SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – "I interned at KELO-TV back in 1991 and I was hired part-time. Then, I was hired full time, and I basically did everything at this station except be on television," Mark Toutge said. Everything from master control to shooting video was a part of Mark Toutge's time with KELOLAND Media Group. As much as he enjoyed his time here, he also loved teaching which eventually led him to Farmington, Minnesota. "When I started at Farmington High School in 1999, I proposed to my principal, I said, "I'm coming from a live television background, and I'd like to start a TV show that the whole entire school watches," Toutge said. In addition to teaching broadcast classes, he later started Tiger News, a student-run newscast, that same year at the high school. 1 dead in motorcycle crash in Sioux Falls "They do interviews with coaches, with teachers, they'll do student profiles. They'll do a story about an athlete of the week," Toutge said. It's inspired many of those students to seek out a journalism career, including KELOLAND's own Julia Lin. "He was the first one who introduced KELO because it's a South Dakota station I wasn't familiar with, since I went to high school in Minnesota," Lin said. "When I took the broadcast class that kind of fit. I love the on-camera aspect of it, I love the video production aspect." Lin recalls one of her high school classes which required her to reach out to someone in a career they're interested in. "I asked Mr. Toutge, I was like, 'Hey, is there anyone that does news or that's a news anchor? That's a career I'm really interested in learning more about.' He introduced me to Angela Kennecke, who was a long-time anchor here at KELO, and I would write to her and ask her what to expect in the industry to see if it was the right fit for me. And she wrote me back and gave me some great advice," Lin said. Lin credits a lot of where she is today to being a part of his classes, the student newscast and the additional guidance he provided, but Toutge's reward is just as special. "It is really special to see that as one of my students succeeds and like what I got to promote within myself to my students. So yeah, it's pretty cool to see my students working at KELO-TV," Toutge said.