 We had a great fortune of having MIT's Media Lab fellows come in to speak with our students about life strategies and we called it Media Lab Strategy Day at Automotive High School. It's important for an institution like MIT's Media Lab to reach out to communities all around the country, particularly in underserved communities, because it gives the students an opportunity to interact with great people, with great technology, with the kind of ideas that can make a substantial difference in their lives. Any partnerships between high schools and post-secondary schools are very important because it helps students build a network and it helps also students recognize that there's something outside of high school. Baratunde Thurston spoke to the auditorium about his life and about how he uses comedy as a political activist to make a difference. The very first book I remember as a kid was this, it's called This is a Part-Time. That's something I haven't read for eight years. Ryan Chin spoke to the kids about the future of cities, how electric cars will impact the way we drive and the way we live. This is a story that we designed, it uses in-field electric motors, it's foldable, and I'm going to show you a video of both of them. Can you put it like in a bag? Juliana Rotich spoke about her work in Kenya, bringing technology and expertise to a place in the world that really needs it. Shaka Sengor spoke about his time in prison, the impact of violence in his early life, about how he was able to change his life using writing and how he continues to change the life of others speaking all around the country and the world. Then I had another student came to me and said, Mrs. Stanzik, that man was very interesting and he was referring to Shaka, they were quite taken with Shaka and Bartunda did a great job of waking them up this morning so we were very happy about that. So I believe that it was very, very well received. The event was tremendous, the students walked out, clearly moved, clearly thoughtful and clearly hopeful for their futures and about what they can do to help change the world. I have to on behalf of my students we owe Mr. Ashley a debt of gratitude because he made this possible for us.