august two thousand and thirteen a group at young people from m i t i started making a documentary about the history of the seattle seahawks they interviewed some of the key players a past owner and key staff members it was a learning and exciting experience this was different from a typical school project and make them step out of their conference zone and practice public speaking it got them had to be key team players and feel comfortable interviewing important public figures they put in a lot of effort and committed their after school hours to present to the public history the c x this is the very first time that young people have made a documentary about the  click 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 use resources to our abilities and to create a documentary that was worth watching and the video we wrote we were divided into into groups and each group made two videos and to give the thing made two documentaries one was about the residents and how they're moving and about how they felt about that and the other video was about the child care bells inside yasser chairs and the video that you'll be watching from our group is about moving  magazines i have looked at some of his work he is credible this young man right here acted as peer mentors these two gentlemen here  that i get the opportunity to come in contact with an organization called and them r t i multimedia resources and training institute and i was very pleased i was referred to them by folks down at the city and also in the community that said they're an excellent organization to work with in terms of they bring youth from the community into the classroom and teach them all the things that they could ever possibly want to know about media and then actually do their work out in the community helping organizations and efforts like the one i'm working on which is called the rainier beach a beautiful safe place for youth they helped out marty i was a huge help by it because they are very very affordable price taped an all day training for us that allowed us to make this important training available to the community for months or even years to come so i'm very excited to wish and them r t i and all the folks here  the tenth anniversary which is coming up and also let the community know that m r t is a great resource that they're very accessible they're very engaging to work with and i hope that more users and  in projects and the community become aware of them and this is a very valuable resource that's right here you know virtually under our noses and i think it's a fantastic thing to have access to in our neighborhood so i'm very come together and they have a better understanding about technology and then my ten also stands for multimedia resources and training institute what i mostly love but this program is that provides every year the chance to go and experience new things we came in  and we interview mike mcginn which was a real honor because not many kids of our age get interview the mayor so there's a great opportunity for us and we interviewed him on society like how society was like 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 on 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 zorn to 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 jim zorn was our first quarterback he actually steve meyer was a quarterback with us also and but jim zorn took over and jim came out from california and steve we got from oklahoma he was with the 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 w 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 a 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 carroll just instills 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 the season i think for some people it's an outlet it's a way to get away from the problems in the things that are happening in the world and they 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 their 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 and there's just something special about having a player come in talk to you so i think that we've got so many resources not only our current players but our cheerleaders and we've got a long night 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 but we 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 wish is this year and those are kids with life threatening illnesses that help create this magical day for our man our players and 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 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 and foundations and we're just really fortunate it's just a great great organization i know that with young people it's finding your passion and it might be producing might be editing it might be the photography 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 another thing we experience is going to downtown seattle public library for three days here don imus and i had a chance to interview and fragrance and there were so helpful in terms of providing us with these four resources there are a lot of things that we got out of a three day session professional teaching youth media technology linda kennedy who has taught us many valuable tips on how to do a better interview personally before i came to this program i'm a little by interviewing people so it's a great opportunity perkins where we're able to interview many people along with some seahawk place thank you guys for coming and we really appreciate what you've done or what what the was an 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 decided what the heck the list is long as we're together let's see if we get a football team so we tried 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 me to play for one of those sports so and so 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 i 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 be able to get open and then you know i give them advice and vice versa if they beat me i ask for advice and they position they can play every position and that are just dynamic players 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 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 high 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 that you can point you towards a life in order for you to do whatever you want whether you want to be a teacher or a lawyer re also has a chance to interview another oh there's a bunch i don't know what's 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 your job or or at home in your family life all right thank you thank you is a gentleman here is our guest speaker and we're going to move this pretty fast because we have a surprise for the library this was the young first man class and there's a little more there's still learning they did a good job they used deal of art but in the  sandy for over thirty years by the way she's she's the best truly special person but in my family i don't know if they really appreciated that want to know but it does take perseverance to get someone like that might like my wife and  which is a lot which you guys today get by the way for first of all congratulations that was really  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 and golden 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 thrown passes to his brother early in the morning and it was clean in his room doing dishes doing homework 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 i have perseverance with i'm so eliza really fortunate to have so many people back in this and i really did enjoy that i was fortunate i  to 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 me 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 a hard work yes research i mean that takes a lot of time right to write it all down and then  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 to a 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 prepared i mean we spent a seahawks so i think is the best sports organization in the country it really adopting the community a lot of people pay to race or talk it but the other players and the organization they're actually out in the you will 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 i in this is in our 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 beginning  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 on they're looking at how do i in this speech how do we in what i want to communicate and that is the kiss of death that suggests a death in a paper it's a kiss of death if you're putting together a documentary that suggests a death when you're doing a presentation so with that i'm going to seattle public library and the city of seattle