It normally happens at the same time each year. I get an invitation in my e-mail from HSE High School teacher Kelsey Habig.  It’s an invitation to become a shark.  No, not the swim-in-the-water type of shark.  This is the kind of sharking you see on the TV show “Shark Tank.”

Ms. Habig casts a wide net of local people in key positions and former students of hers, to form a group of sharks.  The sharks provide feedback to her students.

The students come up with an issue, study that issue, then come up with a plan of action.

What I love most is hearing these presentations from her junior English students.  It’s a rare opportunity for a senior citizen (me) to get a feel for what high school students find important these days.

It is amazing how many issues my classmates thought were important when I sat in a high school classroom in the late 1960s and are still important to the students today.  Health, poverty, the environment and religion were just a few of the subjects I heard all about this week.

I had two wonderful fellow sharks all day long.  A couple were in and out, including Fishers Fire Chief Steve Orusa, but Danielle Barry and Mackenzie Spaulding were with me throughout the day.  It was good to be around them.

Kudos to Ms. Kelsey Habig and her students for providing me a window into young people today.  The Shark Tank experience is something I look forward to every year.  Thanks for inviting me.