 Welcome, scale. Yeah, you know, this is the second time I've ever used slides. So forgive me Last year you guys are such a wonderful thing. I thought I'd get a little bit of more abuse and come today unprepared to talk about Mentoring and all the problems that young people and people that make changes and the solution that I came up with The last year I talked about free education in a community-based type of a platform Which allows people to get free education and degrees? World Mentoring Academy and basically an open community very much like scale and the Linux and Apache and PHP community basically MOOCs started two years after I started and We've built a platform out and it's about 34,000 35,000 users The problem that a lot of people do is they get into the content and they don't know what they want to do Which I find kind of sad because things are changing so rapidly with big data automation robotics That people get rather confused. They're in college. They're spending all their money and they're spending five or six years They still haven't declared a major and I thought well, how can I solve this big problem and I actually knew what I wanted to do when I was in college. I wanted to be a clown So for 35 years as a clown after I graduated in engineering and I used to be four four years of college boy My dad's mad right, so that you know Actually Kathy Davidson who actually wrote a nice little article about me in New York Times She said that 65% of today's jobs will not even exist That when the elementary school kids get of age and actually that kind of reminds me I'm from Alaska. We had gold, you know dredges and stuff like that So I thought no, how can I solve this problem if the target keeps shifting around and I noticed something about young people, you know when they're younger They know what they want to do like I want to be a you know a doctor an astronaut and They get to middle school and their friends say so. What do you want to be? Oh, I want to be an astronaut Oh, but you're not smart enough to mass sites that you're a girl So then how can I solve that so I got my camera? I was a member of the Pasadena media and I took my camera and I went out to Caltech And I thought well, maybe I should ask some people that might know something about being an astronaut. So I Was ready and I saw I talked to three astronauts. I said hey, what could elementary school kids get involved in for future space and technology? Because I'm not an astronaut. I would know he said hydroponics and robotics go. Wow hydroponics and robotics Hmm these slides aren't shifting quick enough, but anyway, we'll wait. That's actually a very nice guy I was talking to him and I said so what do you think the future is gonna need you gonna need minors and he laughed at me It's so I thought well say hydroponics I went out to an aquaponics farm and filmed all the wonderful fun things you can do in an aquaponics farm You know learning all the different types of things and I was amazed to find that there's quite a few of them around Where you can go in you can volunteer you can work on you know horticulture and learn all kinds of cool stuff I thought you know kids would really like to go to these kind of places and a lot of times they're in underserved areas like this one in particular was in the projects in Long Beach and so what I did is I went out and I Start to build a database of all the community gardens hydroponics aquaponics permaculture is in the world Everything about it kid friendly hours of operation YouTube Facebook Instagram snapchat So so the young people can find you know They're watching YouTube video with the interview with the astronauts and the the interview with all the various different fun stuff At there and then they go out at the end of the video go find a garden next to the click on a button A map opens up local them four blocks away on Toledo is a hydroponics that they can join Two years later they get to middle school and their friends say so what do you want to be? Oh, I want to be an astronaut, but you're not smart enough to be an asset the young person can say well For the past two years. I'm working out of rye of tomatoes. It's been considered for the Martian colony I don't think you know what you're talking about Right because when that flame gets blown out middle school the kids have no direction no ambitions no drive The only reason they do well in school is because they're good teachers and parents So I went out and interviewed a bunch of other people because you know I've interviewed astronauts interviewing senator Barbara box or Tommy and all different types of people say where are these creative spaces that young people can go to To get support Instead of being heckled at when they come up with the idea that they want to be a spokesperson Or in fact actually a new york marathon of shaleen legan who I interviewed march who won the new york marathon So if you like to participate with me come join me. I appreciate it. Thank you very much