so today we had the opportunity to connect with some youth from ethiopia which is really nice and do we most importantly got in contact with god davis and he gave us really important tips on how to make your dream come true which we as students who can really take that into consideration and put that in our everyday life which is really nice also like the other things we talked about was like different types of nonprofit organization he's been working with and also the mission for does org and she's all about giving people the right treatment for mental illness different what he called prescription and stuff like that so we don't relate to mental illness with different kind of supernatural you know pursue our different kind of goals and dreams about in life or in school and how he can give how we can motivate ourselves in different kind of environments so today we had a chance to  resources that we need and when you look at it from back home in ethiopia they really don't have those type their resources so our main focus is to actually help them and by doing to do that where collecting laptops anything that could including laptops tablets books pants and stuff like that so our people back home don't have good resources to continue their education like when you quit when we compare our sander's here and back home is diversion is too so as a marty i hear we are documenting like different events and one thing that we would like to do is actually go to ethiopia and document different events such as colonel step whether it's the statue or the like capture the media center that they have there and and we also like to capture the plane seven eighty seven which was named after colonel robinson and we presented dr paul jackson presented to people in ethiopia and we have him here to talk about the yes i'm dr paul jackson and i'm a volunteer at studios before that though i spent over a decade doing research in virtual reality at boeing and virtual and all going to reality so about two years ago google came out with this three sixty camera system to simulate virtual reality and use your cell phone to actually do the video but what's amazing is that there are cameras out there at that shoot in three hundred sixty degrees and so i gave a talk about that the whole system and so that's what best what i did today ok so how did you know about the camera three nears again keeps me in the forefront of technology so when i heard that cool cool had produced this device i was really excited about it so i followed it so do you do you have any protected thank you did before some adobe premiere software and how to edit video and so is really cool in the sense that i can merge the two technologies together the video side and the v are side and so it's pretty easy to put them together free video application so we can actually communicate globally have a video chat and so it's worked and now we're moving over to zoom which is another application that does produce the same thing so there been three at this point well one of the topics ya just gave a topic about motivation and then there's a topic that was done from the american consulate in ethiopia and that was about i t and internet security  and i did one about three sixty video and the future of course ah going into reality virtuality one that i did about video conferencing that was at a workshop here open house i would like you to do that one  and then we talk about maybe some medical issues you know and with your nonprofit i think is a good one also because the whole mental you know this movement yeah mental health is a global issue and so i think that there's something that could be done that way what aspired to like what made you want to like i kind of consider myself in the can consider myself a conscious square nerd and so in the sense that to do things that will uplift my self and my people and keeping it on the technology side and so i actually met a sigh a over ten years ago when he did a workshop called penn penn was after tech and so he invited a bunch of boeing engineers and other people that had their own businesses to come into a free talk about aerospace ecology and i videotaped that this is like in the two thousand or so and so that all that videotape is still sitting up in the cloud in my view account so you can still watch it and there's a website today we did a teleconference all the way to ethiopia that's when the other side of the world right so i mean it's it's you shouldn't be held back by thinking that you can't do anything because there are enough resources out there to learn and if you have the internet if you have a decent computer you can teach yourself pretty much to do anything and so and that behavior in seattle is really a good example because of what the v r n a r there's all these startups that are happening here but people come up with a good idea and they go get funding and they start a business and before you know it's next microsoft or the next google or if it doesn't if they're not then they get purchased by them right so there's opportunities abound so  know volume of something right and so when the computer knows the space it can dance you draw something out there as if it's real and so that's that's a that's what alternate reality is and so yeah there's some things like that but back to your question about doing opportunities and resources and yeah like mit i like we have a studio and variety of different things that students can come in like really learn from earth like get the experience from whereas in ethiopia they really don't have that type of resource and that's where we come into actually help them and help them grow help the students grow just like helping us as interests ok so that's where we want you guys to help us fall whether it's financially doing here back home to their origins that they could see the day environment that's back home so i can fuel that to contribute on anything you like to like it could be financial you could be your labor you could be anything or march i would really appreciate how you know we have like a really great passion about what we're doing and we most like we mostly want to thank dr paul for being here and so did time differences from ethiopia and here we came here seven in the morning sacrificing his time to do his voluntary help us out and yeah and so we really want to thank you t center and the central district of seattle marc mero frag right in the heart of the central district twenty third in jackson i do love this experience it's a great experience i even though i'm the one being interview  would notice the kind of enthusiasm from all of the students who are here i notice as well all the students are being trained for great work they're being trained for the media and the media is extremely important i try to do what i can in terms of african american history in terms of writing african american history but it's really up to the media to try to spread that story and so that's why i think what you guys are doing is so vitally important in terms of the future of black people here and across the globe as well as all of the people in seattle and all the people in the u engineer for over thirty years also 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 too and additionally i'm the executive director of a nonprofit organization the pan african technical association can you tell us how you begin your enduring career and how you get to chance to travel engineering 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 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 then i was able to work as nose will steer earrings and they made between the external tank and the shuttle itself that would take fuel from the shuttle so i worked that job for a while and then the industry kind of took a nosedive so a year later job back in one thousand nine hundred 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 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 it was nine hundred eighty seven and that was to celebrate marcus garvey hundredth birthday markers 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  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're 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 able to and others were able to  give him book so he thought it was a great honor the legacy of colonel robinson to name the aircraft boeing seven eighty seven dreamliner after colonel robinson to get him back flying and that's where he says you know 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  by area near a place called betto and that's where they have students who go to government schools or private schools during 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 i'm living in one house and then they have a parrot for all the students a mother and a father and most of students are orphans or maybe only have one parent so then they provide a nurturing and loving environment for the children so we hold our classes there to you know i've been working with him r t i for a number of years and the executive director side and various others and what we do is we when i come here we basically document certain aspects of ethiopian history certain aspects of science and technology and then we utilize that footage in our projects and to help us fulfill our mission which is to enter dues science and technology to the 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 we utilize say we did a video on black scientists and inventors and this video we were i would be interviewed by some like yourself or dilbert 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 work at and hunted beach california and so i was one that utilized model rockets so we had a little model rocket workshop up here in seattle where we show the children and talk about rockets talk about rocket technology from  really technical engineering standpoint and then we went to the park we found out which parks allows us the last to 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 after technical association to some of those participants and some of those folks who helped us with respect to the rocket launching and  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 change the way the students are what their students actually study because in the past the students were more focused and the type careers or focus and social sciences  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 ethiopia's looking at changing that tilt to a 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 lot of photos that actually can turn on and off a circuit just with the light in the rooms of a light comes on and then that light hits a photo circuit and then that photo circuit sees a 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 called the sensor so we're showing our technology and then we're also you know 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 invent something or you start a business or you work in a business so we're looking at doing you know i'll trade of actually maybe working a product in a zeina product and starting a business and working in an in a business so we're going to look toward entrepreneur ship and establishing businesses that take advantage of science and technology so after 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 sigh and others to do this is to work toward entering 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 from college they can work in this incubator business environment and then they can quickly realize that 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  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 grades you ca because if you get two 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 t 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 trade and that discipline then others are going to 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 you know 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 perpetual that really because you're going to dust your love and that's what you're going to do so now you're go really wanting to get about a bit 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 this discipline you love this area you 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 you know your god given right to do that and then the universe is going to help 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 in a verbal the communicate so i think if we can set up a program and talk about the benefits of video video production interviewing coming up with a storyboard coming up with a script that aspect we can teach a class around that so and then some of the subjects i think that are outputs of that class we could say maybe make some shorts and  generational relations so so the young generation is not called 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 respected 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 in 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 a project around there too and we can share that between ethiopians in ethiopia and the europeans here so the other aspect and this doesn't that say you have to be 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 potentially we can get sponsorship and get money and some of the students who are here in seattle can go and spend some time frame maybe six weeks or some time period during the summer in ethiopia and 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 students so the students there and it's good to have what we call peer to peer and 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 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 to 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 students bridge that gap between when they graduate from the university and then finding a job because it's hard in ethiopia to find work work is very very difficult in the ethiopia find so that's when we have to come up with and then and then that's where the end of the generational aspect comes to is because when i was in ethiopia couple years ago i was able to interview captain allen my babba and he was the first black person the first african first european to fly a jet commercial airplane so i was able to interview him and then to document that so there are various stories from mr eric standpoint that can be documented that we can make and shores 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 looking for a former job or was interviewing skills and communication skills so so that's one thing i think we can focus on the other aspect to start a new printer all aspects of getting support and getting funding for those children and the students and their 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 and fiery and i'll be able to do you want to for too and it's really great to have you hearing again and thank you so much for taking your time from again to come to our studio and tell us about your journey and also about the and thank you for your time you're