Everybody forced here up in 2023 Bowman baseball jumbo eight box case number 52 pick your team style. I Literally just closed out the names on accident. Sorry. I wait for the load up again. I was switching tabs and I close it out Have too many tabs open Okay Daniel L. Phillies Duke has the white socks and Padres Eric M. Twins Farhan with the Giants Orioles Sorry Farhan has the Giants Francis C. Has the Orioles the Royals and the Mets Gabriel C with the Angels Yankees and Mariners Gilbert M. A's Jack S. Braves Jared Ergerad has the Guardians and the Brewers Jeffrey H. Marlins and raised Joe D. Has the Tigers and Cardinals John C. Rockies Jonathan W. A nationals Jonathan D. Dodgers Kang L. Pirates Kyle S. D. Bax Matthew F. Blue Jays Mike B. Reds Rick E. Cubs Robert C. Red Sox Scott F. Rangers and Zachary J with the ash shows. Good luck everybody Let's go ahead and get started here Mo Bamba's playing the night or on the game for which would be tomorrow. I Just got that notification The Nuggets about to get Mo Bamba. Lakers coming back Lakers and six. No. Yeah Lakers and seven. Sorry Four straight dubs come with Mo Bamba leading the way. Sorry Nuggets happens are the best of us You just got Bamba Yeah, honestly, the best thing with the nationals would be in Elijah green prospect auto There's a nice color on one of those not a first, but Obviously, he's a top like 25 prospect in the bigs right now Top like two or three national which is which says a lot for the to be a top three prospect for the nationals because they're are stacked Especially in the outfield James Wood might be up sometime this year Doesn't how quickly they want to move those guys up Starting off with an atomic Sites on September Matt McLean to 150 reds. That's that guy might actually come up this year as well Like he did did he already a light blue paper board of ghosts the 499 guardians the paola Tame de paola spencer jones spencer jones Pinkies So golf is on tv Tell me to change it. No I feel like every time we watch like I watch golf. It's always Kepka and Schaeffler and like rom up there. Rom had a tough weekend, but Scotty Schaeffler must be must be playing really well recently. I always see him at the top of the leaderboard Cooper's already out. Hey, you know what von? At least you got the series dub. You know what at least we got the series dub And pavetta's in the bullpen now get him in the retirement Blue paper rookie nelson velasquez the 150 cubs color match They joe stew angels base first bowman auto joe stewart angels Donnie kepka Xavier isik first Yeah in the retirement home the nuggets are not going to lose a seven game series. 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They're really insidane opadres So we've got some luminaries and museum or not. Sorry luminaries and gilded coming up soon You've also got optic basketball pyts on sale Just a handful of teams left at each then you got contenders basketball full case, which is still in double digits You got dual case eminence and a flawless tonight It's a monster break The sunday funday mixer has 2019 flawless and 2020 flawless in it. So that's a huge football mixer There's 2022 iMac first up the line in 2021 prism first up the line along with it So big time potential in that in that mixer He will pull like a Hertz rpa or something We pulled a herby last time we opened it. I think last sunday Maybe we'll see like Hertz or uh Or like j jettas or something. I think brady has autos in 2020 flawless. I don't remember honestly I think he might have autos in 2020 Actually, I almost certain that brady has autos in 2020 flawless Because he did in 2020 nt for sure There's lunar glow of ryan clifford for the stroze. You're here with clipper Who's that carl? Wow. Wow. Wee. Wow. Yeah That's one of jake's favorites. What are the do you think donny has seen borah? Probably no chance, right? You know what sam and I should do for the thumbnail tomorrow Is do the step brothers thing because he's never seen it But put our faces on brennan and dale I'll be perp. I got a text hally that right now actually I'll send it. I'll send an email in a minute here. I have because I gotta remember that I have to remember that Oh my god super super. It's gonna be rookie of the year Uh contenders or what I forgot what exactly what it's called. Um Um, rookie of your what favorites rookie of your favorite super fracter Francisco alvarez matt's one of one Francis c Yee-ha He's been playing very well recently. Very well. What a gorgeous hit Yeah, he was the number one cat number one prospect Let's go That's so nasty That's so nasty What a card What a card Love to see it Purple pattern paper how you lead a 199 for the fillies Wow, and a true blue of jayson demingas the 150 yankees He's hitting over 200 now. Did you know that jake? Who's that demingas?  There you go. I'm telling you That is exactly how the night's gonna be. It's jake's birth jake's birthday. So I'm so glad Leondra arias refractor first bone auto to 499 for the orioles Jake guaranteed three logo man in a box of flawless later on Guaranteed it If not, he'll he'll give me the rest of his birthday cake I hope we pull a logo man tonight. I gotta pull one sand pulled one now. I'm like, okay. Well We're pulling one tonight. Am I even a good breaker anymore? I think we're pulling one tonight, too. I think we're pulling one tonight We're gonna pull a platinum bar Platinum bar fronds later as well So I can say fronds You and your coming arrow blue lunar crater first bowman auto To 150 Tampa Bay That's jakes boy right there Chevy common arrow Sizzlin Sizzlin No, I didn't get him a shurzy, but I gave him a few cards actually And I got him and I got him pizza Yeah, so I mean he got me plenty legitimate pizza, too. Not like Donny would want papa johnson for his birthday. We're just fine. That's cool He wouldn't get the order right First of all papa johnson probably didn't even get the address, right? And a jaco berry base first bowman auto for the marlins So the super the common arrow and the berry insane box Good berry hit right there I had some berries earlier with my breakfast because I was healthy today until I got to work And since I've had to work I got two slices of pizza and a piece of cake And a gigantic coffee is in the fridge I'm sipping on in between so That's how it goes. That's how it goes some days, right aqua shimmer first bowman yolfri salado to 125 marlins Invicta spencer jones spencer jones Jake's got it Dude, we should do a karaoke night for the shop You know, be good. That would be good to do with the gaming shop Gaming shops got everything You sing you sing a song of karaoke you get like five percent off or something like that Do you like a couple free packs of whatever? We'd be like great No, do you just you just sing you just got to get there and sing a full song and you get like free packs or something that'd be fun You get free plays on the pinball machine free pinball plays. I'm in I'm in on the free pinball plays It is a good day. That's good to see good to see cossus gotta hit dude Did you see the the catch tautis made last night? I was like what it why like did you see that? Dude cossus like stung one like was like a surefire double tautis makes this crazy catch Like leaping catch too not like a diving but like he's just like left and I was like what the heck man Like that's a hit 95 of the time Lunar glow colton couser orioles Very unlucky. Hey, you know what that's baseball though Yeah, that was that might have been the hardest hit ball like the whole game Oh good, Andrew. Yeah, if you can find it on the site, it's under merch, but I'll drop the link for you here That's a monster. That's a monster wemby Well, that was a crazy catch Yeah, it's pretty good, right? He crushed that ball Yeah, that's what I'm saying Yeah, well, no, it's no, it's Jake Kyle. It's Jake. It's not me. Everything we pulled on it's because of Jake It's 21st, you know, you look at you only turn 21 once Blue paper to 150 max Wagner orioles Do not now we now we got to take Jake out to the bar That's what we got to do next. I haven't done that yet. I take Jake out on the out on the The I don't I don't know where we go The local uh, the local apple bees Jayce Bowen on the first moment base auto base Jayce First Bowen auto Base Jayce first Bowen Wow. Yeah, it's uh A nice drink from the latent minibar Yeah, would you like somebody's open to mountain dew that has been in here for For like four days Someone's coffee they left out green crash Jayce young to 99 tigers The latent minibar Jefferson Rojas speckle first Bowen auto to two 99 cubs solid Rojas We should get we should get uh We got to do that step brother thumbnail for tomorrow. We have to very Called step breakers Tommy speck true blue rangers first bowman auto 103 of 150 color match Good case nice true blue bat Blake Blake pitch. Do you see do you see Blake's stat line that night? Did it very well. Yeah did it very well Five any one hit very happy. Can you get like five any what just one hit which was a home run, I think Should take that every day. Yeah. Yeah. Have like a few k's No, wait, what happened? What Yeah, I mean straight in dark look at the cup see the cup how it's all banged up. Yeah, he went in right there What that's insane dude Dushon, uh, when are we taking jake out to the bar? Is anything gonna be open on a sunday night after like maybe done like we're done late tonight, too We have the mixer then there's a case after the mixer It won't be it won't quite be like friday. We left we left like 2 30 friday. Well, they left at 230 I left at like 245 Aqua shimmer mariners axl sanchez the 125 Gabriel Gonzalez cam collier lunar glow of jason choreo guardians Moving on to box four So lane asked me when he was at home. He said chocolate or vanilla. I said vanilla. Was I right? okay, cake Unfortunately I was wrong shows wrong, but that's okay because the cake was so good I was like, I was like, well birthday cake is normally like like when you think of birthday cake you think of like a like a vanilla cake It's I would have gone chocolate, but hey All right, we'll get another one tomorrow I know just gonna get into the cake for tomorrow. There's still gonna be that cake left over a lot of that cake Purple pattern to 199 your Donnie de la Santos pirates Purple paper pattern pattern paper Justin Crawford What do you guys think Celtic Celtics wins tonight in south beach or Are they going down 3-0 just like the Lakers They on Frias guardians first woman base auto I'd like to see the Celtics win just so that like we can have one good series in the conference final Like I want to I do want to see one good series Unicom in arrow fuchsia lunar crater to 199 Henry Davis pirates Especially since the NBA playoffs started out the first round was really good and the second round was uh And now the third round is like Oh, I yeah, sorry von. I forgot you don't really watch basketball. Um They're the Celtics the team from Boston. Yeah, there's a team called the Celtics. They're from Boston Matt Mervis. Yeah, like I see you're a red Sox fan von and we talk about them a lot, but they are the Celtics are from Boston, so I don't know Amarion Boyd refactor first bowman auto for the Phillies maybe next year 499. Oh, you never heard of okay. Well Maybe maybe you'll see him really underperforming. I don't know what it is, man Must be why I live such a happy life Yep, seriously post swayed the paola Pedro Ramirez purple first bowman auto to 250 Salas Yeah, they just been weird weird year for the Celtics. They've been really up and down through the whole year Unfortunate downturn time right now true Jones Vaughn you remember that sunday when the Bruins had the game seven against the panthers You literally watched my you guys watched my agony for the entire time Not once after you know after like game four of that series Or no game five of that series. I never felt one good thing About the Bruins at all was never confident after that Invited Jacob Barry for the Marlins purple paper 250 Mike trout angels Yeah, if you just go back to that log and just watch dude, I you can see The hope and happiness drain from my face Like numerous at numerous points until we're sad like absolute zero That's how that's how it went and now I don't watch any hockey because the sport is dead to me I'll only be happy about hockey again if they lift the cup.  So this top cam so dark jacob barry Refractor and karnassi on a 499 red socks You know what color of the socks they were Okay, well, are you cheating on this? What is this? What is this now? How did you know that? I just use my uh Ah, so you learn something in college better than me already I'm still learning Dude, Jake's Jake's gonna finish finish college you guys Lunar glow edwin arroyo reds Justin Henry Malloy Toledo is that like they're What what level is that for the Braves? Should be Louise Garcia refractor first woman auto blue jays the 499 Is that like holy Toledo? Is that is that what that is? I hear I've heard about that place before people say holy Toledo Triple A for the tigers Oh, was he in the um He was in the Joe Joe geminis trade right or Joe Jimenez We'll see you in that Tigers you call the hell they can get they just bring them up Matt Merv pop a smurf Jake knows all the trades He he is a he is the baseball savant actually that's probably your favorite website, isn't it? Um It's a good website actually ranger is Andres Mesa on the base first moment auto We've been playing uh jenna survivor jake Los romantes edward julian About recently played at all You gotta gotta get it It's good. It's a good game.  It's not like a Put it in the playstation A uh lime green paper to 399 trace winnie yankees Do um You play fortnight with him I think i'm gonna download fortnight just so i can play with them and talk trash I mean i have fortnight, but i just don't play with them dude We should play with them me and you can you can take them all on go apparently dylan's pretty good I haven't played in a while I haven't played since I downloaded it one time and didn't like the building so I never played it again Now it was like the first month that it was out. There's no build now Yeah, I know I know I just haven't I haven't played any of those games recently I used to be decent Like blue paper to 499 blue bob white socks and a young heliponte blue jays true blue auto to 150 nice hit blue jays True blue jay aponte Do you think I mean what I've worse yeah, I played apex a lot for for up until like What 20 21 maybe I played it a lot Oh, yeah, you play fortnight I played apex after like probably the second month that was out played a lot. I had a group that we would always Do like really well with Yeah, we gotta we gotta start playing fortnight together again All of this I think because it's like it's like everybody in sorting and shipping. It's like everybody So I'm like, okay, well And even like lane downloaded for that. I'm okay. Well, lane downloaded for it. I like I can't be the only one not doing it Well, I'm green to 399 zag gala phase I don't play a ton of games sin. I've been playing Jedi survivor recently, but I just I don't have the energy in time to play a whole lot of video games True blue jordan lala to 150 Bebacks Sin Vic Dutch takes birthday crazy gold paper trade turner as a filly to 50 with a Daniel Montecino Padres refractor first bowman auto to 499 account of Montecino Everybody the count of money kristo. Thank you some big Dude, those those guys are lunatics. I don't know what's wrong with them I'll go. I'll start the download when I get home that I'd like to remember. If not, I'll just start it up tomorrow But I'm on xbox you guys are all on um You can play True blue Carlos Jorge first bowman auto hip hip or hey Hey There is a dimple to uh, you know the serial number and the bowman symbol Logo in the top left. I'm going to get a boxer rapper. That's a very nice card So uh, we'll see if you can't get that one replaced congrats reds either way Get that boxer rapper for you Montes Vroom is right donny vrooms The Sean show me any of the videos then playing golf the other day dude I'll have him show you tomorrow Like around the meeting time. It's they're they're funny It's just his commentary and like he gives everybody nicknames I've never actually played fortnight for like I play like maybe a handful of games back when it first came out, but It was on console. I just didn't like the building Spencer Jones No, donny is not here Donny says he can't work Sundays Matt mervis first bowman base auto cubs pop a smurf mash mervis Little cubby's nice hit berry Let's see another super Let's do that. Let's see another super sup fin yellow lunar crater a host way the paula 10 of 75 for the Dodgers Jake's favorite band team and the paula. I know. I don't even know why he says he can't work sundays That's what I said, too, but all right guys sunday fun day We've got a dual case of eminence of flawless. We've got the sunday fun day 20 box football mixer. It's a monster mixer Are you excited for heritage on wednesday jake? We get the raisins and brakes Heritage and top sterling really. Yes. Okay. Okay. I gotta look at the checklist But if adley's in top sterling we could we could have it. We could have a we could have a ball Game use adley patch autos and stuff in there The lord lunar glow of christian serda v backs Cabin gala MVP florida state legend if you don't do cabin gala At least the these golf seems good today Bryson doesn't have much of a chance of someone chokes, but he's got a chance Kepka holland and shepherd looking Looking like a battle She kept going holland Two sterling debuts. Okay. Well, he's there. Which is kind of cool. So there's that chance lazaro montez This gunner is gunner in it vaughn. Usually guys like that aren't in it Guys that haven't really played in the mlb Spencer jones No gunner. Yeah, I figure gunner wouldn't be in it. Usually it's only guys that have actually played in the mlb for a good bit Maybe I wonder if you think is casus in it That's the next guy that comes to mind for the or like casus or bayo for the red sox, maybe Because they played a little bit last year Lunar glow clear lots in marlins with a speckle first bowman gabriel gonzalez at 299 mariners Bady morel young harris gorman green causes that's see that's still pretty good for rookies right there harris gorman green casus josh young morel and bady. That's still pretty good Just with morel hitting like he is now like good lord, dude Kyle stowers refractor rookie otto to 499 orials. Yeah, I'm trying to get some bayos and some in heritage I need a bayo real one I'll love the red real ones out. Oh, that's that's one of my dream cards And i'm i'm getting to the point where i'm just gonna end up buying one Is a rafi rookie red real one otto From 18 heritage. That's some of my dream cards preferably graded In nine five or ten. It's a collier Invicta and carnacion red sox gabriel gonzalez Hey guys, those are your two baseball releases on wednesday. I'm not sure if there's a There might be a smaller basketball or football release that day. I like a huge one I know Recon comes out kind of soon. I don't know the specific days is my only issue Uh 14 on the dual case baseball. Wow That is over halfway full now Eminence and flawless all teams in dual case your hit list protection or your cardless protection is two sealed boxes of mcdonald's all american chrome basketball sealed so Obviously, you don't want to go cardless, but Two sealed hobby boxes Soft on the blow a little bit a little bit Um all baseball other than cosmic is sold out on cosmic is tonight that it's at 19 to go Sunday fun I still at 22 and then you had the dual case any contenders basketball tiered also has some spots left and just A pair of teams left in each of the uh Donors optic Should all be on sale Shuttle launch look outside I can't Dude, I actually paid them to launch the shuttle on jake's birthday Wait, what there's a shuttle launch apparently what's shuttle are they launching? What about the space shuttle? They don't they don't do space shuttles anymore. They've got rid of them. I don't know what kyle's talking about Maybe it's a space x shuttle You want a heliponte base first woman auto blue jace? Maybe college anybody's talking about space x launches for commercial Oh, so it is a shuttle Lava alohandra osunata 399. Yeah, space x the rangers Yeah, so let's them use a caper navvel Uh, no don't yeah donny's not here. That's jake if you hear donny then Maybe donny's in the room with you. I don't know Maybe you're hearing things Hi, kellen Yeah, there hasn't been a whole lot of questions being asked. That's how you know it's jake Light blue paper. I'm ds. Delacruz the 499 d max A thousand foot rocket Oh, man No, you're a good man. What's going on? Hope you're doing well. It haunts you So donny be crumb laughing your house it echoes through the halls Uh Line green paper rookie jordan diaz the 349 try to 399 for the a's with a Leandro arias true blue first woman auto to 150 orials Thoughts on soccer cards um In regards to like what I like some soccer cards the last box y'all Last box again last baseball break of the night is going to be cosmic chrome It's at 19 to go random teams full case cosmic cosmic Top scrum in the cosmic. That's uh jake's favorite um songs melody with cosmic instead of thunder Cosmic This is uh hurting my brain. How did you video the launch for me? I'll be rutchman Blue paper to 150 nelson rata Like a good bit of soccer products aren't distributed in north america that much a lot of I would say about half of soccer releases mainly like non-huge ones are gonna be europe only Um, so it's just harder to get those products now We do like prism and selects and like we break regularly selects la liga selects premier league I'll do prism premier league choice prism premier league hobby and breakaway Uh, we do soccer at least one day a week Gabriel gonzalez cam collier Just a little bit harder to get I'm not sure if you have any, but yeah, I mean I collect soccer cards. It's one of the outside of I would say baseball I probably collect soccer the most me personally Yeah, we don't have any listed currently, but usually like Tuesdays. There's like It's good stuff though like a lot of the tops chrome and tops finest and merlin and things like that you can uh That's where like the big cards come from fuchsia paper rookie von grissom to 299 for the for the Braves and it's him tawa purple first woman auto to 250 for the diamond backs reminds you do you need to teach his awa Green grass junior garcia to 99 for the Dodgers guy was kodai sanga before kodai sanga better than kodai sanga Although sanga had a really good outing last time up, right? Shove against us. Yeah. Yeah. He just needs a little bit of time just to figure out a little bit and then he's gonna be A pretty good like number two or three starter. He'd be pretty solid Tops chrome white hobby holland ray wave. I mean any holland is good right now Man City obviously yesterday won uh premier league and I would assume they're their favorite to win. Oh nice a gold glader fig oreo 49 of 51st bowman auto Rangers with a nice break we're gonna dust this off and get it into a mag awesome fig oreo true gold And then I would I would think they're favored when champions league too, so basero montez holland is that dude Didn't even play him yesterday and they still won She's not in force.    I was giving them out to everybody to shop today There's a Juan burrito base first woman auto rockies holland do be selling you do be selling But yeah, I got like generational guys like him and and bop a and even like You know like patreon gabi too to an extent. Um They will always sell pretty well Plus the goats are safe. There's there's there's a strong soccer like the community It's just tough because a lot of them are european and then there's like there's still a good amount of north american ones so there's just like It doesn't seem as as big but there's a lot of uh pretty decent european breakers that do a lot of soccer like f1 postfade the paula Matt mervis i'm just glad that we're able to do those sports as well Do a what for you? Who'd do what for you bleak? Oh guys, also jake's birthday.  I that's the I think that's the first blake slab any of us own I was happy to pick that up dude as soon as I saw it was like one of the first slabs of his on ebay I was like, oh, I'm buying that A 10 and it was numbered. I'm like, yep. Give me that lunar glow jackson holiday And that'll do it Had to have it had to have it dude. I have there's some there's some parallels I've been doubling up on I'll have to uh give me you Blake like I have like four or five fuchsias I didn't realize it. I was like, oh, that's a lot I don't need I don't need four the same by the same parallel, you know You hit the super so I can give the blake I'll trade blake. I'll get a Signed hat you can have the super Some loud thunder. Yeah, what is that about? Oh, yeah, we're in florida Uh, there's a nice de paola yellow lunar crater 75 autos of brito aponte mervis mesa frias steward bowen berry refractors stowers montecino garcia Boyd arias karella speckle jefferson rojas purple tim tavah pejoramirez true blue yon jalapante Tommy specked a liandra arias greengrass glader figareo Rangers are super well, man. They killed it Junior common arrow chevy common arrow to 150 Blue lunar crater auto congrats rays true blue carlos horre to 150 reds I pointed out in the break where there's a dimple or like a little ding near the bowman symbol there You kind of see when I move it here, but we'll send a box and wrap her out So you can try to get down to places a nice whore. 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It can also be used to ground not just coffee, but Spices also this is the manufacturer of the item So let's get started with the unboxing experience right at the back The item did not get shipped in an individual box. It came in a box like this Right on the top. We have a user guide followed by Thank You note and this is a user guide Pretty standard operation. It is meant for us 120 volts 60 Hertz AC and Coffee ground so it means earthen peas even almond. So if you're making almond milk, it can take care of that too I'm planning to use this for coffee and also Dry spices. Let's continue. We have a container pretty well packed and It has a Silicon o-ring on the side. So nothing spills out moving right along We also have a handy Denny brush a Three prong brush actually it can come in handy to scrape off the sides and also to the top put that to the side and Then we have the machine itself Statically, it looks very nice. I mean it has the elegant logo in the front and Yeah, the unit does come out it has three screws that you don't need to open Hopefully and then it has a blade Along with a solid base on the bottom and the blade well Okay, the blade is pretty rough. They don't do what I just did and it seems like it's pretty free moving And this is when the brush comes in handy it goes in in between as you can see and clean everything up There is a maximum fill line or the item that you plan to grind and Another thing that I notice is to open it hold the dull side down Which is the one on the back and you can just unscrew The thing that it's meant for is he clean up if you're planning to put Like spices and stuff if you plan to grind that that just comes out that we can wash the entire thing Wash the blade replace the blade if necessary. It has a Maya small o-ring on the bottom Make sure that retains and to put it back in very carefully Just put it in and tighten it up And the best part is considering the blade Assembly tightens up as it rotates it will tighten up even if you think you have kept it loose It has a max and men fill line over here. So there's a minimum line That is the maximum line Pretty easy operation just push it in Connected and there is no button you cannot turn it on you have to use the cover so it is a safety feature you push the thing in and You press it. This is what it looks like It just looks elegant as far as the height of the item is concerned It's about the size of a butter knife. That's how tall it is and About half the size of a butter knife if that makes sense It's a pretty small item yet. It's pretty effective and Mergement wise it will fill about what it has about one cup capacity or 60 grams of Coffee beans, which will be more than enough for your morning cup of Joe overall. I'm pretty impressed with that item I do plan to use it for my coffee in the morning rinse it off clean it up and then plan to use it for my cooking when I'm going to roast and Grind fresh spices like garam masala and stuff like that definitely a big thumbs up for me again the Manufacturer information is right there and the model number is eight three zero one a Eight three zero one alpha is a modern model number and while it's labeled as an electric coffee grinder It can also be used to grind spices and it can also be used to grind soy beans green peas and also almonds for your Almond milk and even cashews if necessary and one key feature I forgot to mention it does have suction cups So once you put it on the counter, it's not going to go anywhere if you have the cable is too long you can just unplug it and Wrap it around this base thing that way it stays out of your way pretty happy with the product Thank you so much for watching and I will see you on the next video. Take care. Bye


So one of the things we always want to do inside of a programming language is we want to be able to generate Random numbers in Python. No different. I want to be able to generate these random numbers because if we think about every video game or every Some of the mathematical equations out there mathematical algorithms like Monte Carlo simulation They use random to sort of help kind of do stuff So how do I kind of work it as you guys can clearly see from the thingy up there? I can use the random library. So how do I do that? I come in and I simply go through my import statement like I normally would with any library and I call it random Now all of a sudden I have the ability to work through Random numbers I go random. I use the dot notation and that's going to show me a Whole slew of different options. Now the one I want to focus in on right away is just something called random Now when I do random dot random, I know this sounds super weird. I get a random number. If I were to do it again I get a random number. I do it one more time I get a random number, but you're starting to notice there's a slight pattern to it You see when I do random dot random as soon as I open up these parentheses We're going to see an x which is in an interval of sort of square bracket o and parentheses 1 Well, this is kind of referring to what we call inclusive and exclusive. You see this square bracket What that's indicating is that I'm actually going to be Including zero, but I'm not going to be including one in this occasion And so all of a sudden I get sort of a you know decimal point Okay, well, that's not really beneficial to me at all You know, I would really like to be able to generate maybe a whole number. Maybe I want to generate something like I don't know zero to 99 Including that. Well, okay. All right fair enough Well, the way we can think about it is we can actually look at this as a Percentage and that's if we think about it. That's exactly what a percentage is say 75 Sorry 75 percent really is just me saying 0.75 so we can kind of look at this is generating some percentage And what that allows me to do is kind of think about it in the regards of maybe I come in And I do some multiplication 100 All right, so I'm now getting 77. I'm getting a whole I'm getting a number larger than zero That's gonna be somewhere between zero and 100. All right But I've got that, you know a decimal point. That's just kind of hanging around there So how can I get rid of that? What I can do is I can take this entire statement that I have random dot random times 100 and I can wrap it inside of An int remember an integer turns it into a whole number and whatever the decimal point was It gets rid of it So I come in I take this entire mathematical equation. I've put in and I can hit in oh 25 nice little number there I do it again. Oh 36 nice little number there. I promise you I promise you I can't guarantee this But I promise you we are not gonna see 25 or 36 again. Oh, thank goodness. Very close 75 I was right So, okay, maybe you don't want to have to do the int random dot random Times a hundred all the time Well, what I can do is I can also come in and I can use something called random dot Rand int Now Rand int as soon as I open these parentheses what it's gonna tell me it's gonna do is return a random integer from a To be including a to be so if I say one To a hundred Then what I should see is some random number from one to a hundred If I go a little crazier and I say one two Million I should get a number randomly from one to a million Now one thing that we do want to kind of tuck Touch on real quick is that random is not actually random. You see it goes against the very laws of Mathematics and physics to kind of say oh, I can just produce a random number. You know, that's the point of random You shouldn't be able to kind of calculate it out And in fact a lot of programming languages actually use something called the Mersenne twister algorithm Now if you hop on the Wikipedia's for a second, you see we got the Mersenne algorithm and you can kind of come down. There's actually a link inside there known as Python implementation You can actually see this is the code This is the code inside of Python that is used to generate out a random number Because again, it has it can't just come from thin air It has to come from something you see it kind of goes through the song in answer Shifting 11 bits to the left or right shift then shift them to the left and shift them to the left Then shift them to the right it does all these things and that is how I get a number kind of interesting


So with that, without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and introduce everyone. So Dr. Irwin Gunchandi, I was trying, Dundani, I'm sorry, Gunchandani is the U.S. National Science Foundation's inaugural assistant director for technology, innovation and partnerships leading to newly established, leading the newly established TIP directorate prior to becoming the assistant director for TIP. He served in various leadership roles at NSF since 2012. It's a long time. Dr. Amy Lloyd is assistant secretary for career and technical and adult education in the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to joining the U.S. Department of Education in 2021, Amy was vice president for Jobs for the Future. And Patrick Burke is the program lead of the American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge at the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration. Prior to joining the Department of Commerce, Patrick served as program officer at ECMC Foundation, we're bringing him very well. And then my colleague, Shailen Jotishi, is senior advisor for education, labor and the future of work. He heads up New America's initiative on the future of work and innovation economy and supports our work around community college's workforce innovation. And we'll be some of your points of contact here on our team. So please welcome our amazing panel and give them a nice round of applause. Well, thanks so much, Iris. And thanks to all of you for making the trek out to DC. It's a beautiful fall day. So if you haven't already, after reception, take a walk down to the White House. It's right down the street. We're super excited to be kicking off this work with you all. And we know as a key part of this work is thinking about, you know, federal opportunities to fund the innovations that you're trying to bring about to align some of those policy changes that we've been talking about with some of the priorities that federal agencies are thinking about. So we're super excited to have this very distinguished panel here today to shed some insight on some of those opportunities that are down the pike. So to kick us off actually, maybe a little bit of a temperature read of the room, raise your hand and it's okay if you don't know, but raise your hand if your college has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Okay, okay.  Come on, friends. And lastly, raise your hand if your college has gotten funding or connected to the Good Jobs Challenge, Department of Commerce. Okay, I think I think I take the prize. Everyone wins the popularity contest. So clearly, you know, this community of practice that we're building out starting today, the launch of our cohort already has a lot of alignment with what the work of our federal agency partners are doing. And there's also area to expand that footprint. So super excited to get the conversation started. Wait a minute, I didn't ask my last question. Raise your hand if you'd like more funding. So let's go ahead and get started here. So I'm going to ask all three of our panelists, Erwin, Amy and Patrick to actually just introduce their role and their part of their agency so that we can get a little bit of a level set on on where they're coming from. And maybe we'll start on this side with Erwin and then Amy and Patrick. All right, sure. Well, thanks very much, Shalen, for having me having this panel.  I think one of the things that we often stress at NSF is you are in many ways an untapped treasure trove because of the talent that you bring in, the expertise that you bring in, and what you do to try to train that talent for a variety of different types of jobs and hopefully put them on a trajectory for success themselves as well at all different points in their careers. So really great to be here this morning. I think by the show of hands, many of you know the National Science Foundation. I'll just give sort of the 60 second spiel, obviously, National Science Foundation. It is confusing sometimes because we have foundation in our title. And so I've had many folks say to me, well, you're part of the federal government. I didn't actually appreciate that. But NSF is part of the executive branch of the federal government. We are an independent agency stood up back in 1950. And our mission is to further basic research in all areas of science and engineering sort of uniquely positioned to do that. In fact, unlike our colleagues at NIH or Department of Energy or Department of Transportation, where they have certain mission foci. In our case, it's really about trying to expand the frontiers of science and engineering. And I think duality to that is thinking about STEM education. I think we in many ways view ourselves with all due respect to my colleagues at other agencies as a leader in the federal government when it comes to STEM education and really trying to be able to support research that allows us to better understand how we train, how we learn in the STEM fields, and then to also try to be able to take those learnings and bring them to practice at some level of scale. So that's a little bit about NSF, our budget. Actually, this past year grew appreciably from 8.8 billion dollars to 9.9 billion dollars. It was the single largest growth in NSF 73 year history from year to year. So for all that talk of Washington not being able to get some things done, we can get some things done in a positive way. And we're putting those resources to bear on what I described, research, education and workforce development, and also the infrastructure that we need to be able to support that research and workforce development. And some of that is around capacity building at your own schools and colleges and universities all across this country. In terms of my role then, just very briefly, as I said, I've been at NSF for I guess a long time, since 2012. But I was for many years in the computer science director at NSF. So we are divided up into, historically, it's been seven directorates, each covering a different area of science or engineering, biological sciences, computer science, math and physical sciences, and so forth. There's also a directorate focused on STEM education research and workforce development activities, although that is obviously pervasive across all of the disciplinary areas covered by the directorates as well. But in the last, so for a long time I was in the computer and information science and engineering directorate, served as the deputy there sort of stewarding a billion dollar budget around the frontiers of computing and research and workforce development. But for the last three years or so I've been really focused on the eighth directorate that NSF has now stood up. A new unit called the Directorate for Technology Innovation and Partnerships, or TIP, T-I-P. It is authorized in the Chips and Science Act legislation that Congress passed and the President signed into law last year. And we can get into more specifics I think, but our goal really, and if I had one sentence to describe it, it is to accelerate progress in technology to advance societal, national, geostrategic challenges, climate, clean energy, critical infrastructure, issues of equity or inequity. But to do so in a meaningful way when it comes to harnessing the geography and the demography of innovation that exists all across the country. I think there's a real appreciation within NSF, in Congress, in the administration within NSF, that we need to do a better job of engaging with all of you. We need to do a better job of engaging with every corner of this nation in all different types of institutions to really be able to lift up talent, create opportunities everywhere, and harness that innovation spirit anywhere in the country. And so as we talk about some of the specifics around this new directorate, I can go into more detail around that. And I'd be remiss if I didn't flag Erwin actually joined us a couple of weeks back alongside Deputy Assistant Secretary Brent Parton from Department of Labor and Deputy Assistant Secretary Christina Killingsworth from Department of Commerce for a webinar around how to maximize federal investments in emerging technology workforce development. For those of you who are at the forefront of some of these new areas, so we will include that recording in our follow-up materials as well as just an additional resource. Dr. Lloyd, super excited to have you here. I would love to learn a little bit more about your role and, you know, Octa's work and please take it away. Sure. Thank you. Qashay. Buenos dias, hi everyone. I would be surprised if only the small fraction of you who raised your hands were actually the ones who were only connected to me. I think all of you are connected to the Department of Education, obviously through things like Pell Grants, but I have the honor of serving our great nation as the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education, known as Octa. We do love a good acronym. And Octa, in my work, everything sits at the intersection of education, workforce development and economic development. And I would argue that community colleges in so many ways are the heart of accomplishing all that my office seeks to do, all the change that we seek to engender in the world, all the education and resources and support that we want our workers and learners to have, lead to you. So in Octa, I have the joy of managing two anchor programs. One is the Perkins Program for Career and Technical Education. So I hope that you all are connected to Perkins funding. Okay. I'm seeing more heads nod. That spans secondary and post-secondary. And I know one of the things we can talk about today is more innovative and flexible uses of Perkins. But how do we think about building multiple systems of career pathways that really help everyone to fulfill their endless potential through, start, I have friends who say, Amy, college is a really expensive career exploration program. We want to start earlier. And we need you to really help us shape what career and technical education is and could be, and be essential partners for all of that. And I'll talk a little bit about a new initiative that we've launched called Unlocking Career Success, which again centers community colleges in the United States. So CTE is one of my anchor programs. Title II of WIOA, again, another great acronym, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which funds adult education and family literacy. And I know many of you, because I've been to many of your institutions, also are working in adult education too. So my hope is that you're connected to my work through Perkins or adult ed. The other two big bodies of work that my office leads on policy are community and technical colleges. So if you have not connected with me so that my team and I are coupling with what you're concerned about, we really are here to support you to lift you up. The Biden-Harris administration is all in on our community colleges being the engines of innovation and economic development and workforce development that we know you are. And then the last policy area that I oversee is correctional education. So this includes alternatives to incarceration and kind of the preventative side, supports for people who are incarcerated to receive adult education, CTE, and now with full power in statement for people who are incarcerated this year. We're very excited to have more equitable higher education opportunities for people who are incarcerated. And then of course smoothing that reentry for our returning citizens coming back to our communities. And we know that education and workforce is so essential to the success of people who have experienced incarceration or who are justice involved to land back on their feet. And so in all four of my areas, I feel like, again, you are at the center. And I will say, like we know over half of our nation's baccalaureate holders, myself included, have community college backgrounds on our transcripts. I went to two different community colleges. And I want to make sure that we are telling the story of strength and power. You put the heart in our communities, especially in our rural communities. You are often the hub. I often describe our nation's community colleges. In fact, as a power strip, a power hub, you know, where you plug in a lot of different devices. Like K-12 is plugging into four years in the whole world of transfer, business and industry, community-based organizations, local government.  And so my role at Ed is to really think about how we can partner better with you and lift up the great work that you're doing and ideally also make sure that we're funding it appropriately or that we're connecting you to innovative and creative, more flexible uses of existing funding as well. So I love my work in Octay and I look forward to the discussion. Thanks so much. And really appreciated the call out on storytelling. I mean, that's also something that we're really trying to build out from this work, which is why we're actually going to do a follow-up blog from this very session. Patrick, onto you, would love to learn about your role at the Good Jobs Challenge. Sure. Thanks for having me. Again, I serve as the program lead at the Good Jobs Challenge. I work at the Economic Development Administration, which sits under the Department of Commerce. And we just heard a little bit about growing departments. So we went from about a 200 million a year agency to in 2022 did about $3 billion in award funding. Just a little growth. Yeah, a little bit of growth considering. So not surprised if you all haven't worked with us before, but we're starting to gain a little bit more traction in the space. And part of that is due to the American Rescue Plan. Commerce has also been a large benefactor of the Chips and Science Act. So happy to talk more about, I'll do my best to talk about things going on it. NOAA related to that, the Chips team going on. We were talking backstage, kind of, I guess backstage, behind that door. In the hallway over there. We were talking about just like all of this strange and kind of eclectic things that the Department of Commerce does from the census to NOAA to all of these different ranging things. But there's a lot of exciting things going on. EDA, obviously we're focused on economic development. Economic development means a lot of different things. Like the thing that we always say is workforce development is economic development. And when those two communities are not talking, it's to the detriment of the folks who live in that region. And for us, that means a whole host of things that we work on. And it's basic infrastructure, building a training facility, building a road to that training facility, water treatment facilities. But it also means workforce training. It also means disaster relief. So we're not the first ones in, that's FEMA, whenever there's a disaster, but we're the next ones after them who come to kind of help think about what is the plan going forward for this community to look like to rebuild that economy. So with the Good Jobs Challenge, I'll spend a little bit of time talking about that. For those who don't know, we had $500 million to award in 2022, which we spread across 31 states in Puerto Rico to 32 awardees. At the center of all of those is some community college a part of almost every single one of those projects. And that's fairly consistent across a number of EDA investments. We have in some cases the system is the lead, so in the case of the California Community Colleges. Sometimes the lead of that grant is the actual community college, this is in the case of Miami-Dade College or Illinois Central College or Dallas College. Or in other cases, they're the backbone awardee, as is the case in Chicago with the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, where the training provider is Olive Harvey College and they're the backbone leading the transportation distribution logistics program. And in other places, if they're not any of those, they're certainly a training provider. So I think that when we're using a sector-based approach, we know that community colleges are going to be connected at some point. And the opportunity in which we're not doing that is a missed one. So we're happy to share more about the work that we're doing, not just at EDA but across commerce. But happy to pass it back to you. Fantastic. Super helpful, Patrick. And actually a perfect tee-up for my next question. As you all know, part of the cohort is really thinking about how we can enact these institutional level policy changes to better align the workforce offerings at colleges with regional economic development work, sector-based strategy, tech-based economic development, whatever that might look like in your community. So my next question for our panel is, all of these colleges here are going to be spending the next 18 months or so thinking about how to better align their workforce portfolio, credit, non-credit, how it may manifest at their institutions to regional economic development needs. Each of you outline some of these priorities and even funding opportunities. But if we could talk a little bit more about your agency's vision for aligning workforce development to economic development and some funding opportunities and opportunities for engagement for community colleges to fit into that vision. And maybe, given the theme of the question, we'll start here this time with Patrick. There's just a host of different opportunities that exist right now at the Department of Commerce. I'll start with EDA. Well, first of all, good jobs challenge part two was put into the president's budget. So obviously we don't know where that will land eventually, but the hope is that we have an opportunity to do that again. In terms of the other programs that exist at EDA, the big ones that folks have probably heard of recently were tech hubs in re-compete. Tech hubs is an opportunity to increase global competitiveness in some of America's cities across the country in specific high growth industries. So recently, just I think a week or so ago we announced those initial designees which we're really excited about. The other program is the re-compete pilot program and that program is designed to find high need cities and locations that have the opportunity for growth. And what that means is trying to close particularly the prime age employment gap, so that 25 to 54 age range and finding those highly distressed communities that can benefit from significant funding to close that gap. We're in the midst of that review process now, those applications just came in. But I think the key things to remember and to consider with those programs is that as we've seen in the Good Jobs Challenge, these are oftentimes the early stages of these applications and the idea that all of the partnerships are fully coalesced at the time of the application submission as folks who likely submit many federal applications know there is still time to get involved with these various partnerships, even if you weren't a part of the first phase of the application process, I think it's good to look up what is the things that have been designated in your region or your area or who submitted a recompete application for your area and see if there's a way to also get involved in these large projects. Tech Hubs is about 500 million, they were appropriated for 10 billion, so the hope is that more and more Tech Hubs funding is still to come. Recompete is $200 million, so still also another significant amount of money. There's also exciting work going on at NOAA. So NOAA, for those who don't know are doing some really exciting coastal climate work, also in the good jobs front, and that application is still open through November. So if you're looking for opportunities to get engaged and you're on a coastal area thinking about clean tech, energy, climate resilience, that's an application that is still open for a couple of weeks still. So keep that in mind. And then kind of the biggest thing at the Department of Commerce is chips. I'm sure everybody has heard to a certain extent about that. We have really thoughtful people on that workforce team at CHIPS. For those of you who know Rachel Lipson, she wrote a book about how community colleges are the engines of America's economy, and she is a part of that really thoughtful workforce team. So I think more and more information is to come out about that work at commerce and with CHIPS. So those are just some of the key exciting things, but I think like we have a number of different priorities that have rolling programs as well. So those are kind of our big marquee things, but as I mentioned, like we want you to think of EDA as an opportunity to partner on a whole host of things. Whether there's been a recent natural disaster that's come to your region, or you're looking to build that road, for example, that you just can't do with the state and local money. The good thing about EDA is we have a pretty good ground game. We have an economic development representative in the territory. We have regional offices as well across the country. So if you don't know who your EDR is, for example, that's probably a good person to get to know, because they're really interested in focusing on what are the needs for your community, and they're from that area or in that region, so they know the partners and players. So I think that those would be just some things that encourage folks to learn more about. Very helpful. Amy? I can say that I joined the administration because Secretary Cardona is deeply committed to career-connected education for all. And because the Biden-Harris administration, especially with the incredible investing in America work that we have from American Rescue Plan, Chips in Science Act, Inflation Reduction Act, Biperson Infrastructure Law, we have so much exciting funding in the system right now for workforce development. And if economic development is workforce development, it's going to be a huge contribution to our education. And I would argue, like the foundation for our nation's vitality is what we're doing in our education system to connect all learners and all workers with meaningful career pathways. And so the secretary in our early conversations charged me with helping the agency reimagine the educational experience that our P-12 students go through to better prepare them for success in life beyond. And it's not just about unlocking career success. It's connected to career and technical education as the foundation, but it's our vision for reimagining high school across the board. And frankly, community colleges, you have to be partners in every aspect of it. We have a vision that Secretary Cardona really sees as the opportunity for our lasting kind of transformation and education, especially while we're in the wake of the pandemic, things are still a little malleable. I was hopeful that that radical disruption would be a big part of it. And I think that's what we're doing. We've had long-standing deep inequities by race, by class, by gender, by geography, by ability to disability status. Whole host of intersectional identity elements have influenced people's access to opportunity and the pandemic deepened and widened those, but also shown a light on it. And so we're recognizing we need to make sure every single student in our country, while in high school, ideally through dual enrollment in partnership with you, ideally their first math class, their first English class so that they don't get stuck in those cycles of DevEd that we all know are so hard to emerge from. So how do we circumvent developmental or remedial education? Let's back that into high school. And ideally two career and technical education courses or something connected to students' career aspirations. So how do we strengthen dual enrollment across the country? And I know our community colleges are increasingly focused in your, oh yeah, okay, more hands than Perkins. Okay. And so how are we reimagining community colleges as spaces that are blurred between high school and post secondary for high school students to engage in? So that's first and foremost, two meaningful real world hands on, hearts on, minds on, work based learning. And how are our high schools partnering with you and partnering with business and industry to create a continuum of work based learning experiences so that our students can get out of that vicious cycle of needing to have work experience to get a job but needing a job to get work experience. And how do we make sure that students in high school are starting to expose themselves to intergenerational networks of social capital places where they can demonstrate their knowledge and skills in practice ideally paid work based learning experiences so that it's more equitable so students who have to work to help support their families are able to engage in an entry level after school job that's not connected to their future aspirations and how does that work based learning then connect in high school to what students can do with you and community colleges. How are you continuing that deepening exposure and engagement in the world of work? Three, industry credentials, short term credentials. I imagine this is something that will come up in our conversation today is how do we think about the wonderful world of short term credentials, literally over a million of them now in our country. Not all are created alike and I often think that employers sought credentials not employer recognized credentials because employers might recognize that are over a million credentials are those the ones that are real proxies for the skills that employers are seeking that they're putting on their job descriptions that are really going to be something that allows our students to broker their skills in the labor market and enter with some confidence knowing that they have what it takes to get a first job and then four and this is frankly in many ways meaningful post-secondary and career advising, navigation supports so that students can make and their families can make real choices about their futures it's all about self-determination how can students and families know the labor market, know their passion and interest in how that intersects with their future prospects we know that good jobs, good jobs require post-secondary education beyond high school increasingly and into the future that will only continue to accelerate but what we're trying to do is elevate the role of the sub-baccalaureate space the powerful, rewarding world of workforce credentials of our community and technical colleges of pre-apprenticeship and registered apprenticeship programs and help our students and families see that as a first-class option to a really rewarding and joyful future and so dual enrollment, work-based learning industry creds and career and college advising are the four keys that we see every single high school student not just those who are in great CTE programs and should get and should be building institutional affiliations with our community colleges while doing so and so then we think about how we ensure that our community colleges are connected, we think about the transfer challenges that many of you are probably content with and how our students navigate the complexity of our higher system in general but we're starting with where we have every single student which is in our high school space and really need community colleges to be leaders and active partners in that work and if anything all of this has to be reverse-engineered from business and industry, from our employer needs and we know that even the best real-time LMI never mind the traditional labor market information from Bureau of Labor Statistics that doesn't capture the full array of the federal investments from investing in America quite yet because most of that's lagging or based on the technology that pulls from job descriptions online, the economy is radically shifting has radically shifted, the world of work has radically shifted and how are we ensuring that we're not just using these great LMI sources but also thinking ahead to what students opportunities will be given the funding that's coming through investing in America out to every state and out to every community and so really thinking about how our community colleges play again that power hub role to help everyone come together around a shared agenda to make sure that learners and workers are prepared for the future and that they have permeable pathways and multiple systems of on-ramps and off-ramps over their lifetime to engage with you because it's no longer the you go to school, you go to college, you get a job you retire the end, it's back and forth learning and work over one's lifetime in ways that even my generation and certainly my parents' generation did not experience but my daughter, absolutely she's going to change occupations 15 times over her lifetime industry sector is 5 to 7 times over her lifetime and you are going to be the ones who are going to be helping her on her way and so I think about how do we create a more sustainable responsive education workforce ecosystem so that we really can be more responsive to economic development. Perkins foundational funding formula goes out to states, states determine how it's allocated across post-secondary and secondary from state to state, there's a lot of variability in how that's done and then how that's funding is used, there's a lot of variability too and there's a ton more flexibility in Perkins than I think most states are actualizing, would love to think with you creatively and then we also formula funds and then states compete on the adult education side for that funding and many community colleges are recipients of the adult education and family literacy funds, many or not, I would love for more community colleges to play roles there and then I can talk about other grant opportunities and things but I could also take it the whole time so I'm going to pass it over to Irwin. Yeah, really really great Flagster Dr. Lloyd, just a couple of call outs, we have at New America our partnership on advancing youth apprenticeships in which we can build out the best of dual enrollment with the best of apprenticeship programs so if any of your colleges are interested in resources around youth apprenticeships come find our team after we can connect you with PIA, we also have an upcoming event at Trident Tech College around building community college capacity to be apprenticeship intermediaries that's a free event, this is a super cool project that our community college team is working on so thinking about the themes around work-based learning and employer engagement I just wanted to flag those two resources up as we kick off our cohort work and I think the last piece you mentioned Amy around jobs of the future and thinking about emergent sectors and regional innovation is a perfect segue for Irwin quick show of hands because I'm a nerd I know this off the top of my head but how many of you are part of the regional innovation engines program at NSF if you know a handful so Irwin would love to learn a little bit more about how NSF has been building the capacity of community colleges and regional innovation, workforce development for some of these new emerging tech fields can I actually ask a question also can I get a show of hands how many of you are familiar with the NSF ATE advanced technological education program that's kind of what I was expecting so I think that what I'm going to say actually largely builds on a lot of what Amy and Patrick have already said I think you're going to see a lot of similarity in some of the themes that have been articulated so far especially I cannot agree more about this notion that first of all to answer your question directly Shailen in the case that workforce development drives economic development period hard stop full stop and we need to recognize that more so in this country we need to acknowledge that and then based off of that we need to take the steps that we can to incentivize and drive that pathway forward so if you take that as sort of a bedrock then I think some of the principles that I just heard Amy articulate for example the notion that it's no longer a pipeline it's much more about pathways individuals all of us in fact we come and go in terms of our touch points with education and sometimes we might be engaging with the community college sometimes we might be going to work sometimes we might be engaging with a four year university back at a community college I mean those touch points and that those pathways if you will I think are something that we need to be also mindful of and cognizant of when we think about how we're laying out investments across the country to be able to enable some of that you know the other thing that all stresses NSF takes great pride in the investments that we've made in programs like ATE driving forward curricular innovation instructional material advancement teacher professional development how do we train the trainers if you will to get folks ready to be able to teach the students we take great pride in that but I think a lot of that is concentrated on just the community college and increasingly we need to recognize that the community college is a part of a broader ecosystem for that local community for that region and how do we support that entire ecosystem and really ensure that the community college is seen as a visible leader in that particular space and so I think that's one of the things that's sort of part and parcel of how we've been thinking about the tip directorate and how we've been thinking about the variety of programatics that we're trying to deploy through the tip directorate so you mentioned the regional innovation engines program you know even before I get there I'll say that for us in tip we sort of have three key pillars that drive our portfolio of programs and investments that we're trying to pursue one is about trying to be able to enable a set of diverse regional innovation ecosystems all across this country and when we talk about diverse right it means diverse in every sense of the word including the types of institutions that are engaging and participating in these ecosystems you know we have programs around that I'll talk about the engines program in just a second but our goal there is to recognize that when we think about some of the pressing technological competition that we have here in the US when we think about some of the societal challenges that we have at the end of the day they take on a variety of different flavors in different parts of the country you know if you're in Nevada for example you're sitting on a lithium mine for instance and that could potentially be a competitive advantage for your region as it has been for one of the engines awards that we've already funded today development awards in a way that is unique and special about that particular ecosystem that we're trying to cultivate and if we can think about these sort of regional hubs that we can lay out all across the country that becomes sort of these hubs of excellence championing R&D, championing workforce development, championing sort of what is the innovation potential for that particular region all of a sudden you can start to really have a transformational impact in terms of economic competitiveness for that region but then that all integrates together the whole is greater than the sum of the parts comes together for a national level economic competitiveness as well and really positioning the US in a way that you know harnesses that full diversity that is sort of our unique lifeblood if you will our unique competitive advantage at the end of the day so regional diverse innovation ecosystems is one pillar the other is around technology development and technology translation we know we have programs that NSF has stood up years and years ago the SBIR program startups and small businesses right the I-Corps program trying to provide entrepreneurial education to talent well again when we think about who's in those startups who's got those entrepreneurial ideas it doesn't just come from a research laboratory it comes from all different corners and it comes from some of the talent that's at your community colleges technical schools all across this country and so creating the pathways for them through our technology portfolio I think is also incredibly important and that's where for us partnerships is sort of a critical word it's in the title of the directorate it's in the name of the directorate for a reason and over the last year we've built out partnerships with Intel and with Micron and with other companies in the private sector because it's critically important that as we think about curricular innovation we think about how we're training the talent we're doing it in a way that's industry relevant and industry current something else that Amy mentioned a few minutes ago as well and then the third pillar for us is really a focus pillar around talent creation and workforce development and here and throughout our portfolio it's about meeting people where they are so many folks think of the National Science Foundation as an agency that supports graduate students because we support research and university labs all across this country. Please keep thinking of us that way that's great but please also think of us as an agency that supports talent creation at all levels at the K through 12 level at the community college level at the four-year university level at the grad level and then also back to something else that was said on this panel at the adult and continuing education level as well right so if you look then at some of the programatics Shailen back to your question we have launched over the last year the regional innovation engines program it actually spans all three of those pillars although we often talk about it in the context of diverse innovation ecosystems but the engines program is really about trying to be able to pull together broad and diverse coalitions that are inclusive of community colleges that allow us to be able to figure out what is that region's competitive advantage what is the secret sauce for that region what are schools and institutions in the private sector and startups and nonprofits in that region really thinking about and could potentially coalesce together and then could significant funding from NSF each one of these engines could be to the tune of 160 million dollars over 10 years 160 million dollars over 10 years is a lot of money right it's not and it is at the same time but 160 million dollars together with together well we would all take it individually but together with together with sort of a framework that speaks to the importance of inclusive partnerships the importance of putting your eyes on a particular prize in terms of that region's competitive advantage thinking through as well how are we going to not just focus on fundamental R&D but translational R&D how are we going to spawn startups and how are we going to make it easier for the flow of people and talent from a university to a company and vice versa right all of those principles as part of that framework together constituting a regional innovation engine that can really become the lifeblood of that community and provide for economic mobility to individuals all across that community over a period of 2, 5, 10 years and longer you know when I talk about the engines program folks often say well is this going to be Silicon Valley in different parts of the country and if we're thinking about it through that lens we have already started from a not ideal starting place right because you have different characteristics that compose each region of our nation and we need to understand what's sort of the basis set for a particular region and how do we scale from there and recognize that where I might get to in 10 years in Wyoming could be very different than where I might get to in 10 years in Northern Virginia but we're trying to be able to essentially lift up and create those hubs of excellence if you will in these different parts of the nation we have funded 44 regional innovation engine development awards these are planning grants for up to 2 years of support a million dollars each covering 46 states and territories of the US including Puerto Rico including the Virgin Islands and so forth and we hopefully later this fall we'll be announcing later this winter we'll be announcing a number of engines awards full on engines awards $160 million over the next 10 years or so you know I think one thing that we did uniquely here even before we launched the engines program we did listening sessions and round tables and focus groups with minority serving institutions so we had one with HBCUs we had one with HSI we had one with tribal colleges and universities and we had one with community colleges and technical schools as well and some of you may have taken part in some of those sessions at the outset as well and our motivation there was to really try to learn from you all about what are the pain points how do we create a funding opportunity of this scale and scope that allows you all to be active participants rather than frankly second-class citizens which often happens and all too often happens and so one of the things that we took away from that was what we did with the funding opportunity even before you get to a proposal stage we asked for short concept outlines from each region and we got close to 700 concept outlines covering every state and territory of the US and we published those concept outlines for everyone to be able to see why did we publish those concept outlines believe me it was not easy getting that past our legal team as good a legal team as we have but it's the first time NSF has ever done that we did that with intention because we wanted to be able to put everyone on an equitable playing field to be able to say that I'm a community college in this region and you're a four-year university in this region and you both have interest in sustainable energy you both have put in for concept outlines well rather than compete with one another let's partner together and let's worry less about who's the lead and let's worry more about do we have all of the key components that you need to be able to create a vibrant economic ecosystem and front and center in that for us is our view around workforce development it's threaded all through the funding opportunity for the engines program the other program that I'll highlight I'll stop talking because I guess I could go as two unfortunately but the other program that I'll highlight is a program that we call excellent experiential learning for emerging and novel technologies built a little bit off of ATE but our focus here really is getting back to something that Amy said the impetus that we need to have around apprenticeships, internships work-based experiences practical opportunities for students and really talent not just students but talent right one of the things that's unique about the excellent program at the end of the day is I don't have to be enrolled at a community college yet I don't have to be enrolled at a four-year university I can become a part of a cohort for a particular region that a community college university for-profit company have stitched together and and my goal as part of that cohort is to be able to get some experience in industry or in a government setting for instance and leverage that experience to essentially do that pivot it excites me it motivates me and now I have enough of a basis set to be able to go off and pursue a certificate or pursue a baccalaureate degree or pursue some other kind of degree or certification or other program that allows me to become more marketable myself as a candidate for a future job prospect or even through that internship or apprenticeship opens up the door for that job prospect down the road as well and so we just announced a few weeks ago an investment on the order of about 20 million dollars in maybe even more than that in on the order of about 20 or so projects all across the country regional consortia supporting excellent internships apprenticeships practical experiences for talent so I hope you'll see that sort of threaded through all of this for us is this really intentional focus on you know it's great that we have a program like E and I'm a huge fan of that program so please don't take what I say is any kind of a slight but I think it's important for us to also find ways to not have programs that are just for the community colleges but to help you become a part of that regional innovation economy and ecosystem that we're trying to cultivate and that's sort of how we're trying to intentionally think about some of these investments through tip brilliant super super insightful and I should say you know for a cohort as you all consider engaging with these different federal programs please let us know how we can be helpful at new America and generating resources listening sessions are modules that we'll have in the spring and leading up until the summer we actually plan to go a little bit deeper on what it might look like to build out the kinds of partnerships that Irwin was referencing in his comments and particularly in this innovation economy segment that's an area of work where we're actually building out some dedicated resources for community colleges so you know we're all ears for today and here on out so alright we have about 15 minutes left so I'm going to do a rapid round of questions and then we'll actually have a Q&A period we have two mics we have one mic up here and one mic towards the back please feel free to blind on up if you have a question but first let's get another round of insights from our panel let's see we've gone left to right right to left let's go middle out this time in the spirit of Biden economics building the middle class that's right so you know Amy you talked about Perkins and you know some folks in the room are familiar with Perkins while decisions around how to allocate Perkins money may vary you know depending on state I'd love to hear your perspective on how colleges can make sure they're maximizing Perkins funds if they already have it or if they will in the future what are some innovative ways that you've seen colleges use Perkin funds to advance a workforce mission in alignment with the economic development big picture absolutely from your second question you asked a little bit about the non-credit credit side and I know in our community colleges we often have the workforce side of the house and then the gen ed side of the house if I could wave a magic wand that would be one house and that we would stop using the term non-credit and instead use the term workforce I mean if I am a student going to a community college like I when I was 19 I got my EMT certificate from a community college that helped me because I dropped out of my four-year program that helped me get a job pay my rent, figure out who I was I had no idea where it sat within the community college context and then I went on to a different community college and earned both gen ed and CTE classes but again I had no idea where it sat in the community college context because nobody talks you through this is on the non-credit this is for credit I would love for our community colleges to build more permeable systems across non-credit and credit and Perkins is an interesting vehicle that can help you do that you can use Perkins for short term credentials you know are not title for eligible otherwise so that's one thing to bookmark and think more about and call me and talk to my office about how you might be creative on that front because I'm seeing lots of eyes go really really last week October 26th caught off the press 24 pages of a program memo I'm sure you all have read it right we released some guidance last week for states to consider because next year 2024 Perkins state plans are due we OS state plans are due these are written every four years and in these plans states determine things like post-secondary allocation and we have a whole section in here on how to reimagine more equitable post-secondary allocation which by and large is premised on Pell eligibility which is great but there are some states like California, Delaware that are proposing alternative post-secondary formula determination to be more equitable to include things like you know TANF or SNAP recipients Medicaid recipients different promise communities like just thinking differently about the students you're serving and making sure that you are representing them in a way and as we're thinking about blurring the lines between high school and community college I would argue that we need to increase our community college allocation because you are increasingly serving our high school students so if you do not have a seat at the table for your state how you're thinking about the Perkins funding allocation and just how you're thinking strategically about Perkins when these plans were written four years ago it was just as the pandemic was kind of bubbling up or not even existent yet so pre-pandemic worlds changed a little bit since then the economy's changed a little bit since then how we think about education and training and workforce development has changed since then all the you know remote hybrid approaches thinking about the industry sectors we're focusing on in the role of innovation now is the time for community colleges to exercise tremendous voice both in the WIOA plan and in the Perkins plan because what was submitted four years ago is no longer the reality in which we all live now and it's not going to get us to where we need to go in the future I don't know about you but in the past like six months I've learned so much talk about life long learning learned so much about AI for example in fact I was just at the World Economic Forum earlier this week talking about AI and the implications and education like TAG is driving us to think differently and we have to be more nimble and responsive to help not only all of us as leaders in these systems but our students in our communities really stay at the leading edge here and so we're really encouraging states through things like 24 pages of scintillating reading to think differently about Perkins and to think about how you can combine or align Perkins and WIOA so that as we're thinking about education plans for a state we're thinking about workforce plans for a state we're connecting those two and I really see you at that essential intersection of those two as well similarly on the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act side of things and adult education and family literacy but also the Title I programs thinking about eligible training provider lists and all those sorts of things there's a lot of conversations that you should be at the table here so while I don't have any new sparkly funding other than I just closed a new grant competition called Career Connected High Schools which builds on the four levers for unlocking career success very excited it was one of only two and the other is focused on student success in post secondary so like both very relevant we received a lot of applications for this grant proposal the President put in his budget a request for $200 million Congress gave us $25 again the President put in his budget request tuition free community college I don't know if you saw that also a big discretionary program on community college workforce so we really are doing our best to continue to center community colleges and we look forward to working with Congress on any sort of short term power work that they choose to continue to put forward which is bipartisan and exciting but the new Career Connected High School grant opportunity just closed and that will be building out proof points of how community colleges, high schools and business and industry can create that ecosystem that Erwin was talking about to really lead all students to brighter futures and so we're looking forward to funding that and continuing to grow that but I would really look to our funding in Perkins and Weohua as sustainable funding for you to think differently and more creatively about so there's a lot of opportunity there call me let's talk super super helpful I will be adding those 24 pages to my metro ride reading list here we go I will take it actually page 15 talks about post-secondary allocation page 15 it is


So if there was gonna be one problem in this season one problem with all these characters any of these characters one problem That could snag this period piece drama action. That is Zorro It's modernizing any of the characters That is a no-no and well Lolita is just that unfortunately in episode five it flares up It's ugly head really really in its it's it almost took me out And this is probably the weakest of the episodes I've seen yet, but episode six is a bounce back So I'm actually reviewing five and six together. It's the Zorro. It's we've been doing these episodic reviews and Even that being said right? even this glaring Just Modern take with this with this one character. Everything else is great great intrigue Great twists a lot of these characters are doing a lot of mischievous things a lot of mystery Which I'm all in for okay, so episode five is called the execution and refers to the three Indians that are gonna be executed by the governor Zorro doesn't want that makes a pact with the other Zorro. Hey, let's bust them out. We both want the same thing We both want peace Naline is more of like I want the you know, what's right for my people Don Diego wants peace for everyone. So great little pact great little Idea That keeps all these characters, you know going along in this series and they they are successful It is short-lived and they they do split. They do Go their separate ways There's a little more mystery being uncovered with Dundee goes father and he's part of this Bear clan and it is those hooded gentlemen that we've been seeing in and out of the of the of the series again Very cool Who are these hooded gentlemen? Who is the bear clan? and why Do these bear pendants? He's seeing them in Finally seeing the clues that Weren't shown before Okay Now I Was really into that. I'm really into all the characters kind of growing doing the thing from maybe, you know May not being the best cook That was funny To a lot of these other characters Moving the story along, but let's get to it Lolita My god, I want to say this Renata is such a beautiful person to look at he almost you're almost Forgive it, but now but the but but you can't in this one glaring scene so she She's kind of being this She they they kind of took a step back in the writing with her in that she's a brat again Contemplating do I marry Enrique? Enrique is a great character by the way. He's becoming one of my favorite characters If it you know besides Don Diego, I think I like Enrique the best What a what a great take on this captain? And it makes sense because they're two both good men and that's what she's having a hard time with and And there's a moment at a dinner where she is you know, she's just kind of like daydreaming and The the father a confronts her later on and he's pissed He's super for he's super pissed ain't you can't be rude like that You got to stop this stuff and she's she's spout enough.    She she takes an it takes a shot at him. This is the 1830s. I Mean she would have been done. That just doesn't happen Yeah, I I'm just I'm just confused as to why I'm not confused because it's one of the writers trying to insert anything modern any any modern take on Kind of like just abusive parental, you know Patriarchy from the past and it's like that's how it was So if you're gonna show it then you got to show what would happen What would the consequences be or don't show that that was awful? He didn't need that scene at all. So it totally took me out It took me a few scenes to get back into it in what was a really enjoyable Season so far and Okay That's the biggest glare, okay It didn't it didn't ruin the rest of the the the episode and like I said the bounce back with episode six Was sufficient it is called what what's this the mass games mass games? So What's going on is that we're we're heading to this moment where? the Don Ramirez's Lands and mines are up for sale up for auction the Russians want it outside interests want it some of the other Californians want it But Don Diego wants to get it and he wants to work with the Chinese miners So there's a whole thing with the with the men from Chinatown and helping him Make this successful that was cool. There's a you know In these two episodes what you saw were a lot of the establishing minor roles doing a lot of business Then you have Don Diego being taken and he in it in its not by force He he he he he agrees to be taken by the bear clan and he finally has a meeting with the bear clan And they're Carly for Niels who want to be liberated from Mexico and one basically they want their own bear republic the California Republic So that was kind of interesting and it was interesting as to like this father was a part of he's like if my father was a part of it I'm a part of it. So that was cool He realizes that Lolita's father was part of the clan as well He kind of figured that out right away. What I'm seeing in the in these two episodes is Don Diego Really It was it was actually a very little Zorro of Don Diego There's actually very little Zorro in these last two episodes but that's okay because Don Diego has a lot to unpack and The big thing is that mystery with his father And then all the relationships he has that he's trying to work with from Lolita to the governor and I will say this so I really liked all that Another positive is the role of Enrique the the captain. What an incredible character We find out he's an orphan and he's such a good man and you can see that Lolita does love him or is enamored with him or specs him. There is a scene where He he gets wounded and she's there and And you know, he saves her life and if he she she loves she loves him for that And so they had they had a really good moment there Towards the end of the scene towards the end of the second episode of Mask games. I was a little thrown off that There was an attack by Naline on Enrique as they're leaving a Lolita's family's house compound To where She's she's wounded. Oh, she's not mortally wounded. Naline's wounded by Lolita. Like, okay Where did she come up with her? She got that rifle real fast. I was like If he gets worse if it gets more more more like an obvious thorn and it's taken away from Zoro's story I'm not into it. I really don't care about these storylines with with Lolita nah Naline I Bought I like the Indian connection. I like the indigenous connection and that's it So this could be really problematic going into the final episodes. I will let you guys know that being said Episode five was decent and Mask games was really good. It was really good. So I would say episode five is my lowest I'd give it a I'd give it a a seven and Mask games that would it did pick up. So we're looking at a 7.5 definitely not the eight and eight point fives of the of the first four, but listen There's gonna be there's gonna be a lol.  Just you know that I Was I was a little baffled. There's other relationships going on between That father and they're in the Russian woman It's established that they had been sleeping around. So I don't know if Lolita Thinks of her father in that light. I don't even think it's established that she knew that she knows about this Which as far as she knows is that he's been a he's been a great dad to her And he saved her life one time early in the in the season. So yeah, bug me.