Good morning. Can you hear me? Can the remote participants hear me? Yes sir. How does it work? Yes sir. Okay, somebody is saying yes. I want to thank you all for joining us in such a short notice. In fact, we started working on it only last Thursday or Friday. So, it took some time to figure out how to do that. I want to welcome the Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports for joining us from Delhi and other officials from the same ministry. We also have participants from a few participants who are joining remotely because it is a short notice they could not come. So, they could at least join remotely. What I am going to do is we have actually a light schedule. At 10.45 the actual work will start. At 10.30 we will break 40 whether we will always have enough time for tea. What we will do is I will give an overview of how this workshop will be conducted. If you recall the schedule, I will finish by 10.30 and then 10 to 10.45 we will have tea. 10.45 to 12.15 we will divide into groups and then I have, you have already filled the form but I will go through it once. One of the things that we have to discuss is what is it we will come out in this brainstorming in the group. That is one thing that I would want to discuss. So, let us get started. So, this activity is called Mera U of Bharat or Mai Bharat. Can I sit and talk? So, I need to operate the computer. What is Mai Bharat? It is a proposed name for an autonomous body set up by the government of India to provide an institutional mechanism for youth development and youth led development powered by technology. By the way this is in the document that has been already shared. I have just extracted and I am putting it in a form that is easier to present. Vision 2047 to actualize the aspirations of youth by providing equitable opportunities thereby building an Amrit Bharat by 2047. So, these are the goals of Mai Bharat. And in order to do that need a single platform. That is boundaries between urban and rural have become much less distinct. What is the reason for this? Why do we need a single platform? Because the there are no strict boundaries. All youth have similar aspirations for which opportunities are needed which can be provided through this platform. Need a common framework that unites rural, urban and rural urban youth that is rural and urban. And then Mai Bharat will create this common platform. What are the features of this common platform? It will be a technology driven platform to connect youth with activities that will improve their capabilities to connect them with community activities. In fact, they had given an example of how 50 million youth registered and then 22 million saplings thought planted. This platform will have the profiles of youth. Profiles means what they have done and you know things like that skill sets and activities. So, the question is can certificates be generated for there for those activities and skill sets. And this platform will be a useful network to connect with each other and also with the potential mentors. Accessibility through digital ecosystem. So, Mai Bharat will create that physical ecosystem. What we discussed that platform is that to empower young individuals to become catalysts for community transportation in their transformation. They would act as USA2 linking the government with its citizens and of course, it will support millions of youth. So, that is one of the requirements. Some of these things are important because these are the things that you should factor in when we do the brainstorm. Some of the benefits are listed. Leadership development make them social innovators and leaders to make them act and perform and not be just passive citizens. And better alignment between youth aspirations and community needs. Enhanced efficiency through convergence of existing programs. Act as one stop shop for young people and ministries. Create a centralized youth database. Improve two way communication between youth and stakeholders. For example, ministry or poor is the mentor. So, with this, this is the background and we were asked to conduct a workshop. Initially, we thought it would be a one day workshop, but then we thought that people may not be able to devote such a long time. So, we said that we will do it in half a day, but make it effective so that we can finish in half a day. So, we have identified groups. I will go through the groups once. Platform technology, for example, what features it should have? How it should be modern? How it will be easy to use? Comparison with other platforms, etcetera. These are the things that this platform group will discuss. Let me see how are we doing. You have seen all this. Let me go through the four groups and then we have also tentatively divided the participants into four groups so that we can actually get started after the tea. One of the things we need to discuss is what is it? What will be the recommendation? What will the leader of each group come and present here? Because we will have about an hour, 45 minutes to 1 hour wherein all the four groups will make a presentation. I would say about, maybe about 7 minutes or so. Summarize because you do not have actually too much time. So, you cannot discuss too many things. So, you have only one hour. Come up with a few things. So, the things that we could discuss, we could present are what should be the three main objectives of this activity and what are the three things that we should do? I would stay with three because you have only 7 minutes and that is what can be done and we can convert that into a report and send it to the ministry as a product of this workshop. So, this is platform technology. The other one is activities. What kind of activities? That is networking with others, other users that is one youth with several other youth, each youth with every other youth that is the, that is what I mean by users. Getting help from mentors, there are mentors getting help from them. Documenting the activities of users, certifying mechanism because one of the points mentioned was, is it possible to certify? Can this platform irrigate itself and say I am going to certify? Is it even possible? Or is it possible to do this through some kind of a crowd sourced activity? So, can we do that instead for example? So, there are various things or you do the crowd sourcing and if somebody is getting lot of hits, lot of likes, then somebody can look at only those. So, instead of looking at million people, it will look at some of them. So, I mean these are some of the things that this activity has to come up with. Previous one, platform technology do not have to say much because what features it should have it, how it should be modern, how it should be easy to use. One of the other things that I wanted to mention here was, can it take data from some other platform? Some other platform says I am ready to give my data to you without personal data. You know maybe it is available to you and with their permission you can take it. So, some of these things the platform group should work with. Then working with work provider. So, in my opinion this is extremely important because the document clearly says that work provider, one of the work providers is the ministry. Ministries that is working with the work provider in this case ministry and on the one hand and community on the other hand. You be the, this is what it is said, you was set to for example, that you are a bridge. I have given one example, Gati Shatthi is a very important project that is major, major project that is going on. You might have seen when they lay the roads, the supply gets cut off or some internet gets interrupted. You know because each one comes under different ministry. I just imagine with the kind of infrastructure boom, with so much of construction activity, how we move forward if the ministries are not talking to each other? How the, if the departments are not talking to each other? Can we bring them all under one platform? GIS platform for example and then everybody gets to see, they project this is what I have, this is what I have and make sure they do not cut each other and then get on with it. So, that is seems to be one of the important things that is why I have made a special mention of Gati Shatthi. In fact, we have a leader for this, Professor Penden who has been working in this area. I have asked him to lead this, but I will come to the leaders and improving soft skills and related skills. I called it, I mean this is a kind of thing like my colleague Madhulika argued that some of them should not even be in soft skill, but then I did not want to have another group. Otherwise, it would have been a fifth. Already we have four groups with this. I said all these skills together we will discuss. Critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, socially relevant computing, using technology to solve problems, entrepreneurial skills, negotiation, costing, etcetera. Of course, people could say computing, socially relevant computing should come under some other field maybe engineering, but then people need that also in costing, people also need that in negotiation, people need that everywhere. So, I am grouping all of them as skills. So, we have a group for that. This is the last one. What I will do is let me go through the groups. Where are they? Can you show me? How to access that? Excel sheet, remove the full screen. This is the one. I think it is coming very small. Increase the font, but how do I do that? Because I do not use Excel. I use and this is blocking. This whole thing may be able to move a control plus plus. Control plus plus is not working. Yeah, everything. That was not working. I will think. So, we have these activities. Let me just see if I can. I will keep them side by side so we can actually see that. So, these are activities. So, networking with others, getting help from mentors, documenting activities of users, certifying mechanism, etcetera. We have group here. We have Mithili Kamli here. Mithili Kamli is here. Welcome.  What is the full name? There it is. I can see that. Nirmala Memorial Foundation College of Commerce and Science. So, it looks like all other people are from IIT Bombay and your inputs will be most useful. So, we have Dr. Snehalatha Kaliipan. Can you, can other people see? Raise your hand. Yeah. Then Madhuri Ganapati, Virusa, Pirmali, yeah. Bella Tony, Venita Parmar and then Mithili is here. So, you will form one group. Then we have the next group which is Improving Soft Skills. We have Saran. So, Saran also is an employee of HVCL, Interest and Petroleum. He is currently doing M Tech at IIT Bombay. So, we are really happy to have Saran. We have Aditya Desai. So, from, so the name is, full name is Sri Ellar Tiwari College of Engineering. Faculty member, Swapna Mahendra. Welcome, Abhinav Pandey, Pranav Anchan, Usha Viswanathan, Madhulika Goyal, Umar Raj. Welcome. Sai Sudha is joining remotely. Sai Sudha comes with, after, after working for BBC for many years. So, she actually works in this area. She is also currently a staff member at IIT Bombay. We have Priyanshi. Priyanshi, they have a class. They will come at 1030. Priyanshi and then Bital, she will also come, Bital. He, he is also student. Divyam Kakani. And then Anshuli. So, they are from KJ Somaya. So, Improving Soft Skills. Then we have, this is Platform Technology. This is the one. We have Professor Anuradha Narasimhaan. We have Inderjit. So, he is from KJ Somaya. Professor Anuradha Narasimhaan is from IIT Bombay and Professor Inderjit is from KJ Somaya. We have Mahalakshmi Nadar. See here. SIES College of Arts. Maya Nair, SIES College. I am sure they will join, because they have to come from, may be far off place and it is lot of traffic outside IIT. Hopefully they will join. Siddhi Parish, Takur College of Science and Commerce. I think your name has come twice. Aparna. So, you are from Nirmala Memorial. Yeah, Nirmala Memorial. So, it says Nirmala Memorial Foundation. Is that okay? Yeah. And then Anuradha, Takur College, Nagish, IIT Bombay, Hirain, Takur College, Bhuvan Gauda. Welcome. Then we have Aditya. So, you are also from Nirmala Memorial. So, this is the group. So, you have to remember. Only here, we I think shifted two people to working with work providers that is with the government and so on. Two people we shifted, we gave them the second choice, because we had a smaller number of people. So, we have Sumanthokar, Mohammad Kasim. He is joining remotely. Amay Patil, yeah, also IIT Bombay. So, I put my name, because the numbers are less, but then I plan to go and see how each group is doing. I do not plan to spend, it is just that that form would not accept unless I put something. So, that is how I had designed the form. So, I had to put something. So, I put this. We have Shaji Varghese. Do not think he is here. He has not come. We have Pawan. So, we are putting you in this, working with work providers. Then Rajesh Prashanta, we are putting you also in this. Pendenchina Swami has gone for a related discussion with the government of Maharashtra and he could not change his schedule, but he will join at 10.45. So, now shall we spend 2 minutes on, already it is getting late. Shall we say 3 objectives and what are the 3 things each group should do? In that sphere, what is it by border should be 3? Is there anything else that you can think of, if anybody has anything or any other feedback? While waiting, we also have the leaders here, those who agreed. Many people have come forward and said that they do not want to lead the group. Many people have volunteered not to lead the group, which is fine. We have Snehalatha and Firuza as leaders for the first one. I wanted 2 leaders, so that will be good. And here, we have Sai Sudha and Saran. For platform technology, we have quite a few people, which is nice. We have Mahalakshmi Nadar. Who is this? I have, you have come, managed to come and Maya and I have come. Yes, please come, sit in the front row. So, that is very nice. So, we have Mahalakshmi Nadar. We have Anurag. So, platform technology activities, that is very nice. Then we have Kiran, Thakur College, so very nice. So, you know each other? Good, but then you are in the same, from the same college. That is the, I thought you are, for a moment I thought you are from different. And then we have Bhuvan. So, we have quite a few people who can contribute to the platform technologies. When I said leader, what I mean is, we want everybody to be active, to contribute to that. I missed out one other thing here. So, here we will have Professor Pendan. He will be the leader and then let me see. We have Sumanto, Kasim, I think both Pawan and Rajesh also wanted to be, agreed to be leaders in their group, in the other group. So, we have quite a few people who are willing to lead the thing. What we want is, each leader, at least one of them, because we identified at least two leaders for each group, to be able to make sure the discussion proceeds in the right direction. The three things are discussed, what are the three objectives in that activity and what are the three things that the ministry or my Bharat should do in that area. Those are the three things and they will have about seven minutes to make the presentation. We will break at 12.15, that is we will go for tea. After tea, we will start the brainstorming in four different groups. It will end at 12.15, then 45 to 12.15, about one and a half hours and then you come and make presentation. If you make some slides, you are welcome to present them. If you do not have, you just want to mention it, that is also ok, but slides will be better because there is a record and people will be able to see it remotely as well and then 115 to 130, we will have discussion. At 130, we will have much and that is e-certificates, e-certificates to all. So, this is the plan for the whole thing. Are there any questions? Of course, there are, some people could not come in time. Sorry, stop sharing. Are there any questions from remote participants? Any comments? What we will do is this, so what we will do is there are in two groups there are remote participants and so we will, one of them will use maybe the zoom link, the other one will use a Google Meet link and so they will join. So, if there are any quick comments, we can make them, otherwise we will disperse now for tea and then we will, we have, have we identified place for the different groups? Yeah, so with then we will just do this here. Ok, that is how we will make do with what we have done. We were initially planning to have it outside with ordered pedestal fans and so on. It can be done, is it? Some people like hot weather. No, I will leave it, yeah, leave it, make it an option, if they want to do that, don't do that. Ok, if there is no feedback, are there any questions? You have any questions? You have a question? Yeah. Just a small summary, we joined little late. Yeah, are you just the two? Yeah.  Not issue. Ok, so thank you, we will start in five minutes, we will have tea. Sure, sure. Thanks. Hello, good morning everyone, am I audible? Yes, you are. I just want to check out like, I mean when the session will be resumed, we are from DIC Delhi, Digital India Corporation. Can somebody inform us like, what is the schedule? Good morning, can you please respond from IIT Mumbai when this session would resume? Ok, fine, thank you. You will get to go first, I can get to go first. Five minutes, yeah. Hello, good afternoon sir, this side Umakanth here from DIC Delhi. Am I audible? Can someone respond us? Hello, yes sir. Yeah ma'am, just want to say that like, this side Umakanth here and I mean from DIC and our team like Sonam and Lakshmi already attending that virtually this call. Yes sir, we have given five minutes more to participants, they just want to wind up with their presentation. So just wherever others, we will be starting in five minutes sir. Sure, sure, not a problem, that will be great. Thank you so much. Thank you, yeah, thank you. Hello. About seven minutes and you can actually spend some time if you want explaining why put it here. Yeah, the reasoning, logic behind whatever you are stating and we are asking for the three most important, it is possible that you might have more but to be realistic we thought that will stay with three and then you can mention. We would want every other group also to listen to the group that is presenting and give your feedback. We do want to do it well so that we will have enough time for discussion at the end. So we will start with the platform group first. So the and you have to give the file in a pen drive right so that it can be loaded here, it is this computer that is going to be used. If you do not want to pen drive, our video team has a pen. Excuse me sir. Yeah. Yeah, before starting this session actually we want to introduce ourselves. I am Sonam Sharma from DIC senior manager and there is Uma Khan sir, also he is also from DIC. So please give you a hello sir. Hi sir, this is Uma Khan here, working as a senior general manager DIC, Digital India Corporation daily. So basically sir, we are handling this portal, this my Yuvabharath portal is being handled by us, this would be created by us only. So we will welcome your feedback on the same and also if you have some queries, so you may ask here or you may just write down to us, we will answer you on the same. Terrific. In fact, we would want you to be a part of this discussion. Yeah. So we have done in a different way instead of just calling some experts to address give some conduct some workshop, we wanted to make it participative. We wanted to, we wanted the youth to be a part of this workshop content creation itself. So that is the reason why we had planned it that way and this way quite a bit of things get discussed and get presented. Sure. So thanks Sonam and thank you. Please feel free to ask questions, we will have enough time for question and answer discussion and so on. But we will start with, you have given the input. Yeah. So we will get started shortly. Sure. Thank you. We have to load the file into this machine and then we will do that. Yeah, thanks. Thank you. So let us get, hey, what I suggest is you get started with these, do not use the same pen drive to collect. Yeah. Load it first. Am I audible? Audible. Yes, you are audible so. I am Nagesh Karmali. I work in the, it is not audible. I am Nagesh Karmali. Nagesh Karmali, I work in the department of computer science and engineering and I work on building platforms and other things. So, okay, we have come up with broad outline for the platform that we are messaging for Merayuva Bharat. Actually, I cannot, I cannot, I cannot say it. Send one. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, so these are our broad objectives. In fact, yeah, so the first objective is, I mean, what we have come up with, we had multiple of them. Community building, building how to get the youth, the urban and the ruler together. So, that is very important and this platform should provide a facility to connect those to disparate things which are, you know, how to, how to actually get them connected, you know, that is very important. And then ease of mentoring and mentee relationships and networking that is required because youth by themselves will not be able to nurture or grow further unless there is some mentoring support. There is a counseling support also that is needed. So, that's the second point. So, opportunity listing could vary from some companies, you know, want to list for job offers or things like that. On the other side that the opportunity could arise from the rural region and get surfaced at the national level. So, there are some problems which the rural people are facing and if they are able to use this platform to showcase that or to narrate or give their experiences and there is some other youth, some other place want to solve that problem.  That's the first thing, you know, which is also getting listed in finding opportunities across. And then finally to have this government function is or the ministries to have the overall view of what is happening. So, now you connect youth also to the government, government also to the youth because government will have probably a district wise or to a large extent what's happening where, you know, that kind of analytics, you know, should be possible or maybe even to make a summary of it. And for the youth it's like what the government, you know, what are the schemes available? What is the upcoming thing that is available so that the youth can participate? So, connecting both of them is very important objective for this platform. So, steps to be taken. So, what shall we do? So, explore, yeah, explore on the, so exploring on the possibilities. Now, in fact, there is some disconnect that you will see because not a, not even, some, some rural regions are not connected. So, maybe establishing a chaos and then that chaos connects to our system, right, the major platform, right, and providing access to those, you know, youth is also very important. And then we say, you know, maybe you can take the survey from, from the youth, you know, understanding what is the expectations and that kind of a poll can be, can be done initially. And then there are a whole lot of platforms available. Now, they can maybe 30, 40, but there are some interesting ones like Kora, Radit, Discord, LinkedIn, right. So, so it's kind of, this kind of platforms, I think we should look at and then get those elements when you build this, this kind of platform. Yeah, I think that is what, yeah. So, myself, Malish Mehta from SIS College, Chemistry Department. I have my colleague also, Mayana here from Computer Science Department. So, happy to be associated. So, being a part of the Group 1, Platform Technologies, as Sir has already briefed that we have identified four objectives. I would like to just summarize what exactly the mean of those objectives. Like as he said, the community building and the networking. So, here in this networking, we thought the site should have to have a platform where an individual have their own profile. Something like LinkedIn or Quera where they create an individual profile. In that profile, they should be having their achievements. They should have their academic activities, their skills that should be available. And then if a particular group of community is there, they should be able to interact likewise. There should be communication within the communities. So, there should not be a specification or if it is in a rural areas. There are suggestions like if it is a very rural area where there is no connectivity of internet. So, some NGOs which can build that gap. So, they can take their issues and present it there or they get an area where they will have an opportunity to put for those points and that interaction with direct government is needed. So, that profile which is created that will help and the possibilities whatever is there and the opportunities that should be directly available. So, that they can have particularly for example, if I am interested in a particular subject, I would like to get a information which is on that particular subject. I would not like to go to the other areas of interest. So, that interest skill set should have information of everything. So, interconnection with other sides of a particular information should be there. And mentoring and mentee networking is needed. Obviously, youth needs a proper mentor who can give what are the technological skills available. You have to be upgraded. So, like a profile like LinkedIn, etc. of certain social size which are there in which a particular skill set of a particular individual is there. They want to explore their skills into new areas, interdisciplinary skills. So, somewhere they need a gap to build, where they need a mentor to guide them. So, some AI based like a hot bot or artificial intelligent base where they can chat and then they can find what skill set or some individual mentor profile who can have an interaction with an individual. So, this can build different areas and get together. And as I said, we have to list the opportunities. There are a lot of opportunities which the government and non-government associations may have. Many companies would like to give some funding to some startups or some job skills which are required. So, if an individual has a profile in that if you have the skill set and expertise. So, the company would directly approach that individual or they can go like an example which we had given like intern shallower where they have pool of knowledge and just they want to it is a lot of inter companies are linked. So, there should be a direct connection instead of going via, via medium. They can approach to the individual directly and they can get information and apply to certain opportunities. Then connecting with the government directly that is very much needed because suppose if I have an issue, I may analyze that issue by going through one media or a mentor or a mentee would have a discussion but that may not go to the higher authorities or it may not go to directly to the government. So, there should be a direct platform where a government can interact with and their issues could be resolved or a direct notification such things are happening and you should be globally acquainted with. This is what our platform technology is at views. If there are quick questions you can ask. I am Sneha Latha. I want to know if this platform will be in many languages because it has to connect to rural areas. So, have you recommended that this platform has to be regional languages? Yeah. But it is going to be rural and urban I feel this multiple languages because most of the sites are now having not only related to English Hindi or Marathi. They also have other regional languages of the country. That should also be there. That is a very good suggestions. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Any question here? No. Okay. We will have the second group. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Is there anybody else who wants to help Firuza come? Take the bottle. First introduce yourself. Hello everybody. I am Firuza Karmali and work on multiple projects with respect to simulation, building platforms, training teachers and school students. So, over here. Yes, sir. I am from IIT Bombay. So, I have with me Sneha Latha. I am Sneha Latha. I am working for FOSI team. So, we will see. So, our topic was about activities that can be conducted in Mayuva Bharat. So, Mayuva Bharat. So, with after some discussions we have come up with one activity which is a promotion activity. So, we could have first how do we reach out to the public? So, we need promo videos in multiple languages. We can send out the promo videos through YouTube, through TV channels, through institutes, contacting the NGOs, writing official letters in multiple and tribal languages and through social media. We can have we can have it in community radios, monkey bath, radios, etc. Coming to the first and the most important objective is documenting the activities of the user. So, first is a user will register on the platform and then we collect information. So, what kind of information? Skills, knowledge, interest, qualification, certificates, basically a way where he can build his own digital portfolio. For example, I could be an engineering and I could be an engineering student and I could have interest in various other fields like photography, trekking, etc. I could be a naive in one whereas an expert in another one. So, basically activity logging, profile monitoring for every user or a mentor. So, when I joined the platform I could be I could be a naive in one and I could be an expert in another field. So, I could be a user as well as a mentor. So, I could have ratings for myself so that I can build a nice portfolio for myself. How we have LinkedIn? Earlier when companies used to recruit they would be looking at your CV. Now people look at LinkedIn. Why? Because LinkedIn has multiple things. It has recommendations. It has many sorts of things. So, maybe in future one could look at my Bharat and look at the user rating and the mentor as my ratings as a user and as a mentor. I could have feedback for maybe whatever I have done till now. Let us go to the another objective which is networking with other user. So, we should form communities of like-minded people. Over here we could have online and physical events. So, there could be meetups, workshop, seminar. So, there could be a workshop or a seminar on photography or trekking or Sylab or any topic that you take into consideration. For physical meetups there could be some centers, specific centers like Ram Panchayat Institute, a restaurant, if it is a trekking, some sort of a hill at Mathiran. We could have crowdsourcing. People could work on proposals. They build startups. So, they may want, they can come together, write a proposal and then finally make a move on something. Suppose I want to open up a restaurant. So, which kind of documents are required? Fire safety, many other documents that would be required. So, all these kind of things maybe can be put up over here. Accessibility. So, one is low bandwidth. So, there could be, so when we are talking of rural regions, so they would not be having good bandwidth. So, how do we address that? That is a question which we do not have a solution to right now. Accommodate people with disabilities. Maybe a person cannot see, a person cannot hear. Then how do we accommodate that? So, that needs to be addressed. Coming to the third objective is getting help from the mentors. So, here we have to build a mentor and a mentee relationship, preferably in the same area. So, maybe to manage it better we could have overall coordinators that would be looking after a particular city, a particular region, a particular state. There could be career guidance, contributing guidelines. So, contributing guidelines where I am writing a proposal. So, how you should go about it? So, a mentor can guide the mentee. It could also be for crowdsourcing. So, there also there could be some guidelines, sources of learning, workshops, courses, etc. And finally, tutorials for using the feature of Mayabharat in multiple language, multiple and tribal languages. The platform being so big, though like we have used many other apps like Amazon, Flipkart, they are quite intuitive. Even though we build a very intuitive Mayabharat app, but we still need some sort of a way wherein we can you know inform the people that you know you can do all these kind of activities. So, basically the platform has to be very friendly. So, we do not need tutorials to begin with. It can be like as simple as you know like we browse Amazon or any other of these shopping apps. So, it needs to be as simple as that. So, very informative and easy to navigate.  Once a meet-up is done, once a course, workshop or any other activities completed, there could be e-certificates for participants as well as a mentor. So, what is an incentive for a mentor? What is an incentive for a participant? Of course, a certificate, but maybe you could even have later on some sort of suppose if it is a photography workshop and a person has really done well, maybe gift a camera. How and when that is not clear, but some sort of an incentive, e-certificate, recommendation letters, mentioning the link, the work that they have done. And then finally, maybe a chart or a graphical UI that can represent how I am as a person, as a user and as a mentor. So, how many projects I have guided? How many projects have gone from 0 to 100? As a user, how many certificates I have obtained? Maybe some sort of a chart that can actually showcase that person's portfolio in just one user, one chart. So, the platform must have this facility to generate the e-certificates basically. Thank you. Any questions? Yeah, are there any questions? All right. We will go to the next one. Thank you. You have copied your file on Pinterest. And you have already given it. May I open? Yes. Hello. Yeah. Yes, sir. Hello, good afternoon everyone. This is a cumulative understanding of what the ministries and communities we worked on. The team is Pawan, Amay, Sumanto, Rajesh, Kasim and myself, Penan. I am a faculty with the Center for Technology Alternatives for rural areas in IIT Bombay. So, the outline is just three things we want to discuss. What is the need for this connective, increasing the connectivity between the ministries and the working communities wherein we need to focus development, improved efficiencies, a lot of cost saving measures we could accomplish by having this connectivity between the ministry and the working population and how do you enhance this connectivity for better development? So, we have broken it up as working with the ministries and working with communities. Why do we need better integration and mapping existing skills, platforms that others discussed about open source, etc. We will discuss. So, the first one was there are a lot of lack of coordination because the same ministry, one ministry is doing roads, the other ministry is doing the cables and networks. So, they actually duplicate the work or there is lot of working in silos. So, it actually delays a lot of projects that can lead to better development of the nation. Also it increases the cost and there is a need for collaborative analysis to identify these gaps. These gaps are not identified because there is less data. So, that is the next point, missing comprehensive database about what data infrastructures they have between the ministries and among the ministries, convergence of work and funds. For example, there is better roads needed for highways but also it can lead to better rural development. So, how can these two work together? So, this database can actually help in solving a lot of issues. Inventory of the completed work, where have the work been completed and monitoring and evaluation of the same is driven by data and then reducing conflicts of sharing infrastructures, water, power, etc. So, these all can be negotiated by having a better database. The last but not the least is identification of critical gaps. So, right now we have some gaps, but how does it change between ministries? How can you optimize your next goals? There is a need of cross-sectoral integration and interaction between the ministries also. So, if this interaction happens because of improved database management, we have sharing of cost, time and benefits and reduction of cost overrun. We are going to duplicate the efforts again and again. The last one was there is more development zones that are happening like agricultural zones, textile zones, fishing clusters, rural development zones. How can we create communication between the ministry and these zones so that the schemes can flourish better for these kind of zones? The government also wants to collect a lot of data using satellites. This is also included in the Gatishakti's master plan. So, for this also there is a lot of need of skills. This is on the ministry side. On the upscaling of participants or the communities that are going to work, first we need what we found out is that we need a database to understand what skills they actually have. Currently, what is the scale they have and how can they be updated? When we talk about updating, it is not only about the human capital, but also infrastructure should be there. There should be a lab, there should be computing facilities for skill development. So, this all have to be mapped. The mapping of existing skills, dissemination of support, the government has multiple schemes for youth, especially the youth development, they have a lot of schemes. Does this information go to the people? So, why is it not going and where is it lagging? So, there should be a new of multilingual, multi-platforms like the previous participants also mentioned in their presentations. So, data on various connectivity issues should be documented for improved participation in schemes. The skill development needs monitoring and evaluation also, because once you have the skill, there should be a certification, acknowledgments and also short-term impacts, because some skills are needed only for the short-term labour, but also for long-term impacts also. Mapping mentors with youth, there should be a collaboration between industry and academics. Industry mentors can be very useful for giving them entrepreneur skills, whereas academic mentors can be skills and other educational professional development. So, collaboration is very needed and this mapping of mentors with youth is missing. How can we have better skill recognition? Again, the previous participants also mentioned. So, we have documented as joint job fairs, networking conferences, competitions that Posse also has Mapathons, Hackathons and start-up ecosystem, because a skill needs to be converted to some kind of ecosystem. The last one is, we need to create a platform where between the skill development professionals they can communicate between each other and create joint ventures like two students have started multiple-multiple start-ups, so in IIT Bombay. So, collaborations and start-ups can also between the youths can happen and the mentors have to be recognized. I think previous participants also said. So, to conclude, our objectives are just three, to create a dynamic database dashboard, where all the database of the projects, their current status, the budgets that have been allocated, skills and the workforce and success stories can be documented. This can also be used for monitoring and evaluation of the schemes with dynamic feedback, where some kind of feedback will always come to show the skills have been developed or the projects are going on. The second one is to create a platform for improving skills. This can be constantly updated with new skills, new courses based on the current needs, primarily focusing on open source because it creates a longer impact. And then the recognition has to be given for the skill and also for the mentoring between and there should be a synchronization between current and future planning. The last one is to create youth-driven teams because the youth can also give data to the system. The data need not be just top-down but also bottom-up approach wherein data can come from the people, the youth who are collecting it and giving it to the database and this youth team could be a point of coordination between the ministries and the schemes. So, at the end of the day these youth could be our future leaders. Thanks. Good afternoon everyone. So, here we team have we team have discussed on the soft skill integration part of the platform. The why we need soft skill is that it develops a person and it also creates more opportunities and helps us to use the opportunities around us. So, what generally it is lagging in our youth is that it is the soft skills are to be developed along with the technical skills. Just when a person goes and tells that I will teach you the soft skills it does not have an impact on the person who is receiving it. So, it is to be it is to be a gamified version such and workshop or events which can interest the youths so that they they learn with fun. So, the platform is to be developed in such a way that it gives an interactive feeling and at the end of at the end of the acquiring of skills it should also give the satisfaction that he that with this developed skills he can give something back to the community with gratitude. The platform also required to have an have to have an facility to customize the interest and to get interest and give suggestions on based on the interest. It is also important that soft skill that is developed is a person's own interest that is like we tell it is hobby is converted into a project so that his or her total involvement can be seen in that soft skill development. So, these are the basic what these are like basic problems that is generally faced when a person is wanting to develop soft skills. The other one other thing is like there are so many organizations like one we have as posse and many other organizations they organize these soft skill developing workshop but whether it is reaching to the people who really wants it that is a question mark. The platform should be a bridge bridge this gap such that it can connect the person who is organizing the workshop to improve the soft skills and the person who wants the soft skill really in his life to develop. The platform should have the ability to develop and build portfolios and profiles such that it showcases the interest and it showcases the work that has been done by that particular person and when workshops are even conducted to develop soft skills it should be such a way that it is a well defined problem statement with structured report and it also has it should also have an evaluation criteria such that the whatever problems is solved using the soft skill developed it should have some social relevance such that the person once it completes has self satisfaction that it has he or she has done something and the soft skill development should mostly rely on the open source alternatives such that any person from people from different levels can afford it. The next part is like once a person is acquired his soft skills then where does he go? The platform should also have an forum so that he or she can communicate with the community members and there can be mentors who can guide these people such that the person who has acquired soft skill knows where he is moving ahead and just a person coming in acquiring soft skills is not sufficient. The person who has acquired and has success stories it should be showcased in the portal such that it attracts more people to develop those skills and also there should be during the workshops or during the programs there should be a forum to show that they can ask their mentors or the fellow community people a troubleshoot and if somewhere if someone is stuck somewhere so these cannot these need not be a single platform or one to one basis it can be like it can give suggestions for example if someone is stuck at a particular problem of say electronics and there is a workshop or an session going really happening related to electronics in a different place the platform can suggest that this workshop is going on so the person can attend that and get his doubts at troubleshooting clarified and move ahead so these are the three things that we want to discuss is there any question? I want to thank everybody for contributing I want to add points based on whatever was presented I am not an expert on all the things especially the platform I thought that I do not know whether we had to give some inputs on the technology behind the platform that was not covered I do not even know whether it was expected to give that kind of feedback let me point out some other things that struck me and some other things are related to what we are doing at IIT Bombay so and in fact it was even pointed out the first thing that I have seen lacking in many children rural children especially if they are not fluent in English is a lack of confidence I used to be one such person ok so giving confidence to them is probably something you know it is an important task that whichever organization whatever that wants to do something big should do we have done in a limited way through spoken tutorials because the students self-learn we have the we have a self-learning pedagogy designed for that purpose so it did not come the fact that confidence came is something that we had not planned for but it was meant for self-learning was designed later on we were it was a happy surprise that the learners had their self confidence going up mainly because they said I learnt it myself I am capable of learning I do not need somebody to come and teach me I mean of course it is always good to have teachers, good teachers and so on but unfortunately most of our children do not have access to good education do not have access to good teachers so what do we do can we at least give self-learning material so that at least the motivated ones so that is one thing we found confidence is something extremely useful and we of course later on rigorously established that fact through a student who did a PhD in education technology at IIT Bombay that self-learning really helps and of course he validated it using spoken tutorials in a study that he conducted in Hyderabad first year engineering college students the second point that I would want to make is about recognition for our children recognition for small things so if you say that you publish a paper it should appear in some you know famous journal you know it is going to take a long time not everybody can reach that point but what about people in between how do we encourage them tell them look you are capable you can you know go to the next step so on and so forth make them climb the steps one by one so I believe that that is going to be extremely important this is something that we did in our other project where in we train students lots of students, lakhs of students in the spoken tutorial of course we trained 75 lakh students in posse what we do is we train students lots of them train them to the level of creators for example we do have some excellent projects wherein some experts come create content give it to people but what about the learners creating what about the large population creating deeper so can we do that it is actually an order of magnitude more difficult work to get the public to contribute and make the contribution reach the level of being usable by lots of people that is curation because if we can do that if we can establish a mechanism to do that that is fantastic because then you have the whole country participating which is extremely important it is easy for us to say we will select 1000 people I always say that it is easier to send a rocket to moon or Mars or whatever because you can get 1000 scientists train them and produce something useful they will do that Israel is an example but training billions of students and giving them reasonably good college education that is lot more difficult because of the numbers important ok so I believe that even if it is done in a small way ok if we can do that we have to build those models I want to give an example one of the things that we did was we took this software open source software it was mentioned open source software Sylab which is a great alternative to Matlab ok Matlab has been generated with created with billions of dollars of investment ok whereas Sylab is an open source software it stands no chance at all no competition right where is billion dollar investment where is open source but we did a project called textbook companion in which students from across the country created Sylab code gave Sylab code for 1 lakh solved examples from standard textbooks of science and engineering on Sylab ok and I say that so we use that for it can be used as a valuable document valuable guide to understand how some command is to be used it can be used in a classroom a teacher can say what if if I change this number ok open source software it is available to everybody and thirdly you can also use it to create your own example a teacher can come and say I am looking for an example that uses this command out of the 100,000 that is 1 lakh examples it will come and say these are the examples that use that command and it will sort them according to this book as these examples this book has these examples so on and so forth we are able to do that because we have 100,000 examples we have 1 lakh examples right and a teacher can go click that go to a cloud change the value and they have created their own example they can use it in their exams and so on and so forth and I claim that such a such a thing is not there in Matlab so Sylab is actually better for these things so where is Sylab where is Matlab but because of community participation that people did small things giving Sylab code for a solved account small project so is it possible to motivate our people come up with a mechanism in which they will they are encouraged to do something but together it is something very big in fact I am reminded of a project that was undertaken in Africa so I was invited by Vils Global they invited me to give me an award I think it was in 2015 at that time in Washington DC they had invited a group from Africa also and what did the African group do they did something like they came up with a grand plan they said we want to eradicate malaria in Africa there is some grand plan grand objective come up with a grand objective the moment you have that of course they explained what they did and so on it turned out that they more or less eradicated 90 percent and what they did was they said we should give mosquito nets to everybody and they gave mosquito nets to lots of people wherever mosquitoes were there and they more or less eradicated so I believe that and it is something which everybody had to participate otherwise mosquitoes will breed malaria will come of course they had to worry about mosquito breeding and so on and so forth but it shows an example of community participation people contributing in small way but people came donated for mosquito nets because mosquito nets may not have been more than few hundred rupees few dollars just donate anybody can donate they created a fund they collected money and they did in all kinds of things and so that is an example of people can contribute in a small way and together it becomes a huge project I always think about in fact one of the things I think I have already said about animation you talked about it who talked about animation one of the groups talked about animation or gamification you know gamification you talked about gamification for example and in fact there was one additional secretary in MHRD she said we have to teach subjects through games just imagine now unfortunately animation is a lot of effort animation is a lot of effort to create let us say one minute animation it can take weeks if not months it is a lot of work but we have lots of children and they are capable of creating in fact we did an animation hackathon using sinfix studio 2D animation you can do actually lots of nice things even with 2D animation and it turned out and we how did we popularize it we said we created spoken tutorials that explains the software itself that explains the software how to use it we dubbed it into all languages the spoken part as per the spoken material philosophy and there was a girl who was she was 10 year old at the time fourth grade student she created an animation in her own voice and she even gave a testimonial who was the chief guest Subash guy was the chief guest and then she came and made a she said that was the first time she came across sinfix studio 2D animation software never heard of it she did not know what to do with it she said this is very easy I can use it and she created an animation we said that was a hackathon topic you can take any punchathon and create an animation not more than 3 minutes and it could be in any language any spoken language that was a hackathon we conducted so this fourth grade student created an animation on what is the topic crab and heron that story is about how the heron tries to eat the fish saying you know whatever and very nice I just imagine a 10 year old student doing it if only we can motivate our children to do this animation because animation is a heavy duty labour intensive industry and we can create fantastic movies we have so many stories and we can empower all our children and we are doing all this for example we do this music competitions why do not we have animation competition why do not we have animation competition at the district level at the state level and then tie up with some TV station and then because you see all of them but here we are importing technology we are teaching them an amazing thing called technology and and we could have several movie directors coming out of that producers, movie director and so on and giving some examples of you know empowering our youth to produce something very useful so these are some random thoughts that came to me after listening to the presentations so we still have about 10 minutes yeah so we have the ministry participants can we see the thing why is this okay are there any questions do the participants from the ministry have any questions sir I feel most of the things already been covered and definitely like most of the questions whatever raised and even discussed in the workshop already been incorporated in our portal itself so probably I can say like I mean we are still in progress and we are still improving things and in that scenario only we are discussing with and having this kind of workshop and getting input from the audience Miss Vanam Sharma you have any comments sir from my side I just want to ask one question so basically this is we are creating this portal basically for youths only so I just want to understand although we are creating portal and our own understanding we are getting useful feedback from youths like you workshops and all so I just want to ask a simple and one question only so from the youth perspective do you require a portal or like a social media side so what would be youth more frank with this thing with portal or maybe with the social media sort of thing what can be more catchy for them what can be the thing which may attract them more so as I have seen there are some students are present there in this room in our room so I just want to ask from them so what you prefer it should be a portal or it should be a social media sort of side media but that is the just one second use the mic please use the mic so we have looks like the younger ones want social media thing slightly older people I would not call it call them bold maybe a few years maybe 5 years older that is all 10 years older something like that yeah go ahead the social media is good but I still feel the social media would not be able to categorize which are the mentors which are the group of people who can help it or who are doing good or who require the things so that is the problem so we require both the things social media is a good for a short term things immediately information or anything required it is good for a social media but if you are trying to connect it for a long term and getting more information where the students have youth has got some ideas on the platforms and then a start up from that so where is going to get the recognition social media is not going to get that recognition there so basic yeah sir your feedback is really precious to us but so what we are trying we are trying to make something like portal and social media's combination the reason behind it should be catching for youth so that it would interact them to come on the platform and portal for the mentors for the partners who can use it it would be easy for them to understand and they can easily can get this and put their courses or something like that on our portal I will pass on the mic here somebody who posted the social media let them say oh somebody from there I would like to have it as a social media because you know it would be interacting and much more engaging like you know if it's just another one of those portal that the college suggest you to download why would I use that to agree give it here I have a suggestion after hearing all this I think the combination of both would be good but the information should because it comes to a portal the information is already there so it has to be more dynamic and it should absorb contents from the social media also they should be interconnectivity so I think there should be a chat feature for them to explore social media thank you thank you maam thank you welcome your feedback here give it to him like I have just this one point to you know add on when it comes to social media social media like LinkedIn for instance was mentioned in one of the presentations do exist people do look at in a formal manner but then as I said it is more it can become a bit more dynamic to actually catch the eye of the youth per se to recognize the opportunity and then a formal portal could be there to do the formalities but then it's highly important that the opportunity catches our eye and we get catched on to it and hooked on to it to actually apply for something that we are interested in and recognize our interest in so yeah social media is my own comment is used for mobilization bringing people together large numbers in fact in I told you about spoken materials policy projects and so on where we have created content and so on we have a formal structure and so on but we believe that we need social media now to bring them on to popularize it to mobilize it and so on but to once you start producing something to create the content make it available in a usable way and so on you need a portal so it's a good idea totally agree sir totally agree so one more member from our GIC is connected Raghu Vendur Singh he is basically taking care of the complete project here so Raghu Vendur please you introduce yourself Hi I was doing that I'm a professor so good afternoon professor yes I I joined but I definitely didn't want to miss the entire forums which is being held here and the beautiful workshop which I'm sure most of it has been already been conducted I'm sure most of the answers have been our questions have been answered by my colleagues and I assure you that you know the government under the guidance of the honorable Prime Minister and the ministry is trying its level best to create a platform where the aspirations of the youth can be fulfilled by getting access to the correct events and experiential learning opportunities and they can apply for them and they can search them and they can have mentorship opportunities learning management systems but I'll add that to the pinch of salt everything is bit by bit block by block and everyone sitting here is a stakeholder you are the actual end clients so we will ensure that everything that you say that you give will incorporate that at certain point of time in certain manner and I'm sure we will together make it important. Thank you actually what we need to do is we need to send a report to the ministry so I would want each group to send us one page write up one or two page write up based on whatever you already have done all the work we just convert it into a report one or two page and send it to us and send the slides also what we will do is we will collate the whole thing including from the time we started our Google form link everything we will put the and then my presentation at the beginning put them put the whole thing together and send it to the ministry as a result of our workshop here is that okay do you need anything else from the ministry basically if there is some yeah if there is some questions from your end I will say from any of the group they may write down there we possibly try to give them also for the same and if any useful feedbacks also and I also request you so as the presentations are being presented here I just I have already mentioned my email ID in the chat box please provide me that presentation from session one to last we will do that in fact we have a recording as well the recording at the beginning and at the end so we will make that also sure that means that you were asking something please continue I think you mentioned everything yes if this session is being recorded please do share as a recording of this also any questions you can have the students mention their name and we will take this forward thank you so much thank you so much thank you yeah in fact it is already on the YouTube thank you sir you can see the live streaming and recording is already available you want to say something so we apparently want to take a group photograph and will the ministry ministry and participants will come if all of you can we can do it right now pen and longer and yeah you are seen on the screen so that way everything that is a good point thank you yeah you want to say something whatever yeah just a formal vote of thanks it is not just a formal vote of thanks it is a big vote of thanks because such a short notice the colleges were able to send the participants we are happy to see you all here we actually would like to express a gratitude to all the college principals heads and authorities who have sent you all this there after you all yourself I would like to thank you because you all were actually involved in group discussion taking time thinking what all activities can be done for the betterment of the you know for collaborating with your bringing your forefront so thank you to all of you for your participation inputs and thought that thought process that went into creating the presentations thank you to all the leaders of the groups who have compiled everything and presented the thoughts to us thank you to IIT Bombay for providing us the platform today we are here because of the instructor provided by IIT Bombay we thank the ministry of youth affairs and sports for their thought about this and giving us an opportunity to host this workshop today thank you so much very encouraging and supportive I would say telling us, guiding us throughout during the short notice we had you were there with us so thank you so much ma'am, sir everybody over there thank you and I would like to thank our project which has people, staff who has worked back end to make this successful in such a short time the recording team, the transmission team the project, different project managers, different project team, staff everybody who could make today's day come to true thank you so much all of you thank you so much sir, thank you ma'am thank you ma'am ma'am we have lunch night now sorry thank you, I am just passing my thank you to everyone, thank you, thank you so much we have lunch here very delicious one but we won't be able to share with you ma'am so we will enjoy our lunch now, thank you so much for joining in please all the participants, the lunch is on the table please go ahead


I'm gonna be doing the summertime teacher tag. This tag was created by Jessica over at the Social Speechy and Michelle at Creative Scribbles. So there are a series of 11 questions that I'm gonna be answering and this tag is all about summer, so you're probably not gonna hear a lot of stuff about teaching or anything like that. So if you guys are interested, then keep on watching and I'm gonna tag all of you that have channels and or Instagrams and or social media. Go ahead and do this tag and then link your videos in the comments down below. Okay, so question number one. Are you taking any trips this summer? Yes, I'm actually getting ready to take two trips. The first one is we are going up to Prescott for the 4th of July and then we're gonna be going to San Diego at the end of July and actually I'm taking three trips. All of them are in July. After the 4th of July, I'm going to Seattle with my new school for a conference and then we're going to San Diego at the end of July. So question number two is, are you working or are you enjoying the summers off? I am not really working. I did go in to work for a couple of sessions for planning but other than that, I'm not really working. I'm doing like a couple of projects here and there but nothing serious. Question number three.  Well, I currently live in the Phoenix, Arizona area and if you don't know anything about Phoenix, it's about 115 degrees outside. So generally I would love to spend my summers outside but when it's really hot like this, I can't really do that. So we spend a lot of our summer inside until it gets darker out and then we go outside or in the mornings or if it's like a rainy day then we'll go outside. But when we go up to Prescott, it'll be really nice up there so we can actually go outside and enjoy nature. Question number four. What is your best summer memory? So I'm thinking back to like my childhood and I grew up in Prescott on like a ranch kind of place. We had horses and I used to ride them and we had so much property and there was this tree that I would go and like climb and I had a bunch of neighbors that were my age that went to school with me. We would all ride our quads around. We had like trails that we'd go on and we'd pack like a picnic lunches and those were like the best summers and those were probably between the age of, I wanna say 13 and 16, we would do that. Question number five. What time do you wake up during the school year and what time do you wake up during summer? During the school year, I usually wake up about 5.30 or 6 o'clock and during the summer I wake up about 7.30, 8 o'clock. I do have an almost eight month old so he gets me up pretty early but it's okay because it makes my days a little bit longer. Question number six. What book will be found in your beach bag this summer? There is a book that I've been trying to read for like years and it's called The Siren and it's by Cara Cass and I think it's Cara Cass. I know Cass is the last name. She wrote the selection books and the Siren book I've been trying to get through like for years and years and years but I always like read it in the summertime but I haven't really had a lot of downtime to actually read. So when we go to the beach, if I do have time to read, I might be reading that. Question number seven. Do you know where you'll be teaching next year, same grade? I do know where I'll be teaching next year. I'm teaching at the same school that I student taught at and I will be teaching third grade so I'm getting a new classroom, a new grade level, a new team, a new school, everything's brand new but it's not really new because I've already worked with these people at this school before so it's not exactly new. Question number eight. Do you have any teaching goals you want to accomplish this summer? Like big things on your to-do list to prep or make. So I just actually got back from Ikea and no, I did not vlog it. I was way too busy shopping but I did buy the teaching and so forth posters. I bought the grammar posters, the musical inspirational posters, the classroom posters, the big ones. So my summer goal was to get those printed and framed and then I also wanted to work on printing and organizing and prepping my centers. Jennifer from Genuine Teaching, she's the one who tagged me for this video. She's working on the same thing which is really funny but basically we both bought math centers and I bought some reading centers and I'm gonna start trying to organize those in the month of July. Which leads me to the next question, question number nine. When do you start prepping for back to school and when do you actually go back? So I will start prepping, actually a few weeks ago I was planning with my team so that's technically prepping for next year but I usually wait until the month of July to start prepping. I get access to my room July 16th so I probably will start moving in that week and then slowly start going in and start prepping and just doing all my work there instead of here because I'm a little bit more focused if I'm there. We actually go back August 8th but I have to report to new teacher to the district trainings on the 30th and then we have that whole week and a half to do our meetings and prep rooms and things like that. Question number 10. Do you have any professional development plans for the summer? Conferences, books you're reading, et cetera. So I am going on a conference with my new school and it is the AVID conference and I'm super excited to go and learn more about AVID and then I actually don't have another conference until January which will be the Get Your Teach On conference and that's here in Phoenix so if you guys are close to Phoenix I know they're doing San Diego right now but if you're not able to go to San Diego definitely try and come out for the Phoenix Convention and meet Jennifer and I. Question 11. Any songs that are summertime favorites? I've been listening to the greatest showman soundtrack a lot but nothing really comes to mind. I like to listen to like beach boys and like oldies but goodies and classic rock and the summertime it's just a little like kind of like classic American you know which kind of goes with my all-American teacher tank top from Lipstick and Littles. If you guys could see it, all-American teacher. But yeah so okay so those were the questions for the summertime teacher tag. Thank you Jessica and Michelle for creating this tag and I tag all of you again and I hope you guys enjoyed this video and I will see you in the next one. Bye guys.


The president's budget proposal eliminates public media funding. Learn how you can help at lptv.org slash action. Wade Chaito is out as the head coach of the Bemidji Boys hockey team earlier today. Chaito announced by email he is resigning from the team for family reasons. In that email, he said, it is with a heavy heart that I am submitting this letter as notice of my resignation as the Bemidji High School Boys varsity head coach effective immediately. This has been an incredibly difficult decision for me, but ultimately it is time to step away for a bit and devote some time to my family. I've put my heart and soul into this program. He continued by saying, I am very proud of my players and coaches for what they have accomplished and I will continue to be proud of it. I want to thank all of my current and former Lumberjack players and coaches for their time and commitment to the hockey program. Go Jacks. Chaito had been the head coach of the Lumberjacks for the past nine seasons. Since this hiring in 2008, Chaito had led Bemidji to a 146, 89, and 13 record, including two state tournament appearances in 2015 and 2016 with a consolation title coming in the latter year. Bemidji's state turning berth in 2015 snapped a 29-year drought for the Jacks. Activities director Troy Hendrick says there is no timetable for hiring a new coach, but the job has been posted and they will look to finish to find the right fit for Bemidji. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hey, this is Brett with Summit Auto and today I'm at the 2022 Chicago Auto Show and I'm excited to show you this brand new 2022 Ram 1500 Crew Cab Short Box. It's a limited with the GT package on it and I thought it looked really good. This one's in flame red and we're just going to walk around it here. It's nicely loaded up. It has a split tailgate on it. Of course the chrome tipped dual rear exhaust. It also has the Ram box on it. You get the rail cargo management system with the tie down cleats as well as the bed extender. You have a spring and bed liner on this one, the shock down assist tailgate, LED bed lighting which you can turn on and off back here, which is pretty sweet. And that split tailgate works like so. So you press the bottom one and that door opens up like that and then this one opens up like so. So you can open it up that way. You can close it like so. Always got to close this one first though. LED tail lamps on here. Get the nice 22 inch painted in polished aluminum rims. It has the Goodyear Eagle Touring 28545R22 tires. Has the Ram box on it. And you can see you get a lot of room back here. Now these have plugs in them. You can take those out and you can see I can see right through. That's to drain any water or anything so you can put ice in here and essentially you have too many coolers wherever you go. It's got lights back here too. Has the power running boards. The LED headlights, running lights, front bumper parking sensors. You get the sport hood on there as well and the fender flares. And in just a second we'll hop inside and check out all the options. Alright here's the interior. You get the kind of three tone leather and suede seats so you get the black leather here, the suede inserts there, the gray leather there. You get the GT stitched into the backrest and these seats are specific to the GT package. Has the all weather floor mats, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, you get the power folding mirrors as well, auto headlamps, power pedals. And as we hop inside here and check out all the gauges and everything, turn the light off. Seven inch LCD display. You get the paddle shifters on the steering wheel. That's the big thing with the GT package and notice you can do them up there or down there. Another wrap steering wheel. This one has the Uconnect 12 inch 5C radio. Has AMFM and Sirius. Of course it's going to have the factory navigation system on it as well. Get your climate controls here, heated cooled C buttons, push button, four wheel drive, the auto start stop. So I'm guessing this one has the 5.7E torque. This one has perpendicular and parallel park assess, lane departure warning, sorry about that. Factory brake controller. This one has the trailer backup assist system. And it looks like it has the four corner air suspension on it as well. You get the shifter, the eight speed shifter in the center council with the GT package and also on the TRX package which is right next to us which hopefully I can get a video of next. And this one does have the panel roof. You can see that front panel is open. You also have the mirror that's an actual camera behind you. It's not working right now but the home link button is up there and everything. Anyway, it's a really good looking truck. And the back seats, a lot of room back here, power sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. These seats fold up. You get a in-floor storage on each side. This one has the reclining seats and yeah, really a sweet truck. And that's it. Also get the capitalist fuel fill on here. And thanks for checking out the video. I thought it was a pretty good looking truck. And remember to like, subscribe, and share on our channel which is youtube.com. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on the upper left and link to more Ram videos like this one the upper right. And a link to this vehicle on our website on the lower left. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see on our website on our YouTube channel. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on the upper left. A link to more Ram 1500 trucks like this one on the upper right. And a link to our website on the lower right. Click those, check us out. And we're super excited to be offering the Ram 1500. I think the GT package, definitely the way to go. And the Laramie. So thanks again for checking out the video. Remember to like, subscribe, and share.


So a question I've had, I've been really pondering this all week as we're on the eve of Pikmin 4 coming out, right? Technically Pikmin 4 comes out tonight for those of us with digital versions here in the United States for some of you guys, the digital version is already active in other parts of the world. So some people are already playing Pikmin 4 right now. For those of you pirates out there, you might've been playing Pikmin 4 since Monday. So yeah, Pikmin 4 is a thing that exists. The physical versions come out tomorrow and I am very, very excited for Pikmin 4. Seriously, I really am excited. There's a lot of reasons to be excited about this game because Pikmin is an amazing franchise. If you don't believe me, all you have to do is look at the reviews. I mean, look at this, look at this. This is Pikmin 4 and 88. Now we don't have user scores for this yet, but this is like really consistently quality. Look at this, Pikmin 3 on the Wii U has an 87 meta score, but look at this, 808 user ratings added 8.8. So the users are backing up the review score. And then we see this Pikmin 2 back on GameCube. Look at this, a 90 meta score, 240 ratings, 9.1 user score. And then you get to the original Pikmin back on GameCube and you're seeing an 89 and then 226 ratings with an 87 or an 8.7. So the bottom line is that the review scores are backing up this game. It is a quality experience. Now, this isn't the first time we've seen quality games get really good review scores. We haven't seen this with things like Xenobank Chronicles. One, two, three and X all have amazing review scores but don't seem to for various reasons be able to hit on a big market. But the question on Pikmin sales has really come up because Shigeru Miyamoto himself in a developer Q&A that Nintendo did really had this question come to his mind. He's been wondering, why can't they get Pikmin to sell even like Kirby and the Forgotten Land numbers? Hell, it can't even sell Metroid Dread which is like right at 3 million. Why can't they get Pikmin to appeal to people? Why can't they get it to sell? And as a question I've been pondering as we enter into the launch of Pikmin 4 and I've realized I have not made a single Pikmin 4 video on my channel at all, not at all. Heck, I had videos on Pikmin 3 Deluxe and I actually already paid for Pikmin 4. I bought one of those Game Passes, those $99 vouchers that I got Tears of the Kingdom digital and I got Pikmin 4. I knew I wanted Pikmin 4 back then before Tears of the Kingdom even came out and I'm really looking forward to playing Pikmin 4 tonight. So why then? Why? Why? Does Pikmin not sell? We had a conversation about this on the podcast yesterday featuring Andres restarting my best friend Eric Moore. If you guys want to go check out that more in depth conversation I definitely suggest you go do that and I'll put a link to it down in the description because I really do believe in the conversation we were having but we couldn't really come to a conclusion on why Pikmin just doesn't sell. And one thing that Eric brought up who is massively on the outside and I love having this perspective at times because I'm someone who's, I'm deeply ingrained in Nintendo. I haven't played Pikmin since Gamecube. He's somebody that, you know what?  Example, Eric bought Skyward Sword HD and hasn't even launched the game. So as a more general consumer, Eric looked at trailers of Pikmin 4 and he just said, it looks like a kid's game and I don't know what this game is. It made me realize something about Pikmin is that the more unique a game is, a more, there's nothing like Pikmin out there. Let's just be honest. There really is no other game like Pikmin. Like when I think about Pikmin and I go, man, what other games can I compare Pikmin to? There's none that come to mind. It's slow paced. It's very strategy oriented. There's some adventuring happening. Obviously with all the various Pikmin, the highly detailed world, there's so much going on. Miyamoto thinks Pikmin doesn't sell because it's too difficult. It's too complicated for general consumers to figure out. So they wanted to streamline it a bit more with Pikmin 4 but also still keep someone that difficulty in that Pikmin lovers are accustomed to. They don't wanna upset the core audience but they wanna try to expand the audience with Pikmin 4. This is Miyamoto's own words. In fact, he mentioned that they've done things specifically to do that. And if you've played the Pikmin 4 demo, you already know some of those things that they have done, especially if you're already a Pikmin fan. As an example, sometimes the camera angle comes back to not quite over the shoulder but something that's more third person action oriented. And that is something that obviously has a pretty good appeal given how many games like that exist in sell really, really well. Hello, tears of the kingdom, right? So they've done that. They've added the dog in, not just because people love dogs but because it takes a little bit of the tedium away from certain aspects of the game. Like having to cross water with Pikmin that can't be in water and making that easier. Maybe making some jumps, upsteps and other things. A bit less annoying and tedious than it was in prior games. Easing and streamlining some of the ways that Pikmin works. And yet there are difficult moments in that Pikmin 4 demo.  It's always had difficulty involved because it's a strategy style adventure game. So why can't they get it to sell? I think that because Pikmin is so unique, it's very hard to communicate what the game is. I, we came up with a few ideas on the podcast last night on how they could potentially overcome some of this stuff. One of my favorites was really a trailer concept that Andres Restart came up with. You guys should go again, check out our podcast where he goes really in depth on this trailer concept he comes up with that I think would be a pretty good viral marketing campaign. But I also think they could have overcome it with something like a TikTok viral marketing campaign. Something that happened more recently came to mind when talking about this because there's other things out there that are a popular brand but a certain part of that brand may not be that big. Grimace, yeah, you guys might know who he is right now. Some of you guys might know who he is for a long time but to say that he's been a popular recognizable character for McDonald's for a long time would be an overstatement. He's been around for a long time but my children had no idea who Grimace was. It's from a bygone era of, you know McDonald commercials and toys but they decided to celebrate Grimace's birthday not too long ago because of course a made up character has a birthday and they created the Grimace meals which were just like, I believe it was a quarter pounder meal or a, what was it there, Big Mac meal but you could get a colored shake with it, a new flavor of shake. Basically a vanilla shake with some berry flavoring in it that caused it to be purple and there's not a lot of purple shakes out there and this turned out to be absolutely brilliant for many aspects. One, you could only get the shake by buying a meal so this would increase sales at McDonald's where some people that just wanna try the shake are spending more money on things they maybe don't even want but it increases the bottom line for McDonald's and also because the Grimace shake had this unique purple color to it combined with that character, it turned into this thing where people were memeing it all over and it became a viral sensation for over a week talking about Grimace's birthday and the Grimace shake. Now people were doing silly things with it and all this stuff but it was a massively successful viral marketing campaign for something that is not really that well understood who the hell Grimace is and something that is still tied to a popular brand. Nintendo is a popular brand. The Nintendo Switch is a popular system but the Pikmin brand isn't. So I felt like there is something that could be done from a viral marketing perspective that could have created extra hype for Pikmin 4. What that something is, I don't know, I don't have the creative mind for these sorts of commercials. If I did have those creative minds I'd be on a completely different path. I always thought, you know, if I had the creativity to come up with these amazing marketing campaigns, I would just be a marketer working for a marketing firm or working at some big company sort of like when Reggie Fisame was at Pizza Hut and he came up with the big foot pizza idea. If I had ideas and creative ideas like that I would just be in a different career path. But I'm not. I'm somebody who talks about video game news on the internet as a career because it's something I'm passionate about and I care about but also doesn't require extreme creativity to come up with topics. Even this topic of this video right here I can't even take credit for coming up with it. I didn't know that's where this conversation was gonna go when we were talking about Miyamoto's quotes yesterday and Andres Restor was the one that's like, dude, you should just make a video. It's interesting when we're talking about Pikmin and what they can do to make this game appeal to more people. I don't think there's anything with the gameplay. You know, Miyamoto thinks it's the game. I don't think it's the gameplay. I think it's just getting people to understand what this game is. This isn't Mario and Zelda. Metroid, there's no fast-paced, high-action-oriented aspects to Pikmin. It's a slow game. So how do you get people to understand in a 30-second commercial a slow game? I don't know. I'll just restart my now.  Look, we could have had the same video about many of Nintendo's IPs. We could have talked about Xenobit Chronicles and why can't they seem to get that to get to the next steps, except Xenobit Chronicles has been showing growth. Each new entry has been selling more and more and more and Xenobit Chronicles 3 is on pace to be the best-selling one. So that might be a non-issue there as the series continues to grow, but Pikmin hasn't done that. So what can they do? We could have talked about this with Kirby. Kirby always selling a couple million, but then Forgotten Land came out and smashed the records for Kirby sales. Nintendo seems to be able to find ways to get other IPs over time to increase in sales. So why can't they do it with Pikmin? And will Pikmin 4 be the best-selling one? It's only got to sell like two and a half million to become the best-selling Pikmin game. And while that's a lot of copies sold, Miyamoto made it sound like they want this to be a five million plus seller. How can they do that? Will Pikmin 4 get there? And will this become a moot point three weeks from now when we get some sales data in for Pikmin 4? You guys let me know what you think about this down in the comments below. Let me know if you're planning to pick up Pikmin 4 and I'll catch you in the next video.