FAYETTE — Inside Daniel Picard’s tiny office in the back of Fayette Central School, the hosts of the school’s new podcast, Cecily Bachmeyer and Millie Laverdiere, both 10, sat making plans recently.

They meet three days a week during recess to come up with questions, interview and record students and teachers on topics like the lunch room’s fruit and vegetable program.

The process goes something like this:

“What is the weirdest food combo you have seen from a student?” Bachmeyer asked the school’s chef, Brian Beaupain.

“What are your thoughts about the new food?” Laverdiere asked a classmate.

“Why do you like cooking?” Bachmeyer asked Beaupain.

The results ended up in “Fruits & Veggies,” the most recent episode of “The Eagle Update.”

The idea to start a podcast came to Picard, the school’s technology director, after seeing other school districts start one up successfully.

“It’s an easy way for people to stay up to date with the school and what’s going on in the students’ lives,” he said. “It’s posted on Spotify and Apple, so people can listen to it wherever.”

Picard has worked for seven years at Fayette Central School, which has an enrollment of 70 students. He secured about $2,300 from the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) Teach with Tech grant and used it to buy podcast equipment, a few GoPro cameras and a trail camera that are also incorporated into school lessons.

He helps the girls edit the podcast episodes. Completing a five- to 10-minute podcast episode can take up to 30 minutes. Bachmeyer and Laverdiere have released three episodes since January, including “Fruits & Veggies,” with Picard’s help.

Other students have made and recorded their own podcasts as well, including one called “Food Fight” where a student asked classmates to name their food preferences, pitting cheese pizza against pepperoni pizza, for instance.

Fourth-grader Bachmeyer and fifth-grader Laverdiere say coming up with questions is the hardest part. They have also developed a strategy if a student or teacher isn’t as talkative as they anticipated. The girls know to ask scene-setting questions and ask interviewees to recount the dialog they had in a specific situation to account for more conversation. Bachmeyer said she sometimes gets inspiration from “The Moth,” one of her favorite podcasts to listen to.

With Picard’s help, Bachmeyer and Laverdiere find students and others across the school to interview.

“The questions take a lot, like, a few days,” Bachmeyer said. “Every day we have about 30 minutes, and we come in during recess. If we finish early, we go back out.”

The technology allows the students to learn and practice skills like interviewing and public speaking.

“I don’t think they have noticed this, but they start out very shy at the beginning of the podcast. Then you can hear towards the end that they are growing more comfortable,” Picard said. “Even throughout the episode, you can hear they are getting more comfortable talking with each other and that is great.”

The end of this school year will bring the end of the collaboration, as Laverdiere is headed off to middle school and won’t be able to continue podcasting with Bachmeyer. Bachmeyer will be looking for a fourth-grader to collaborate with next year.

In the meantime, the girls have a few more episodes planned before the school year ends in June.

“Music events and something with fourth grade, we are not sure, and then the fifth graders are doing projects … so we will ask them about that,” the girls said.

The Eagle Update is accessible on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.