Student voices from OSSB life.
OSSB PODCAST centers student voices from The Ohio State School for the Blind as they report on school life month by month. Episodes move between Braille Challenge preparation, athletics, concerts, holiday events, alumni updates, creative stories, and casual microphone-room banter.
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OSSB PODCAST is a school-community podcast made around the voices and events of The Ohio State School for the Blind. Its episodes gather the monthly rhythm of school life: greetings around the microphones, student updates, activity reports, interviews, jokes, announcements, and occasional creative performances. The show has a practical spine. It tells people what happened, what is coming up, and who has been taking part. But it is not just a calendar readout. The charm comes from students talking through the details themselves, whether that means explaining goalball gear, describing cheerleading routines, remembering a competition, or reacting when a conversation wanders. Braille Challenge segments recur with unusual specificity, from speed and accuracy to proofreading, reading comprehension, charts, graphs, and the nerves of getting through questions. Athletics also carry real weight, with mentions of goalball, wrestling, cheerleading, swimming, track, bike rides, and pep-rally energy. School culture fills the rest of the frame. There are winter concerts, Valentine’s Day dances, door-decorating projects, senior dinners, holiday stories, and end-of-year farewells. Alumni and staff voices broaden the room, including conversations about an alumni association, a canceled reunion, and restoration work on WPA models connected to OSSB. The show often lets small moments stay small. A student getting on the mic after only a few days at the school can sit beside a detailed explanation of a foundation, a sports practice, or a student-written story about kindness. That loose structure matters. It gives the podcast the feel of a recorded school hallway, a place where announcements, encouragement, teasing, memory, and performance all belong. The production can be playful, sometimes messy, and openly local. It suits a listener who wants student-made audio that documents a specific educational community from the inside rather than from an outside narrator’s summary.
Made for: Suits a listener who values student-led school audio, special education communities, and firsthand accounts of school events. It also fits families, alumni, educators, and community members looking for warm, specific updates from OSSB.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the direct handoff of the microphone to students as they describe competitions, performances, routines, school traditions, and creative work. Similar school podcasts may report events from above; this one keeps the room audible.
Students from The Ohio State School For The Blind produce and star in their own podcast covering one topic per month.
A Braille Challenge debrief swerves into a bus-driving joke, and you're along for the laugh.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm school-year finale where Braille Challenge honors sit beside the careful restoration of OSSB's WPA models.
The OSSB podcast's April-May 2023 end-of-year edition feels like a school community gathering its loose ends before summer: senior dinner memories, Braille Challenge winners, staff notes, and a warm signoff for students heading into the break.
Student voices make spring facts, practice routines, and a closed pool feel like a lived-in school day.
The March edition of the OSSB podcast has the easy shape of a school day, moving from seasonal notes and jazz's New Orleans roots into student accounts of practice, competition, and adjusted routines when the pool is closed.
A warm school roundup where Braille Challenge reflections share space with Valentine's plans and a dubious bus-driving joke.
OSSB Podcast's February edition works as a lively school bulletin, moving from student council's Valentine's Day dance and ticket pricing to the upcoming swim and forensics seasons. Mr.
A warm OSSB roundup where Braille skills, school competition, and student voices share the microphone.
OSSB Podcast's January installment has the easy movement of a school assembly, opening with students on Christmas gifts and springlike weather before settling into its strongest stretch: the Braille Challenge.
A cheerful OSSB holiday episode where alumni news, door art, hot wings, and marshmallow warfare all fit under the same roof.
December at OSSB has the feel of a busy hallway before break: winter concert anticipation, cheerleaders and wrestlers back from Tennessee, Nashville hot wings, decorated doors, and students showing off Spider-Man gifts.
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Dave Terry says he has spent 40 years restoring art in Columbus and is helping OSSB prepare about 60 WPA models for an Ohio State House exhibit running May 1 through June 2.
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OSSB wrestling coach Heath says the team went 3-1 in Louisville, won three matches by first-period pin, and finished sixth out of 11 teams with AJ taking the 126-pound title.
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OSSB's November episode reports 47,000 readathon minutes and a mock election where broccoli earned 23 votes.
Coach Heath says Maya Weller ran the Class B 60-yard dash in 9.71, breaking a record Becky Koo had held for 33 years.
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Host Dan Kelly interviews the president of the OSSB Alumni Association about canceling the reunion due to COVID-19 and catching up.
Students from the Ohio State School for the Blind host a podcast discussing school events, sports, and introducing a new team member.
Students from the Ohio State School for the Blind discuss Valentine's Day and Black History Month in their monthly podcast.
Students from the Ohio State School for the Blind discuss their holiday breaks and gifts in a casual roundtable format.
Students from the Ohio State School for the Blind discuss holiday events, including an ugly sweater contest and talking to Santa.
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Students from the Ohio State School for the Blind share their experiences and activities from the past month, including track, White Cane Day, and a field trip.
Students at the Ohio State School for the Blind host a podcast covering school events, interviews with a track coach, a new teacher, a blind military captain, and their catering class's first big event.