Well, achieving success after high school takes commitment and access to opportunity.

At Green Valley High School, students in the Studio Art class got the chance to produce art out of glass while preparing students for the future.

(Erica Wright) There's something magical about glass.

-And when we got to glass, I fell in love with the medium.

I just love the entire process of it.

-Get all of those little wrinkles out.

Today, I have students that are working three different ways with glass.

I have students that are working with stained glass.

So they are cutting it, grinding it, wrapping it in copper foil, burnishing it all in preparation for soldering the pieces together into one unified piece.

I have students that are working in mosaics, both constructing mosaics out of glass and then grouting their mosaics.

(Abigail Isfalt) So I'm gonna be working on a stained glass piece.

I'm making a moon for my mom.

I have already cut out the pieces of glass, and I have grinded it today and put the foil on it.

I think next class I'm going to be soldering the pieces together.

(Eva Moore) Currently, I'm working on my stained glass art.

It's going to be of a hummingbird.

I'm trying to make like a 3D model with two wings, make it so that it'd be able to fly in the wind.

Originally, I come up with my own design, and then I cut all the pieces out, and then cut it all onto glass.

And then I'm in the process of foiling it with copper foil.

And then after that, you get some flux and solder it, and then that's it.

-Something that most people don't know when they're in high school is that when you go to college, you're gonna have to take an art class.

It's part of just being a well-rounded human, very much the same way that you're going to have to take one in high school.

So being in this class prepares students, even if they're not on an art track as a profession.

-I'm hoping to become a elementary school teacher.

I am going to UNLV next year to study Elementary Education.

I'm hoping that that's what my future holds for me.

-After high school, I was going to go attend UNLV, Fine Arts.

And hopefully, you know, as like a hobby, just working glass on the side, because I actually got my own kit for my house, because I love working with it.

-The Studio Art class is funded by student lab fees and donations.

One important partner is the annual Glass Craft and Bead Expo event, which provides much of the classes' materials and equipment.

Expo organizers also gifted four students--yes, you heard right, four students--scholarships and the chance to display glassworks at the recent Las Vegas show.

Again, so much talent.

Our students are amazing.