 I'm just going to pause it for one second. Yeah. Yeah. It's like in a volume system. One second. I'm sorry. Diva. That's for you to meet the educational and social needs of the community. The college goes towards the state of schools, the school of professional and creative development, the school of liberal arts and education, the nationally accredited school of business, and finally, our world-renowned school of science, health, and technology. The kind of city we can gain by coming to that endeavor school and being part of the school of science, health, and technology is an experience of excellence in teaching. We are a solution-focused student center, and we are teaching our students to be able to change people that are driven. We provide our students with the opportunity to do research on a local, national, and international level. I came to MegaEver's by working out, and it's the big thing that attracted me at first. And when I came to the building, I thought, yeah, this is the place I need to come. At first, I didn't know exactly where I wanted to go within the major. So, but I knew I wanted to do something in science and in health. I met several professors here, spoke to them, and they showed me what to do, and now I know exactly what path I want to take. Did you know that MegaEver's College has more than 26 degree-seeking programs to choose from? This is a MegaEver's College, it is one of five business schools in the city of the city of New York system. However, we are one of two that are actually accredited, and if you want to study business and understand business in an urban context, in a public administration, in an urban context, we're better than you are there. I came to know business degree is one of the few most sound investments that one can make. In all of our degree programs, there is a required infrastructure component that we have a number of professional organizations that we are affiliated with, that we actually have chapters on campus. This provides students with networking and scholarship opportunities, well beyond graduation. There is a little bit of a secret, and I think that if you've ever heard any of that about it, stop and come again and speak for yourself. The college is located in the fourth most popular city in the U.S. to switch away from the Barclay Center, a stone's throw from the beautiful Brookwood and Paddleville Gardens. The Brookwood Museum has a lot of acres across the park. There's college, it covers a wide range. So it gives us bad breath and death. We have all these different cultures coming together, and there's no other place that can do this work. Our degree program is education. As a grad, it gives students more mobility. So every time before they graduate, it's for a new college angel who's graduating this year. Why do you think this particular student really tell you about how you feel about your education? I wouldn't recommend that you ever call to anyone who wants to be a teacher at all. I mean, the education department staff is fantastic here. They've been helpful every step of the way. After ever college is economically reasonable, did you know that 80% of students graduate debt-free? This school is a gem. So welcome to college. Welcome to strength. Welcome to point two. Welcome to Medgar Everett College. All right, good morning, everyone. That was just a short intro about our college, just so you guys can learn a little bit more about us, who we are, and we're located right here in Central Brooklyn. At this time, as we move on, again, we want to say thank you to parents. Let's both put our hands together. Here's to our dear parents. Thank you, students, for sharing your Saturday morning and waking up super early to get in here. I hope you guys get some fun treats at the end of the day by your parents. Again, my name is Randell Keele. I'm the program coordinator educational specialist of the Science and Technology Entry Program. I just wanted to introduce myself, and then I'm gonna have our teachers to introduce themselves and just say which school they're from, and once you hear your school, you can give a big shout out for your school. Today, we have two schools present. We have New Heights Middle School, and we have MS61. I'm here with our teachers just to introduce ourselves. All right, good morning, everyone. Good morning, I'm Ms. Carmen, and I'm from MS61. I'm from K722, New Heights Middle School. Good morning, I'm Dr. Y, MS61. Can all parents introduce yourself? Yes. I'm gonna put you guys on the spot. Just say your name and what school you're from. I'm the MS61. Oh, nice to meet you, Darius. You're the MS61. 61. I'm gonna come over next, Darius. Just say your name. Nuff AF, yes, good to meet you. Nice. Your parents? Yeah. New Heights Middle School. New Heights Middle School. Nice. Nice to meet you, guys. Oh, Mike Theodore, MS61. This is where the group of people that always work with their students, especially with Dr. Y, when they go to Albany. And now we'll have Mr. John Brown, the director of this program. He will give you a brief history of a little bit about who we are. Good morning. We are extremely happy to have all of you here this morning. There are many other things that you could have been doing this morning. This is a new event that we are implementing for the first time this year. And the reason we decided that this was important, we had some collaboration. We'll get to meet him in a few minutes. Dr. Tarence Blackley, the dean of the School of Science, Health and Technology, and the Science and Technology and Pre-Program. We felt that it was important for parents to have some involvement in what we do here at MEDRA, and especially in our program. You send your notices to us for an after-school program, and we see them, and we are very much concerned about their health, welfare, and their education. So this program is basically to introduce you to what we do with staff, and for you to have an understanding of what happens here at MEDRA, because today there will be several people from MEDRA that will give you some additional information. So as we move along, I would basically like to just give you an overview of the Science and Technology and Pre-Program. Today is called Step-Stem Saturday. A student, what does step stand for? Anyone else? Right here? Science, Technology and Pre-Program. Science, Technology, Entry, Pre-Program. Science and Technology, Entry, Pre-Program. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Great introduction. This program was implemented in 1985. It was funding from the New York State Legislature that put money together in order for students that live in New York State, grades seven through 12, to have instruction that will help them to be prepared to become more proficient in science, technology, engineering and math. And so we were fortunate to be able to write a grant and receive money for this program. And this program had been in existence and made your impact as far as 1993. The second acronym up here is S-T-E-M. Hopefully you'll tell me what that stands for over here. Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. STEM came into existence in 2009. STEM was implemented by the former president of the United States, Barack Obama, in 2009. STEM education focused in on problem solving, hands-on instruction in the area of science, technology, engineering and math. And so the whole idea was instead of teaching each of those subjects separately, that you combine them. And the reason for that was because there was a great void in the number of minority students that were going into those areas. And so that's why we exist. We are a STEM program focusing in on STEM education. Now, we do a whole lot here at Med-Man. And I'm going to come give you a brief glimpse into it. We service over 350 students. We are in two high schools and three middle schools. The two high schools of Bedford Academy and Brooklyn School for Math and Research. Now, these are two high functioning high schools here in Brooklyn. We have interaction with them, and we want to start dialogue with parents so that they will know what is available for us high school because we're looking at students that are in grade 78 when high school is right next door. And also, this program is for students grade 7 through 12. So your child has the opportunity of being in a middle school program like this, right onto high school and still continuing it. And then there is a collegiate STEM program. That shouldn't be any reason why any of these young people if they continue to be in this program, that you should not have to pay one penny for your child to go to school. There are 52 STEM programs around the state and there's 59 collegiate STEM programs. And there are scholarships available for these students to receive based on their achievement. Now, here at Med-Man, we have several activities and I'll just share a few of them with you. On D78, we have our spotlight on STEM student conference, which is right over in the new science building that's taking place on D78. We are almost demanding that every child that participates in this program be a part of the STEM science and technology student conference. We also provide our students with instructions on how to do research. And one of those programs that we're very proud of and the instructor is here today is Dr. Wyden. And this is him. And every year, we take a group of students to Albany to participate in a statewide poster presentation conference. And every year, mostly at least 90% of the time, we come back with awards. And sometimes more than any other of the schools in New York State, we come back. And we have trophies in our office to show evidence that we have our number one outstanding program and we appreciate that through Dr. Wyden. We also have a robotics program in New Heights, with Ms. Davis, and we're very proud of that. We have a robotics program in two of our high schools. We also have a DNA day, where we invite students from our schools to come and participate in a DNA day. We also have an iXL online math tutorial program. And we have that instituted in all of our schools. We also provide tutorial in the living environment. We also provide instruction to prepare our students to be able to be competitive in getting into the specialized science high schools. We also have a six-week summer program, we call it the STEAM Institute. And I think some of these students might have participated last summer. But we will be getting information to you about it. It's six weeks, it's concentrated, and we do want to have our students participate. And finally, at all of our closing ceremonies, we provide our students with awards for their achievement. Every child that puts in something and works to the maximum is rewarded for his or her achievement. So you have just your students, your child, your children, and a great program. Thank you very much for being a part of it. Dr. Ken Flackman, the University Science and Technology. Good morning, all. Good morning. Good morning. Let me first, let me first thank Randall and Brown. We're just doing a wonderful, wonderful job. I think you said it started in 1990. About 1993, when you started. So 93 and 7, that's 2007 and 18, that's 25 years. These guys have been at this doing this. And so I just want us to understand it. They have been trying to engage young African-American boys and girls, young boys and girls in this community in science for the last 25 years. And I want to just start off by giving them just a round of applause. You know, it's apropos. So we recently had here our employee recognition event. And it turns out that, you know, I've actually worked at MedReveries for 25 years. I know I look much younger. But I have worked here for 25 years. And I want to say that, and I brought my colleague here to a new group to attest to this. I want to say, Dr. Nuttaker is a professor in the mathematics department who works on partial differential equations and who teaches our courses in calculus here at college. And you know, I want to say to him, thank you for being a mentor for me when I was a young man. Because for almost 25 years, you've seen him here. We've been here on Saturdays trying to move the agenda in mathematics, trying to have young people like you in this room kind of engage in mathematics. And so I might not get a chance to do it at some other public event. I want to say thank you, Professor Nuttaker for all the work that he's done here. And so, yeah, this is a dream for me. This is really a dream. You know, many years ago, I hoped that we would have an event where we would begin to engage with young people at the very early end to talk about the kinds of science that we need in our community, the kinds of problems that need to be solved in our community in a way in which science can play a role. Let me give you an example. Yesterday, I was part of interviewing individuals to work here at Med River College in our Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science. And so in order for you to work, so we interviewed six candidates. And I think it's, you know, I can say this in this room, of the six candidates who had the credentials to be interviewed with a job as professor in the School of Science, Health, and Technology in the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science. Only one of them was African-American. So in order to work the puny, in order to teach in one of these departments in this building, you have to have a doctorate. And so if you don't have a doctorate, it doesn't matter how nice you are. It doesn't matter how much I want to hire you. I can't hire you. And so I want you young people in this room to understand that I want you to work, it's important for me that you work at Med River Schools, but it's important for me, in order for you to work at Med River Schools, to tell you that we have to find ways for you to earn a doctoral degree in mathematics, to earn a doctoral degree in chemistry. And not only that, but to go beyond earning the doctoral degree to being an active scholar, to be someone who is creating knowledge in this discipline. That's what we need. So one of the kinds of things that people who are trying to hire here are doing, some people have developed molecules that will target cancer cells in some very specific ways. One person is doing some really interesting work. So we're drinking and we have drinking straws and sometimes the water has toxins in them. So that person is designing straws so that when you suck the water through the straws, it kind of takes out the toxins and the heavy metals in the water internally into straws, right? And these are the kinds of things that I know that young people like you think about and these are the kinds of things that I want to kind of really capitalize. Kind of, you know, when we talked about this, we wanted to ignite STEM curiosity in our families. Because it's not just, the thing is, it's not just the young people. The point is, in order to do science, we need the parents to somehow be involved with it. To understand that it's not easy, right? So, you know, just a very simple thing. You say, you know, this young man, say your name for me. Ryan. Lee Roy. Ryan. Ryan. So Ryan says, you know what I mean? Ryan. Ryan, Ryan. Yeah, R-Y-A-N. Yes. No, that's okay. You know what that's important, right? You have to say it, but Ryan, you know, I am Ryan. That's the first, I am Ryan and I am going to be a doctor. You have to say it, and own it, it's yours. And so, when you, so let's say, you know, Ryan stood up and said, you know, tell me Ryan, what do you want to do? Ryan says, you know, I want to be a physician. And I said, great, because, you know, I've gone to King's County, I've gone to, I've gone to the one next door to King's County. And, you know, there are not many young men like you walking around in there as physicians. And I'd love to see you as a physician at, but then, you know, I have to tell you that in order to be a physician, here's what you're going to have to do. You're going to have to, when you come to college, you're going to have to start in calculus one, at least. And so what that means is that all of these other things you're going to have to have done before you get there. And that's what kills a large number of our students. So many of the students who come to Medgar Mids are quite excited. They know what they want to do. Ah, but you see, if you come to the college and your first course in math is, you know, math, let's say math, we have sequence 09, 010, you know, 136, 151, then finally calculus one. So, and about 70% of the students who come to us start in, you know, math 09 or math 010. So let me show you what that means. 09, that's one semester. 010, that's second semester, that's a year. 136, year and a half, 151, pre-calculus, two years. Now finally, in your, almost your sophomore year, you're now doing calculus one for the first time. At that moment, it's hard to be a math major. It's hard to accumulate the things that you need to do. So it's at this moment, and that's the point that I want to make very strongly for parents in the room and for young people, you don't have to listen to me that much. Your parents will kind of impress upon you. But this is, I hope you listen. This is the point, it's right now that the decision is made about whether or not you will teach in that beautiful building that costs, I don't know, $250 million that sits right on Bedford and Crown in the community that I expect you to work on. And it's right now that that decision is being made about whether or not you do that. And it's right now that we have to do the kinds of interventions. And as Mr. Brown and I said, we've been doing it for 25 years, but we want to do it better. So this, we hope, will be a feature of what we do here at the college and what we do here in partnership. And we hope that we can count on your continued support that young people will come out and listen to things about science. And we will try to meet the kind of interesting, we'll bring the people in who we think can kind of ignite our curiosity. And today we have one example of that kind of thing. So one really interesting partnership that Mediwerevers is a part of. And this is the kind of thing that, again, I'm really pitching to the young people in the room. Mediwerevers, because it is an institution that serves a predominantly underserved community, in order for us to boost what we do here, the state to sort of partner with Mediwerevers and given us some facility to work with high-tech start-up companies in the Brooklyn Navy Art. Anyone ever been to the Brooklyn Navy Art here? Yes, two, three. Have you seen what's happened in the Brooklyn Navy Art? This is a real explosion of science in the Brooklyn Navy Art. So there are a number of really wonderful jobs that are available for smart, talented young people who have been trained for this. And one of those companies, for a percentage of James, is with us today, they're a group called NanoTrikes. And they wouldn't know what the meaning of nano, when you say nano, what it means, something that's really big or something that's really small. Yes, something's really small. And so what these guys do, take one, have you ever heard of artificial intelligence? Yeah, so exactly. So these guys are an artificial intelligence company that tries to manufacture things in a very kind of small and compact way. And there are things going on there that we have not even heard about. And so part of what we are trying to do is to engage you in some of that conversation, engage our community in some of that conversation, and in particular to engage some of our young people in that conversation. And so today, you are sort of an inaugural kind of thing of the side. I'd like to welcome our speaker of NanoTrikes, Mr. James Lees. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. That's a cool deck. Okay, very well. So you, it's already there. He's a bit nervous. Yeah. So, ladies and gentlemen, NanoTrikes. I'm going to bring down the lights. So, NanoTrikes, we started about eight years ago in Ohio. We manufacture all of our products now in Hollister, California, which is about three hours south of San Francisco, and right in the middle of garlic and cherry country in California. So you see rows and rows and rows of cherries and smell garlic. It's a very bizarre feeling. But this summer we will be opening our second factory here in the Brooklyn Navy Earth. Right now we're in a place called New Lab, which is the first new rehab building in the Navy Yard is building 128, choose where they built the USS Missouri, the USS Arizona, and you can see we have a little video later where they used to build all the ships and then they move it out to the dock and then they build all the engines and mechanical and then they move it and drop it in there. So it's incredible to be part of this legacy. I grew up all the way down to Marine Park, so there's no trains down there, so it was in a round corner here for a while as well. So I have a lot of municipal pride for a project like this. It's my grandparents' bold with all the Brooklyn Dodgers when they come and see them on this site actually back when it was at its field. So, a long, long Brooklyn history and I have a background in photography first. I do not have a doctorate, unfortunately. And I made my way through a lot of creative industries on ways to understanding how much science, technology, and engineering mathematics touch everything. And so, you'll see here, it says, combining microscopy, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotronics is building the tools today for the factory of tomorrow. Now, that's like the simplest elevator pitch we could come up with so far. I mean, sometimes it's really long, sometimes we say we're just a microscope company. What we're really doing is we get to be a part of every factory, every manufacturing process, any potential lab in anywhere in the world. So, what really says, we're insanely curious and we wanna see everything so we build a company that allows us to dig around with everyone and really explore what's possible by taking the convergence of what's available to everyone now and realizing the future is actually here. We just have to put it together in the right pieces. So, this is one of our tools. This is a typical electronic semiconductor inspection tool and to go back to what Dr. Blackman was saying, we started as a software company and then we became vertically integrated. We realized for us to really make an impact, we also had to control the hardware first. We had to understand what was being built by our customers and how we could help them change their process. If you walk into any factory today or Henry Ford did rather know exactly what was happening. Why is that the same? Why are people working such tedious, back-breaking jobs 120 years after the Second Industrial Revolution? And so, sorry. And then our goal is to take, first our motto is to build a future and you need to see it. The next step is you have to start to understand what you're seeing and then you get to start really changing and correcting what you're seeing. Right now, the process really is, oh, it doesn't work, throw it away. How do you actually reduce waste, reduce the size of these factories, make the jobs incredibly creative, and make a affordable, good, well-made product locally to everyone? So, these are some of our customers you may have seen. Google, Waymo does the, you know, Autonomous Guard so I guess you won't be doing that. Amazon, Rolex is one, Apple. So we get to be a part of it every day. But first I just wanna talk about what is a microscope? And everyone see over here, am I in what? I know it's wide. So, I mean, traditionally you might think of something like a microscope like this. Someone punched over, making notes slowly, like losing their mind and you don't know who's lying. Yeah, in some places. But this is our, this is what it looks like under the hood. Now everyone we work with helped build the software and the hardware and all these pieces combined. And it's important that we, every young person, every future employee, every partner we work with understands that it's not just software alone anymore doesn't work the same way. But this is another, you know, it's like how do we make and build the software to work with these tangible things. Because everything we're touching goes into the real world. Tootsie rolls, to toothpaste, to tires, to 3D printed airplanes, to autonomous vehicles, to every part of your phone, to pharmaceuticals, to cosmetics, any bit of rubber can just keep going on as we get it. So excited anytime some new process comes to us and some new problems. This keeps going, but this moves about a hundred times as fast as that. Just to see if it's robotic. So we build all this too. Then it moves the sample around, this is the microscope. This is a microscope. And this is using some of this is showing our software and giving you the confidence score of what the artificial intelligence is telling us. Humans are amazing and will always be better than machines at seeing things outside of the patterns. Machines right now are just better at seeing the patterns and picking that up. We don't need to do that to use work. Let human creativity see something while that's a mistake. No, that's an actual opportunity for us to invent. And that's how invention starts. Here again, this side of how it happens. This is another microscope that's, oh, what happened? So this was designed for an aerospace company where they actually had to move. The, you couldn't move the sample or this big airfoil around everywhere. But so we moved the microscope, like before. This is another one. But if it's a really big thing, how do you get it under there? This is another wing of an airplane. What we'll bring into you, why does it, you don't have to take things out of the production setting and waste it and do destructive testing. This is actually just left the Victorian Albert Museum and blended it on its way to Sweden. This is more of an art piece version of what our 3D tool does. Now that's also exciting for us too. We get to fly over, we get to go to London where the first World's Fair started was the first time they combined the Science Museum, Portrait Gallery, and the Natural History Museum into one since the beginning, which was like in 1860 or 1774. But this tool allows us to take what we're looking at and drop it into a virtual reality set. So you can start to understand things at this scale, at the microscopic scale, at the nano scale. Because before you're looking at it, like what does it really mean? Oh, there's some blood, there's some tissue that was hair you were just walking on, dude. So the skills we actually have from video games actually have real life potential now. If everyone is, instead of just running around shooting stuff there and taking some of this car over there where you can actually tagging each other, yeah. But it makes it go back and then when you have 1,000, 10,000 of these people playing this and going forward and allowing us to understand. Now we have a huge data set that allows us to cure cancer faster, work on regenerative medicine, make smaller, better medicine delivery systems to be better tires. Anyway, this is a basal week. So this is what you would see at the museum when you walk there. Now, ever, does everyone know 3D printing? They're all seen on half, they're all gonna try 3D printing something? Yeah, 3D printing, they have some 3D printers, you guys will get a chance to do it. Has anyone seen what happened when it just stops working and gets clogged and it just spins around like cotton candy or it's just done? So basically, it's a very old school process where, oh, it made it halfway and it broke, it had stopped, it ran out and then it's done, you throw it away. You gotta start all over and someone has to come in. Well, we threw some cameras on it and we re-engineered it. So we can start to understand where there might be a failure. Because this is what each layer, you start to understand what's going on here and you're like, well, this caused a problem later and it's gonna break. This happened. So now we can start being like, okay, now five layers later, fix it. That's great for a 3D printer. But what can that be for any part of any process? And the skills outside of what we consider traditional, mathematics, science, technology, and engineering can apply here. What we bring from the world, we have such fast computers, we have this ability to have prototypes and small factories in our home. And that's when I get into what is our idea of a factory? I mean, I'm assuming a lot of people just think of it as this hard, backbreaking, dirty work where you go, you go home, take care of your family, you do this thing, but what happens to all the creative? Now, this was the World's Fair in the 1930s, Albert Kahn designed this and this was GM's assembly line. Now, this didn't actually ever make it into the GM factory, but why? And all these people can see every step of the process. Now, it's not one huge long line, you're seeing each part coming into the car, it's like nice and open, and it looks like actually nicer things to work. But this is a factory today, these are some 3D printers. This is a factory, another 3D printer. This is a factory today with vertical farming in its control situation. This is a factory. This is what you get the opportunity to really change how we work by bringing up and all these things. Now, I know this looks like I'm dating myself a little bit like Spaceballs or Star Wars. So, what's the structure of Spaceballs? How do we actually start to understand what are the tools that are at our disposal? And I think a lot of people here are artificial intelligence, they might have heard some of the scary things and take over like Terminator or, you know, turn us all into paper clips, et cetera. AI, like all technology, it's just another tool that we have at our disposal. And right now it touches many different things, from these drones and we call it machine learning. This is kind of where we are now and what the potential of AI is. And this is what we actually do now, from autonomous systems, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, pattern recognition, natural language processes. And all those words, if anyone's taking a biology class or a neuroscience, all come from based on humans and based on the brain and how we understand learning and development, even mostly as a child. That's great, but it's a tool. How do we allow to incorporate us? To incorporate this into our toolbox on a day-to-day basis. And so it lives over there and lets us to be creative and invent and solve problems, instead of saying, I have to mark next year 30,000 times in the next few hours and then maybe I'll go to lunch. By the way, lunch was invented just to keep people out of the object. So, this is an example of what traditional factory setting right now, like high tech on the left. You can see the little guy in the middle making sure everything's going. This is what's considered feedback. So every little step of the process only talks to the one proceeding. It's like, hey, you messed up, do it better. Hey, you messed up, do it better. Hey, you messed up, do it better. By the time you get to here, maybe it seemed to find the whole way, whoa, you went really off base. Now we have all this wasted product. And in an artificial intelligence system, everything's going straight to the middle. And we'll, for the sake of argument, keep calling it the brain of things we make for time. So, and then you have something that's relatively controlled, see how it's all jittery here and all these mistakes, this guy's getting tired. He wants to go home. He's been there for 13 hours straight for the last seven days. You know, he's got something else to do, maybe there's a football game on it. But, when you see things start to actually change. Very subtly, you'll see even just the order. And that's something that can be corrected with the system that a human might not have seen, but we can say that small mistake isn't a mistake. It's an opportunity for a new invention and for something better. Plus, it then becomes cheaper to do and be more excited. So, I'm just gonna show you a quick video of what it's like working for you now. I got a couple hundred jobs to fill in the next five to 10 years. Building one big factory. I got space all around the Navy Yard too, on hold, just in case. What's that, you guys all get out? We've paid a pretty good wage. Well, as soon as some of the things get announced. I mean, it's a, it's a, it's a good one. The incentive later hopefully to wanna stay. So, I mean, between 60 and 180,000 dollars, I guess, but is this on the record? 60. A little less sometimes, this? How long do you say, a couple years? Eight years. Eight years, so when you do these forms and you order them, you just stand upon them. You get incentive to do the same thing, and you get a new idea. To do this? To do this, yeah. No, not to do this, this idea. I was just wondering how you'd write, No, no, for some of the programs with CUNY and Medgar Adverts, we will be getting, we'll be working together. We'll be hiring interns every semester. We'll be working with the employment center. We'll be, hopefully, we've offered our services up in terms of some classes and curriculum. I don't know if they'll take us. But we're hoping so. Yeah, if I can jump in on that. So that's part of the official deal. And so it's just a way, the conversations that we had after our formal engagements that sort of said, I would love that you would be able to come and kind of do community outreach with us. So this is their, on their own time. Yeah, I don't have a lot of time. This is something we've been looking for a long time. It's been a great passion of mine to start at the middle school level. So by the time people got to college, they weren't like, I really wanted to do this. Like I said, I most likely would have been an engineer if I had known programs like this were available when I was in seventh and eighth grade. And I've worked through photography and marketing at galleries and then. You're a big gentleman. Oh, I just, I love solving problems. Why are you a private company? We're a private company, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So on this level, what's that educational background? Do we need to have a doctor's to do this? No, I mean, we have people from every level, GD to high school level, to bachelor's or associate's level, to master's, PhD level. I mean, there's so many shops available to a company like this. We decided to be very integrated so we can understand, so we control every part. So anyways, you can do it small and you can do it and understand the supply chain. So we have a machine as a assembler, there's electrical engineer as we have a large, like marketing communications staff. We have a huge R&D department. We have a large software development department. So I mean, it's the only thing we don't make are the cameras, the computers and the optics. The optics have been pretty much the same and slightly perfected over the last 400 years. The cameras get better because there's some of them are our customers. We help them get better. We're not gonna limit ourselves. We get a new one that we all make better. Same with the computers. So everything else we make. All the software, too. We have to innovate and sell. We try to get ahead of everything. So there's times where we put our money where our mouth is because we realize the industry is a little slow in moving somewhere. Other times we try to just make it more affordable and more attractive for the larger companies to take risks on things they might not have. A tool like this, like a competitor, might be many millions of dollars or something. So it's how do we get a foothold everywhere and understand everything so you know, this industry's doing this. This could really benefit this one. So any changes, we have an off the shelf solution, too. No one ever wants it. They don't want something custom. They don't want the special software, too. So it all goes back into the package and we get to see the world. So you deal with the government contract, isn't it? I don't personally deal with government contracts. Some of our customers might have, but I'm not on the legal side or on the testing side, so I can't speak to that specifically, but we have tools all over the world that answers your question. You're going in the front, right? I don't think I'm going in the front. We started in almost eight years ago. Our CEO got this start as a classically trained composer and jazz pianist into New York. He was a Broadway musical producer and poet. I went back to work for the family business who long worked in the polymer and rubber industries in Ohio, ran that company for a while, and then went back and got his PhD in applied physics. And we never thought we were gonna be like semiconductors was gonna be our bread and butter, but it was, they had a lot of money and they needed to change all the time and we took the hardest application we could to make clear things not look clear and focus on it. So we started at the hardest application because of our arrogance maybe and our curiosity. And then we started working our way into everything else, but yeah, and then we're just gonna keep going. Yes? So you guys are fishing at New Lab right now, right? We're at New Lab right now and we got another 6,000 square feet outside of New Lab in New York. So it is like, is New Lab temporary or are we there? No, we're the largest tenant now. The founders of New Lab are investors. We felt we could be more mentors to all of the companies that would have problems scaling production, like how can we make it easier and more affordable for them to produce things at scale? So you don't have like these Kickstarter like campaigns where someone raised a bunch of money for a great prototype and then they, oh wait, now I have to make 10,000 companies, I don't know how, where am I gonna do it? You didn't, everything, it might be the first company to build another factory there. So it's less an incubator in that way that they want people to come and prototype everything and build around. That's more of the Navy Arts Commission because it's the largest manufacturing land in the city. Yeah, so we'll always be there when we work closely together. But we'll right next to you, one another. For your program, what's the number of them that you use? The number of them? This is being live streamed, so I can't really just get the number. I got to stay competitive. There's a big, huge company building, 20 buildings somewhere that I'm sure about. But you know, I gotta be able to get ahead of it. Is there a school being built on Ellis Island? Is there a college or a high school? Are you guys a part of that? I'm not aware of that, do you know what I mean? I know there's a high, there's a Cornell program on Roosevelt Island. Roosevelt Island. But the Navy Arts building a huge steam center which will open next year too. And it's more of like, it's almost like a Bosie-type model, I believe. Roosevelt Island. No, no, no, that's in the Navy Art. Yeah, and the working with one of the artists. One of our PA professors is involved in helping to design a kind of science center, so to speak, in the Brooklyn Navy Art. So there will be something there for the display of science. I only know what I read in the paper here, Brandon. But I'm sure Dr. Blanchard can introduce you to the right people at the Navy Art to talk about those plans. Hi, do you do class visits? Absolutely. Yeah, there's an auditorium there too. We can do a tour, we can do a big event, get the big screen up. Yeah, we do that often. And it's nice to do the work when we have two, not just us, because you get to see all the different companies in the 3D printing lab and machine shops and all those wonderful other companies there that we're lucky to be neighbors with. Yeah, so any time. Our office manager actually worked with a program that worked with the schools at the Intrepid and once a year, she brings the class through for a few days. Any other questions? Here we go, let's thank the speaker once more. Thank you. We'll be happy to have you once again. Well, I think you're welcome. So, I think that's a quick example of what we hope will be a regular feature and you guys get to start it off and hopefully you will be here as we go forward in the future. We're plans are to have something like this happen once or twice every semester. And so, I think given the attendance today, so the point of this room is really effective for doing slide decks and things of that sort. But it's clear that I think we've had a more overwhelming response to the idea so maybe the next time we will try to have a slightly bigger space. I hope it's not too hot and I hope we're okay. So if we're okay, then we can continue to. Yeah, so I think I'm going to invite Brenda back to kind of give us a sense of where we go from here. We're thinking that you might want to see your lovely building. All right, let's put our hands again for Mr. James Williams. At this time, before we move forward, I just wanted to give an opportunity so that you guys can actually not only see Mr. James Williams, but I didn't tell this young man today who had an opportunity to present what his research he did last year and he participated at the state level. So you guys are going to learn a little bit about what he did for that pretty printer. And this is Sharon Bakas. He's a graduated senior. So he's going to just share quickly about his research that he did. Hello everyone, my name is Shirley. Yeah, so last year, I actually worked with the program. I was an intern. And I actually learned a lot from the program and they exposed me to a pretty printer at first. Like it was like a brand printer. Nobody knew how to work with anything like that. So on the first I said, okay, I have a goal. I'm going to find how to operate it. So that thing forward, I took out a manual and I read it. I studied it from the front to the back and I worked on it. And then I understood every single part, how it functions and everything. And then I'm actually part of a program called Team. Like that was posted about earlier. And they taught us how to work with additive manufacturing and how to create 3D models. So I was able to sketch out, I was able to sketch and create a turbine. It was able to harvest both wind and water energy. I also created two motors, which were DC, which stands for direct current. So they were like batteries, they can turn batteries. And I also created the wind turbine, which was on this call to us in the current. So it's like, you know, like how we have like electricity from like wind turbines all the way up in like the wind, like away from society and stuff like that. How many so that we can actually bring those to urbanized areas at night? Thank you. Yes. And so how much of you guys are actually interested into like pre-creating and stuff like that for the future? Pretty interesting. Well, this program actually offers, like you can actually learn and you can actually work hand on. So it's not like most programs where they tell you you're gonna, you know, work and then that's it. You're actually gonna be able to actually learn. And Mr. Randall and Mr. Brown will be there and they will help you in the program. What are you working on for the next project? Oh, in the next project I'm working on. We're designing a prosthetic arm. That's... And it's the way it works, it's gonna be, it's gonna function with the muscles trapped in your body already. So all people believe that once this part is gone, like, there's no attachment or anything like that. But you can actually attach it right here and you can pick up, like, because most of the time you can pick up from sensors and you can actually have it. Let's put our hands together. A lot of people brag about their son's going to play NFL and football and doing all the stuff, which is okay, you know, especially in our community. But one of the things that we do at Step, we brag about the greatness and the abilities that our students possess. And without that, we need to move our community forward. Traditional jobs, they're going, like, for real. It's tough, you know. Every time you go to Target, it's less people to interact with. You know, self-checkout. You go everywhere, you know. And we're moving in a place where the traditional jobs and the things that we thought would have brought us security, financial security will no longer be there. So we need to start exposing our students on your children the things that can make them marketable in the future. And this is why we're here. We're here to expose you guys, not only to consume, but also to manufacture and create. So you guys can be the people that we come to, you know, and in the next future, who knows, in the near future, you guys can be standing in front and thinking about how this opportunity may have changed your life or even opened up your mind to something new. So don't just be here, you know. Just think about it. Let one thing stand up. Just stop. There's a lot being said today. There's a lot of information. But just stop and think about what can I take from this? Instead of, like, just playing the video games, like, what makes it work? You know, instead of, like, always buying a new sneaker, it's like, why is this cool? What about the colors are so cool? Why is this so... Why don't we want this? You know, why can I create better material to make sneakers or something like that? You know? Think about clothing and fabric. That's all waiting with standards at work. You know, creating better, sustainable sources of stuff that we can all heart us. Everything that we use, everything that we touch, everything we enjoy, there's some part of STEM playing a role in it. From baking of bread, you know, the yeast rising, the bread, the dough raising, you know, that's just STEM at work there. So everything that we do, STEM has always been a part of our lives. It will continue to be a part of our lives. And as we move into the future, it's actually taking over our lives, you know. Just 10 years ago, we, the computer came to our phone. Just 10 years ago, we had iPhones, you know, and it came out and now, I can't move or do anything without my phone, you know, it's like my bank, and I don't even use a wallet, my cart, everything is on that, you know. It's just, things are changing, you know. Some people don't even walk with cash anymore, you know, things are truly changing. And this is not an opportunity for students, but also we have opportunities for the adults. And today we have Ms. DeCarla Anderson and she will share about some adult and continuing educational opportunities we offer here at my campus college that not only students can participate in, but also parents can in their advancement. So let's just welcome DeCarla as she comes. Good morning everyone. Good morning. I'll take just a few minutes of your time. I ran over from Town Street Building where we were organizing programs and our students settled to come over to share with you very quickly about some of the opportunities you're going to train and you have available in continuing education. The program is coordinated. I oversee the smooth operating of all of our programs. Since we've been varying from where they used to be in the medical building any one of our training that we offer especially as on weekends or in the evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. And so what I'm going to share with you is it's not uniquely about yourself. You may have a family member or a friend that you might have referred to before. I'd like to leave some materials with you and I'll see about it afterwards before you reach out. So, this is our catalog our fall semester catalog we have starting classes already actually, so October we started our first week on October and our fall will continue through December. Some classes are still in session and others are getting ready to start towards the end of November. So if you're interested for the fall classes we've got a catalog that I'll be sharing just a few to share with you. And of course inside are various courses ranging from our health allied healthcare courses in the front section to our technicals and other areas where they speak computer classes or other trainings that you might be interested in. And then in addition to that this is our flyer promoting our allied healthcare courses which of course continuing education is actually known for. We are the arm over college that promotes certificate training especially allied healthcare training. So we're talking about the certified phlebotomy training EMT EKG any of these allied healthcare trainings are available in our department and of course all you need to register is a high school diploma or a G if you already have college credits that's as well acceptable but it's a very simple process when it comes to the education you'll find we are mirroring the college in terms of the responsibilities that you get in that department we are the bursar the admissions office financial aid all wrapped up in bonds and we make it very simple it's a matter of calling in making an appointment to come in to see one of our specialists myself and it's from there it's just a matter of coming in bringing in your proof that your registration form will get you enrolled in one of these courses so again if it's not for yourself it might be for a family member or a friend and then we're talking about non-traditional financial aid because of course this is the area where you pay out of pocket for these courses training that are geared towards employment not geared towards a degree so you'll be looking at out of pocket costs and one of the opportunities we have available to help you cover that cost is the Helen and Rubinstein scholarship fund this fund will pay up to 90% of the cost of your tuition so again this is information that we would normally share with you once you come in to inquire about the program which is part of our financial assistance to you in addition to this there's a payment that is available we can customize it according to your needs in terms of how you're able to make your payment and that is something you need to discuss in detail because it is unique to every person okay one of our unique programs it is a power legal program it is an online offering partnership with the institute we offer the monitor the training online and then we ensure the certification this partnership with the Center for Legal Studies is to ensure that their professors online are giving you the best service the best assistance and the best tutoring for this certification it is back into the partnership we will be able to process you in our office and ensure the same payment situation that is applied to this and get you through to the end of the problem with the training another partnership that we are proud of is the longevity program where you're able to do this course it's a brick and mortar course this is the wedding and events planning he rewards that into doing their own business you may be doing it already organizing parties working parties helping to set up weddings and so on this is the certification that you need to definitely be a business owner and someone in charge of such an operation again, if you are all available and about to continue in the education department we are located in the community now that you mentioned our address 1534 Bedford Avenue we are right above the newsstand at the corner and our telephone number is 718-804-8850 this is pretty much my quick packet that I pulled together for you today and for those of you who might be affected I will immediately at a strategic point where everyone will be able to help themselves to information and so if you have questions for me if not you have our contact information when you get ready to share with your family and friends, let them know this is the department that is in the non-credit area it is certification only training towards employment not a degree program the degree area it is in the main campus and of course you get all that information when that time comes for now this is to help out those friends and family members who already have their degree and just need a certification to complement that degree or for someone who has not yet completed their degree and just need a quick job get through you know, finances and all that stuff before they come to your graduation so we are here to say feel free to contact us and if there are no questions at this point I am pretty much out thank you our main focus today was not only to share new information with our students but also to encourage our parents and family members, guardians for their improvement and even for their enrichment let's say enrichment and making it our community better at this time what we will do we will take you guys on a quick tour of our campus just two buildings we have heard of Medgaris College but have not really seen much of it so we will be walking with you guys and just take you to the library and then over to the science building one of the things we will ask of you guys there are still classes and sessions so you guys are going to have those same questions who absolutely leave a specific area and one of the things is that you can leave your stuff here or you can walk with your stuff there will be people remaining here so it will be quick and after that we come back here and we will celebrate and all of you guys can head on after that so we will just take a quick tour I will be there yes we will be going a quick walk across the building and then we will take