The Penta Career Center hosted the ThinkFast Interactive safety program for local high school students earlier this month.

Developed in 1997, Thinkfast’s educational programming covers important subjects such as underage drinking, drug use, traffic safety and distracted driving. The program presents an interactive high energy game show in which the students participate in teams and respond as contestants.

According to their website, Thinkfast’s goal is to create an exciting and captivating program that will keep the audience’s attention and focus from start to finish. Thinkfast combines custom awareness content with cutting-edge technology, age-appropriate entertainment, elaborate staging, and charismatic hosts to display their message.

“This program is wonderful as it reaches the students on their level. We can talk all day about traffic dangers to them in the classroom and not reach them how this high-intensity one hour program can,” said Sandy Wiechman, Safe Communities coordinator of Wood County. “My goal is to get it in every school in Wood County.”

There were two types of challenges the students participated in: trivia and interactive breakout. The trivia challenges educated the audience by presenting custom awareness information through multiple choice questions while interactive breakout challenges exposed the audience’s perspectives on these issues.