Walking into K-14, it feels as if you are stepping into a college course.

“A lot of the stuff I have right now I have it because I had students online that I had to teach and I was able to transition what I learned from that and made the class seem more professional I think,” teacher Huy Vien said.

When you walk into the classroom, Vien has a live feed that plays on the TV at the beginning of class. He has a microphone with loudspeakers so the whole class can hear what he’s saying. 

The class has been offered at the school but Vien wasn’t always the teacher.

“I started teaching this class three years ago,” he said.

But if you took the same class four years ago, you would hardly recognize it. 

“The classroom was filled with a bunch of old stuff that was unneeded, so I’d say about two dumpsters of trash that had to be taken out of the classroom,” he said. 

But more than just cleaning was needed to teach this course, which was new to Vien.

“I used to teach clay and art,” he said. “I had to learn how to screen print, I had to learn how to use a laser engraver, I had to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, so it was a completely different world.”