actually prepare for high school in middle school and english classes and world history classes and learn how to stand up for what they believe in and to share their thoughts and belie s my name and i go to join high school and this is my second time judging also and i believe that this debate is really important because it helps them boyce their opinions and their reasons and i think it's really important to know how to get your point across so that later on in the future you won't have a hard time and people will understand where you're coming from but i think it's a really great education and i think it's for everyone so you should come and support and be a part of our debate team at the ethiopian community center everybody from the north and from the south and from the central comes here and they they connect with each other and because we're all from ethiopia are east africa and this is where we connect and all share our opinions and yeah and you don't have to be mean to come here you can come here and be educated the culture and how we come together as friends and family and how we connect and how we educate ourselves i think it's a really great place of education  was here a couple months ago and we were in the drama and the fashion show and i think we're going to do it another thing like that in the next month or so i'm i'm in an argument to class so i haven't argumentation class where i learned about the different parts of arguments so that's where i know some things about debating everybody so that's how my experience comes from but i've been in a lot i've been involved in some of these things such as what like she said the fashion show and stuff so well i i was interested in this debate program because i was interested but a lot of the things that come from my judgment is from my past mistakes or my past achievements was debating or doing mock trials and that's how i judge others from what i know from what i've done so that's how i do it thinking so my name's lydia and my role here is to be the chairwoman and i just watch the kids who debate and try to keep them on and i think it's a great opportunity for the kids and i love watching them debate because they say some things that even i wouldn't say and they're really brilliant and i'm really proud of them and usually in high school and middle school we have class discussion and they're like bates and you have to talk and you have to be able to say what you believe in and read the book and tell them what you think is right and have the evidence from the books and also outside of class you know you have debates with other classes and so we honest is just a tool that if they use in every school so it's great for them to start learning it now so they'll be prepared for the future color in central area these three in seattle think you are king county sheriff and i just want to voice my support for the for the media resources and training institute this is a wonderful program that gives an opportunity for young people to come in and learn the skills of multimedia development i was just down some of the guys here i paid a lot of money to send my son to school if i had known he could come here i could have saved a lot of money and all kidding aside giving young people the skills to find a realistic meaningful job is tremendous that's one of the best ways to have a healthy communities i really support what you're doing here i appreciate the time you give to young people i'm sandra chafes and i'm the also in the pacific northwest multimedia resources so wonderful organization an opportunity for young people to to learn how to record their stories green bomb with s t k bridge i've been working with m m r t i for a number of years now now when i was young if you had some work and you wanted to get up on television really you had to work for the three major networks they were a s and n b c and if you didn't work for the networks you never get your work shown well things have changed and thank goodness because now we can hear from all kinds of different voices who can get videos made and have been shown to the world now just because you can create a video doesn't mean it's going to be any good and just because you take your video and put it up on the web doesn't mean anybody's going to watch it so m r t i is offering all kinds of resources in order for you to make the best possible video you can and get the most people to watch it one thing we're doing is offering free classes on video production so you get to learn about how do you video editing software and how to conduct an interview and how to do lighting and sound and all those things and then we offer this studio here for you to use and that means you've got cameras you've got lights you've got audio you've got computers set up with professional video editing software and you can use these to create this this video  facebook and twitter in order to promote your videos your learn about sites like kickstarter which allows you to raise money to create your product and you'll learn about things like cheap advertising using google ad words or project wonderful so all these ways of getting your the word out about the creation and you so whether you're a nonprofit who's trying to reach some part of the community that's always been hard to reach and you want to do it your video or you're just somebody who's a citizen of seattle and you want to be able to good to see people who are learning cutting edge on computer software computer hardware strategy on how to make videos and the ability to implement them into their everyday lives  and deliver quality stuff that matches if not exceeds broadcast standards i believe media is important because connect people it gives people a a  vein to communicate to impart their ideas their thoughts what they see in the world and how other people says see what they see so maybe they can understand why people do what they do and i think media is critical for storytelling for teaching are used on how to being better communicators themselves possibly getting their word out without conflict without struggle media is always been challenged in our communities just because we're the ones that receive it we're not the ones they give it and there's so many things that are newsworthy in our community they need to be made to be passed on my joy very much teaching the students they were very very inquisitive they had very very complex questions questions that they needed to be asked questions that would propel their work very far i take pleasure in helping people get to the speakers come in for the high school student and then high school students also have practical experiments that they're going to do so say for example they want to see how lift and drag actually works so what we would do is we would take a seven may and that workshop we're going to talk about science and technology developing a circuit board and a purpose of the circuit board is to reduce pieces of test equipment that you need to use to test electrical engineering so  five six pieces a standalone equipment and then you want to teach your students how to utilize those pieces of stand alone equipment so they can measure a current they can measure voltage they can measure various aspects so now he's developing a circuit board which will plug into the computer here and now that circuit board is going to allow him and other professors to teach those concepts without having to have the development is a skill the scope so forth and so on so we're going to go and we're going to have a training in fund raiser that we're having here is to help raise money to help this activity happen and then we also are going to have africa achievement awards and this is ninety venue africa achievement awards this held by the african times newspaper typically it was held in beverly hills for the first time in ten years last year was the first time it was held outside the united states it was held and guyana and this year wanted it to be held in the fuel so i worked with the publisher to coordinate to have it anybody's view but one of the things that i do i talk to you know frequently young people that are trying to figure out what are we doing in space and today i talked to someone that said well you know since we're tired of shuttle isn't the talk about is that our future in space and i do that by kind of going through a little bit of my history so how did i get to where i am and were things going beyond here so one of the messages it is to start with a dream when i talk to this young man and a group of youngsters that interviewed me earlier boy they really put the calls to me they asked me everything everything they could they could think of which i thought was great i point out it starts with a dream you really have to have a dream and that's what happened with me and one of their questions was indeed what got me thinking about you know becoming an astronaut or space flight and at that time it was you know men walking on the moon and so the saturn five was the rocket launching and this was the image that was on my television and i said that's something that i would really like to do the challenge was how do you get from being  youngster with a with a dream to actually getting to this point and and one of the messages that i relayed was it starts with education you have to find that which you love to do and every day that you're going through your your educational activities think about how that which you love to do will benefit the objective that you've set for yourself in the future so for me it was it was pretty straightforward so i went to the air force academy where i could learn more about aeronautical and astronautical engineering and became a national engineering major it also had a large component of faith and it really doesn't matter in my view what particular faith you have because we all have different faiths and so we can accept the fact that we have different face but the one faith you really need to have is that faith in yourself if you do not believe in yourself than it is hard for you to accomplish anything so that's something that we struggle with often because we don't see enough role models that look like us so we have to say you know this is something i can do and when you have examples of it it's easier to believe  but with faith you don't always have an example you always have to you just have to believe so so faith is a is a strong element in what you have to have as you go forward the others discipline and teamwork this is these are things i learned at the academy you work as a team because teams can accomplish more than individuals and you have to be disciplined about what you do so that focus school discipline teamwork and then there's the academics there's lots of back a day makes you study your craft  study it from the time that you're a youngster to the time that you get older and this is where i studied my craft this is where i really had the introduction to the work that i do an astronomical engineering was that the air force academy and so that was me  fortunately there are opportunities where you can have hands on experience in the hands on experience teaches you more then just the books do because it's the practical application of what you've learned in the books that i think set you up for success in the future and as my wife will point out she says you know i really love my hardware you know because it would it's when it's hardware work it's exciting when you first getting to know each other i took her out to one of the test pads i had we fired a rocket engine and i think she concluded that that was pretty exciting stuff and as long as i was far enough away so that was that was good stuff also physical fitness today we're almost more prone to sit in front of the television and play video games than we are to get out and go for a walk or play side and a student on the other but the so the pilot can see what the students doing and then you there were other aircraft as a two thirty three that i flew down and florida and also pete field in colorado and the more traditional  you know one behind the other configuration but there were different types of airplanes i also learned how to jump out of airplanes and there's an element there about conquering your fears because you know you say were do i really want to do that have faith you can and so i don't think i look too fearful in that picture there but but i was perhaps too young to know health how far down the ground really was but over time you conquer that fear into work my passion was rockets and aircraft and rockets more so than aircraft and i started working at being a berger air force base where we launch military satellites and some of the questions i got earlier today were about some of those missions and you know we can't talk about everything i did there but it was it was the it was the beginning step you know i've got the education behind me now i'm actually starting to work in the in the field that i defense so unfortunate for many many years i had to keep that secret but just last year we did supplied to the missions that i flew and they're the oldest form of reconnaissance satellites  systems that are now declassified so if you want to learn about them they're actually available so that was that was good stuff i also worked at an adjacent launch pad the atlas launch pad where you are probably familiar with began its life the g p s satellite constellation when i was there we were just launching navstar seven and that was the seventh test satellite in the program so we didn't even have g p s at the time but it was a n idea that with precise timing we could provide global navigation started with the military but i do want to bet you that everybody's got a cell phone in here as a g p s chip inside that provides  location of the where they are on the planet as a result of this constellation being put in place and so i got to work on some of that and finally my dream was coming closer and closer to becoming true work on things that were related to the shuttle  became a manned space flight engineer for the air force i didn't have perfect vision so i couldn't be a pilot and that was a challenge because the pathway to spaceflight is generally through fly and so my objective was to learn as much as i could about what was in the bag so that i could be valuable enough to to to garner a spot on the space shuttle because that was the system flying and so i learned about  my systems of vandenberg and got selected to become a manned space flight engineer and again started training again more school more academics this time it's learning how to deploy satellites from the back of the shuttle and i got back in the cockpit so flying t thirty eight so this is a funny airplane one of the things was if i could relive anything of my past you know for my career what would it be and strap it on a t thirty eight because it would just kind of snow it's more like but not a sort of clothing that is climbing into it like a car that was just an absolute blast wind supersonic upside down over the california desert was just fun in so that might be something if i had the opportunity to go do it again i'd go do that again because that was just that was just pure joy but the training goes on now operating in pressure suits things that you're not used to doing you know i jumped out of airplanes earlier now you're going to put on a suit and there's been a little chamber there and once i put the suit on the going to take the air out so again it's a vironment we're a little less comfortable but with proper training experience it becomes almost the norm so you learn how to operate in a deep pressurize environment again moving on now putting on an actual spacesuit and a m u an extra vehicular mobility unit when you learn how to operate in this world and in order to simulate weightlessness underwater because there you can become neutrally buoyant you float so you feel weightless in the in the environment and that's a telescope pointing assembly in the tank there about a million gallons of water in that tank and  telescope pointing assembly weight somewhere about north of twelve hundred pounds and but it's neutrally buoyant so if you put it in the water here it's going to stay there it's not going to sink it's not going to float it's going to stay there and my partner and i we raised that  that telescope platform just the two of us just the two of us and so you realize that you know if you apply force over to a mass it will accelerate eventually you know so it's not a big movement but if we move the entire i think took it off its melts and replaced it so practical application now all this time i've got my flight scheduled my mission is to fly in challenger and then tragedy stuck struck and   the air force said we're not going to risk the lives of our people flying these missions if we can find a way to get those missions to orbit without the space shuttle so the air force stepped away the intelligence community stepped away from the from the space shuttle program and at that time my challenge was now to take the payload that i had been training to fly with and move it over to an expendable rocket that was going to leave without me and so your plans change and that was one of the questions again was you know you know about adversity what happens when the answer is you make adjustments it doesn't matter what happens and things don't always go according to plan and you make adjustments you make changes and you proceed on in this case i left the air force after integrating that payload onto the expendable be able and it flew without me in use my training to help boeing teach future astronauts how to do things on space station so their training was not lost in any way shape or form and so i actually have more time in a space suit as a boy employee than i do as an air force base flight engineer in training so my objective here was to learn what it would take to manipulate hardware on the space station before it was built so before we send the astronauts up there to go a simple something you need to have somebody that is this is how it's going to work so i spent a lot of my time working on this determining what angles the incomes were going to be at figured out where the hands were going to be because if an asteroid can't grip it then you can't control it so can't control himself so working that hardware then transition to get in the role of manufacturing i became the habitation module manager building the first pressurized module for the space station that module like me never flew but it was the very first one that was built i would lead the way for the other modules that came later it was scheduled to fly but it ended up with budget cuts and so it it into being on the ground but it served in important role i ended up working on what's called the r the international standard payload rack i had the ability to help our different nations who were working on the project together joining forces to come up with a unified rack for scientific experimentation and the japanese had a rack design the europeans had a rack design and the united states had a design and my job was to make sure that all the designs were interchangeable because a u s scientist may have a rack that flies in the japanese module or the european module and if it doesn't fit it doesn't work and it's science work doesn't get done so i build one of these to get over to japan we adopted a standard between the united states europe in the us and that became the  international standard payload rack so i got to do work on the inside in you know over time i got to see the project that i worked on got built flown and operated and it's been continuously  paul allen you know said i would like to monetize the ability for commercial people to get to space and he absolutely did and he put the money in to back this a flew it won the x prize and now a new company that is being funded by sir richard branson who has virgin airways is created a company called virgin galactic and they will take people on a regular basis to space for a mere two hundred thousand dollars per flight fifteen minutes two hundred thousand dollars if you've got the cash you can fly what's a starting price but there are other folks out there and this is being built right now so this is  a few years so these are actual hardware photos there's other folks that are building similar simpler craft and this is xcor aerospace and with xcor we help them with some of that we actually help them with their first nasa contract aircraft and they just receive the body section for their links vehicle and it'll take off from runway fly to the edge of space and come back the out and you'll probably only have to pay twenty or fifty you know thousand dollars for that flight but any less the i the the idea is there's competition it was competition comes from ride of choice and in competitive pricing so it means that there's opportunities there's also a company th nine there's one of those is scheduled to fly tomorrow if the schedule holds and it's taking the dragon capsule which is in the upper left now the first mission is only carrying some food water and supplies with it and a small commercial but it's a go to space station to be grappled by the arm brought onboard it will take the supplies off put some of the garbage on it will be reentered and brought into the ocean picked up out of the ocean and then brought home and then possibly re flown now that's a commercial enterprise nasa is not paying for the design and development they're paying for the use of the system that's very different and on the lower side is the cygnus vehicle by orbital sciences so it says there's more than one factor those are two but there's also a third one down in the lower right that's with sierra nevada as they call there's a dream chaser it takes off on an atlas rocket comes goes the space station and comes back down and lands on a runway much like the shuttle so there are three competitors just to take cargo and crew up the space station and not surprising up an upper left hand corner is the boeing capsule to do the same mission they'll individual he's created the space stations he's flown them self and his idea because as he does hotels in las vegas is you create places for people to go so he wishes to create hotels in space they can be you know flown to and from with these with these craft here and he's actually teaming up with boeing for a lot of this work so i just wanted to let folks know that the space program isn't dead my path has been an interesting pathway through trial and disaster but you know the future is what we make of it and so i encourage all of you to encourage our youth to keep dreaming and for us to keep dreaming so i you know i hope you all that that was a little snapshot that you that you wanted in my path through life if you want to find that video of the  the c seventeen drop but but i just want to give you a little bit of history there so says that you know i interesting path to success failure but it is long as we keep at it it's always success