What's up gamers? Welcome to the channel. Today we're going to be talking about how to take advantage of shiny sandwiches in the game. Yes, you don't have to be an end game to do this. You could be an early game. And I said shiny sandwiches. Multiplayer shiny sandwich boosting is a thing in this game. And end game players can team up with early game players. You don't even need to have the shiny charm in order to pull this off. A big shout out to my friend as chef Keith for making this possible. Okay, step one is going to be pretty simple. All you have to do is fly over to Levincia. This is where you're going to be getting everything you need. If you're an early game, you can just ride over to here. And once you arrive in the city, you're going to be going to two places. One, you have deli Cisco inside of deli Cisco. You'll have an opportunity to buy a lot of the stuff that is here. So things that you need are like prosciutto.  And there are a lot of very easy ingredients that you can grab over here. So you're going to use deli Cisco for this. And if you fly over to the north part of Levincia, you have to go over to the Acquiesta supermarket. So let me just head over to that real quick. Here it is. Once you're at the Acquiesta supermarket, you'll have access to buy even more ingredients here that other places may not have. You can buy a bunch of condiments, which you're going to need like mayo, salt, butter. Those are three big ones. Grab some lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, ham. Grab some cherry tomatoes, avocados here, red onions. And some things do repeat here. But basically these two stores are going to be the ones responsible for having most of the items. And there is also tofu and clove sticks. Yes, clove sticks are here, which you cannot get anywhere else. Basically anything that you can see on this chart for ingredients is stuff you want to buy. They're going to be primary ingredients and they're going to be secondary ingredients. The big thing players have to do is have these ingredients beforehand. So you make it a lot easier in the multiplayer session once we get to that. Step number two is the union circle. Pretty much just connect to the internet.  And once everyone is locked in and ready to go, you will appear in each other's world and you will get together and you need to decide what specific Pokémon encounters you want to do. You're going to need to do some communication here because it's going to make a big deal on what sandwich you're going to make. Once you've decided on the type of sandwich you're going to have, we're going to move on to step number three. Now step number three, it's going to be very important for the host, the one who has herbomisticas, which is the special ingredient for the shiny sandwiches, which you get from five and six star raids, to drop a hard manual save before getting into the picnic. So if you're the players that are contributing herbomisticas to this group sandwich, please save your game. This is the part of the thumbnail where I said free multiplayer shiny sandwiches because you're not actually going to be using it if you don't get a shiny. Anyway, so once you do that, make sure the host then creates the picnic. Once the player creates the picnic, the host has to start this sandwich. At that point, other players will have to click on the picnic, join in on the picnic. And then once everyone is loaded up, it should say four out of four players are all there, or depending if you have three out of three or just two out of two. Once everyone is ready, basically, you can go ahead and start making the sandwich. If you're not somebody that has herbomistica, you don't have to hard save the game.  Now for the next step, it's going to require a lot of communication because if you don't do this right, it's all going to fall apart. And the best thing I could suggest is to join our discord, but I'll be talking more about that at the end of the video. Step number four, at this point, as the sandwich has begun, everyone's going to be going into the custom sandwich. You're not going to be making one of the main sandwiches. You got to hit the custom one. That way you have all the blank ingredients and you can select the ingredient. Now, the first thing that is going to happen is the host is going to select the two primary ingredients that are going to correspond with the type of Pokémon you're going to hunt. Very, very important. All players who are in this picnic have to contribute the secondary ingredients to the recipe. Here is a list of all of them, but I really suggest that you use yellow peppers, red peppers, pickles, onions or red onions. Those are the easiest to place on a sandwich because they are not going to fall off as the other ingredients here. But all of these are options, but it just please use the easiest ones. It'll make everyone's life easier and also make sure that you are properly communicating so no one doubles up on any of these secondary ingredients. So the host would throw a yellow pepper. Player two will throw a red pepper. Player three will select pickles and player four will select onions, for example, as long as nothing doubles up here. At that point, everyone is then going to hit the next button going on to the next part, which is going to be the condiment. So the host plays two urban mysticas of your choice together. And after that, each of the players will place down a specific condiment that is different. So the ones I suggest and the ones that Chef Keith suggested was one player throw down salt, another player throw down butter and another player throw down mayonnaise. At this point, you're going to move on to the sandwich making part and all the stuff will be thrown on the sandwich. I suggest just letting the host build the sandwich. If you have that many people grabbing the piece of the sandwich, it's going to be a lot crazier. And you can see that it's very easy to place down all these ingredients because they're very tiny, small, and you really have to drop these ingredients and mess it up if you don't want this to work. After you place all the ingredients simply just slap down the bread, put in the pick and then every player has to hit the A button so you can skip that little cutscene. Players going to eat the sandwich. Everyone's going to be extremely happy. And then you'll see the three buffs on the top right screen that will say level three, sparkling power, level three encounter power, and level three title power. If you get those three boost, that means nobody messed up and everyone did a fantastic job. If any of those three are different, somebody messed up the recipe and you might have to do it over again or maybe something fell during the sandwich making process. Once that is complete, everyone is now going to be benefited, which means even the early game players now have a shiny boost that the end game players have with their shiny sandwiches and everyone is now going to be able to start shiny hunting. But we are not done yet with this process. There are two options you can do after this step. One, we'll call this the multiplayer option. The multiplayer option basically is going to involve everyone still staying inside of the host world, which means you can just go ahead and hunt down the Pokemon you want in groups together. Now the only problems with this is our D spawns. When you encounter Pokemon, there's a lot of bugs when you're doing this in multiplayer. The big benefits of multiplayer is if you have version exclusive Pokemon, Pokemon Scarlet Player and my buddy Keith is a Pokemon Violet Player because Keith was over here, he was able to spawn Drepies in this location and I was able to see them. So the benefit would be a Violet Player being able to pull off a shiny spawn for maybe a Pokemon of their version and then you, the Scarlet Player can run up to it and grab it later. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a shiny dragon in the multiplayer session, but we're going to move on to the single player session, which is very interesting and the best part of this whole entire thing. So here's what happens. Once you do complete the sandwich from the multiplayer perspective, the host then has to just simply hit the sleep button on their switch and everybody is going to start disconnecting. You'll get the notification on your screen that you have been disconnected from the session and you can go ahead and hit your D pad option to see that the shiny boost and all the boost you got from the sandwich are still active. At this point, every player can do whatever they want in their own world while having these exact sandwich boost. This makes this a very powerful strategy for everyone to do whatever they want with the sandwich boost that they get. At this point, you could start to hunt whatever you want. Remember, you don't need to have the shiny charm and you don't need to be in the endgame. All the shinies that I'm about to show you are all going to be without the shiny charm. The first Pokemon that I bumped into was when we used a ground buff sandwich. This was a Toad's Coole. I did not really see it and my buddy was on the call telling me that, hey, you missed that thing and then I finally saw it. So you have to really be careful when it comes to shiny Pokemon. You can miss them. They're very easy to miss, especially when you're doing the whole entire respawning and despawning by running around. That's one of the big strategies you have to do by the way, when you are using these sandwiches. When we used a bug sandwich, I was able to get a Larvesta in the desert to spawn by running around and so many Larvestas were there, but that shiny Larvesta was really good to have in the game. And then right after I finished Larvesta, I tried to go for some relores by spawning them in, but I was not having any luck. So I ran down to the lake and as soon as it got to the lake, I bumped into a shiny Scyther. So I was able to get two shiny bug Pokemon without the shiny charm in my single player world and I gained the boost from being in a multiplayer world and somebody else made that sandwich for me. Now, if for some reason the host does not get a shiny Pokemon within 30 minutes, guess what? All they have to do is reset their game and the Urban Mystica gets completely reset because they did not use it at all because they saved before using it. Therefore, they can do it again and again and they can completely just host picnics, boost players, send them on their way. Now the three strategies I suggest everyone follows like I mentioned before, run up to a whole area of Pokemon, let them spawn in, run away from that group of Pokemon you're hunting, let them despawn, come back and they're going to be completing new spawns. You can involve yourself with mass outbreaks of the same type that also is now boosted to make it even better. You can even use the shiny picnic reset method with that shiny boost you got from somebody else in your own world if it applies to the same Pokemon type and make sure to also open up the boost to check to see how much time you have left. It's really important so you're not just hunting something and you have no shiny boost. The biggest strategy of everything is you got to use Discord. We have Discord so everyone could communicate with each other. I even set up a chat called Shiny Multi so you all can find each other, link up and be able to completely boost these sandwiches over and over and over again and farm whatever shiny Pokemon you want. Make sure to also check out the shiny trick I just mentioned when it comes to picnic reset and I'll see you guys in the next one.


Class of 2017, welcome, congratulations, parents, family members, faculty, staff, leadership of the school, everyone's congratulating you on making it through. Remember who put you there. Remember your parents, the admissions counselors, the counselors at your school, the science teacher or the math teacher, or the English teacher who saw something in you. As we go through today's ceremony, think about that person, write them a note. It's such a joyous occasion and I love seeing the regalia. One of the students was getting out of their car this morning and they said, do I bring in my honor cords? I said, bring it, where are you earned it? It's so wonderful to see everyone's regalia and everyone's honors that they're given. So thank you and welcome. And at this time I'm going to introduce our Chancellor, Chancellor Todd Roberts to give opening remarks. Dr. Tebow, appreciate that. And again, let me welcome you to the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, all of the families and friends and our faculty and staff, members of our Board of Trustees that are here to celebrate the Class of 2017 and you're truly accepting the greater challenge. I say that because I mean it. The work that you've put in over the past two years as part of our online program, while excelling at your busy lives at home is truly extraordinary to me. So congratulations for all of your hard work. Graduates, we're all here today with a feeling of great pride at NCSSM. I know our faculty and staff are proud to have had the opportunity to work with you over the past two years and it's been a great honor and pleasure for all of us to get to know you. Parents and families, I know you're filled with great pride in your son or daughter or your brother or sister who's worked so hard to achieve so much over their school career. Students graduating from high school marks one of the major milestones in your young lives. I hope you have or will take a little time to reflect back just two years ago when you decided to enroll at NCSSM. This was a bold decision. Each of you was a new member of a class of 150 strong from 57 counties from all across North Carolina. Most of you did not know each other at that time and here we are today two short years later and think of all you've done, all you've accomplished and how you have grown and how the NCSSM community has grown with you. Today's a time to celebrate your achievement and your accomplishments thus far. As I've heard about all you've accomplished over the past two years, I am most impressed. It takes an extremely motivated, self-directed and incredibly driven individual to be successful in our online program. Most of you take in the very rigorous courses that we offer here at NCSSM over and above the normal rigorous course load that you have at your home high school. You've been involved in research opportunities, service to other clubs, you've come to NCSSM on weekends, you've helped with discovery days and welcome days and countless other activities at NCSSM while doing the same and more at your home high schools. You've been the most involved class to date in the history of NCSSM's online program. So congratulations and thank you for all your involvement. So with all you've done and the many successes you've had, I'd just like to say it because you're probably too modest to say it but I do hope you know it. You're truly amazing young people. So thank you for your dedication, your drive and congratulations on your success. Challenging yourself through the courses in our online program, I hope has benefited you in many ways. The new opportunities for learning you've had have not only increased your competitiveness for the college admissions process but have helped you prepare for success once you get there. As we see major changes in how education's being delivered at the post-secondary level with virtual learning becoming more a part of every student's education, your hard work and experience in our online program has given you, I believe, a leg up in understanding how to successfully navigate and take advantage of the learning opportunities you'll experience as you continue to pursue your education. According to a Pew Research Center report, more than 50% of university presidents have said that within the next few years, that's during your time in college that all students, every student will take an online course as a part of their college experience. You're well prepared for that. In general, when people ask me what's special about NCSSM, one of the things I always mention is the NCSSM community. And people often think that's being related to life on campus. But community's not confined to a place, it's the place that you help create.  That's the community that you've all helped create, one that spans virtual and face-to-face spaces, a community that I believe is reflective of the world in which we now live. As you leave NCSSM, I encourage you to take this spirit of community with you and please share it with others because wherever you'll go, I guarantee what you have will be needed. Each of you here today, it was a great deal to others who are here to celebrate your accomplishment. I'd like to recognize those who've helped you along the way to our outstanding teachers and staff and administrators who've contributed in so many different ways over the past two years to your success here, I wanna applaud all of you and thank you for your great work and caring. To all of our parents and guardians and family members who are here who've nurtured and supported all of you for a great deal longer than two years, I applaud and I wanna applaud you and thank you for the love and support you've shown them and the foundation you've laid for this day, so thanks families and parents. So Class of 2017, I hope that as you go forward throughout the years to come, you'll remember as well the opportunity given to you these past two years by our great state and the many alumni who've come before you. Remember your responsibility as they have over these past generations to the future generations of North Carolinians so that they have even greater opportunities than those that you've had.  Once again, I wanna take this opportunity to thank everyone for being here and most particularly congratulate and thank the Class of 2017 for a job well done. Congratulations. So this time I'd like to invite up Chris Thomas who will introduce our student speakers. So good afternoon and good afternoon to our live stream audience who hopefully includes this guy. So Mr. Gottwals is actually at a chemistry research conference today and I wanted to start off by thanking and recognizing Bob for receiving the Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Award. So each UNC campus can nominate one faculty member to receive the award. I and Dr. Meyer Halpin in chemistry had nominated Bob for this award this year and our nominating committee recommended Bob Gottwals to receive this prestigious award and as Bob calls it a big check for $12,500. And on the screen here is Bob receiving the award last week at our residential commencement. So Mr. Gottwals has had a significant impact on both the residential and online program. So we're kind of lapping around the decade mark. I was hired in September 2007 as the first person to help start this program and Mr. Gottwals was waiting at the door with some advice on what that program should look like. But he's had a significant impact on the design of the online program and its initial focus on computational science. So when I was hired, quality was a key concern of starting an online program. And Bob Gottwals played a very important role in the start of the program ensuring that as we're passing our 10th year that we offer a quality academic experience. So let's give a round of applause so hopefully you can hear it on live screen. For those of you who had Mr. Gottwals that's probably enough of him staring at you so. So Bex, if you would like to come up here while I explain our student speaker process at School of Science and Math. So I'm pleased to have the privilege of introducing our first honors student speaker this afternoon. Before I do that, it is important that you know that we at NCSSM consider each and one of our students an honor student, that we don't rank our students. For our residential commencement and our online recognition ceremony, we choose our student speakers as a result of an essay submission open to all seniors and no matter how much they flatter us in the essay, it does not affect who we pick. So our first student speaker is Rebecca or Bex Nelson. So Bex is from Meben, but has lived at the UNC School of the Arts for the last four years. Bex is graduating from the UNC School of the Arts. Bex family includes Beth Nelson and Kirk Nelson and siblings Linnea, Sonia and Irma Nelson. So Bex received the UNC School of the Arts Senior Award and Scholarship based on academic performance and positive contributions to the high school community. And she also received the Nikita S. Green Outstanding Community Member Award, a student-nominated award, which is presented to someone who consistently gives the best of everything they have to their peers to the UNC School of the Arts and the greater community. Bex will be attending Massachusetts Institute of Technology this fall to pursue degrees in applied mathematics and business analytics. So we have an unusual difference to the online recognition ceremony speaker, which is two years ago. We asked our students to film a video where they envisioned their future self. And the speech they would give at graduation that reflected back on their accomplishments and challenges they overcame. So most of our students made one of these videos. It's a focus of our online program that's not just taking specialized courses, but giving students a platform and tools to envision their future self. And it was a focus of their scholar development course and orientation, which started off their experience at NCSSM. We're first gonna play Bex's video from 2015, and then she'll give her 2017 speech that reflects back on her actual experiences. Our skills will be justified. Take a deep breath, look around at your awesome home, and relax. Everything will turn out all right. You have the whole rest of the semester drawing those points back. And I know you were motivated to.   Just wait, you'll see.  You are not defined by your grades in history, much less your grades anywhere else. You are not defined by your performance in master class when your memory slipped and you skipped a whole passage. That embarrassing moment when you forgot your books in English and got a lecture from Mr. Morgan, or even when you accidentally slept through wind ensemble. You are only human, you make mistakes, and that's okay. The important thing is that you get back up and try again. Go practice hard to ace that next performance. Go study for English and put your books beside the door so you won't forget them. And for good mistakes, don't forget to set your alarms before you take a power nap. I know that's the first thing you want to do is sacrifice sleep to finish that assignment, to practice those last few bars before your lesson, or to help out your friends at their algebra home. However, you have to take care of yourself. Keep going to the gym with Sarah, keep talking to your best friend about your feelings, keep up with your family, and get enough sleep every night. Okay, maybe Fridays you could stay up an hour later. And eat well, you're going to be okay. If you have to, go chat with a counselor in the wellness center. Get a chance to pour out your stressing thoughts and feelings to someone who is meant to listen. Have fun already, you're only 16 once, and you better make it a good year. Also the next one too. Go out to the dances and dance like no one is there. Sing your heart out in the shower and laugh until you cry. Tell those you love how you feel and stay close to your friends and family. Wake up every day and go out into the world to make a difference. Soft More Self was uncomfortably enthusiastic about my preparation for junior year. And to be honest, I failed her. I did stress about my A push grades. I did run across campus late to rehearsal once or twice and I definitely did not get enough sleep. When I made this video, I had no idea I would ever have to see it again. I was just completing an assignment. I have not thought about it at all these past two years, though I guess I was supposed to watch it junior year to gain some advice. If I knew I would show it at the ceremony to all of my classmates, my teachers, my family, and strangers, I certainly would have at least put on some makeup and done my hair. Regardless, here I am after listening to myself tell me all the things I should have done and did not do over these two years. I did not remember to set my alarms before I napped. I did not practice to warm up for all of my lessons. And I did not relax when I entered Calc BC. Yet, looking back now, I realized I accomplished the most important things mentioned in the video. I told myself to go out to the dances and dance like nobody's there, sing your heart out in the shower and laugh until you cry. Tell those you love how you feel and stay close to your friends and family. I'm terribly cheesy, yes, and much more fantastical in my imagination than in reality. Plus, while I was composing the speech, my sister did not hesitate to inform me that dance like nobody's there isn't even the proper saying. But my many memories of dancing, laughing, and crying, regardless of the circumstance, I would have made these past couple years so wonderful. My local school, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, is not like a typical high school. Besides the whole boarding school thing, our senior class was only 122 seniors and we all graduated last month. Being a part of a small class size is something special. Every face is familiar and every person wears a pickle of pride with honor. I think this is the right moment to explain the spectacle that I'm wearing. You see, UNCSA students do not wear robes at graduation. We wear what we want, from artistic creative costumes to simple formal outfits. Our clothing is a symbol of our individuality, but I could not show up to the ceremony looking like I'd woken up late and forgotten to get my own graduation robe on the way here. So I asked if I could create one. My only limitation was to keep it tasteful, but I'm not even sure if I accomplished that. When I entered UNCSA, the school colors were blue, purple, and green as I have tied it on this rope. And that is how they will always remain in my mind. These metallic pink splatters represent my happiness and an arts community and the explosions of joy that seem to be always present. And as our Chancellor Bierman points out wearing his specially designed, more well-made robe, copper is the color of an arts doctoral degree. My cap is NCSSM blue and gray and the top transitions into my new school colors for next year, which I didn't know we couldn't wear today. On the back, I've melded the NCSSM logo and the UNCSA seal, but I'm sure I broke a few rules by doing that. Just as I ran into trouble trying to heed all of the advice for myself more self, I ran into plenty of trouble trying to create this robe. First of all, it's insanely difficult to dye polyester. And I have my parents to thank for helping me handle giant pots of boiling dye in the process. Secondly, graduation caps are hot glued together and in boiling water, hot glue melts and sticks to all of the fabric around it, which is why there's a new fastening device. And thirdly, paint with the same brand, but not necessarily look the same across all of the colors. All in all, it was a pretty crazy process trying to pull this together. But just like my crazy years full of plenty of mistakes at UNCSA and NCSSM, I made it. UNCSA did not change much during my time there. I showered at least a thousand times in the same shower, ate in the same cafeteria every day for every meal and walked the only hallway of the high school every single morning. Yet, I like to think that I changed tremendously while at UNCSA. To name a few things, I learned how to do my own laundry, how to perform Stravinsky's three pieces on my clarinet, how to make cookies at a sparsely equipped kitchen, how to appreciate those who matter in my life, and how to balance two high schools at once. Joining NCSSM my junior year was one of the best decisions I've ever made. Before I started regular courses, I made wonderful friends at my then called summer accelerator for cryptography and crypt analysis. I will never forget playing spike ball until we ran into walls, hiding secret messages in code and navigating the weirdly connected buildings here. I made amazing friends in my online classes too and even managed to see them outside of school. One of the best things about NCSSM online classes are the brief weekends we spend together here. Even if we just do calculus we respond to questions for six hours. It's a blast to finally match faces with the names I see on my computer screen each week and to talk without worrying about our microphones messing up. While those weekends are short, they make the NCSSM online experience unique from any other program. Over these past two years, I have learned more than I ever thought was possible in high school courses. I learned how to code in that logo, how to argue with ancient philosophers and how to communicate and work with people many miles away from me. I could not have made it to where I am today in my education without NCSSM. My past self may not have known how hard A push would be or how many essays I'd write past midnight, but she was certainly right about the love I would feel for the friends I have. I love my friends at UNCSA and I love my friends at NCSSM. An online class may not seem like much to most people or even less than enjoyable, but at NCSSM, online classes are an amazing experience. To be honest, I do not know all of you and I might not even know most of you. More specifically, of the people I do know, I would probably more easily recognize your name on my computer screen than I would recognize your face. Yet, that doesn't change the fact that when I look at all of you, I know we did this program together, regardless of the crazy experiences our past self set or didn't set, excuse me, expectations that we set or didn't set and regardless of the ones we actually managed to meet, we all made it here today. I'm proud of us and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Thank you. Okay, Daniel, if you'd like to come up. So this year's second student speaker is Daniel Schoesch. Daniel is from Elkin and is graduating from Elkin High School. Daniel's family includes parents Judith Tomas and Tomas Schoesch and siblings Bianca and Patrick Schoesch. Daniel will be attending NC State beginning this fall and he'll be majoring in engineering. He has also been accepted into the scholars program at NC State. Again, we'd like to play Daniel's video that he filmed in 2015 where he envisioned his future self but Daniel deleted the video because he said, quote, I didn't think I would need it again. For the record, I still have my high school math homework in my attic, so always keep your work. So I'm not letting him off the hook to play a movie and that's okay that he deleted it because it reminded me of a quote from the movie Back to the Future 2. And I'm not sure why I remember this quote but we've mentioned the future self a lot in the online program in the last few years and there's actually a warning in Back to the Future part two of the dangers of encountering your future self. So I'm gonna play that clip instead. And of course, great shock. Jennifer could conceivably encounter her future self. The consequences of that could be disastrous. Doc, what do you mean? I foresee two possibilities. One, coming face to face with herself, 30 years older would put her into shock and she'd simply pass out. Or two, the encounter could create a time paradox the results of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe. Granted, that's a worst case scenario. The destruction might have had me very localized, limited to merely our own galaxy. Welcome home, Jennifer. So we thank Daniel for taking the safety precaution to delete his video so it wouldn't cause those type of safety concerns. So I give you now Daniel. The proper thing to do during my speech would be to tell you a story. I'll try to make mine as long and as boring as possible just for you all to sleep so you don't have to hear the rest of the ceremony. Just make sure someone wakes you up before your student walks across the stage. We all remember our first visit to this school as NCSF students. On a mid-to-student's day, we walked up the sidewalk in front of Brian Lobby and took the first steps of the journey that we now conclude two years later. As we entered the auditorium lobby, our eyes were wide with nervous anticipation. We had finally done it. The arduous process of SATs application questions, essays, all of it was finally over. It was really happening. We were becoming NCSF students. A flurry of emotion coursed through us. We were anxious, excited, nervous, and eager. All of it was finally over. A flurry of emotions, we were anxious, excited. All of us were in a state of quiet awe, taking it all in. As I cautiously stepped in through those golden double doors, I thought this place is enormous. There's so many strangers. Too shy to talk to anyone yet. We sat alone in a distant silence, still coming to terms with the weight of this moment. Now this auditorium seems so cozy and intimate, as it is packed full of familiar faces. What was once a tense and shy silence broken only by whispers to our parents is now filled with the course of friendship. We have become the regular faces and voices that we have looked forward to, seeing during week-long events. The people we are happy to catch up with during online weekends and the friends we will cherish for the rest of our lives. We have built relationships that will never expire. These last years have brought us together in a way I would never imagined. We have become a family. Those quiet kids from welcome day would go out and discover what it truly means to be an antsy student. They work in labs creating genetically modified glowing cells and gold matter particles, type of projects, and 20-page final papers on vitamin C, map twin key ingredients, and learn computational science with the infamous gotwalls. We'd also have a fair share of mishaps, such as accidentally cooking a pink and volatile soap that dissolved aluminum foil and building bridges that couldn't support more than a penny. From all of our successes and failures, we have learned to prevent victory in the feet alike. Defeat my defeat, my self-knowledge, and my defiance. Through you, I know that I'm yet young and swift afoot. Through the years, antsy system has given us something that we have never been able to gain from high school back home. Confidence. We've learned to try no matter how impossible a task seems. Nothing is unattainable enough to keep us from the goals we set our eyes upon. Today, I know that antsy system students see no challenges, only obstacles. My bad, challenges. As you can see, I've met another obstacle. As we can cause in the fall, take with you the strength and courage. You'll stand out because you'll dare to take on the greatest of challenges and push farther than anyone else. The timid Daniel that walked into this auditorium two years ago had no clue what antsy system had in store for him.  From here, I see the incredible group of bright scholars that you've become. Lawyers, doctors, engineers. Time has flown by. It was only two years ago when I came to this school for the first time. And now, I drove here from last time. All I can think about was that this was my final visit. Usually I sleep the whole way, but today I stayed awake. To make the moment last a little longer. We have all converged upon this school for one last time. From the mountains, the foothills, the Piedmont, the coast, and the Outer Banks. Antsy System has returned for one last Sunday on campus. We now share an unforgettable experience that will forever bring us together. From webinars to online weekends. You've survived it all. We had no longer the timid sophomores that we were two years ago. Yet, the same emotions coursed through us. We are anxious, excited, and eager as we take our next steps into the future. We've come a full circle, starting another dividing chapter of our lives here at NCSISM. To the class of 2017, congratulations. You've made it. Thank you. So Dr. Garrett Love will now come up here and he's gonna present our first ever Pan-Off Award for Excellence in Computational Science. So, on behalf of the NCSISM online program, I am honored today to introduce the first recipient of the Dr. Robert M. Pan-Off Excellence in Computational Science Award. This award comes with a certificate of excellence and a $250 scholarship. Dr. Robert M. Pan-Off is the founder and executive director of the Shoder Education Foundation, which is a Durham nonprofit that serves as a national resource for computational science education. And the reason why we're here today is because it is where I and other NCSISM faculty members, including Linda Schmalbeck and Mr. Gottwals learned and were mentored in the art of teaching computational science. Dr. Pan-Off's work is the foundation of what became the computational science program here. A number of NCSISM students have also bolstered their computational skills as summer apprentices at Shoder. Dr. Pan-Off received his MA and PhD in theoretical physics at Washington University in St. Louis, undertaking both pre and postdoctoral work at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. His work in the computational science education began as a faculty member at Kansas State University and at Clemson University from 1986 to 1990, where he developed a fully interdisciplinary computational science and engineering course. His work has won several major awards, including a 1990 Craig Gigaflop Performance Award in Supercomputing, 1994 and 1995 undergraduate computational science education awards from the U.S. Department of Energy, and a 1995 Achievement Award from the Chicago Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. His interactive simulations have been used as a basis of international science collaboration for which he received a letter of commendation from the Department of Defense, and in recognition of his efforts in undergraduate faculty enhancement and curricular development, the Shoder Foundation was named the 1996 Foundation Partner of the National Science Foundation for the revitalization of undergraduate education. So as you can see, Dr. Pan-Off has done a lot of things. He's a consultant at several national laboratories, a frequent presenter at NSF, continues to serve at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois in Arbanashampane. If any of you ever want to be involved in any of these really cool places, talk to Gottwells, he'll talk to Pan-Off, okay, just as a note. So Dr. Pan-Off also continues to an active research program in computational condensed matter physics while defining and implementing educational initiatives at the Shoder Foundation. A Shoder, the Shoder Education Foundation, a Shoder is a small hammer used to pound precious metals into a thin shining layer. And as any participant in a Gottwells course knows, and an NCSM can tell you, computational science can sometimes feel a bit like being hammered until flattened. Dr. Pan-Off preferred an analogy of distributing limited but valuable education resources to get the most from them. And indeed, he himself is one of those valuable resources. In the interest of honoring Dr. Pan-Off's continued legacy, the NCSSM online program has selected a scholarship recipient that we believe not only exemplifies Dr. Pan-Off's talent and work ethic, but also represents the shine that every teacher hopes to see in their students once the hammering is done. This year's award recipient is Tessia Bobrowski, and I invite Tessia to join me on stage. Tessia is a graduating senior from Woods Charter in Chapel Hill and from the NCSSM online program. She excelled in four computational science courses, introduction to computational science, computational biology and bioinformatics, computational chemistry and computational medicinal chemistry. I hear some of you drawing a deep breath at the sound of any one of those. Her paper for computational chemistry, determining the geometries of methyl transferase reactions in DENV using model of my electoral systems, I'm glad I got through that title, was accepted for publication in NCSSM premier scientific publication, Broad Street Scientific. Tessia will be attending UNC Chapel Hill in the fall with support from the UNC Chancellor's Science Scholars, which provides 10,000 a year in financial support. Will you join me once again in congratulation? Tessia Bobrowski, we're sitting in the National, Dr. Robert Nipin and I extend the congratulations. As the new director of North Carolina School of Science and Mass Distance Education and Extended Programs, I have had the honor to spend my first year as a bright-eyed observer of the amazing individuals that make up our North Carolina School of Science and Math online program. Today I have the honor of presenting NCSSM's online's highest award, the Golden Catalyst Award. This year, NCSSM honors four students as its golden catalysts in recognition of their exceptional personal academic growth and performance, significant contributions to the NCSSM community, and outstanding use of NCSSM's programs to lead in their local communities. This year's golden catalyst awardees represent the many ways in which our online students choose to shine, whether it's serving as an online ambassador, chartering the International Club, being published in Broad Street Scientific, or developing enrichments through our side program. I ask these students to join me on stage. Tessia Brabrowski, Woods Charter School, Chatham County, Bex Nelson, North Carolina School of the Arts, Orange County, Maria Raymond, Athens Drive Magnet High School, Waite County, and Daniel Schoesch, Elkin High School, Surrey County. Once again, I present to you the 2017 Golden Catalyst Award. Now, NCSSM online class of 2017, it gives me great pleasure to turn our attention to all of you. To recognize your accomplishments over two years, today we've traveled here in the gowns of your home high schools to celebrate an exceptional achievement. My predecessor explained to the North Carolina online program much like belonging to a secret society. Many of your peers back home probably didn't even know you were leading a double life as an NCSSM student. Or if they knew, they probably didn't understand. Lacking the secret handshake or ritual, bizarre rituals, NCSSM online is really more like an invisible network.  It's a network where every node has something powerful to contribute, a network with the potential to transform everything and everyone around you. Members of the class of 2017 include student body presidents, participants in North Carolina's governor's school, summer ventures in science and math participants, academic all-stars, more than 30 members of the National Honor Society, presidential scholars, more than 20 AP scholars, multiple all-conference, all-state and all-American athletes, and Eagle Scouts. That doesn't even begin to scratch the surface in the honors and awards of the members of the class of 2017. At this time, I would like to ask you to rise if you are valedictorian at your local school. In the fall, they will attend UNC System schools like North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where 78 of you will be attending. Out of state public universities such as Virginia Tech and UC Berkeley, service academies with three of you attending the US Naval Academy and private schools such as Duke University, MIT, Stanford, and Princeton. Many will attend on scholarship. In fact, the class of 2017 has accepted over $4.5 million in scholarships. A number that seems impossibly large for such a small class. It's my great honor to recognize the class of 2017 for earning the chancellor's medallion and to congratulate those who earned a concentration in an academic area by taking four or more courses in a specific field of study. As we recognize these students, we ask that you please hold your applause until all students' names have been called so that everyone's name can be clearly heard. Jacob D. Albert. Grayson I.E. Franks Assal. Catherine Bailey. Langdon Edward Bailey. Jacob Charles Balea. Aidan Nicholas Barras. Jessica Bavard. Tessia Bobrowski. Jailon Brooks. Gable Rauschenplot Brown. Spencer Buble. Lindy Bustabog. Natalie Ann Shizzo. Christopher Henry Chow. Amanda Ray Crisco. Morgan Brooke Coughman. Lauren Collins. Lauren Taylor Collinair. Chase Costin. Whitney Elizabeth Cranford. Alexander J. Dower. Cameron Davenport. Cynthia Dong. Mary Bennett Doty. Andrew Randall Draper. Christopher Logan Drum. Delaney Dunlap. Lydia English. Rihanna Evans. Matthew Fletcher. Brynn Garner. Brady Thomas Gingrich. Nina L. Grant. Dallas Olivia Gilliams. Nazia Hall. Joseph Hanum. William Patrick Duffy Hayes. Mariah Karen Hewitt. Austin Russell Hidden. Anna McCallum Humphrey. Anna Adrevena Ioseva. Ashwin Inala. Chanpreet Singh Jezal. Cody Wayne Jefferson. Kier Jenkins. Lucas Ian Johnson. James McGuire Jones. Diksha Joshi. Emma Catherine Comrie Kelsey. Azlan Khan. Daniel Lamens. Tyler Antonio Laws. Harrison Longano. Paige Lowry. Carly Martin McFarland. Noah Christopher Mansfield. Dara Kelly McCluskey. Jonathan Parker McCormick. Don McTaggart. Catherine McLean McVeigh. Kenneth D. Mitchum. Sophia Rose Molina. Brianna Monroe. Michelle Mujica. Rebecca Hart Nelson. Chidubum Naomi Wakuchi. Adora Paige Wushu. Ian Richard Ovenden. Avery Owen. Joshua W. Pack. Bella Patel. Jarrett Peterson. Whitney Mikayla Pierce. Donna Pinnocks. Elander Reeve Pittman. Carson Pledger. Faria Ramon. Emily Ray. Marissa Beth Rine. Mikayla Kira Richardson. Andrew Manning Jackson Rivers. Hannah Ross. Rachel Sanja. Madeleine Jane Sauer. Kevin Scott. Emily Grace Sears. Skyler Dalton Singleton. Daniel Patrick Istvon Schausch. Carissa Ting Tai. Benjamin Sturdoven Warlick. Bailey Elizabeth Watkins. Teresa Catherine Weber. Mary Margaret West. Tristan Tyler Westover. Luke C. Wheeler. Matthew D. Wheeler. Solomon K. D. Wiggins. Jameson Brinkley Willis. Jonathan Stewart Wickstrom. Robert Connor Wood. Michael Xing. Katie Yang. Elizabeth Zazar. Irene Zhang. Congratulations, class of 2017. As we close this afternoon, thank you to our incredible musicians, Scott Laird and David Stuntz, for providing musical accompaniment this afternoon. We also need to thank so many more people, not just those people I talked about in the beginning that got you in this chair, but not just the people that Dr. Roberts talked about, who carried you here and back many, many times, but facilities, housekeeping, our admissions department, our student life department, all of the people behind the work that goes on here. It's incredible how many people have contributed today and you are all a product of a whole lot of people's energy, enthusiasm and just brilliant, brilliant faculty and administration that keep this place the premier high school, some say, in the world. There's a reception following the procession of faculty and students from the auditorium. Food is available in the music room, which is on this floor in this direction, as well as in Brian Lobby. There's picnic table seating outside in the courtyard as well as on the front lawn. Thank you also to our junior marshals who have so adeptly carried our children in and out and helped us to stay in order. We appreciate their guidance and we'd appreciate you families and friends. If you would stay seated until the faculty and the class of 2017 have recessed from the auditorium. Thank you and have a great afternoon.


Is my medium-format film kit too heavy for backpacking? Well, that's what we're going to find out today. My name is David Patton. When I started photography, I wanted to make art. I wanted to be a landscape photographer. But with a family to feed and bills to pay, I decided it would be better to be a working photographer than a starving artist. So I took a job as a photojournalist. 25 years and thousands of assignments later, it was time to go back to my first love. It was time to follow my passion. Come along on my journey to become the best black in my photography I can be. Whether it be film or digital, I will be sharing what I learned through my successes and my failures. In hopes to inspire and educate. This is my journey. This is Brighton Yash. So recently, I think I stated one of my goals for 2020 was to do some backpacking. Get a little more adventurous. Get out there a little more remote areas with my camera for a little bit more of the adventure experience. But I've been thinking, well, am I going to have to leave my medium format gear behind? I've never weighed it. I don't know what the total weight is of my kit. So I thought, well, I'm going to make a video today. We're going to figure that out. It might be some people out there that are kind of playing the same kind of thing. What will it take for them to backpack with their medium format gear? So I've got my little scale. And we're just going to weigh my items. I've got a Pentax 645N, a 75mm, a 150mm, and a 45mm. So I'm going to start with the camera body. It actually has a roll of foam in it, but it carries six batteries. And I think that's where most of the weight is, six AA's. So we'll start with this on this little scale here. And we've got the weight coming in at 3 pounds, 5.4 ounces. OK, I wouldn't call that light. But that's not too bad. On the 75, I don't expect this to be too heavy. 9.4 ounces. The 150 comes in at 1 pound, 0.4 ounces. And the 45 is 1 pound, 3.1 ounces. OK, let's shally this up and see what the damage is. 3.5 ounces. And that's not right. That's not 10 pounds worth of gear here. I'm going to have to do a little conversion from my math here, from pounds and ounces. I'll be back. OK, I've crunched the numbers here. And we've got this basic kit weighing in at 6 pounds, 1 ounce. That doesn't really sound that bad. Now that's not counting any extra batteries. That's not film. So if I carried 6 more batteries and a pack of film and really a 5 pack or something of a 120 film isn't really going to be that heavy. So we're looking at around 7 or 8 pounds max, I'm guessing. Which isn't really that light. So for comparison's sake, why don't I put together my similar kit that's digital and see what the weight is on that. See how close they are. I'm back. And this is my kit for backpacking, which is what I'd be using. But what I realized when I started putting this out is my 20's on the camera here being used for the video. So my kit comprises of a Nikon D810, a 20mm which is on that camera right there. A 50mm and a 85mm 1.8G lens. And the 20 is also a 1.8G lens. So I went ahead and weighed the 20 while off camera. The 20 comes in at 13 and a half ounces. Not too bad. It's pretty light. Let's crunch those numbers. Math isn't my strong suit. We all have to crunch the numbers. My film kit is only a couple pounds more than my digital. Interesting. I hope I expected it to be a little bit further apart in weight. A few pounds... You know, that might be doable. I got six pounds versus four, a little over four. So for this video I set out to just determine if my medium format kit was going to be too heavy for backpacking. And if it's only a couple pounds more than my digital kit in its medium format, I'm inclined to think that it's not too heavy for backpacking. I wouldn't say it's ultra light backpacking, but I think it's doable. We're only talking a couple pounds. Maybe I'll just lose a couple around the waist and call it good. Well, thanks for coming along on this little test to see what my medium format gear weighs. This is the first time I've ever actually been wanting to do this for a while. It's the first time I've ever actually sat down and actually weighed the gear, any of my gear. So it's been some good information that I can use. My 35 millimeter digital kit is actually pretty light, but my medium format film kit isn't really too bad either for what it is. It can get a lot heavier in a two and a quarter camera with lenses. So I hope to see you out there on some adventures this year. And I hope that this one can come along. So I think I'm in today's video right here. Until next time, thanks for coming along for the ride.