in the beginning of august two thousand and thirteen a group of young people from m m r t i started making a documentary about the history of the seattle seahawks they interviewed some of the key players the past owner and key staff members it was a book 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 taught them have had to be key team players and feel comfortable interviewing important public figures they put in a lot of effort and committed and 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 and i'm jodi fenton i manage special collections here in the seattle public library really glad that we had a chance to partner this past summer and m m r institute to do some really interesting programs with students and you can hear all about that so the first thing that i would like to do is just welcome you and introduce you to dr jeffrey perkins who will take us through the rest of the program dr perkins zation to train him young people in some kind of artistic project and i said why not let's do something this is a sports city sports and entertainment one of the highest rated  youtube videos that they have been producing it exceeded everything else and another from the research of the source and let's see can we get something with the seattle seahawks as approached them and that's when the planning began we had to reach out to the seattle opportunity that they have never had before when you think in terms of the population that was recruited the population was we could've from these young kids from girl field and franklin high school they are in  prevention initiative but they are so happy to be doing something way into you see what they have accomplished this is how it works with another group of young people in the same or to me the resources tra eighty of two cities this two city interpretation of these photographs and more is to the libyans through drawing graphics that they wanted to express because you have to keep in mind these young people are a second generation of refugee immigrants they have culturally assimilated into america yet they are still in this this because i'm a person on so you can give introduced to what the senior sir peter yes the terrorist we developed a project we have a guest speaker right here a very outstanding sports care to the i'm going to bring a childhood and i came here at the age of eight and so as i came here i merely got involved through my family with help and our member growing up in doing these workshops and having these classes and it was kind fame to do you know my and just bring me more and then we'd just be doing fun things and play on the computer learning how to use off and all that was a think you know just be there with my friends and know you and all of them and this is the thing i never really noticed like the opportunities that i was getting and the things the resources that would be like to be given to me that a lot of would not have and i feel like it's like there was a lot of things in life is what you're going through going through and several years later for the near future you start to realize like those are the offers that i that i got back then earl woods were feeling what i'm doing now and that i could not be where i am now if it wasn't for what i've experienced before in my past and i feel like i'll march as provided that for me the two biggest things i take away from this program or the media and community as far as community know all the causes that we've been involved with that we've supported you hear people saying support this cause support this support these people support these things you know be involved to get involved in these things but without m r c instead of the joining these movements joining these cause we've got to start these causes start these movements see what's important to you what affects you and start these these causes the things that you care about and media as far as media goes that's been a really important role in my life i have a passion for media i'm currently an intern at microsoft and the media literacy the access to resources that what i've been able to have through this program is insane all the software all the classes we learned from basic things from using office which was like eight years ago and now we're editing the videos on adob like actual hardware and firmware and then use that with software and have a game where you can actually step on pads and interact and see your actions in the computer is just an amazing experience and i feel like supporting this is the best thing we younger people who need it more than i do get more out of the program than i do so instead of me being involved in this program i can help lead and i can help other people take advantage of these opportunities because not everyone can be doing the things that we do they're selected spots for programs community of support us and all the youth know i wish you luck with what you're doing and i hope you really take advantage of this program and the resources that it provid resources that are out there and we want to keep doing that so continue to support him r t r and i want to see the product of what they did so let's get to that the feet of this so not only the technology but they become really responsible since it so the last two years we created more than two claire from c l university and i would just like to say how wonderful it is to work in partnership with agencies such as m m r t i with nathan for with the photographic center northwest and of course with wreck tech it yes or terrorist  together with the finest partment c l university we've done something that none of those agencies alone could do we've created a really great six week program soon to be a seven week program for airing youth ages thirteen to eighteen to create videos and make photographs to learn communication visual communication skills and documentary skills and to really provide a venue for their community i guess a terr to voice their ideas opinions and concerns about the redevelopment something that is going to really touch everyone in seattle but expression of those living in some terrace so it's through this kind of community collaborative effort through the  matching salle university that allow us to really learn strong communication skills and also to be advocates for their own community so i think you're going to meet a couple of our youth today and going to see a couple of our films we've made a total of twelve and as a faucet he's used choose their own topics based on conversations they've had with community residents with area agencies with seattle housing authority with city government officials fishel such as sally clarke they choose their topics from from the conversations that they have so truly i think that this archive that we're creating and we hope to do it for the next fifteen years this archive that we're doing that we're creating we hope will enter into the dialogue continuously as a community voice regarding this giant undertaking thank then about the redevelopment and this projects 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 is 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 had a 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  happy tenth anniversary which is coming up and also let the community know that m m r tier is a great resource that they're very accessible they're very engaging to work with and i hope that more users and  send 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 program more kids come together and they have a better understanding about technology and m r 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 a little well technology and media two expanding our knowledge as the as a summer progressed and we've received help from multiple resources and we've done lots of interviews with which also interviewed him on society like how society was like in seattle and we interviewed him on the use new violence because we were ran by the use of violence prevention issues so it was very interesting and a privilege to interview how their organizations change from her time to 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 at carillon 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 the 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  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 ok it's a super bowl will 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're going 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 year and we're looking really really good so you don't want to talk too much about you  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 then 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 are 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 and the things that are happening in the world and to come together and it's a tough decision i'm sure that he struggled over it so it's 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 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 lot 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 wishes this year and those are kids with life threatening illnesses that help create this magical day for 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  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 it 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 dano said i had a chance to interview and frankenstein and there were so helpful in terms of providing us with these for resources there are a great opportunity and so on mohamed who is an art teacher in middle school and he taught us the proper way to pay and change the color face and many more with the help us all and were able to do book a a couple our pieces which really appreciate what you have or what what the people who has provided us with the resources and the budget we want to have we want to have the people to help put this together come out here 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 so decided what the heck a list as long as we're together let's see if we get a football team so we try 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 we got to of the sports so if i was i was going to football so i enjoy football and i want 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 is 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 anytime 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 asked for advice and they gave it to me so we're just doing each other position and that are just dynamic players that's why pete carroll and 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 is just instead of just letting your body do it that's a 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 tool that you can put in your tool box a life in order for you to do whatever you want whether you want to be a teacher a lawyer a doctor a policeman a over to a baseball park where we are they practice football and i got me some pads and i went out there and played it i just fell in love with it i would you think of the practice here today all my various moves practice you kno  there's a bunch i don't know what's which when i get things more and more important for the athletes get less ism 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 thank you if you noticed on the twelfth man flag there i got the girl at the end gee i see that now that that's a bit of a hassle for me because i did marry  sandy for over thirty years by the way she's she's the best truly special person but it is my family i don't know if they really appreciated that one or not but it does take perseverance to get someone like that might like my wife and  which is a lot what you guys today get by the way for first congratulations that was really fun talk about the bad ones all the time i just but to go find the good ones in is a little tougher in were pretty blessed in the seahawk organization to have guys like doug baldwin go into 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 throwing passes to his brother early in the morning and it was cleaning his room doing dishes doing homework and 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 have perseverance with them so him guys are really fortunate to have so many people back in this and i really did enjoy that but i was fortunate i do you guys were fortunate that you get to be a part of something and go down to see our facility interview some great people he worked with found how hard work is research i mean that takes a lot of time right to write it all down  broadcast you ever listen to a pretty and post game show on the radio we 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 us and most people you 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 communicat and so when when i in this is in our life writing a paper doing this during a speaking engagements always know the beginning and the end so when you did this today you speaking no one what's the beginning and what the closes 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 there looking how