 I live and work in a very small town so oftentimes I'll be at the grocery store and I'll strike up conversations with folks and ask, what are you teaching this semester? What are your challenges? And I'll corner them later at the grocery store, you know, say I've got this new technology that can absolutely make your life more interesting and engaging. For me the most exciting part of this is when faculty say yes and they agree to take that journey with me. One faculty member in particular said to me, well you pushed me off the cliff and I said well I'm not sure if that's a good thing. He said no, no it was good because you know we sort of encourage faculty and we give them the tools hopefully to make that jump but ultimately faculty have to say yes I want to do this and I'm ready to start it so we have to do that piece of it. One of the things I told you I did was crowdsource the definition of innovation. Four words or less, risk, fail, iterate, learn and creating a workspace for both students and faculty and our staff to feel comfortable with that fail piece because oftentimes when we're at work we don't let, we don't embrace failure right? The first time we tried to Twitter in the classroom it failed miserably, miserably and the faculty member had been reluctant to try it anyway and he came back and said well this didn't work and I said okay so let's review this and we did learn from that experience and we've had other faculty that have run and run with it and embraced it and had great success. I think my growth in my career has been a benefit by being able to talk with people and have those conversations. What is it that you want your students to be able to know and do at the end of the day and the end of the semester and how can we help you get there so partnering with? Certainly the opportunities I've had since being at Virginia Tech have been invaluable. Involvement in ELI, being able to have a seat at the table at the ELI advisory board, it really being surrounded by smart people with really interesting ideas was a huge boost in being able to say I belong at this table and the participation in the FRII Institute so that now Leading Change Institute was truly a life-changing experience. I was certainly honored and humbled by this there's some some good folks that have really amazing folks that have come before us Mac and Melissa and Baron my my co-winner this year amazing people with really interesting things happening so I'm not sure that I feel worthy every day but I think that it's it's nice to be recognized for the contribution to the community it's nice when your colleagues recognize that the passion and the hard work and the excitement about what you do it truly has made a difference and for me you know as as the materials were put together and folks asked you where have you made a difference listening to those conversations with faculty and that said you know you've helped me change the way I've taught or you've made me want to get up and come to class every day to me that was that was the really cool piece of this.