 Welcome everyone. I'm Chris Kaplus. I'm the Director of the SCX MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain Management. I'm here with Jim Rice, who is the Deputy Director of CTL here and runs all of our Executive Education, as well as our Partners Program. And we're here to talk to you about the new offering that we have, specifically only for SCX students, and that's the Boot Camp. And so this is the Boot Camp for Supply Chain Management that, as I said, is only open for those who have completed at least three of the SCX courses. And we thought we'd explain why we're doing this. So the first is, you've all done these online courses, and you've come to realize by now, I'm sure, that some things you can learn online, and some things are best taught face to face. And that's what we want to cover in this Boot Camp, from August 22nd to August 25th. It's a very intensive four days where you get to do a lot of those things you can't just do online. The second thing is that we found that some students, they finished the MicroMasters, but they can't come and quit their job for five months to come get a master's degree. I'm a big believer in coming for that full intensive time period, whether it's 10 months, five months, or two years. But that's not feasible for some people in their current state of their life. So this is another offering. It's another piece of the portfolio for the education. The third is, some of the offerings we offer for Executive Ed aren't quite suited for the SCX students. They're either a little too general, and they don't leverage the kind of learning that you've already taken and that you've acquired. So we've really kind of focused it on those kind of things, and that's why we're offering this. And the final reason is because we can scale. A one week offering is something we're going to do as a pilot, because we're testing it. We haven't done this before. If it works, then I can see replicating this multiple times in terms of frequency, but also location. We have a lot of learners in Latin America who would probably be more willing to come to Bogota for a lesson. In Southeast Asia come to Kuala Lumpur, or in Europe come to Zaragoza or Luxembourg. So we're playing with this. We're going to see how it works the first time through, and it's an experiment like everything else we're doing in this program. And so we don't quite know how it's going to turn out, but you're in here for the journey. And so I asked Jim to talk a little bit about Executive Ed and what he's done in the past and what they couldn't expect. Yeah, thanks Chris. Let me just address one comment you just made. We don't know how it's going to turn out. Well, I think that based on all the Executive Ed we've done in the past, we have a pretty good feeling for how things are going to go. You know, we've done short programs, long programs, custom programs, open enrollment, and most recently, almost all of our programs are what we call blended, meaning that there's an online component to it. One thing that is in common we have across all these is that when we bring people together, in person, there's the chance for that transformative experience. And you'll find that as an online learner, your experience is going to be very different. Your experience is going to be where you're going to share an idea and it's going to get challenged. You're also going to have to think on your feet. So whatever ideas you have come in to say a case discussion, it's going to get challenged. And then real time, you're going to have to say, Oh, wait a second, I have new information. What does that make me think now? Right. So to tie on to that, everything we do online is what's known as asymmetric. You can do it at any time because you're across the world, we can't have everyone online or in the same room at the same time. What Jim's alluding to when we do a case study, like when we did it online, you all commented by yourself, there was very little interaction back and forth. I can guarantee you in a classroom with everyone sitting around, there's a ton of interaction and you do get challenged. And that's where the real learning takes place. That's why we're going to stock the this bootcamp with a lot of case studies where there's a lot of discussion debate. There's not always a clear answer. Because that's another problem, strength and a weakness with the online. There's always a correct answer. For cases, it gets a little fuzzy. Yeah, you'll your your ability to think critically is going to be challenged at this. And just as Chris mentioned, it's going to be very intensive. There's lots of interactive activities. In fact, that's one of the big distinctions between online. I mean, this bootcamp and our open enrollment programs, this one is almost all interactive, you know, two cases a day, interactive exercises, and then we have research briefings from faculty members across MIT. So it's going to be really exciting, I think. So it's going to be very intensive for those four days. We're packing it in. And because it's a trial, we reduce the price. So hopefully you can join us. We'll be here along with our colleagues on 20 to 25 August. Now's the time to register if you want to try and join us for this first initial pioneering bootcamp. Hope you're there. Cheers.