{"id":1921,"date":"2018-04-16T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:41:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T15:41:18","slug":"5-questions-with-a-launch-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/5-questions-with-a-launch-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet & Greet with Maggi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"What do Launch students think of our online courses? Branson High School junior Maggi Eighmy dishes on her experience with Launch\u2019s online classes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Access Launch<\/i><\/b><\/span>:<\/span> What Launch classes have you taken?
\n<\/span>Maggi Eighmy<\/b><\/span>:<\/span> I took personal finance, ACT Prep and Psychology of the Holocaust last semester\u2014Fall 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n

Access<\/i><\/b><\/span>:<\/span> Great! What did you think of taking those classes online?
\n<\/span>M.E.<\/b><\/span>:<\/span> Having online classes allowed me to get ahead and get additional credits under my belt, so that\u2019s really awesome. Also, I learned that one of the classes I took, Psychology of the Holocaust, we don\u2019t have here anymore, so it\u2019s really neat that I could still take it online. An advantage of getting to take all of these classes online is that I could do them within my own time. So, let\u2019s say I had a tennis match at the end of the day or I left school early to go to Ozark for a tennis match\u2014I could do my work when I got home or when I had time and was not stressing about something else. I felt more like a college student. <\/span><\/p>\n

Access<\/i><\/b><\/span>:<\/span> What was the student-teacher interaction like in your Launch classes? <\/span>
\n<\/span>M.E.<\/b><\/span>:<\/span> The teachers are pretty easy to talk to, and you can interact with them. I felt that even though I couldn\u2019t always directly talk to them all the time, like you can\u2019t talk to them the way you can talk to them in school, they were all still very involved with us and very engaged with us. They\u2019d have online conferences, and they were all nice. <\/span><\/p>\n

Access<\/i><\/b><\/span>:<\/span> What would you say to another student who was considering taking a Launch course?
\n<\/span>M.E.<\/b><\/span>:<\/span> I had a girl in my bible study who was thinking about being in one class here at school and then doing the rest online, and I really encourage it. If you\u2019re struggling, or you want to do part time at a college or something\u2014it\u2019s really a great program, and you can fit it into your day however you need to. And I did learn a ton through my courses, especially ACT prep. They did a lot of online tests, and I watched my ACT score go from like a 24 to a 28. <\/span><\/p>\n

Access<\/i><\/b><\/span>:<\/span> That\u2019s great news! Is there anything else you want to share about Launch?
\n<\/span>M.E.<\/b><\/span>:<\/span> Just that I would encourage it. It\u2019s a really good program, and I think that it helped me grow as a person, too. Also, it just prepares you for the future. Some classes in college\u2014my sister struggled with this\u2014some of her classes are online, and she didn\u2019t know how to work the system or anything. So it helps with that. Also, you have conference calls and stuff, so it helps with that as well\u2014you still gain people skills and that kind of thing. It doesn\u2019t limit that at all.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the full story<\/a>\u00a0in Access Launch<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do Launch students think of our online courses? Branson High School junior Maggi Eighmy dishes on her experience with Launch\u2019s online classes. Access Launch: What Launch classes have you taken? Maggi Eighmy: I took personal finance, ACT Prep and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37,85],"tags":[38],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/QA-Maggi.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbylaunch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}