engineer and i worked as an engineer for over thirty years or so i was able to become a pilot and a private pilot and learn how to fly and my love and passion is african history particularly in history and aviation so i get to put both of them together history and aviation and i get travel a little bit to interview people and get to learn about those things and additionally i'm the career i actually started when i was a youth wasn't necessarily engineering but that's where i got first introduced to engineering and that was doing a program a summer program at case western reserve university and that's in cleveland ohio so when i was a youngster maybe ten eleven twelve years old i went to summer program and they had engineering projects and i participate in those engineering projects so a few years later when i was in high school we were talking about career counseling and what type of career you wanted to be and they said you're good at math and science and then the only thing that i could relate to math or science was engineering so then i said ok well maybe i'll look for that and work toward being an engineer so then i went to the university of michigan and i got a degree in aerospace an aeronautical engineer engineering from the university of michigan back in one nine hundred eighty four and this company may products to go on aircraft and space vehicles so may actually waiters and they would actually did your rather an airplane it moves it from left to right and it moves on and with a r and hydraulics and sometimes electronics and then maybe nose will steering and they made between the external tank and the shuttle itself that would take fuel finish up so i worked that job for a while and then the industry kind of took a nosedive so a year later i worked at jeff about six years year later engineering i got a job working for me down douglas and then that's when i started to travel a little bit and i started to learn how to fly also so in that job back in one thousand five we were modifying an aircraft turning commercial type of airplane into a tanker airplane flying gas station basically to some of you may have seen the movie air force one where harrison ford was printed plitt oppressive and then the plane that they were on the to be refueled and then they flew another plane and then they stuck out a basically a two and the two went out and then went into the airplane below it and then they start pumping gas but that plane actually had an accident and explode it but in real life we made those planes and i got a chance to travel to amsterdam and work in amsterdam for about a year with my family and then we traveled to france and we traveled to germany but prior to that was my first trip with africa was nine hundred eighty seven and that was to celebrate marcus garvey hundredth birthday god was born in eight hundred eighty seven is hundred birthday was one thousand seven he had passed on by then but that was my first trip to africa but go back to amsterdam that is where we are modifying two airplanes and one of the airplanes the dutch government named the airplane prints bernhard after their print and then the other playing queen juliana and so i said wow you know when you on your own you know aircraft company are your own business you can name things after whoever you wanted to so i said one day would be great to name an aircraft after a black person african and african american so years later i was and give him videos and show them the short film and give him books so he thought it was a great honor the legacy of colonel robinson to name the aircraft boeing seven eighty seven dreamliner after  to get him back flying and that's where he says you know physically he's now flying with his name is flying every day when aircraft flies how do you open your young profit organization well we actually were founded and to ninety seven in los angeles california and again we wanted to show the youth in america and particularly that were disadvantage and if that didn't necessarily experience science and technology and different aspects of science and technology to science and technology and then we also love africa so we wanted to take that information back to africa to take those type of classes back to africa to so in one thousand nine hundred seven as when we're stablished organization here in los angeles california and then and i think in the two thousand maybe two thousand and seven two thousand and eight just when we started traveling to they have houses and at this abbey near a place called beto and that's where they have students who go to government schools or private schools doing the daytime and then the students come back to the house and then they have they all live in the house maybe twenty twenty five of them live in one house and then they have a parrot for all the students a mother and a father and most students are orphans or maybe only have one parent various others and what we do is we when i come here we basically document certain aspects of history certain aspects of science and technology and then we utilize that footage and  projects and to help us fulfill our mission which is to introduce science and technology to youth in our communities so that they can understand if they get a degree in science and technology that they can you know have a decent living that they can provide for their community they can bring resources in their community bring money and then they can provide for their families and themselves really so say we did a video on black scientists and inventors and this video we were i would be interviewed by someone like yourself or someone like delbert richardson and then we would talk about the black scientists and black inventors and then that video we would show that video in our classes so we've done various video projects like that throughout the years with society and now we hope to expand our relationship and our partnership and so that we can do other things such as that and even bigger things can you  you know we've done a few things there's some fun things too that we and then we've done we always wanted to utilize model rockets and actually we work at a rocket show the children and talk about rockets talk about rocket technology from a really technical engineering standpoint and then we went to the park we found out which parks allows us to you last a rocket and where and we got our permits and we did that so we were able to have a little many reunion this past saturday where we gave out community awards this is the first annual potter community awards and participant i've been technical association to some of those participants and some of those and then another project that we did here in seattle was we go to africa and that was another workshop where we had you know the piece from companies come and we gave presentations and we talked about science and technology so that and we held that at the garfield teen center so those were two projects that that we had here and then sometimes when i come up here there are aircraft that are being being built for ethiopian  airlines so one event that i was that which was a really great of it was that the first time ethiopian airlines took delivery of a boeing seven seven seven and that was held at the museum of flight and it was big gala dinner a big gala successful of the ethiopians they want to change the way the students are what their students actually study because in the past the students were more focused and the law type careers or focus and social sciences are focused on medicine but as we see who go to africa and folks who live in africa and love africa is that africa can utilize certain developed science and technology disciplines so the ethiopia's looking at changing that tilt to more science and technology so now they want a lot of the students to learn science and technology and that is something that we are supporting with respect to our stem classes so we show the children a little bit about circuit boards and about computers and how you interface a circuit board externally to a computer and how can you can use that circuit board to turn off and turn on a lie inside a room with somebody walks into a room or you can have a l photos that actually can turn on and off a circuit just with the light in the rooms of the light comes on and then that light hits a photo circuit and then that photo circuit sees the photons from the light and then it may turn your radio on or may turn your computer on so we're showing that the sensor the photocell this color sensor so we're showing our technology and then we're also looking at utilizing stem science technology engineering and math and now we call it science technology engineering arts and math we call it steam because we want put the arts in there also and we're looking at that utilize and gain a better understanding of entrepreneurship and business because you can get a good education in science technology engineering and math but you have to apply it you have to make it practical and then that either you do something on your own or you invent something or you would do is we would a system in college also we would give them guidance with respect to college which classes to take and what to expect when you go to college and then now what we're working on and we're working with a and others to do this is to work toward in term programs so that while they're in college they can work with a company or for a company and then get understanding of how what they're studying actually applies to the business and applies to the real world so that's the second thing we're doing and then the third thing that we're working toward is having the work in the film after they graduate so we're working to help them get placed in companies and then potentially we're also working to establish an incubator business environment where if they don't get a job after they graduate everyone is going to have to work and and quickly you realize that either there's going to be to accept things and then the next aspect is that if you realize that you're going to have to work then you want to work in an area that you enjoy something that you like so work again understanding what you like and what you want to do and then the other aspect is study well when you're in high school and college and get the best gracious because if you get to panos two point five then you're going to limit your opportunities if you get three point three four five and above then you keep your opportunities broad really the other aspect is your professors your teachers your instructors the majority of them want to see do well so the quicker you learn to talk with them you learn to interface with them then the easier things are going to be because they want to see someone who wants the understand and learn what they know and then if they see that you're interested in that then they're going to help you a little bit more than someone who doesn't do their homework someone who doesn't follow through and then if you do identify what you like and what you love and then you learn that skill and that trait and that discipline then others are gonna see that your interest in that area and then they're going to give you opportunities or work to give you opportunities and finally you're going to be in a position where you're going to want to get up  five o'clock six o'clock in the morning because you're going to want to use every hour of the day to apply what you know and take that skill that discipline and to utilize that and to basically perpetuate that really because you're going to dust your love and that's what you're going to do so now you're going to be really wanting to get about a bed and you're not going to be really laying in bed and not going to be really wasting time because you see that you love the discipline you love this area love the skill and then you want to bring something to your community to improve your community you want to bring something to the world you want to bring something that hasn't been done and hasn't been you know established and you want to bring that to fruition and that's ethiopia and then working with the software and showing the students how to do editing with the software and also helping them with just being comfortable expressing themselves that's another benefit of video and video and audio is that the students learn to express themselves they learn to be comfortable  in front of camera but then they learn to communicate to the learn the verbal the communicate so i think if we can set up a program and talk about the benefits of video of video production interviewing coming up with a storyboard coming up with a script that aspects we can teach a class around that so and then some of the subjects i think that are outputs of that class we c maybe make some shorts and enter generation of relations so the young generation and the new generation and then the current generation there are a lot of nuances there are a lot of characteristics of each of those generations and particularly the current our older generation there's a lot of respect that's given and the elders are respect and the students and the youth are kind of well behaved and some of that is being lost in ethiopian is being lost over here so one project could be understanding what the older in the current generation and what their characteristics and traits are and how those were and are instill in them and how they could potentially be instilled and the younger students and then what benefit those traits and those characteristics have so the so i think that's one project that we can do another project is dealing with culture and history and there are various aspects of history that are new even the students in ethiopia don't know about we recently took my friends and family over there we went to uncle bar and that's where i'm from intellect how does first policy where he was in the good and where a class could be maybe a summer program and that summer program asya and i received some information from one of our potential partners and they have a summer program and the summer program then they have a students here have a great a good understanding of english and then they have a understanding harakah in other languages so the students in ethiopia their english isn't as good as the english or the students so the students there and it's good to have what we call a period appearance structure and peer to peer learning so now young person here eighteen and nineteen can fifteen sixteen can interface with a young person over in ethiopia donna summer and then they can they can help them with their english and then the ethiopian who are living in add us can can help the ethiopian who can from seattle or the african that come from seattle help them understand ethiopian culture a little bit better and how that culture is expressed in ethiopia so that's the second aspect of what we potentially you know want to do and  raise money doing so though those are two of the things that we want to do and the other aspect again is the entrepreneur oh aspect and that's where we talked about earlier helping the find so that's when we have to come up with entrepreneur oh aspect so this may be incubators or may be a prototype in that we teach the children how to students how to do video how to do video and in how to do any of you and then and then that's where the generational aspect comes to is because when i was in ethiopia a couple years ago i was able to interview captain alamo babba and he was the first black person  first african first european to fly a jet commercial airplane so i was able to enter view him and then to document that so there are various stories from mr varicose standpoint that can be documented that we can make and shorts make into documentaries we can show in ethiopia we can show here in america and then if we can get funding we can pay the students to do that so they can learn and develop that skill even better while they're you know  video video editing interviewing skills and communication skills so so that's one thing i think we can focus on the other aspect is on to new printer arrow aspect of getting support and getting funding for those children and the students and they're paying them to learn the skills and then implement the skills and then the third aspect is the summer program with respect to english exchange and learning and the cultural exchange and learning to so those are things that i think we all can work together and you all can write those proposals and then we can do that and the programs and all the programs that you told us are very strong be here again i've worked with for size for a number of years and this is a great place and great work is being done that at the studios with respect to teaching use gill's and media skills and science and computer skills editing skills and addition that's what the pan african technical source and that's what we do are so we teach the youth about science and technology we offer and adduction the science and technology class in los angeles and ethiopia and we want to bring that here too and that's what one thing we're going to work with and what we do in x lass's is that we introduce children to a solar technology so there's a little smarts all the car that they learn to put together and learn how to and this photons help to bring energy and make the car move we also learn a little bit back in pewters computer programming with circuit boards and they learn simple programming and how they vary in variables technology centers there and maybe the m p museum here so we want to bring these programs to seattle and want to continue them in los angeles and continue them in the end that's where your support comes in you can help us do that you can go t can you know get and you can give your time you can help us do editing you can help us do english type editing too because the children want to learn that so some of the projects that we're going to work on with your he helping to bridge the gap between the students in ethiopia and the students here in seattle and los angeles the students and the ethiopian they need to get the english better need to understand english and be able to be a little bit more nameless the students here in seattle in los angeles they may lack a little ethiopian culture in their traditional culture so we want to establish exchange programs and summer programs where the students from seattle and l a go to spend a number of weeks there and helping the students with their english and while all of the students from the states are there the ethiopian students can help them with traditional european culture and being exposed to that so we're really excited about the opportunities that we have and you are here in the seattle area the l a area and various other areas of the world can help us to bring these to if you wish it and continue our programs because we've been established for a number of years and we're working well but we want to expand and we want to do more and with your help we can do yes hi my name is a cool car ya moon i'm here tonight at the launch for the poetry on buses with seattle metro and light rail event and  i'm a violin is based painter artist illustrator poetry is just you know just like breathing like drinking water for me soul this is my poem here it's called watershed says the pain of the past visits me in my frost that i respect my earth and so this and being out there no it is like millions and millions a years old but at the same time so many people being pushed off the deland but all we do we just drink it we take for granted how we get it get water where this place is where you can get even get clean water like clinton for example oil countries you know in the door world where you cannot get fresh clean water so it was a reminder for me mostly to be grateful for something as simple as a clean glass of water