 While program started by two teachers at Pillager schools is starting to turn heads all around the country. For this week's Golden Apple, Sarah Winkelman takes us through the Meteor program. Look at yourself and your own lives. Am I that person? Meteor is all about discovering yourself and being your own greatest version. We have the students come in and they get to participate in activities where they get to learn how are they smart. With an idea that started from two Pillager teachers. You are here today to see if the business shoe fits. Mr. Herman asked me how do you figure out how to make kids passionate. And that led to a discovery of learning how kids play, how kids focus best with flow, and then how kids serve best with love all on a career field that makes them come alive. Starting in fifth grade the students begin to understand their own personalities. Really it's really fun and you get to learn new things you get to learn um like how what you're best at. So that in the future the students have a better idea of what career field to pursue. Finding a job you love and a job that loves you back. Today's lesson for fifth and sixth graders was how some people are more competitive or also known as a hard charger. I don't lose. I put up a fight before I lose. Level two is when the students move to seventh and eighth grade where they apply what they've already learned about themselves. They really love it or they hate it and that's exactly the program is designed so that they can get all sorts of experiences and then really narrow them down. With the final phase as they enter high school. They know themselves, they know their top scoring career field and they go on three independent projects where they're trying to hone themselves. All thanks to a program that truly has the students at the forefront. I thought I did well when talking about like what I want to be a lifeguard. It's just fun giving them something that matters something that they're engaged in and something that they have complete control over. No matter their personality. Academically some kids succeed but in Meteor every kid succeeds. For this week's Golden Apple in Pillager Sarah Winkleman, Lakeland News. The Meteor program will soon be implemented in other districts across the state and the nation. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.