something that is a mechanism which we wanted to teach our kids financial |
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