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Victoria lays on a hospital bed inside a classroom at Nicolet College, and she’s just about ready to push.
“The baby is coming,” said Victoria, a high-tech birthing simulator. She’s about as close as you can get to the real thing.
This simulator is a life size woman with brown hair, eyes that can open and looking around, a big pregnant belly.
Students can take her pulse, put an IV in her, and help her give birth.
“This particular simulator can go from a very basic scenario, just a normal labor and delivery to advanced and sophisticated scenarios,” said Nicolet College Nursing Instructor Dilya St. Louis.
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The pandemic has posed a serious challenge for artists and musicians everywhere.
That’s why WXPR has partnered with Nicolet College and ArtStart to present a project called “Working from Home” to support and share the work of local artists.
One part of that project is the Homegrown Concert Series. Every Sunday evening, local musicians perform on Nicolet’s stage.
Listen to the full interview with Nicolet’s Mike Effinger to learn more about what working on this project has been like.
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His canvas is a tree or a massive wood slab.
Nathan Nuszkiewicz working on a sculpture in 2020.
Credit Potlicker Chainsaw Sculptures
On Monday, he was outside his Rhinelander home and shop, working on a woodcarving to go on a roof peak at a customer’s home.
“It’s going to be a whole scene, where we’ve got the trees and the sky and the clouds and the sunset in the middle, and then, through that, there’s going to be an actual six- to six-and-a-half foot eagle flying out over the trees,” he explained.
Nathan’s wife and business partner, Erica, watched nearby.
Star Journal Nicolet College teacher named firefighter instructor of the Year Share:
Nicolet firefighter instructor Mike Carlin was recently named the Wisconsin Society of Emergency Service Instructor of the Year. Submitted photo.
Courtesy Nicolet College
When the pandemic hit early last year and Nicolet College moved all classes to the virtual world, fire training instructor Mike Carlin had more than two dozen students just weeks away from finishing their in-person classes and becoming certified fire fighters.
While many academic disciplines made the transition rather seamlessly, the very nature of hands-on fire fighter training meant that all of the instruction would not be best suited for the online world.