believe that he wants to work a miracle in your situation today. He's an amazing God. He's going to do something amazing today. Amazing for you. I'm Tom Hollis. I'm here with Amanda Brocker and this is Hope Today. Amanda, we've got, I guess, that's seen some of those amazing things. We do. We have Becky Dvorak. You are not going to want to miss this interview. She has been used by God to lay hands on the sick and see them recover even the dead to rise. So all that and so much more coming up. Don't tune away. Maybe call someone and tell them tune in to Hope Today.  I love that.  And so we're believing for that for you today and whatever situation you find yourself right now. I hope he does something amazing when we play Stump the Host. All right, it's called Stump the Host because we don't know all the answers. We don't know any of the answers. We don't know any of the questions. So please play along with us and we'll all see if we can do this together. You ready, Amanda? Yes. Okay. Here we go. Here's the first one. Who pretended to be mad to avoid capture and death at the hands of an enemy King? This was David by Matt. Yeah. Yes. It was David and that's our final answer. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. Yeah. He was, it was the Philistines and he, he, he pretended like he was, he's crazy and the Philistine King was, don't I have enough mad men around here? Get him out of here. And so he escaped. All right. Question number two. Finish this proverb. Labor not to be dead silence on the air. What we want to be labor not to be labor not to be. Wow, this has got to be King James. Labor not to be lazy. Labor not to be, I am totally stumped at this one. The hosts are stumped. We don't have an answer. Do you have an answer? Labor not to be lazy. Labor not to be lazy. What was this? Rich. Labor not to be rich. Proverbs 23, 4. When have I read that? Well, we've probably both labored pretty well not to be, not to be rich in our lives. All right. Well, let's go to the next one. What does the name Barnabas mean? Barnabas means son. I think it means son of encouragement. There we go. Let's go with son of encouragement. All right. All right. We'll take two out of three. Thank you for playing along with us. We love that. We love showing how much we don't know here on hope today. Labor not to be rich. We got it now. There you go. All right. Well, are you or a loved one discouraged by sickness in your life? Does it seem like your prayers for healing go unheard? Well, our next guest says it doesn't have to be this way. Becky Dvorak is a prophetic healing evangelist and author and her new book is called Decrees That Heal. Becky, welcome to hope today. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. Well, first of all, I would love to hear what your salvation experience looks like and then if you could dive into the purpose for writing this book. Well, I got born again back in May of 1979 and I didn't know I was going to be. And I got off a four-hour bus ride and some Christian friends met me. I was very worldly at the time. And when I got off the bus, my friend and her friends, her Christian friends were all there and they said, Hey, you want to go to this concert? And then I'm like going. Well, you know, I didn't know where I was and anything. And in my head, I'm thinking sarcastically. Well, sure, sure. I didn't know where I was going and it ended up being where I got born again. It was at Jesus People Church and it was at a con. It was at a concert about the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which I never heard of anything like that before. Not at all. And then when they came to give the altar call, you know, for salvation, I stood up and the person that brought me was trying to was tugging on my sleeve and saying, What are you doing? What are you doing?  And I just looked at her and I said, I don't know what these people are talking about, but whatever it is, it's what I want and it's what I need. It's what I've been looking for. And so I went in front of like 10,000 people and gave my life to Jesus. And then they asked me if I wanted to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and that just went right over my head and and you know, because even though that concert was all about that, I was spiritually dead during that concert. And so the word of God didn't make sense to me, obviously, but you know, and anyway, the person that was praying with me was very gracious and he and he asked me said, do you want the baptism of the Holy Spirit? And I said, sure. And I didn't know even know what I was even saying yes to and and he laid his hands on me, you know, for the baptism and he said, open up your mouth and speak.  Yeah, you can. I said, no, I can't if I do. I'm going to sound like a baby and he's like, no, you won't and you have to understand. I never ever heard of tongues. I never heard one person speaking tongues before. I and it wasn't like I was even speaking yet. It was just coming. There was just something in me and it was like, oh my goodness. And then he says, no, he was very gracious with me, praise the Lord and and he said, just speak and I did and I couldn't stop praying in the Holy Spirit for four days. Wow. What an encounter. So you were definitely from that moment on a divine assignment and paint for us because you were in other countries eventually like and just the word of God literally became real to you and that is so precious. But give take us along on your journey a little bit. Well, from there a few years later, I was married and then had three children and then, you know, going up, you know, when they were teens pre teens, my husband and I moved down to Guatemala and make a long story short. We raised up a children's home there and we were ministering in churches and that and it was with the with the children's home because God was bringing in all these very sick, sick children, children that were just they were not supposed to survive two weeks. Some were born with HIV and they were in the last stage AIDS and and others were just had so many things wrong with them and others came, you know, off the streets from them that they were always legal in that, you know, through the courts. But anyway, they came very, very sick to us and and a lot of demonic activity, notable activity was going on in their lives because we took them of all ages, not just babies. We had we started out with kids right off the streets and so there were a lot of issues, but it was there where God taught me how to heal the sick and raise the dead and and it has been an amazing adventure and and then from there, he started just telling me, you're going here, you're going there.  Amen. Well, it is a powerful one to say the least. But I just, you know, we're going to come to your book, but it is chocked full of the scripture of God like these prayers that you did. It's basically topical so you can look up the ailment that you're dealing with and then you give a confession of faith and you give a prayer of faith and it is just loaded with God's word is what it is, but you've laid it out for us beautifully. But I'm just thinking about, you know, it's not so much like this book has any magic to it that like you're going to get this book and then you're going to get your healing. How important is it for us to truly understand the word of God? Cause you went through a process and you learned God takes us all in processes to learn how to understand his word. Well, I think it's very important to understand what the word of God says. And Isaiah 53, 4 and 5, the Lord says by his stripes we are healed and this is my seventh book and in one of my other books, I teach people about Isaiah 53, 4 and 5 and how that verse proves to us that he heals spiritually. So our sins are forgiven that we're healed in our mind and our emotions and that he also heals physically. It's all right there. And I take people through this book about lies that people are taught from. I'm just going to be honest from the religious community. I'm not a fan of religion. I'm a fan of relationship with Jesus. That's what makes the difference. But I totally believe that it's God's will to heal all people, all times of all situations. There isn't anyone that can tell me that God does not heal today. That healing is not for today. I have seen I have witnessed too much.  They see these healings and other people's lives, but when it comes to their body, their own bodies, it doesn't happen. And they're like, why, why? And I totally believe we have to go back to scripture. Everything is in scripture. The answer is I was there and because God is not withholding what he already gave to us. He's not going to do that. He and he's not a madman. He's not a monster. He doesn't put sickness and disease on you. And he never, and he never withdrew the healing promises in his word from the blood covenant. That's, you know, that's all religious jargon. And I just don't, you know, why would someone not get healed? Possibly. There's a lot of reasons, but I think the main reasons is the words that we speak. You know, sometimes people say, well, you know, healing happens in Guatemala, Central America. It happens in South America. It happens in Africa and all that, you know, it always happens there because they're so needy. And it's like, I think everybody's needy. I think everybody's needy for the Lord and for a healing touch from the Lord. And sometimes I believe we put our faith in the wrong things. I like to challenge people with questions so that they search out their own heart. What is really going on inside of you? And I think one of the main things that that trip us up is our words. We don't speak words of faith on a consistent basis. And along with that, you know, when, you know, when you say, well, I can pray for this person. I see their healing. But when it comes to me, it's a whole totally different story. Well, we learn about this from Abraham and Sarah and how they had to overcome human reasoning and the five senses. And those are very powerful things in our lives. And so we always have to. We have to choose to believe in every situation. We have to choose to speak right words. We have to choose to ignore the negative symptoms that our body is screaming at us or whatever. And we have to choose to believe what Jesus did for us. We have to choose to believe that is the power of his blood that is shed for us for our healing is greater than the medical field today. It's greater than those pills. It's greater than those treatments. It's greater than our own human reasoning, etc. And along with speaking right words, which my new book decrees that heal is all about, you know, it's filled with prayers of faith that you pray for your loved ones because I truly believe that people want to pray in faith. And there are times when people just don't know how to pray and it's something we aren't really taught from the pulpit and I think it's so basic so foundational, but people aren't taught how to pray in faith and not everything that comes out of our mouth is faith. Not just because you're praying. It doesn't mean you're praying in faith. A lot of what we do is whining and complaining and begging and when you believe that something is already done, you're not begging for it. You're thanking the Lord for it. And along with speaking right words, which this book is all about and it's about exposing lies that we are taught to believe that hinder our healing and that, but it also I teach people all the time your actions have to line up with your words of faith. You're if you want to know what's in your heart because you know out of the mouth, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks, correct? If you want to know what's really in your heart, what you really believe. Look at what you're doing. What are you acting out? Because that's what you believe. That's what you truly believe. And I teach people all around the world. United States too. I see amazing miracles here. So you can't tell me God is geographical because he's not. He goes wherever there's a believing heart, but I'm telling you if you are believing for a healing touch to manifest in your body, you cannot for a funeral because if you do, that's what you're going to have because that's where you your your action is. That's where your faith actions are manifesting in that. So everything has to be in unison. It all has to be aligned on on scripture, not on what you feel, not on what your body, not on those symptoms. Of course, the enemy is going to ramp up the symptoms against you. He's afraid of you. He's afraid of your healing. Becky, let me ask you for a testimony. Share a story with us about healings that you've seen. One that stands out. Well, one of the ones that most people want to hear about is is how we raised our adopted son Marcos from the dead. He came to us when he was one day old and his mother had tried his birth mother had tried to abort him numerous times already. So the enemy was after him from the womb. I mean, terribly. And then he came to us at one day old. We named him Marcos and when he was one month old, he actually died from a lot of the things that happened in his past while he was in that womb manifested when he was one month old. And I walked into sudden infant death syndrome, which is a horrible thing. And and it's a huge long story that I don't have time to get into here. But by faith, I mean, my I walked in and I knew something was wrong in that room. And it was like, I felt it the moment I walked into the room and it was like, and I called my husband. I said, David, come here right now. And he came really fast. I said, something's wrong with Marcos. And and I'm telling you, um, within within three minutes, he was gone. I couldn't leave and I'm glad I couldn't leave, but it didn't make sense at the time. But I couldn't leave because I had four other babies and I had 12 kids from the streets. Um, I couldn't leave the home and there weren't cell phones. Cell phones had just come into Guatemala.  We owned one. So there was no communication between my husband and I. I it was a terrible hour. It was rush hour. There's only two ways in and out of Guatemala City. We live 45 minutes outside of the city. What does someone need when they're not breathing? Cause that's what was going on. He was not breathing. What do you need? You need oxygen and and it's a big long story, but the Lord had me in my house. I had no idea if he went tried to make it down. You know what? It would be like two hours for him to get through that traffic once he got down that mountain to that hospital or he would have to go the other way into a little Latin town that they're very ill equipped with with things like that. And so he had no choice. So he went to the little Latin town and I'm telling you the first hospital had no oxygen. The he directed my husband. There's no signs. It's just total confusion and he directed my husband to go find this place. They found this place. They saw Marcos grabbed him and ran up the stairs. My husband's going after him. They made a little makeshift oxygen tank and they were using one of those hand held pumps to to get him to breathe but too much time had elapsed and in his lungs had built his heart had built up so much pressure from pumping dry that his heart didn't stop.  His heart was exploded and he was pronounced dead. I didn't know this.  Mom's going in her room and she's praying and I prayed in the and I prayed in tongues. It's just one of the greatest gifts people need. The body of Christ needs to reactivate you need to pray in tongues people because we don't always know how to pray and but the Holy Spirit does and he'll pray right through us and I'm praying in tongues and I'm praying and praying and praying and then all of a sudden I break into his realm and that's one of the keys you got to get to. You got to get into the realm of him, words of doubt and unbelief and moaning and groaning and all that kind of stuff you know negative words is not going to get you into God's presence where the miraculous reigns. You've got to force yourself into his realm into even in the midst of very difficult situations. You can do it. You can do all things through Jesus right who strengthens you.  I wasn't like was talking to me with no I know exactly who was speaking to me and you will too and and I said what and he said you need to come against this spirit of death over Marcos right now and so I heard myself say in Jesus name I renounced the spirit of death over Marcos and I release the spirit of life to flow into him and then God spoke to me again audibly and he said now Becky speak to his spirit directly. Now I had been studying healing. I was honest. I met my Holy Spirit. I'd been studying healing for two years. I was going on all these long fast just feasting on the word of God concerning healing. I was just following the direction of the Holy Spirit and and he told me he said speak to his spirit directly. No one had taught me that I never read it in anybody's book nothing except in the word of God where Jesus sent his word and it healed them and so you know if we will believe the word of God and activate our faith with no doubts and our actions line up our words line up it's all lining up and we're in his presence and I should add love fuels your faith and so the enemy is going to try and get you out of that realm of love. He's going to try hard to do that and but you got to stay in it and and I heard myself say under the leading of the Holy Spirit speak to his spirit directly and I said Marcos and I had no idea he had been pronounced dead already. I had no idea what was going on. All I know is I said Marcos. I know there's a distance between us but in the spirit realm there is no distance Marcos I need you to start breathing on your own now breathe breathe breathe and I had this peace and it's not an emotion. It's not a feeling. It is I believe an actual supernatural place with God. It is you're in his presence. You're in your you're like under the shadow of of his wing you're right there and that's where all the miracles they just they just permeate the place and you've got to get yourself into his manifested presence and you can do it and you speak the right words of faith and you act on those faith on that faith and I had this peace and later on a few hours later my husband came to get me and he was telling me his story which I shared with you and and then I'm and then I started to tell him what I shared just with you now and no one was with Marcos. They had walked my husband over someplace else to to sign the paper so the corner could come and do his business but this woman was praying in faith. She was praying in this spirit and God said this is what you do. This is what you do and and all of a sudden nobody's with Marcos. Nobody's trying to save his life. He had already been pronounced dead.  We have to believe for a new heart new lungs new kidneys a new brain and many other things. Those are just the main things we had to believe for and a month later Marcos was now down to four pounds and we were taking him home. He is 22 years old. They said he'd never walk talk speak any of that. They said he'd shake and tremble and and no he walks. He's bilingual. I mean he talks. He's bilingual. He's very strong. There's no shaking trembling. He doesn't have seizures. Not any of that. Amen. So I firmly believe that God is all powerful. His word is truth and there isn't anyone that's going to talk me out of it. That's right. Well, Becky, thank you so much for every moment of that story. I know we were all hanging on to hear the the miracle and just God's word works. But thank you for being a part of our hope today. Amen. Thank you for having me. I enjoyed it. Wow. What an encounter with the Holy Spirit. All I have to say is who do we need to invite because she was not a believer and invited to a concert or a Jesus gathering. God supernaturally really touches her and look how God is using her in the kingdom now. Well, I think what we can all take from this is that God is an amazing miracle working God and that we need to be about his business and we need to pray and we need to believe and we need to trust and we need to be ones that say God, I know that you can do miracles beyond all that I could ask or think. That's what he encourages us to understand. So let's believe for that. I know, Amanda, there's been times we've prayed. I've prayed you've prayed. Our families have prayed and we haven't seen that. But we still need to pray every time believing that God is going to lead us and guide us. I thank Becky for that. That encouragement by that story. Amen.  As she said, and it's just not vain words. She has scripture references in every prayer so that you know where it is that you're pulling from God's word. And I encourage you to hang out with God. You know, it's so important that you get to know his word to understand his character because when we go to him in prayer, it gives us the right position that we can have before him and even getting to know his heart. As Becky said, God wills to heal. He desires to touch your life and those of your love ones. And he wants to strengthen us. But we know that it is not by mind. It's not by power, but it is only by the spirit of God, just the way that cornerstone television exists.  So have hope as you tune into God and understand him more. On tomorrow's hope today, ever wonder if God is trying to speak to you through your dreams? 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What's going on, Infinite Fam? Welcome back to another video. If you guys are new to the channel, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button. Turn on your post notification bell. Leave a positive comment down below for a chance to get a post notification shout out at the end of today's video. So as I just previously said, she made me eat dog food, guys. I didn't just chew it and spit it out. No, I actually ate some of that dog food.  But today is where we get revenge, Team Isaiah. We are about to hit Team Janice with the ultimate revenge prank that I don't even think she might want to sleep with me for a while after this one. Janice is currently in the room. I woke her up like three times already, telling her to get up, we have stuff to do. She insists on staying in bed and sleeping. She's like knocked out, she's not getting up. So I thought this would be the perfect revenge prank. As I told you guys not too long ago, Janice made me watch Bad Girls Club and there was this one particular scene that I remember and I thought it was perfect that I can turn it around on Janice. This is the clip right here. It's time for your accident. Hey, Priscilla. Are you hungry?  So as you guys saw, this girl, Judy, basically put breakfast in a pot and threw it on this girl, Priscilla. Now I thought this was perfect because Janice just did a breakfast prank on me in the last video. So I feel like this is the perfect revenge prank because it has to do with breakfast, right? So that's exactly what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna whip up some cereal in a pot and I'm just gonna throw it on Janice. And I'm pretty sure at that point she's gonna wake up and she might just start swinging. We're gonna find out. I feel like this type of prank, these types of pranks, like the one that she got on me with the whole dog food and the cereal thing, I feel like these are the ultimate, classic prank wars pranks. And I'm not gonna lie, I feel like these are the funniest types of pranks. So if you guys agreed to make sure you guys hit that thumbs up button and comment down below how you think she's gonna react. This one is about to be a banger, guys. I'm gonna feel bad about it at the same time. I'm not, cause she made me eat dog food. Let's get into it. Guys, comment down below if what I'm about to do is gonna get you very upset and this is what I'm talking about. Let me know if this just got you mad. Me pouring the milk first. And she's gonna know how to sacrifice a lot of this cereal, but it's all right, we're gonna make it worth it, we're gonna make it worth it. She's gonna want me some cereal after this one. Make sure we get it all nice and cereal-y. And this is about to be crazy, guys. I'm gonna feel bad about it at the same time. I'm not, because she gave me chicken and brown rice recipe. Janice, I served you breakfast in bed! Well, technically it's rice. It's colored rice. So, I mean, it's good, I think. Say team Isaiah. Oh my God, this is freezing. Say team Isaiah. Why would you do this? I will go whip up another batch if you don't say team Isaiah. Oh my God. Say team Isaiah. Oh my God. Say it before I go whip up another batch. Bro!   Ew! Why?  And then all of this is your problem. You should've never put dog food in my cereal. You should've never messed with a man's cereal. What do you think you're who- Yes, I'm glad you know where I got this from. Yes. Oh my God. The original thing. Who cares? Did I not get what? For team Isaiah, that's for what? Oh my God. It's all over you. It's all over you.  Look at that. And you're cleaning all this up.  You cleaning all this up. Uh-uh. Well, what's the issue? Don't you, don't pick it up and throw it at me. Don't you do it. I don't know, that's your problem. What do you want me to do? I did my part. Come give me a hug.  I'll give you a hug. I'll give you a hug. Let me set the camera up. I'll give you a hug. I'll give you a hug. However, if you put that, I see what you have in your hand. You got a whole cup.  Eat it. No. Eat it. I'll give you a hug. Eat it. No, eat it. That's it, that's it. Someone doesn't know how to use a spoon. You don't know how to use utensils. Is that it?  Wait, why would you? You made a big mess. It's okay. I'll teach you how to use a spoon one day. Look at my spoon. What? Oh, you got a whole freaking fruity pebble pancake down there. That's nice. That's nice, that's nice. No, seriously, you're cleaning this up, though.  You cleaned this up. No, I'm gonna go do an outro.  Wait, no. Say it. No. I'll whip up another pot. I'll do it. I'll whip it up. Keep that with me, because watch what's gonna happen. I'll whip up another pot. I'm gonna give it to you worse. I'll whip up another pot. You gotta say it. I will give it to you worse. You call him a bluff, bro. I'll whip you worse.  You got it that fast. All right, guys, so that is it for today's video. A short, sweet one, no pun intended. All right, this was just a payback for you putting dog food on my cereal. Don't ever do that again. This is like extreme. How is it extreme?  I ate dog food. And then you got a shower act, and you don't do that in the morning anyway. We have stuff to do. You didn't want to get up. You didn't want to get up. So because I don't want to get up, you're gonna throw all of this on me? Yeah. So that's it for today's video. If you guys enjoyed it, make sure you guys smash that thumbs up button. Comment down below Team Isaiah all day every day. Today's post notification shout out goes out to Hector Almavador. I'm sorry if I butchered your last name, bro. Shout out to you, though. Thank you for the love and support. 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I got a huge bundle when I was in ICU, a huge bundle of thank yous from all the people in the office there in San Francisco. I was blown away and it's wonderful to see that there's a culture in place there and that everybody seems to be consumed by it. I love what you people are doing and the vision there is actually quite altruistic and that's basically my take on the world as well. I mean, I would include medicine as well as education in terms of everybody should have access to it but I realize that's a pretty big dollar and if we can get to the information part of it that will help.


So, first of all, I would like to make two sort of disclaimers. The first one is I was invited to give this talk yesterday afternoon, so I had literally like less than 24 hours to prepare it. So sorry. The second one is this includes almost no data. I think there's literally one data visualization that I will include, and I will not talk a lot about data. Because this is something that is sort of happening in parallel to the CSB Conf. And it's an initiative that I really love, and I just really wanted to talk about it. So I am the CEO of a very small NGO called Lectures Without Borders. Our aim is to connect scientists and schools around the world. So I guess we all agree that science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the education of this in school from a very young age is important for kids. But I guess we also all agree that there's high inequalities on the level and the quality of the STEM education that people can get depending on their gender, depending on the socioeconomic background, depending on their geographic location. At the same time, we know that teachers are making huge efforts in trying to make STEM subjects interesting for kids. In project-based learning, using materials that they have access to, and at the same time, academic institutions are trying to make STEM more, to basically make it more approachable for kids by organizing things like science's wonderful festival or things that are aimed specifically for kids and adolescents. The problem with these things is they are not as accessible as we would like them to be. On the one hand, academic institutions themselves have limited resources for organizing these things in terms of even having a physical space, having the money to set up a whole festival for kids. It's really not easy. Also time constraints for both the academic institutions, the schools that maybe cannot block a full day for the kids to attend one of these things. At the same time, for many schools, even if they had the time, these things happen very far away from what they are. I grew up in a place that doesn't have academic institutions because it's a small town. If I had to attend any of these things, we had to block two full days. First, we needed to go somewhere, we needed to sleep there. This is something that only very rich schools could do. It's a bit like there's still a lot of barriers to it. This also perpetuates inequalities not only in access to STEM education, but also in general, the possibility of kids to eventually consider becoming scientists. Lectures without borders, which we have ever been livable, will try to at least contribute a little bit in trying to solve, to lower these barriers. Our equation is pretty simple. Whenever a scientist is traveling somewhere to attend a conference to visit their family, whatever they're doing, they tell us where they're going. We find a school in their destination that is willing to host them for a lecture, and we coordinate a lecture that happens during the school day. The initiative started in 2017 with four friends that were three of them were scientists. One was a school teacher, and when two of them, one was traveling to Nepal, another one was trying to Indonesia, both of them said it would be really cool if we could go to school there. They started to reach out to their friends and family, and happened to find a school in Indonesia and a school in Nepal. This network started growing from there, basically. Today, after, well, I don't know how many years, we are over 400 scientists. We have over 1,000 schools, and we are presented in 54 countries. Since 2020, because of the pandemic, we also started offering webinars whenever scientists are not traveling, and our schools cannot host them in person. These webinars have allowed us to reach, well, especially during the pandemic, thousands of schools. A lot of scientists also started reaching out and interested in participating in webinars and even beyond the pandemic, because maybe they are not actually traveling, which is perfectly fair. Not everyone travels, and so we kept doing these things even after COVID. This is what I promised, one graph, of how the number of our lectures grew over time. Not only the number of lectures grew, but also because of the webinars, the reach of our lecture grew a lot, so now we are organizing around 10 lectures a month, and each lecture stopped being for like 10, 15 students, and now we have yesterday a lecture with 170 students. This is how we have been growing. Beyond lectures, we also organized some online activities like open lectures. These ones were big events that then were followed up with a whole project led by the school and mentored by the scientists. These ones were on climate change, and they had like, it ran over three months during 2021, and this one is Science Congress that was held online. It was a planetary science congress for the Europlanet Science Congress that was run in 2020 and in 2021 fully online, and what we did was we opened the conference to schools by making the talks available, of course, with the permission of the scientists to the students, and also allowing them to have a Q&A with the scientists, and a sort of parallel talk. That's why this has this little blue arrow that shows that there were parallel talks that were on the same topic, but specifically targeted for kids, and trying to show them a bit why scientists go to conferences, what's the aim of it, why science communication is important, and what are the difference between doing an outreach talk and a scientific talk. However, and even though online activities are really cool, there's a lot of the impulse and interaction that is very important also for the kids to feel close to the scientists to use them as role models to have a bit of more this wonder of science. So in 2022, with the Europlanet Science Congress, what we did was combining both things. We did in-person activities in Granada because the event was held in Granada in 2022, and then we also moved this online for all the schools that were not in Granada. And this is how I'm here, because based on this experience, we thought of doing the same with the CSB Conf. Since Basen was attending this conference and he's my partner, so I was also coming, we thought maybe we could offer this to CSB, and of course they said yes. So we organized seven in-person lectures, four of them happened yesterday, there's two happening on Friday, and one that is actually happening next week, and the idea is we are going to local schools to interest the kids in data science if you want to talk to the people that gave them yesterday, Basen is one, but also there's just one that is right now giving another talk, who gave this talk, which was amazing, she even showed me a visualization of asking the kids if they were interested in data science before and after the talk and seeing the difference of why kids were not interested in data science, and they were saying things like, all I've heard about data science is bad things, like they collect data about you to then sell you advertisements or whatever. And precisely our idea with bringing the speakers of CSB to the schools was to show kids good use of data, and examples of what cool things one can do with it. I gave this talk because I needed to cover for someone that at the last minute cancelled, and this is something that we luckily don't have very often, but the problem is the school already blocked an hour and a half of their pay, and now we need to bring someone, so I did give this talk, and I talked of examples of all of you, and talking about the talks that were from the CSB, and the questions were all like, I had no idea that you could use data for this, because you know I'm studying social sciences, I have no knowledge of computers, why would data science be relevant for me? And so this is what we want to do, and ideally I would like afterwards to also organize sort of follow up activities with the same schools, so that it doesn't stop in just one lecture. If you would like to join, we actually have an opening for Friday. What we're doing is not actually a lecture, it's a speed meeting in which I would like to come, I would come also in person. For now there's three scientists, initially there were five, but due to visa problems. We are nothing, and the ideas the kids are going to have short 20 minute slots in which the scientists will only have to very briefly say in five minutes what they're working on, and then give the students time for questions, and then the groups are going to change. So we can bring as many scientists as we want, so whoever wants to join on Friday, it will be on Friday morning. Anyhow, I will just briefly tell you a bit more about our website. So in lectures we had boarders, I've been working with my very limited knowledge of programming, I did a little website, and what we're trying to do with this is creating a platform for schools and scientists to actually interact, because so far we have the problem that everything sort of goes through the core team, so all communications depend on us, and the idea is that we want both scientists to learn from teachers on how to like communicate these things to young audiences, and teachers also to learn from scientists, like it could be refining their classes, if they want to teach something they have someone that they can talk to and double check the facts before talking to the kids. Also we have a lot of information now on our website that before we were sending to the school directly or to the scientists directly, now you can see our code of conduct, you can see the child safeguarding policies and all our guides and like the guidelines for lectures and for schools. And our idea is that all these things that were before happening, organized sort of outside the website, now will be also published. When we organize workshops for scientists to maybe give tips to other scientists on how to present a specific topic, create communities of interest, give the feedbacks and all those things that we do, do them sort of in a more open way. All of our lectures that are recorded, which are not all of them, all the online ones are, but the in-person ones sometimes depend on the school, are all available on our YouTube channel. And if you want to know more, you can go right now to our website or text me or register or just, I don't know, talk to me right now. So thank you very much for your attention. Thank you so much. This is amazing. We have time for questions. Does anyone have a question? I just wanted to do, if I can, I guess one quick statement. This is a great talk regardless of 24 hours. Thank you. I agree. I have only one question. If I understood correctly, so when scientists go to one place, they tell you they are going there, so you try to reach the community of that destination and a school? Yeah. I was wondering whether, I am sure you have an answer for this, but whether that could provide bias or wrong impression to that community that if you want to pursue a career in science, you have to go abroad, like the country where this scientist is coming from? Yes. And actually that is a very good point that I forgot to mention. That is one thing that I'm actively encouraging people to do is to give lectures in their own country. So the talk that is happening next week is actually by Laura, who is from Buenos Aires and is giving a talk in Buenos Aires. So there's two things that I try to always ask scientists. The first one is when I say going on holidays, it's like I gave talks in my own hometown because I want to tell people that you can do it. And still this sort of paradigm was the initial equation of lectures without borders. And it's something that I started, so I joined lectures without borders afterwards. I joined in 2020. And since I joined, I always ask people if they want to give a lecture in their own hometown, if they know anyone, bring more schools. Also because I found myself, especially when I went myself to my own school, that a lot of people are like, oh, so like, do you know other people that also went to France to do a PhD? And I'm like, no, but I know people that are doing PhDs here that are equally good. Especially so I'm a virologist, I did a PhD in virology. And it happened to me with a radio from my hometown that during the COVID pandemic, wanted someone to talk about that. And I said, I can give you a very, very good virologist that is also from my hometown, but is working in Argentina. Yeah, but you know, you work in France. And I was like, I worked with viruses. And now I don't anymore. I'm not really the person you want to talk to. You want to talk to someone that is actually researching this. And that's amazing people in Argentina doing this. So it's also like, try, I agree with you that we need to do this. And one of my aims for 2023 is to decentralize lecture cell borders. Because I find that because of how fast it grew, especially from 2020 until now. So when I joined in 2020, there were around 40 people in maybe 35 in our database, like scientists. And we had something like 100 schools. So all this growth was very, very fast. And we have almost no funding. So we are doing it like all of it as volunteers whenever we can. And I find that if we don't start decentralizing things, first of all, it cannot grow anymore. But also it will literally just collapse. Right now, I am overwhelmed with things. And I am almost 100% of the NGO right now. Because everyone else is working just like one hour, two hours, whatever. And that means that, so what I would like to do is basically have hubs in different countries. Basically just maybe one coordinator per country or two, whoever can volunteer a couple of hours, like whenever somebody's going to that country or wants to organize something, or a school in that country. Because for the webinars, for example, it's usually the schools that request the webinar on a topic. And if a school from a certain place requests something, we can contact the people from that country. So actually, it happened recently, a school from Nigeria asked for webinars on data science. And I contacted Jason there. And I told him, well, Basin contacted Jason actually. And we asked if they wanted to give something and because of the open bioinformatics foundation. And they said, actually, we can put you in contact with an Nigeria hub. And the scientists came in person. And for the kids, it was much better to see a person from Nigeria that does bioinformatics than having a white European giving talk about bioinformatics. So that is actually where my idea of having the local hubs started. I was like, this is actually much more valuable. And yeah, I'm trying to find a way if you have ideas. Also, if you have ideas for funding, this would be amazing. Because a lot of the things like we have this huge project that we are now piloting here in a school in Rosario. That is competition for women in STEM. We want to challenge kids to identify one woman in their community that is working in any STEM subject. Interview them and then prepare a little video. And then have competition on how the video should be telling us what this person is doing. So the kids have a bit of science communication and a bit of interviewing someone and also gives visibility to the women that are working in their own community. And it has them as role models. And it's a project that, one, they would like to do in like a global scale. But we need to start with one school because there's no way we can scale this without piloting it first. And then we will need to find money for it. So like this, we are trying to do small things. But yeah, whatever idea you have on how to decentralize this, it's right. I have a question, which is maybe unfair, based off what you just said about how you're already at max capacity. But you mentioned that you wanted a way to like follow up with the schools that you've talked to. Could you tell us more about that? Yes. So there's several ideas that we have. And we've been discussing this like the week before Easter. Because now we have like a board of members that we're creating that are like the members are the most engaged started like trying to help us precisely decentralize this. And one of the things that we came up with was a system by which like at the end of each lecture, the scientists could give an idea of like a small project that the teacher could do and basically co-create it with the teacher, like see how feasible it is. If I ask for example, I don't know, I'm a virologist and I want the kids to, I don't know, design something that they can do to identify something about viruses. And then like try to do like follow up or via email with the teacher to give them these instructions to the kids. And then the scientists would come once more something like two or three weeks after their initial intervention virtually to just mentor how this project is doing or maybe allow the kids to present the results to the scientists or something like this in which there's at least one small follow up so that it doesn't end in a came. I said something and then you forget about it tomorrow. Teachers, it was actually the idea came from the teacher because there's in the board members, there's scientists and there's also teachers. So it was, we're trying to see how to do it. I love this so much. Let's get you funding.