can hear all about that so the first thing that i would like to do is just welcome you and introduce you to dr jeffrey perkins who will take us through the rest of the program dr perkins well ladies and gentlemen i was asked to talk about the significance of where we opened up something like this earlier this summer mr aside the executive director asked me as a consultant they have been producing it exceeded everything else and i know they're from the research of the source and let's see can we get something with the seattle seahawks approached them and that's when the plane began we had to reach out to the seattle seahawks never had before when you think in terms of the population that was recruited the population was recruited from these young kids from girl field and franklin high school they are in the c r youth violence prevention initiative but they are so happy to be doing something wait until you see what they have accomplished this is how it works when another group of young people in the same or to me the resources tra two cities this two city interpretation of these photographs and morrow is to the libyans through drawings graphics that they wanted to express because you have to keep in mind these young people are a second generation of refugee immigrants they have culturally assimilated into america yet they are still been in this period docs of traditionalism when they passing on so you can get introduced to what the seeing yourself appear yes to a terrorist redevelopment project we have a guest speaker right here a very outstanding sports character the i'm going to bring in sportscaster seahawks number herself so i'm not going to take up no more tan all i want to say is that the show  program or the media and community as far as community all the causes that we've been involved with that we've supported you hear people saying support this cause support this support these people support these things you know be involved to get involved in these things but instead of the joining these movements joining these cause we've got to start these cause and start these movements to see what's important to you what effects you and start these resources that we are able to have through this program is insane all the software all the classes we learned from basic things from using office which was eight years ago and now we're editing videos on adobe in younger people who need it more than i do get more out of the program than i do so instead of me being involved in this program i can help lead and i can help other people take advantage of these opportunities because not everyone can be doing the things that we do they're selected spots for programs community support us and all the youth know i wish you luck with what you're doing and i hope you really take advantage of this program and the resources that  thanks i'm claire from c l university and others just like to say how wonderful it is to work in partnership with agencies such as m m r t i with it's in focus with the photographic center in north wales and of course with yes for terrorists together with the fine arts department seattle university we've done something that none of those agencies alone could do we've created a really great six week program soon to be a seven week program for area  ages thirteen to eighteen to create videos and make photographs to learn communication visual communication skills and documentary skills and to really provide a venue for their community i guess with terrorists to voice their ideas opinions and concerns about the redevelopment something that is going to really touch everyone in seattle but expression of those living in some terrace so it's through this kind of community humanities washington neighborhood matching c l university that allow us to really learn strong communication skills and also to be advocates for their own community so i think you're going to meet a couple of our youth today and going to see a couple of our films we've made a total of twelve and as i said these youth choose their own topics based on conversations they've had with community residents with area agencies with seattle housing authority with city government officials officials such as sally clark they choose their topics from from the conversations that they have so truly i think that this archive that we're creating and we hope to do it for the next fifteen years this archive that we're doing and that we're creating we hope will enter into the dialogue continuously as a community voice regarding this giant  there in about the redevelopment and this project not only was it a great place to learn technical skills such as how to use a camera and how to use the software but it also taught us skills such as how to connect to the community and how to president and how they're moving and about how they felt about that and the other video was about the childcare that was inside of us or chairs and the video that you'll be watching from our group is about moving res and i am a children's book author i have published thirty one books and i'm so proud of that because it was very difficult my latest book just came out in september when i was growing up in ethiopia i didn't have any television in fact i didn't even have a radio but of course here in america television and media of all kinds those are the things that shape our children's lives here in the united states media here is the way that so many people have a voice that they're able to talk about what is important to them that they're able to discuss their community issues that they are able to express themselves and also that they can understand that when we express ourselves other people are listening so it's so important what youth media is doing children and young people need to grasp the power of media and be able to use it in ways that are good ways that will build up their families and communities i hope that you will really encourage your children to calm and be part of the journalism classes i hope  young people will come any gauge and we'll tell your stories and we'll give your opinions and ideas because it's a wonderful thing having a voice you have important things to say we all have important things to say these days the media that's how we all have a way to say the things that are on our hearts so come to classes tell your opinion be part of things it's the way guy is a year round program kids come together and they have a better understanding about technology and m r ten also stands for multimedia resources and training it's what i mostly love about this program is that provides every year the chance to go and experience new things we came and know little about technology and media to expanding our knowledge as the as a summer progressed and we've received help from multiple resources and we've done lots of interviews  and we interviewed him on society like how society was like in seattle and we interviewed him on the used to do violence because we were ran by the use of violence prevention issues so it was very interesting and with the seahawks and how their organizations changed from her time to now she also gave a brief information about her background which was quite interesting i remember at the very beginning when we first started we were we started an office complex down in lake union it was a g c building we had four different floors and i was on the ninth floor and we'd run up and down the stairs to talk to each other and then we moved to our facility at caroline point now is what it's called and we had a beautiful facility right there on the lake and it was state of the art back then it was it was an exciting time because we had jim zorn and steve largent and everybody just love that the largent connection they kind of put us on the map and maybe we didn't you know when all of our games but the fans were behind us and everybody just loved seeing the seahawks so it was it was a really fun time at the beach steve largent was our wide receiver houston oilers and there was a trade and yeah but they became the best of friends and today they're still the best of friends their families funny when we heard that detroit was getting a super bowl where we're all like watch that's going to be the game we get and once you get that game it's like it's ok it's a super bowl will take detroit but everything was going so well there was a bunch of us sitting in one section at the stadium and everything was the momentum was on our side and then there was penalties and more penalties and you could just see the momentum switch and it was a devastating loss you get there you go you work so hard and just to reach it i mean you have to think that this is our thirty season we've been to the super bowl once it doesn't happen all the time and to get there and to lose it was hard it was really hard we have a great team this it's year and we're looking really really good so you don't want to talk too much about you know that big game you just want to take it one game at a time but we're having a great season and i hope someday we get back great season which is having a fabulous season great young team the guys are energetic and the camaraderie in the locker room is so special and i think that's what makes a winning team they respect each other and they they have each other's back and they take care of each other so i think that goes a long way and making it a successful team and i think it starts at the top pete carrol just he instilled that in these guys there's so much energy coming from him and it trickles down not just to the players but to the staff we're all engaged in and just loving this season for some people it's an outlet it's a way to get away from the problems and the things that are happening in the world and to come together and it's a tough decision i'm sure that he struggled over it so it's just that's exactly what sports does it brings people together it brings pride for the community and there's so much more that the players do i mean they're role models whether you know there's been that discussion are they role models but i believe they think they are two and the kids looked up to them and they emulate and they they do what they do and so if the player goes into the school and talks about how important education is and reaching goals i think the kids listen more than they would to a normal person there's just something special about having a player come in talk to so i think that we've got so many resources not only our current players but our cheerleaders and we've got a lot and we've got coaches and our other staff and we go out there and do so much in the community that people have no idea we touch so many people there's we get kids with leukemia that are dying and their last wishes to meet a player we fulfilled i believe five make a wishes this year and those are kids with life threatening illnesses that you've helped create this magical day forum and are players in the whole team comes together to make that reality and it's just such a rewarding job i think when you finally have an opening in this department everybody else wants to work in our department because it's it is rewarding you can feel like you're helping people and i don't feel like it's me helping people or our coworkers it's the players because the players that the people want to see but they come together and they do it and they sign all these things and they raise money and they have their own events  foundations and we're just really fortunate it's just a great great organization i feel that with young people that it's finding your passion if and it might be producing it might be editing it might be the talk of the end of it but if you find your passion whatever it is then you're going to be successful because you're doing something that you like you're working at your job so many hours a day for so many days weeks years find something that you really enjoy doing and it won't be work it'll be it'll be fun another thing we experience is going to downtown seattle public library for three days here don nelson i had a chance to interview yeah and for against and there was so helpful in terms of providing us with useful resources collection the seattle collection is our spring national local history collection which has lots of materials about seattle specifically so it's part of our special collections department so that's what i do here we have been working with the group of students you included who are creating the documentary and our role is really been to help facilitate your research the background research that you've needed to do on the seahawks to be able to provide that context when you're creating your documentary so we've been looking at lots of different kinds of resource in the libraries some of us through online databases books journal articles newspapers you've been using microfilm saw and so we're trying to get a whole range of materials that could be useful as you're trying to give the context the background research on the seahawks we really enjoy that's a big part of what we do here is outreach to groups like this one where you have research needs and some of the best ways to do that is to have you come in as a group and we can work together with people leading a group to understand exactly what your research needs are and then work with you as a group to introduce you to resources but then also do some one on one work with you as you dig into your specific topics so it's not in the seattle collection that do this librarians throughout the library and all the different departments do a lot of outreach and work with different youth groups around the city i am a fan of seahawks i'm very excited about russell wilson the new seahawks cornerback so yes i'm a fan of the x i think it's a terrific opportunity for the students to gain some real research skills i mean first of all it's needed for what you're doing with the documentary but long term when you're in high school  especially i think when you go on to college work the skills that you're learning here how to search online databases how to use microfilm when needed had it narrowed down your topic how to bring resources together and use in affectively those are all really important and really valuable skills and many kids go from high school to college without having gain the skills and i think it's a real opportunity when groups like yours comes in and my brands can really work with you very closely that you can really gain those skills so i think long term it's a huge huge benefit so how did you get the youth we in this case dr perkins who is working with the organization came and approached us because he's already been working with the library with some other youth groups before primarily working with our teen librarians and that teen librarians are really key component in terms of our outreach to the youth because they specialize in working with the youth in this case because your documentaries on the seattle seahawks it made sense for both kenny and me who work with the seattle collections specifically the seattle history to be working with you but we also talked to the team librarians and got their input so the team librarians are very  connected to youth groups throughout the whole area king county and so on but sometimes people just come in the door and say hey we've got a group that's doing this can you help us we get a lot of that we also already have a lot of relationships in the community as well i think that the group has a great foundation in the research that you've been gathering over the last week and a half i think what's most important is that you also know how to get more articles or resources as you start to work on the documentary and let's say you interview a play or something and he mentions an important game and you realize oh we didn't get anything on that game when we did our first round of research you guys now know how to go back and use a database to find an article or get a photo from that game so i think you do have plenty it's a great job but i also think you have the skills now to get any additional information or any additional research done that you really it's it's been a really great you've been a great group and we hope that you're back in here a lot linda kennedy who has taught us many valuable tips on how to do a better interviewer personally before i came to this program i know a little by interviewing people so is a great opportunity sawn mohamed who is an art teacher  us with the resources and the budget we want to have we want to have the people to help put this together come out here dr jeffrey accident we we tried to buy my uncle and his and his his partners or we had five partners that tried to buy the baseball team in seattle and it didn't work that they lost out so they decided what the heck a list is long as we're together let's see if we get a football team so we try to get and by gosh we got it so it was kind of an accident where did you benefit from owning the seahawks well the biggest benefit we didn't we didn't really plan on it being a financial success necessarily but we sure had a lot of fun and that was the plan we were you know we had we had day jobs so we were working hard and on the weekends we got to of keep me out of trouble stay out of the street so she she forced me to play for one of the sports so if i was i was going to football so i enjoy football and i wanted to play what it feels like the connection between you know the players the passion for the game of football and we're just so excited about the season we want to win you know these guys are here is competitive but at the same time we're trying to get each other better so if i'm going to get somebody on defense and i beat them they come back to me in a time hey what did you do what did you see that made you go to get open and then you know i give them advice and on this team is enormous and you've got guys at every position they can play every position and that are just a dynamic player that's the way p k on john started trying to build the environment here so the competition here is is pretty fierce but being able to overcome that the aspect of trying too hard trying to compete at a high level is just instead of just letting your body do it that's maturity level for a lot of the guys here but a lot of the guys are overcoming that the fact the composition of they are so  i would say to young individuals watching this at the most important thing that they could do for themselves in order for them to be successful in life is to get an education i believe edge cases most important tool that you can put in your tool box a life in order for you to do  over to our baseball park where we are they practice football and i got me some pads and i went out there and played it i just fell in love with it i would you think of the practice here today all very smooth practice you know   there's a bunch i don't know works which when i get things more and more important for the athletes you're athleticism is something that you will not hang on to you know as you get older so but your brain you always have that so it's a learn as much as you can you know really focus and in school and you know along with school that's where you develop good habits habits that will help you later on in life rather it's you know college or or over thirty years by the way she's she's the best truly special person but it is my family i don't know if they really appreciated that one or not but it does take perseverance to get someone like that might like my wife and  which is a lot what you guys today get by the way for first of all congratulations that was really  classy people doug baldwin golden tate john nordstrom cortez kennedy all of those are special people and and great role models like not think about role models you know there's enough bad ones out there there  talk about the bad ones all the time i just but to go find the good ones is a little tougher in we're pretty blessed in the seahawk organization to have guys like doug baldwin in gold tate i think something that's really changed this organization is a guy like russell wilson russell wilson is the face of this organization and he's everything that he claims to be and he walks the walk you are a fantastic role model you want to know how to become successful in life all you got to do is watch how he grew up that man got up at five thirty six o'clock every morning to go and work on a craft and he wanted to be a professional football player quarterback his dad got him up and they were throwing passes to his brother early in the morning and it was cleaning his room doing dishes doing homework and doing all of that stuff to become the man he is today and i would say there's so many opportunities out there you just got to go find them and have perseverance with them so any guys are really fortunate to have so many people back in this and i really did enjoy that i was fortunate i had the unique zorn said the large and i think that's what it was so i've been really blasted to do a lot of that and i just tell people this is and you heard that from doug baldwin i believe it's really about the and passionate and what you do you guys were fortunate that you got to be a part of something and go down the seahawk facility interview some great people he worked with found the hard work yes research i mean that takes a lot of time right to write it all down  to work smarter part of the way that you and i are going to talk later on that work on you're going to help me with some of my interviews here she's fantastic a natural to that but it does take a lot of work it takes a lot of practice and so  again i think it's really important for me was force enough to be a football player a coach to get into broadcasting it really is something that i'm passionate about and c x a been my life and a great radio broadcast the other listener are pretty and post game show on the radio we get a lot of compliments on how we connect and it's all because it's what we love to do it's nothing more difficult than that but i will tell you got to be no a lot a lot take no as your opportunity to reflect it don't take it personal this is a if you're if you want to get into this field you can be told no more than can be told yes and most people you get discouraged with that i've always taken it as my opportunity to reflect and say why did they say no what do i need to know what's the constructive criticism behind that how am i communicating and so when when say this is your life writing a paper or doing this during a speaking engagement always know the beginning and the end so when you did this today you knew the beginning the what's the beginning and what the close this you can do that in fifteen seconds in radio we have to communicate a lot in a very short amount of time a lot of people ramble there looking how do i in to close it thank you remember the beginning in the end and really sure about who they were anything and then the next time we came back it was some day you were selling doing trying to have your questions ready you really changed a lot over that two month period or whatever so this program i absolutely working i hope it's working for you guys and that you pursue something you really love because like the mayor said find something you're passionate about because you will spend a lot of time doing it this this program is great so i'm still glad you chose the seahawks seattle public library and the city of seattle