 Kiora folks. I'm so thankful to be here, thankful to EHF and Teati Awa and the New Zealand government and the rest of its people for this opportunity. It's really been an incredible time here. So my story begins at the intersection of engineering and entrepreneurship. I grew up making my own games and then also working with my siblings here and everything from our own lemonade stands to I was very terrible at sports but was happy to sell candy bars and so I realized now they kept me on for fundraising but we you know exploring this this domain you know really had a blast but things didn't really get kind of properly weird until I met my co-founder Eric Gradman. We're both engineers robotics computer science electrical we're also trained clowns and how to engineer clowns found each other I'll never really understand but we did in 2008 get really frustrated with what we were working on it was the world financial crisis we were pretty also frustrated the fact that everybody had all this like increasing screen time and they weren't kind of doing a lot of this right hanging out in real life and so we just started collaborating making interactive art we were making games six player things like this that got people you know meeting each other in new places simple arcade cabinets walls of buttons right but a lot of this stuff was enabled by the fact that computer vision and cheap sensors and all of that stuff was getting really awesome and accessible and we could make something in an evening right or an afternoon right that was that stuff was so hard in the in the past we even filled a room with fog and laser beams my favorite thing about this everybody knows what to do in a room of laser beams and and my co-founder actually ended up meeting his wife in this thing so they you know are getting back together in real life it really worked they had their first kid so I still feel like this is our most effective game but eventually this rock band found out about this band of nerds and we helped them make a music video that was a big crazy Rube Goldberg machine that started like this and ended like this and over the course of it these educators started reaching out to us saying hey that was awesome we use it in our science class and the kids that you know watched it were really inspired and they started you know we made our own Rube Goldberg machine and we were kind of scratching our heads like wow we were just like screwing around like this is a teaching tool and it really you know sort of settled in our brains is something important so we launched a proper circus called two-bit circus and in addition to building tons of crazy things virtual reality for the Olympics and even a cloud that rains tequila we finally said you know we've done a hundred events for other people let's do our own event and rather than just a party's for party's sake let's let's let's do something more important and and you know I think we've all seen over the last few days that there's no shortage of hard problems out there right but there's certainly a shortage of creative passionate folks to go out and solve those things and we were really inspired by this one quote from the US Department of Labor 65% of school children be employed in a job that doesn't exist right that doesn't even mean it will exist so we were very shocked by that and the fact that you know this this board millennials photo I think is incredible these they're not even at school right they're at an amusement park and they're bored right and so we were like gosh you know we really there's a high bar here we got to really engage folks so if it's sort of the old world was this one that was really passive for consumers we really liked the idea of something that was much more active much more creator and and even has been talked about today a co-creator so the you know the term stem science technology engineering and math pretty boring usually you think of a guy like this you know and and we were like but wait it's so awesome to be an engineer there's so much great stuff that you can do you know and we started thinking about somebody like this right a nook with practice incredible a creator you know wearable electronics all sorts of crazy stuff so we felt like stem plus art steam was a very exciting a very exciting term we thought of this guy right Leonardo da Vinci right not only an engineer and a scientist but a creator an artist an inventor so we launched a carnival big traveling carnival steam carnival and the idea was one half all of our high-tech entertainment one half a bunch of hands-on projects to inspire kids about science and engineering the message being hey we built this stuff it's not that hard you can too here's how programming electronics fabrication creativity design thinking so all these different hands-on projects as well as remember the old dunk tank where you throw a ball and you fall in water we were like yeah waters okay fire is awesome and so we you know we would immerse you in a fireball you don't die because you're wearing a fire suit that was great this is my favorite photo in our whole cabin my kids not gonna forget that for long and so we did as we launched a big nonprofit I love the the appreciation and reverence for trash in in the Roja Valley we believe the same thing we collect a bunch of clean waste from companies we package it up as art supplies for schools extra bottle caps extra cardboard all sorts of fun like that we provide the physical tools so that then a kid can make their own games right here's a cardboard arcade cabinet their own big crazy ridiculous machines we have a four part program and we came out to New Zealand a few years ago worked with some educators down in Nelson we're very excited to prototype versions of this approach out here collecting trash getting into all the regions and using that as a really inexpensive supplies for schools and I'm done thanks