 Live from Boston, Massachusetts, it's theCUBE, covering Red Hat Summit 2019, brought to you by Red Hat. Well, good afternoon and welcome back as theCUBE continues our live coverage, exclusive coverage of Red Hat Summit 2019 here in Boston, some 9,000 strong attendees here. Keynotes have been jam packed. In fact, we just finished our afternoon session not too long ago. Again, very well attended, dynamic speakers, Stu Minimum, John Walls. We're joined now by Lee Day, who's the Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Red Hat. Lee, good to see you. I see you. And Michael Bratch, who's a teacher of English as a second language at Franklin Middle School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. B, good to see you, sir. And that's what your students call you Mr. B, is that right? They do. We saw that. We might just follow through on that tradition right now if we could. Okay, let's do it. All right, let's talk about why the two of you are here together. I know Michael's school has an interesting history that they've been kind of following somewhat independently in terms of open source and work. And then Lee, you found them through your marketing work, some really very interesting avenues that you have on your platform. So tell me a little bit about how you got here and then we'll get into it after that. Okay, great. So Red Hat has a program called Colab and this is our program where we go into schools and we teach kids how to code. So we do things like circuit boards and programming on raspberry pies. Kids have programmed raspberry pies into cameras to go around cities and take pictures. And we have had Colabs in many cities and we hadn't hit the Midwest and we chose Minneapolis and we found, fortunately, Franklin Middle School and that great group of girls and two awesome teachers that are very inspirational. And so the relationship didn't stop at that week of Colab. We have stayed in touch and here at the summit we've showcased the work and the relationship that we have together. Yeah, and I know a lot of the focus of the program is toward appealing to younger ladies, young girls, trying to get them more involved in STEM education. We just had the two award winners for the Women in Open source with us just a few moments ago. So this is a company-wide, I wouldn't say directive initiative that you said, okay, we have a responsibility and we think we have a role here to play. Absolutely, it's important to us to see the next generation of technologists and we feel like women, especially young women, sometimes feel like technology isn't accessible to them and they're not often in technology programs and universities. So it's our initiative to help young people feel comfortable and good about technology and that they can actually code and they can actually do things that they didn't think were possible to them previously. All right, so Mr. B, help us understand how this fits in the curriculum and give us a little bit of the story of how it went down. What was funny I said, I mean, this opportunity for us is a home on out the park because we're a STEAM school, science, technology, engineering, arts and math. So today, not only did our students perform on the main stage, a song that we were able to collaborate, write and go through a whole production process with music, we were also able to, right now as we speak down, running a booth, building circuits, presenting those circuits, presenting those circuit boards and collaborating all together down there with attendees of this conference right now. So, I mean, we're covering every one of those STEAM components, basically, in one project, one large scale technology project. So this opportunity, home on out the park. Yeah, love that, because that was the first thing I went to mind. I heard photography involved, you say STEAM and so much, you know, we can't just have tech for tech sake, you know, I studied engineering and like things like design and those kind of things weren't in the curriculum back when I went to school. Creative side. Yeah, how important is that to kind of get, especially think young people, get the enthusiasm going, that creative side would get them deeper into it? Well, you know, I always look at individual students. Everybody has their individual gifts and talents and it's about finding those leadership skills within each one of those gifts. And so, within this, you're able to find someone that might be more creative in one area, maybe more technical and more logic oriented in other areas. With that, you're able to just have more of a broader spectrum to be able to find people's individual gifts and talents. And for them to, in the collaboration, also contribute their gifts and talents in different avenues instead of it just being one lane, like just this part of technology or just this part of production or just this part of design. We're able to kind of integrate all of that into one thing. And to take it one step further, after we did the, so Colab came out with their mobile container out to US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And it was right downtown, right outside of where our football team players brand new stadium. Super Bowl was just there two years ago now. And so, with our students being there, after we got done with that Colab, when they were asking us to take it a step further in the classroom, our students actually designed with our Future Boys logo, Future Girls logo. A card and then presented it to Red Hat and they ended up printing off the cards and they were able to use it to build the circuit. So we weren't just using the Colab cards, but we also got to design our own too. So you said Future Boys, so that's an organization, the club that you formed at the school, Future Boys and Girls Club, for the express purpose of what? Well, so we actually tie in all different content areas into it. So obviously this is just the future girls that are here in Boston and did the technology side with us and that participate in the Colab because it's an initiative for girls in technology. But the Future Boys and Girls, the overall program, we encompassed a lot of different content areas. We integrate performing arts with academics and all the components of esteemed school into learning. And we do interest-based learning, we do project-based learning. And basically, kids are learning a lot without realizing how much they're really learning. And we make it fun and relevant, but we also teach the leadership skills and the hard work that goes in with it. And I mean, even just coming out here to Boston for this opportunity here in this summit, I mean, the amount of work that it took for the students to get here and the process, the ups and downs, especially with middle school students, the marathon, not a sprint mentality has been absolutely amazing. Yeah, good luck with that. Well, I always say I haven't had a bad day yet, just an over-stimulating one. Yeah, so, Lee, we love having stories on theCUBE and especially Tech for Good is something that we always get a good dose here at Red Hat Summit. What else can you share, some of the open-source stories that are going on around the event? Oh, we're really thrilled today. We're launching our newest open-source story, which is about agriculture. And we choose topics with open-source stories that are important to everyone. So, medicine, helping define cures for cancer even, arts, government, and artificial intelligence. And today, it's about open hardware and open agriculture and we're launching a new film this afternoon. I saw Future of Farming, right, right, and that's debuting today. Yes, and we had someone showing their farming computer on our stage and it's actually down in the summit show for today. So, you've got the open studio working and you have a number of projects. I assume this fell into one of those slots, right, where you were using one of those platforms to feature great work, Future of Farming is another example of this, but you have some, I think, pretty neat things that you've created, some slots that have given you a chance to promote open-source in a very practical and very relatable way. Yes, exactly, so our open studio is our internal creative community agency, but we do get ideas from everyone around the world. So, we get ideas about open agriculture, AI, what we can do with kids and programming with kids, and then we take those ideas into the open studio and it is a meritocracy, so the best idea is when, and that's what we choose to bring to life. And we have designers and writers and filmmakers and strategists and a whole group of people that make up the open studio inside of Red Hat. And you've done, and you've featured Franklin Middle School? Yes, so yeah, we work together to create the container that Dr. B mentioned and to create the container, and then we work together. So, what do you have here? So, I have here, so one of the girls, Taylor actually taught me just now, I am not technical, I will just give that caveat, but they make circuit boards and they're making circuit boards here at Summit, and mine doesn't work, so don't try it. That's okay, no, I'll just. Basically, we're, you can see here, we have different designs that our attendees can choose from, and then we have electrical tape, oh sorry, copper tape, and LED light, and so the idea is to form a circuit and to have that LED light up the card. That's great. So, one of the girls actually taught me how to make it, but I think I didn't follow her instructions as well. You need to go back to school. Wouldn't be the first time that I would've fallen apart either on that. So, Michael, where would you be now without Red Hat, or, you know, you were doing your own thing, right, independently, but now you've received some unexpected support. Where would you be, you think, without that help, and how much of a difference have they made to you? Well, let me tell you, I mean, you know, when we look at it being an after-school program, the amount of enrichment and opportunities that Red Hat has created for us has been honestly just unbelievable. It's been first class, and we're so appreciative. I mean, even in our meeting with the Future Girls last night, we just talked about gratitude and how grateful we are for it. I mean, when you look at this circuit, this is an abbreviated version of what the students actually participate in. This is, you know, just a one LED light and a small formation. Our students were doing, I think there were seven or eight on ours, and so the amount of learning and the amount of opportunity that this has presented to them, not only have they learned how to do the technical piece of it, they've learned how to present, they've learned how to speak and present, they've learned how to collab, collaborate, work together on huge levels, and I mean, they learned what they can take on an airplane, you know, coming out here. So I mean, the amount of things that, through the learning process of, like I call it a large-scale technology project that we've been participating in since October, since they brought the mobile lab out to Minneapolis, I call it a large-scale technology project, and going through that whole process has been huge, and let me tell you this, as a teacher and those that are parents, you're competing with so much in this day and age to keep kids' attention, right? I mean, everything is swipe the phone every which way and everything's so instant gratification, so for students to actually engage in this collab program for it to be set up so well from Red Hat, and to actually stick with it and stay engaged with it, really speaks volumes tonight in the program, but also, you know, our students stay and engage with it, but they've stuck with it, they've been engaged, and it's very interest-based, the project, seeing it through, but then also the renewed opportunities and being able to, one of the things on our rubric as a teacher is to expand and extend the learning, I don't mean to be long-winded, but we want to expand on the learning that's already taken place, and being out here, it's just a continuous continuation of the learning, not just one level, going to the next level, going to the next level, and that honestly is where the real learning really takes place. So, Michael, from its very nature, being an open-source company, Red Hat talks a lot about its ecosystem and community. If I read right in the notes there, your students really getting the value and understanding of community, is there something about they wrote a song to talk about that? We become stronger. Yeah, that's the name of the song is We Become Stronger, and you know what, the idea was then, we were looking at the PowerPoint for the summer and for the summit, and in that, there was a phrase that said, ideas become stronger, and that's for the collaboration, and so we started tossing around ideas and things like that, and we're like, well, we like the idea of stronger, and then we're like, well, this is more of the co-lab experience, not just the ideas of the technical side, and then so we said, we become stronger, and yeah, we developed a song specifically for this summit. I think it could go top 40. Yeah, the performance was amazing. Yeah, I think it could go number one, top 40, to be honest with you. But no, I mean, and that was another, whole another phase, like I talk about the steam side of the school, integrating the arts in, and the whole production side of that, was a lot of work and another project, but it was another area of content that we were able to integrate into this project, and we were able to perform it on stage. So like I said, they literally just got our stage performing, we become stronger, singing the whole production of the song, a dance routine, choreography, and then went straight to the booth to now present circuits and teach attendees here at the summit how to build a circuit. I don't know how much better it can get than that. That is so cool, that's great. Now is this the song that you recorded in the same studio, Lenny Kravitz, Alanis Morsead, tell me you didn't like that, huh? I mean, you know, it's, it's all right, it's cool, it's cool. That's great, congratulations Royale on this collaboration. It's really, it is exciting to see what you're doing to inspire young people, and Mike, why can't tell you like your job, don't you? I love it, I love it, yup, yup, yup. Absolutely, we'll keep up the great work and we appreciate the time here and look forward to hearing that song. Maybe if it hits, you know, the i-store, you know, Apple store, maybe, you know, maybe good things will happen, right? Hey, you never know. You guys don't know what the, hey, she's Vice President of Marketing, we're going to figure this out. I'll check it out, iTunes, go buy it on iTunes right now. We've become stronger. Thanks, Michael, we appreciate it, Lee, thank you for being here. Thanks for having us. Back with more here on theCUBE, you're watching our coverage of Red Hat Summit 2019.