like myself can walk the streets that is india and the woman into the home of strangers but no longer are they strangers to me or all family it's so much deeper than i can explain here and and multicultural enhancing and i would recommend that you get out on this wonderful beautiful saturday afternoon and attend and explore more about emma marty i've been visiting a website looking at some of the in the four events and videos that the young people have produced i wonder member to please the yesler terrorist project these are young people that are learning great deal and they're going to be very very important one day in their lives as a result of relegated to the side in most instances deleted from our social memory i'm not here to tell you about the past glories or the many challenges that we face as he opens today the fifty plus books and journals that i published have already done that and will continue to do so i'm here today to talk about the present i'm here to share with you the hope and desperations the struggles and triumphs of an amazing generation of men and women here in north america and in ethiopia in doing so we are also paying tribute to our parents generation that came before us making our success possible i'm here to tell you about our pride in our heritage and hope in our future through this and supermodels officers and scholars influential public servants and activists successful business owners and executives and anything else we decide to be through these amazing stories we're trying to program and it was more than i had anticipated today met some of the students that i had taught few months back in my office we had some students whose art is on display walls and really looking forward to learning more about how the media is going to influence and track and monitor this project which will be a long term project in benefit for this  work directly with seattle housing authority and our involvement on this very large and important project is quite you week we're earth specialists and what we've been doing over the past year now has been conducting soil exploration soil explorations and drillings on the property across the thirty acres to understand what types of buildings can be constructed there and what types of foundations will be needed to support the buildings through earthquakes through potential  landslides of which there are on the southern part of this property which we are studying and understanding to a better degree on what can be place there we've also conducted environmental studies to understand whether there is contamination that needs to be dealt with during the redevelopment and another special services we have been conducting some alternative energy opportunities for the entire project so we have completed some very deep borings there and done some thermal studies to evaluate the capacity of the earth to provide energy at low cost for heating and cooling buildings so we've we've done a lot of the early earth work and understanding to allow this project to move forward so that roads and infrastructure and utilities can be built as well as the buildings and parks and community centers that will be part of this important project spaulding i work at seattle university i am director of corporate and foundation relations and helped raise funds to support the fabulous yes or terrorists youth media program  i see i see this project as the very tiny beginning of something that will become tremendous because as far as i know there is no plan for documenting all the things that the youth are recording about yes or terrorists and it's going to be so so important over the next fifteen years to have the records and to have the students who participate in this program fifteen years from now when there are thirty year olds coming back here and helping to create the documentation of this amazing redevelopment delighted with the outcome i think the fact that a university a great big organization can find a way to partner with small community organizations is one derful for everybody involved and it's really important for seattle you talked with our students i talked with your students oh my goodness they're all getting such a wonderful education hi i'm dave keyes i manage community technology programs for the city of seattle and i'm excited to be at seattle you for the u s military's summer community media program exhibit surrounded by an amazing set of photographs and video all done by youth about yes there are terrorists as as it heads into redevelopment and so it's incredible to capture this moment of history in this beautiful artwork as the students learned how to do video how to do photography in these incredible black and white and color photos and it's it's a piece of seattle's history that's been collected it's up on the walls here that it's preserve forever of these families these kids and these places that are part of the fabric of seattle and it's exciting to meet the youth and see what they're doing and seeing what they're doing for us so i think for me what one of the things that's really great to see is this partnership between seattle university yes there are terrorists youth in focus and them r c i and some of the other partners that they've come together  they've given the youth the skills they do this exhibit were in this gallery in seattle you is great to see in that they're giving this youth the opportunity the quality of work is just fantastic and i think that intensive work also as we heard what the youth is learn what the participants learned about the community and somebody so they learned more in the six weeks of the program than they had living and yes there for eight years and