and great company with the other startups that were in there. It has been fantastic, the support that we've gotten, how easy it is just to reach out and to have immediate access to such influential people that can help us solve the issues that we're having, overcome the barriers. We've had an opportunity to meet with like-minded entrepreneurs that quite frankly, we wouldn't have even known existed without the platform. The connections that we've been able to make have been second to none. I mean, it's been so successful that one of the companies in our cohort were seriously entertaining a strategic relationship with moving forward. Exactly a year ago, we were in the process of securing around a million dollars of investment and over the past year that has really helped us get the team built and get the first projects on board and we're on track to raising a multiple of that amount by the end of this year, which will again enable us to once again scale up our impact in a really meaningful way. We did raise the two million pounds, actually. We had great funders, so we invested from the US, UK and Europe. It did give us a big lift at that crucial point in our development. On a monthly basis, we're channelizing about 20,000 metric tons of dry waste, focusing on plastics and electronic waste. We're all in the same space and it's just the mutual support that we can give each other and that can sometimes translate into real business dollars and real opportunities. Welcome to the 2021 Sustainable Development Impact Summit and this particular session featuring Uplink Innovators and it's entitled Entrepreneurs Who Could Save the World. My name is Alon Reyes. I am based in Johannesburg, South Africa. I work with entrepreneurs. I've worked with over 13,500 entrepreneurs over the last 20 years and currently with 500 and involved in a lot of pitching competitions and today is just one of those pitching competitions. So as you can see from the video, the Uplink, the Forum's open innovation platform is a very important journey to support SDG entrepreneurs and today this session is going to feature five of those incredible entrepreneurs and expose them to you and hopefully the rest of the world by allowing them to provide us with three minute pitches and hopefully they are impactful pitches and the purpose of that is so that you, our audience, can understand what they do and perhaps collaborate with them, connect with them and hopefully even invest in them. Now, it's important that you are involved as our audience and what we are doing today is we are inviting you to participate in a Slido survey. You'll find that in the chat, in the chat room, there is a link that you will see which will allow you to pose questions that we will hopefully be able to respond to and to two particular polls that we're gonna put out. The first one is that should be opening now if you go into the chat into the Slido right now is an invitation to think about which one of these entrepreneurs you would like to spend more time with. In the second part of today's session, we're going to allow you to go into more of a deep dive where you can spend time with one of the five pitches that you've witnessed today. So we're gonna ask you in one of the polls which one you would prefer to spend the 15 minutes. Of course, all the information will be available and you can possibly make contact with them the other four afterwards but today, unfortunately, you're gonna have to choose which one of the five. And then after the pitches, we're gonna actually ask you your opinion on who, in your opinion, has produced the best pitch for today. Now, in my opinion, and you know, of course, there are a lot of people and particularly the judges who I'll introduce just now who understand that pinching is just but the first part of understanding what an organization, what a business does and you need to unpack that a lot more but unfortunately in three minutes, we have to get across a lot of things and what I'm looking for as one of the judges today is, is the pitch clear? In other words, I understand what that organization does. Is it clear what problem they're solving, right? And for me, what's particularly important is it sustainable? Is that organization sustainable in the medium to long term and is it really making impact? So those are the things that I'll be looking out for but I'm not the only judge today. We have four incredibly impressive judges with incredible experience in financing, supporting and evaluating entrepreneurs. And so a big thank you to our judges, Marron, Kristen, Jennifer and Lasse and we look forward to your observations. So now it's time to get started with our pitches. Our first pitch is going to be Tom Lubeck from Arc Marine and if I can ask you to come up on screen. Tom, are you ready to pitch? Ready. All right, so you have three minutes and what's going to happen is that about two and a half minutes just for the audience, I'll pop up right next to you which is your 30 seconds queue that you've got 30 seconds and I will give you a hard close 30 seconds later to give everyone else equal time. So Tom, without further ado, let's hear what you do. Brilliant. Good morning, everyone. My name is Tom Burbeck and I'm the CEO and co-founder of Arc Marine. Arc Marine is an award-winning eco-engineering company and it was founded in 2015. Our business model is associated around three primary things. One is the manufacturing sale of a Portland cement replacement, which is low carbon and can even be carbon neutral. The second is in the manufacturing sale of nature-based solutions. So for instance, the reef QPC on the deck of the ship here. And thirdly is in the advanced monitoring techniques that we use to understand exactly what was going on in the marine ecosystem before and after we install our products. So my background is in commercial diving and agriculture. You can see from the picture on the bottom right-hand side. And the rest of my team have advanced skills in science, oceanography, marine conservation, engineering and manufacturing. So for instance, one of our directors has experienced in manufacturing 12 million concrete blocks a year, giving us all the necessary skills we need to scale this business. Next slide, please. This is one of my favorite slides because it shows the global opportunity we have in particularly offshore wind. But other coastal defense projects, oil and gas sites, that sort of thing. So when building these offshore construction projects, there's a lot of man-made products that get put into the environment. So our competitors at the moment that we're trying to replace, put down high Portland cement products normally laced with polypropylene. And as such, those products normally have to be recovered during the decommissioning phase. Our products are designed with nature in mind and therefore can be left subsea. So to give you an idea, the marine mattress down the bottom here, it may typically cost 1,000 pound to produce and sell. It would cost 11,000 pounds to install, but the recovery of that product would cost 12,000 pounds. And to give you an idea of numbers, just in the UK alone, 80,000 of those mats have been installed around pipelines and cables. So with this big transition to offshore wind, we anticipate a lot more of these concrete products being installed. And therefore this is a huge opportunity to accelerate reef creation at the same time as transitioning to a renewable future. Next slide, please. So I'm really lucky to be able to have these images as our impact. So all of these pictures were taken around reef sites, some of them around agriculture, some around coastal defense, some around our offshore wind pilots. And this is really important for us because not only are we saving money during the decommissioning, we're also improving the impact. As for financial impact, we've raised half a million pounds in seed funding. We're generating 400,000 pounds from sales outside of any grants. And we're now looking to raise a seed to investment ground. So what we're looking to do is speak to investors, speak to like-minded individuals who may have projects for us. But what's really important for us is that we start implementing this technology now. As you can understand, when building offshore wind farm sites, there's a huge consenting phase. And one reason we're looking to scale quickly is we need to be in front of all the right developers now before they put in the construction. That's me. Thank you, Tom. Nice and concise. So two quick questions from me. In terms, I heard you speak about the cost of decommissioning, but price of your product versus the installation price without the decommissioning cost. If I was a buyer of your product, what I'm in for with the current technology and what I'm in for from your technology? So our CAPEX is approximately 20% more, but that's mainly due to scale. Once we scale it, we actually think we could probably be cheaper, which would be astonishing. But when you're taking the lifecycle cost overall, yeah, we are substantially cheaper. But CAPEX at the moment about 20 to 30% more. Okay, I think you covered both of my questions there, Tom. Let's move over to Natasha. Right, if we can have Natasha up in there. All right, Natasha, remember we got 30 seconds.  Natasha, are you ready to pitch? I'm ready. Thank you so much. Go for it. Great. Thank you. Hi, I'm Natasha Frank. I'm founder and CEO of Eon. Eon is fashion and retail's leading product cloud platform. So today I'm going to share with you one of the biggest barriers to a circular economy in fashion and retail and a seemingly far too obvious solution. So today, billions of products are produced annually. 90% of these products end up directly in landfill, creating an impossible wasteful cycle of production and consumption. At Eon, we digitize and connect every physical product to power at scale circular business model transformation for brands and retailers. You could think of this as the digital barcode for the circular economy. Digital ID is one of the single biggest leverage points to unlocking circular business model transformation, solving three main barriers. It delivers brands business incentives. It drives changes in customer behavior, and it enables policy and accountability. Next slide, please. So today, this is where we are today, and this visual is probably very familiar to all of you. You've seen this. This is what we call a rudimentary product identification system. This has enabled brands and retailers, though, to identify and manage products from production to point of sale. And this product ID system enables brands to treat these products as assets. However, these IDs are removed the moment that products are sold. Without an ID, it's impossible for brands to manage products and monetize them through resale. They can't ID them when they come back. It's impossible for recyclers to ID these materials because they don't even know the material content of these products. It makes it hard for consumer behavior to participate and for customers to participate in circular models because it's inefficient to resale and recycle. And on top of it, after point of sale, there's no visibility, data, or transparency. Next slide. So by digitizing physical products, EON enables every product to come online with a product identity. And basically, you could think of this very simply as a digital birth certificate and passport for every product. Now, this digital ID enables brands to scale circular business models. It enables brands to drive consumer behavior change and brings data and transparency to the entire lifecycle of every product. So EON leads this across fashion and retail with some of industry's largest brands and retailers, including Eucsenna Porte Group, H&M, Target, PBH Corp. And we license a software platform for the creation and management of digital IDs. Thank you. Thank you, Natasha. And I'm glad you touched on the sustainability or how you make money, which was my question is how does this produce revenue? But how many, let's call it large clients, or corporate clients, will you need before you are at a break-even point as an organization? Yeah, so we actually, a lot of our brands have moved to portfolio-wide digital identification, which is also a forthcoming policy requirement. So we are generating revenue today. We have at multi-year contracts with our brands and retailers. And we are in those contracts profitable, but we continue to invest and scale into the business. But clients like Eucsenna Porte Group have already announced their commitments or rolling out product ID portfolio-wide leveraging the software. Great. Thank you, Natasha. We had a great pitch, also very concise on time. And just to remind everyone to go to the Slider poll in the chat and just also start to think about who you want to spend more time with in the part two of today's session. And on that, we're going to call up William Quinn there. We're giving us a chance to inspire you this morning with our solution. I'm William Quinn, the founder of Serious Shea and the Clarity Coalition. Serious Shea is based in Burkina Faso and we are working across Africa. And we are now focusing on transforming the Shea industry in the force for goods. Shea is important because it is one of the key ingredients into chocolate and also cosmetics. She uses 90% of the Shea butter produced, which is in the millions of tons in the Shea belt. It goes all over the world. In 2007, while I was in the field collecting the Shea and working with the women group, I noticed one of the greatest problem that we have and which, in fact, have led to the destruction of the Shea belt, which is deforestation because Shea requires boiling. And as such, they have been cutting woods and they have been cutting the trees in order to produce the Shea knot and export from Burkina Faso. Next slide, please. So our solution, as you can see here, how it's done, our solution basically calls for a novel value chain to be able to provide the industry with zero carbon, zero deforestation products. This will cover about 1.5 million of women and we are therefore designing and setting up the equipment. We were able, with the support of the World Bank and African Development Bank, to put together this set of equipment that you see here and we want to deploy that all across Africa for the women group. Next slide, please. So we are connecting deforestation and planting trees because we have to be able to protect the trees and to protect the trees, we have to allow the community to realize all their economic values so they don't have to cut the trees for their survival. So as such, we have some very innovative way of raising funds beside the usual fundraising that we do. And this is using NF trees. So we use NFT technology and our brand Serious Shea. William, is that the end of your pitch? Yes, that's the end of my pitch. Right. Just looking at the equipment there, the old equipment and the new equipment, what is the fundamental difference between the equipment you're applying versus what was historical equipment used? Yes, absolutely. And as you know, Alan, we approach energy from both sides, not only the substitution with renewable energy, but also with the energy efficiency side, which means that even if you want to use a similar equipment, you need to fundamentally change the engine. So you are going to use an engine that uses low energy that is highly efficient so that, for example, your solar infrastructure is not oversized. So we have a drastic difference between the equipment that is used today, even the mechanized one and the one that we are providing. And just also a very quick question, seeing as that you didn't use up all your time, is how does your organization become sustainable? What is your sustainability model? Or are you requiring ground funding in perpetuity? No, not at all. Not at all. As you know, we are producing an ingredient, which is a key ingredient for the equipment and cosmetic market. So you are actually the production. You are producing the results and selling that. Absolutely. We are connecting the markets from the infrastructure, so we call them the clean activity centers, where they produce shape butter and also they will produce dry mangoes and connecting them to our existing client, because as you know, I've been for more than 10 years exporting shape, especially to Asia to the chocolate manufacturers. Thank you, William. Thanks for your pitch. It's now time for Job from Nigeria from a company called StanLab. Welcome. Job, are you ready to pitch? Yes, I am. Thank you. All right. I will see you in two minutes 30. All right. Go for it. Hi, everyone. My name is Job Oyebisi, co-founder and CEO at StanLab. At StanLab, what democratizing assess the quality STEM education for all students. Focus first on solving the problem of lack of well-equipped laboratories in secondary schools. If you look right in the middle of your screen, that is your typical secondary school laboratory for public school in Nigeria. So about 90% of the secondary schools don't have well-equipped laboratories. Why so? Because it costs so much to build the labs, like $30,000, and you maintain it with like $3,000 to $5,000 annually. Now, these problems have big impacts on the performance of students in exams. Only one in five of the students who take exams are able to attend the grade that they need to get into further education. And U-turn employment in Nigeria currently starts about 37%. So this is not just the Nigerian problem. It's the same in Kenya. It's the same in South Africa. South Africa is the same in India. It's the same in Pakistan. Before COVID, it used to be a developing economic problem. But with COVID, it's not a global problem because schools are short and labs are now inaccessible. Next slide. So how are we solving this problem? We build a laboratory and put it on a computer to make it accessible to anyone no matter where they live or their background. Immediate benefit of our lab is that it helps students to increase student understanding and then their performance. So they are able to attend the grade that they need to go into further education. And for the schools, it's reduction in costs of running the lab and teachers' workload. Next slide. So why STEM? Why is STEM so critical? Look at these stats. 75% of the fast-growing occupations require STEM skills. And if we could just change 1% of the workforce into STEM roles, we will have about $57.4 billion to national GDP. So in Nigeria as a market, for example, there are over 23,000 secondary schools with 4.5 million students. Imagine if we could enable millions of students who want to go into these STEM roles achieve their dream. And this is what we're doing at STEM Lab. The way we do it, we sell our solution to secondary schools in B2B. In terms of impact, we're looking at that in five years we want to empower over one million students, especially the girls child in Africa, to be able to attend their dreams of becoming our future scientists, doctors, and engineers by making STEM education accessible and fun. So we want you to join us. Thank you. Thanks, Rob. Just a couple of quick questions here. In terms of the software, you said you're selling the software to the secondary schools. If they can't even afford their current labs, what is the price difference between buying the software and actually having a fully equipped lab? Yeah, thank you a lot for the question. So if you look at how much you need to maintain the lab, you spend like $3,000 to $5,000. With STEM Lab, you use your $600 annually to get STEM Lab. So this is a scaled-down version of the lab, but still give you the same quality of learning experience that you get in the lab. Second question for me, if I was a terrible guy, watched this and tried to compete with you, what is going to be my barrier to entry to actually build the equivalent software very quickly with a lot more money than you have, and then compete with you quite well and take over? All right. So to compete with us, the first significant barrier is the technology itself. So you would see that there's certain kind of mobile tech that are very much available if you're building well but mobile. These requires a lot of deep expertise in game programming, in 3D simulations, it takes quite a while. A particular competitor, for example, in the US spent over $1 million and they were in stealth mode for like over a year. We've been able to do this with less resources. So there are those barriers and then the understanding of the market. So those are the barriers you will have. Thank you. It's time to bring our first and final pitch, Niveda, from Trashcon. Hi, Niveda. Hi, Niveda. Before you go, I just once again want to remind everyone about the poll which you can find on Slido in the chat section of your screen and then there we're looking to find out number one who would you like to spend more time with afterwards in a deep dive where we can go into far more detailed questions with each of the pitches and secondly, we're going to also talk to you about or ask you about which of the five pitches do you think should win today's competition. There's no prize money per se. It's just the glory of winning today's session and the exposure thereof. So, Niveda, with that you have three minutes. See you in two minutes, Teddy. Great. Hello, everyone. This is Niveda. I'm the CEO and founder of Trashcon and what I'm showing you on the screen on the left is how cities in India look like. In fact, this is not a past photo. This is a photo of today where when I go out of my house, this is how my street looks like and the one solution to this is segregation. Why? Because when you remove the degradables and the non-degradables, you can recycle them. Otherwise, when they are mixed, they have to end up in the landfills and on the streets. So, but despite laws and regulations and billions of dollars spent to create awareness, only 10% of the population in developing countries segregate their waste. And at the same time, there are landfills that are burning. People are born with respiratory cancer near landfills. All kinds of pollution are getting created. And of course, global warming is a direct effect. So, there needs to be an immediate solution which is to be powered by technology. So, we thought, why don't we come up with a solution that can take all that trash that you're seeing on the left and sort it automatically into kitchen waste and plastic waste after which we can recycle so that it does not have to go back to the landfills. This was the thought process as simple as it sounds, it was next to impossible because we were trying to create a black box that can take anything and give out non-vegables. But that's exactly what we did. What you see on the right is three years of working in the dump sites with dead rats, dead pigeons, I don't know, I mean food waste, plastic waste, metals, glass and whatnot. But ladies and gentlemen, next slide please. We finally made it. We created patented solutions that is currently processing 500 tons of waste in India in just one year. So, what you see on the left is what I showed you in the beginning, the complete mixed waste with the bag and plastic and food and everything mixed. It goes into our automated sorting unit which is patented, extremely modular, extremely scalable, can be put in a village, can be put in a city, can be put in an entire town. It gets sorted into kitchen waste and plastics automatically. The kitchen waste is converted to compost and the plastics, again, we face the problem. It was made with biscuit wrappers and chips wrappers, you know, with a layer of aluminum sticking onto it. These cannot be recycled. But we again made a solution that can further recycle it into recycled sheets. Like you can see on the right most corner which look like plywoods from which we make benches, desks, tables, chairs, bathrooms and whatnot. We have been awarded globally. We are working with some of the largest customers and we have made a million dollars in this year. We are making 3 million dollars as well in projections. But can you go back once, but with all of this, you know, the best case study that we could possibly, and of course all of this at one tender cost of anything out there. Can you go to the next slide please? But this is the best thing that we have seen that what you saw on the left was a village that was completely filled with waste and we made it completely zero waste. Can you please bring up the screen and from that plastics we made benches and desks and gave it to 18,000 government school kids. That's what we made and our vision and our vision is that 20 years down the lane when I'm telling a story to my daughter saying beta, once upon a time there was trash. My daughter should say mama, what is trash? Thank you so much.  Thank you, that was a very passionate pitch. Just in your segregation technology in the units. What is your distribution strategy? Are you selling them as franchises? Are you relying on the organizations you had in the slide in order to purchase them and give them to communities? How are you distributing this and how does Nevada remain or trash fund remain sustainable? So Alan, our model is we sell our technologies of course as franchises or to the customers themselves who have a real pain point and we buy back the output because they do not have the bandwidth to sell it on their own so we buy back the output and sell it in the market. So for us it's two major revenues. One is sale of products, the machinery, the technology and two is sale of the recycled products and we sell it to everybody who has waste. Great, Nevada, thanks for your pitch. That is all our five pitches today. Now we've heard from all of the entrepreneurs. I'd like to return to the slider question if the forum team can display the results which was which of the entrepreneurs sparked your interest to dive deeper with the follow up conversations. Could you put that up please? Is it just me that's not seeing the slide? While they are trying to get that up I want to also remind you that we're also going to be launching straight after this. We're going to be launching the second poll which is who do you think out of the five was the best pitch for today. But I'm going to give it far more seconds otherwise we're going to move straight along to hear from our judges in terms of their view of today's five pitches and I've been asked to start off. So still no slide. All right. Let me just give, here we are. All right. Which sparked your interest to deep dive looks like Nevada with your passionate pitch. Most of the people want to spend time with you followed by William Tom Natasha and John. I will be spending my time with you. Now we're going to go to the judges, bring up the judges but before we bring up Jennifer with her insights in what she witnessed in the five pitches and maybe some tips and insights. A couple of things that came across very strong for me were the fact that all five of you are solving very, very important and big problems and that came across in all the five pitches. I particularly liked some of you used your authority. Some didn't use your authority in the industry. Tom, you spoke very much about the authority of your team. In other words, why should I believe you can execute on this? Is the real question that's going on in the investor's mind is a great idea big problem but as most investors in startup businesses we're always worried about the ability to execute and so by bringing across either as some of you had put across that you have already doing it, in other words, proof or the fact that you have authority in the space it makes it easier for us to believe that you can execute at scale. What's also very important to get across my last point is that very often what I've seen with businesses that move to scale is that they think that there are economies of scale but indeed there are not economies of scale. As businesses scale they require management layers, etc. which have not been costed properly and in fact I see many businesses as their scale actually collapse as a result of scale. So just more thought in perhaps when you go into the deep dive more thought around how the businesses scale across the globe. That's it from my insights Jennifer, perhaps we can hear from you, your insights around the five pitches today, thank you. Excellent, thank you very much Alon and I have to say I feel maybe more like a cheerleader than a judge right now given how inspiring as you said all of those pitches were I have to say you guys are working on issues that keep me up at night so keep going forward. In terms of something that inspired me in particular it's the idea if you think about scale and the fact that these are these sort of big hairy questions so to speak that need to be dealt with that there are really interesting things coming out of India, out of Africa that can then have a huge impact I think in other parts of the world we love this idea of the innovations that are then exportable to advanced economies who are maybe not thinking as hard about some of these challenges these are all pretty small companies still and yet I think with massive opportunity the only thing I would say with that and this is both I think maybe for the entrepreneurs but also for the World Economic Forum is that one of the reasons they stay small is that it's so hard to scale. In terms of the regulatory environment in terms of the ecosystem these are incredible young people who basically have to figure things out and navigate in an environment that is there's nothing bespoke for them, there's nothing made for them they have to find their way in between and I think there really needs we need the shift that we're seeing we need these sorts of businesses rather than the traditional ones in order to basically solve the problems of the world and how do we basically make it easier for them I would love it if the World Economic Forum takes that on I know they already do but really listening to the social entrepreneurs and the things that they need so that these incredible ideas can be scaled so congratulations to all of you I'm super inspired you've made my day right thank you for using me thank you sorry I've got one of these I put these up because still today but I couldn't send that to myself I had to send that to the web team who wouldn't allow me to unmute but thank you Jennifer for those cheerleading words and I completely agree with that I think what we hearing today is so important for the world right now and you know after what we've been going through just to have hope again that there are incredible young people with incredible ideas that could really have an impact on you know the whole world not just their economies now to you Maren I don't know if you are going to be a cheerleader or a judge today either one you can choose or you can be both perhaps thank you Alan and first and foremost thank you to all these founders that are working on so important problems I think you all presented well your solution and the positive impact I would love to see examples of commercial traction and endorsement from customers and also I think this is a great opportunity to share also some of your challenges like Jennifer also mentioned it's really hard to scale a company and this is an opportunity for you to say to put forward and ask say you know we need investment we need new partners to support on this or that and really ask the people here in this session to support you on this because I think a lot of people are really inspired by what you do and this is a great opportunity for you to ask for support that's also why we are here thank you Maren the sound quality here wasn't that good but I think I got the message that really to share for those of you who couldn't hear to share the challenges that you experience and what you want to say to the people particularly in the deep dive with that Lasse over to you cheerleader, judge, both I'm going to choose all of the above I think this is really inspiring and I personally felt like or I personally could feel the passion of the founders and of the presenters that they really have for these important causes and I thought a few thoughts in addition to what the other judges were saying because I think the technological work is really great and also I think when you start scaling up your solutions talking with your customers and so on I think the how well you crystallize and synthesize your story is really important I think especially with the trash con you know what is trash I thought that was particular particularly well verbalized because it's not enough that you have a great technological solution but how you crystallize your story how you tell your story super critical so I think that's everyone all the presenters were very good at specifically with the trash con maybe the one topic that I would love to hear more about is that what is your go to market strategy I think you know with different value chains that you're really tapping into you have a lot of options where do you really who's your customer and how do you focus in getting to know that customer inside out so that you can really be successful financial collaboration partner with that with that part of the value chain so that's my addition to this conversation at this moment thank you last day and before we bring on Kristen just to remind the audience from from a voting point of view is to the which you can get in the chat room in the slider question there who you think won today's pitch and now if I can bring up Kristen all right hi there all right judge cheerleader both what are you I think it's difficult not to be a cheerleader with this group I mean I just have to say due to so many of the comments before me about inspiration passion important ideas much needed solutions I'd also follow up on the narrative the importance of that narrative as well as the energy surrounding these ideas and these really incredible new marketable approaches I think especially in the space of trash and rubbish we have a hard time trying to find a way to market it right how do you create that that opportunity I think the big question I come back and I know I keep hearing about scale we don't always need scale necessarily but I would be really curious to ask each one of the competitors what does success look like in the short to the medium and longer term and then we can build that narrative for each of those customer outreaches and build from there oops sorry I wanted to treat on time thanks thanks Kristen and while the web team bring up the results the drum roll results maybe I can there we are so our number one pitch today is Nevada from trashcon congratulations and followed by William and you know it's still growing now I can still see people or maybe it looks like a horse race as everyone and whoa the horse race is on there are you going to remain the number one today looks still looking good still looking good alright somebody unvoted there alright I think that's it well done Nevada very passionate pitch by you and yeah I think what everyone is doing is incredibly important and you know just to just once again reiterate what all our cheerleaders slash judges have mentioned if I can just summarize so first of all I think the message is what everyone's doing here what from each and every pitch whatever you're doing is incredibly important for the world number two about vulnerability about sharing your challenges we heard from married men about sharing your challenges and needs particularly in the deep that we're going to go to in part two last very rightly pointed out what's who is your customer and how do you get to that customer I think that's very important for us to unpack and Kristen of course talking about the around also reiterating about tightening the narrative and yeah and what does success actually mean to you I think all very very valid points from our cheerleaders slash judges I'm going to use that from now on alright so congratulations to Nevada we're going to close off the first half thank you for watching from around the world we've got people from around the world and if you've been inspired by these entrepreneurs visit the uplink platform and uplink.wefforum.org to get to know a more impactful SDG entrepreneurs just like them


Okay, so last week we started working on this application. It's a simple little form, and we're going to be submitting stuff to a Google Doc. So this is the basic Google Doc form that you can create in a couple of minutes, which is great for a lot of scenarios. You can click submit here after filling out the form. It gives you a little message that you can customize, and it automatically goes into a spreadsheet like this, which is great for an end user, and in this particular case we're writing an application. I work for the fire department, and currently once a week, well, every day we check our air bottles, but once a week we've got to fill out paperwork on it. This paperwork basically allows the person who is in charge of maintenance on the bottles to know where the bottles are, because sometimes they get switched from truck to truck, and whether the bottles' pressure is good or not. We want bottles to be over 4,500 psi for our particular type of bottles, so we just need to know in this case whether they're full or low, and maybe have a section for comments, which we do, and this way if the person constantly sees a particular bottle based on its ID number, because each bottle has its own inventory ID, if it's constantly low they can go and check on it and see if it has a leak. Currently my department uses paperwork that gets shoved in a file that probably very rarely ever gets looked at, or someone has to type it all in manually. We created the form in Google Docs which is nice, simple, can be done in a couple of minutes, but really you're not going to be typing this in at a computer because you're out at the trucks walking around the bay and putting information, so although you could do this on the phone, we want it to be as efficient as possible. So we're using jQuery mobile to create an application which we started last week, and this is what our application looks like so far, and this is probably what it looks like on a phone. We have a number input here, so when you click that on a phone, since it's a number input automatically brings up a number pad rather than a keypad, you can choose who you are, what station you are, what truck you're at, and you can leave a comment, and then you can click whether the PSI is over 4500 or not, and now the form is completely done, the look and feel of it is done, which for me is the tedious part, and now we're going to get into the coding, the actual functionality of it. So let's jump into our code here, and up in the header, we're going to create a script, script close our tag there, and we already have jQuery imported here, so we can right away start using jQuery, which is just, it's javascript, but it makes your code a little bit shorter and cleaner looking, some people like using it, some people don't. Everything that's done with jQuery can be done with javascript, because jQuery is just javascript, but it allows you as an end user to clean up, in my opinion, clean up your code a little bit. So we're going to say here, first thing we're going to say is document.ready, and what this is saying is wait till the document is done, wait till the whole page loads before you run anything in this code, and we'll open the parentheses there, and close them here, and actually, before we get into the javascript, I just realized something else I want to do. No, I'll save that till later on, let's just get going with the javascript. So once the page is done loading, let's start to run a function, that closing bracket there. Okay, so what do we want to do? We want to be able to submit this information when a button is clicked. But there's two buttons that can be clicked. We have our no button and our yes button, and we want either of these, whichever one is clicked, because you can only choose one, once that's clicked, it submits the form. So let's create something here, we're going to say, if we look at our code down here, our html code, we have an id for one button called low, and id for the other one called full. So, what we're going to do is we're going to say here, dollar sign, parentheses, inside quotations, pound, which means id, full. So, when something of an id of full is .clicked, click is what you type, clicked is what happened, we're going to run another function. Let's close that before we forget. Now, what is this function going to do? Well, we're going to create another function here in a second that is our send function. And so we want to call that send function, and we're going to pass it a variable of full. There might be a better way to do this, but this is how I'm doing it. I'm going to, to save time, I'm going to copy that, I'm going to paste it here, and I'm going to say here, low, and here, low. So now, this one's saying when something with the id of full is clicked, run this function, and inside this function we're just calling another function. So once again, there's probably a better way to do that. I am not the cleanest JavaScript coder in the world. This one's saying the same thing, but instead of when something with an id of full, we're saying when something of an id of low, which is our other button, our no button is clicked, then we're all going to run the same function, but this time we're going to pass it a string to become a variable in that function called send. So now we need to create the send function. So I'm going to say function send, and the strings that are passed, whether it's full or low, we're going to put it into a variable called psi. Now, we've got to grab some other information. So we're going to create a variable, and that variable we could be called bottle, and what will that bottle variable equal? Well, when you use jQuery again, we're going to say look at the item, the elements with the id of bottle, and get dot its val, which is its value. So real quick, let's scroll down. I wish you don't have to scroll down. It's right here. We have an input, a number input, with the id of bottle, which is our bottle inventory number. So this is saying create a variable, call the variable bottle, then look for the element that has the id, that's what the pound symbol means there, of bottle and get its value, and we're putting it into that variable there. We're going to do the same thing for each element here. We're going to say create a variable for user, and same thing, we're going to say val pound user, let's say variable station equals the element with the id of station, get its value, then we're going to say variable for truck equals, look at the elements with the id of truck, get its value, and then look at the element that has the id of comments, get its value. Okay, so now we got, if we look at our form here, we've got the id, we've got the user, we've got the station, we've got the truck, we've got the comments, and we've got the PSI all put into variables. So now what we need to do is get ready to actually send that to our form, our Google form, and to do that we need to get the Google form URL for the submission, and we're going to put that into a variable here in a second called URL, so let's create a variable called URL, and now let's go back to here, and if I look at, this is our form we created with Google, control U to bring up its, well control U in Chrome and Firefox, think if you're Internet Explorer, well I ask, why are you using Internet Explorer? But I think you have to go up to edit to view the source, but look at the source code of the page. Right down here we can see form, action, here's the URL that we're submitting, you can see it's a post submit, method post, that's good to know. So we'll go back to our code here and paste that in there. Now that that's pasted in there, and we have our URL, well now we can start looking at using the post option from jQuery, this uses Ajax to submit information, so we're going to say dollar sign dot post, and then we're going to say were we posting to, we're posting to the variable of the URL, which is that long URL we just created there, comma, and then we're going to say open squiggly braces, curly braces, whatever you want to call them, close that function there, and now we need to give each element, each, the form is looking for certain variables that are going to be posted to it, and the value for those. Now those values are the variables we created up here, bottle, user, PSI, station, truck, comments, but what are those variables called on the Google Doc side? Well once again we'll go to our Google Doc form here and look at its code, and we can see right here name, entry, and that is the entry value for user, for station it's going to be this entry, it's always going to be called entry dot some number, truck, PSI, so we're looking right here then we're looking at the code there, if you need to you can search for your elements like I can control f station, up there station, and I know that right here it says for I can just change that to a dot, or I can just go down two lines and see its entry, so we're going to have to do some copy and pasting here, so for user we're going to copy that, and we're going to say inside quotations, don't always have to have the quotations for this, but since there's a dot I found that it throws it off if you don't put the quotations there, colon user comma, and we're going to do the same thing for each line, but once again changing the entry for each one, so this is what this URL is looking for as far as a variable name, and this is the value on this side which is the variable from up there, so next we're going to say, and it does not matter what order you put these in because the server side code is going to look at whatever it's called and its value, regardless of what order they come in, just make sure you connect them properly here, like that's the entry for station comma, once again we're doing it this way for multiple reasons, one to keep it simple, fire departments tend to be very low tech, they really love office products, so spreadsheets is a great way, they're going to ask you to put it in a spreadsheet, even if you put it in your own database, they're going to want to open it up in a spreadsheet format, so this is simple that way, this information does not need to be modified by any code, so we don't have to worry about that if you need to modify the code, the entries with code you definitely don't want to use this technique, you want to use your own database, but also the fire department, you may not have a server, even though you can get yourself a little web server, something like this a pogo plug would work fine, make sure you're linking these to what the variables are here, not from the html code on the other form, so even though you can get a pogo plug for 15-20 bucks, and my department has five stations, and we could all be entering stuff at the same time, it's not going to overload the pogo plug, but if you don't have a good it department, they have no clue what they're doing, they don't know how to simply open up a port and forward stuff to the pogo plug, and if you don't have a real website to put this information on, this is a good way to do this, you can actually put this code on the different devices, because it's all locally running, well, except for this last part that I'm going to do with the PHP, in which case you would need a server, but still it's just simplifying stuff, even if I had done something like this for my department when I left, I want to keep it as simple as possible for them, and having it go straight to a spreadsheet like this is great, okay, so now, let me save all this, I haven't done that in a while, let's go to our form, refresh our page, let's type in something here, let's go 5555, let's choose Sam Johnson, let's go station 22, engine 22, this is my test, yes, okay, you don't see anything used here because we haven't finished our code yet, but I should be able to go to our spreadsheet here, give it a second here, maybe hit F5 to refresh if it hasn't come up yet, okay, something went wrong somewhere, I typed something wrong, and this is where you need to start troubleshooting stuff, so first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to look at, well, I'm going to go to our website, hit F12 if you're in Chrome, go to console, comment is not defined, right there, tell me the problem, code is stopping, I think about JavaScript is it fails silently, which is good in some cases because you don't want, necessarily want errors popping up on your website, but you can quickly look at a log there, if you're in Chrome, hit F12, if you're in Firefox, install Firebug, and then I believe it's still F12, and it brings up a similar thing, so now that we've changed out the comments instead of comment because there was no variable called comment, we saved it, no, we saved it, and go back here, refresh, I can once again always just say 6, 6, 7, 7, Mike Jones, I can go station 22, engine 22, this is my new test, I can click either yes or no, once again we don't see anything here, but if we go to our form here, if everything is all right, there we go, it showed up, so we're submitting properly, that's great, we could say, hey, we're done, but there's a few things we want to do to make this more efficient, and that's what I'll be going over next week, and I'll give you a little thing, one, we're going to be grabbing the ID using PHP and a get submit, that way we can have those QR codes I keep on talking about, little bar codes, you can scan with anything with a webcam, and automatically have this application pop up and put in the ID number, we're also going to clear out when you submit, we're going to clear out the inventory ID and the comments, so you're ready to go, it will retain your username, station, and engine, so you have four or five packs on each truck with four or five spares, you can go from one to the next, without having to restart the application and refill all the information, we're also going to put these three things, your username, station, and truck, into local storage on your device, so that if you exit out of the program, you come back on the same device, it retains that information, you can still change it, but you don't have to re-enter it, because if I'm using my phone, I'm always going to be Chris, I don't have to change it every time, so once I put in the information on my phone once, it stores locally, this is Chris' phone, it comes in, automatically puts in Chris, I'm almost always at the same station, boom, puts in the same station, truck, once again there might be more than one truck at each station, but if I'm checking out the truck during the day and I exit out of the program and I go back to continue checking out the truck, I want that all to come back up, so we'll do all that with local storage, so those are the next three things we're going to do, we're going to use PHP to grab the bottle number, inside the URL using a get form submit, so you can use QR codes, when you submit it will clear out the ID number and the comments, so your writer will go ready to put in the next one, store this information locally, and we'll also have a little alert box pop up so the user knows things were submitted, so that's what we'll be working on next week, join me one week from today and we will finish up this code, thank you very much for watching, next one shouldn't be too long, I thank you for watching, please visit my website, filmsbychris.com, that's Chris with the K, check out the website, there should be a link in the description, comment below, let me know what you think of this application, you know this tutorial, not necessarily the application itself, it's pretty simple, and I hope that you have a great day!


I have a question to you. We talk about the loss of the Spartan NASA managers have now concluded. There is no second chance for deployment. Are you a little bit disappointed this didn't turn out the way we wanted? We didn't get the full mission accomplishment. But we did retrieve the satellite after the little glitch we had on flight day two. And so the important thing is we're bringing Spartan back down to Earth and I'll get to fly another day. Specialist Scott, the Spartan satellite was important for a lot of different reasons, including observations to help improve the accuracy of another satellite.  One of a satellite, but not to be flip or facetious. We think it's more important to get the spacecraft back, get it back safely, refurbish it and fly again. I mean, after all, the sun will be there and we don't want to risk losing the satellite altogether. It's interesting, Commander. This is the first time we've had a chance really to talk with you about what has happened with it. NASA has said they aren't quite sure why we did lose the satellite, that a signal was not received. Have you up there been able to talk amongst yourselves, find out what didn't go right with Spartan? We're really not sure and we'll wait until we have all the facts on the ground. It didn't do its normal programming and then we gave it a little flight bump when we were retrieving it and that put it into a spin. But we'll wait until we get all the facts and talk to all the folks on the ground and put the story together. I imagine astronaut Shabla is a little bit disappointed as well that it didn't go the way she had hoped. Can you see the trooper? She's a very good operator, very good mission specialist and she takes it as part of the job. Do you know if the command was sent or NASA was telling us from Houston that possibly the computer did not send that command at all? No, somehow the command didn't get sent. How that occurred, we're really not sure at this time. Okay, for Astronaut Scott, you and your Japanese compatriot, Tako Doi, spent eight hours walking in space actually last week to retrieve Spartan to carry out some of the other tests. We did cancel a few tests though. Would you like to go back out again? NASA, I know, has not yet made that decision. Would you like to take another crack at it? Well, I'll tell you what, I don't think there's an asteroid. I think it will, but I would not jump at the chance to go outside and if they decide to do it, the car and I are ready to go. We accomplished, I think, most of the EDFT or the EDA objective. There are a few things that we could do if we went back out and we keep our fingers crossed they'll give us some of the opportunity. Tell me about this small basketball sized camera that you would have taken out there and taken a look at. Give me a quick thumbnail about the camera itself. It's called an air cam spread. It's a little bigger than a basketball, about thousand of a medicine ball I guess. It has two cameras inside. It also has a controlling system. It's flown much like you fly a radio controlled airplane. I would have released the spread from outside the shuttle and our pilot, Steve Lindsey, would have piloted it from here on the flight deck. He had a test program written up with a certain procedure, a certain data point he would have taken. Obviously this camera would beam back photos of pictures, television pictures of the outside of the shuttle and of course it would be useful in inspecting the outside of a space shuttle or space station or what have you. Not to forget our guest, Leonor Kdenyuk from the Russian space program. Excuse me, sir. I know it's your first shuttle flight. You trained for so many years on the Russian shuttle to go up there. You were working with the growth of plants. I know that later this afternoon you're going to be talking to school children here in the United States. Tell me a little bit about the project you're working on and what you hope to tell the kids. During 20 years I was cosmonauts of former U.S.S.S.A. I had trained as commander of Buran, but right now I am cosmonauts of Ukraine. Probably I will be the first Ukrainian astronaut in the country of Ukraine, independent country of Ukraine. But the first Ukrainian who was in space, it was Pavel Popoich in 1972. Commander Kregel, you were the first, sir, to be able to go through the new role maneuver. Tell us how that worked. I know it's been a couple of days since the first role. Do you think it's going to become easy enough to do, standard in the future for shuttle missions? The heads up that you're referring to happens about six minutes into the assent. Of course the assent takes eight and a half minutes. And it's meant so that we have earlier communications with the satellite. And it will become the standard for all shuttle missions. It really went very smoothly. I couldn't really tell that the shuttle was moving. It wasn't a violent maneuver. It was very smooth. One to two degrees per second. Just a little bit of slight transverse acceleration through the chest. But the engineers did a lot of hard work, a lot of studying, and it paid off. From up there I know that you can't see actually El Nino, but we talk about it so much here on Earth. It affects these huge fires in Australia right now. What does that look like as you pass over? Well they did brief us about the El Nino effects. NASA's take different pictures. Some places it's wetter, some places it's drier. Indonesia is a little bit drier than usual. It passes over Australia. We haven't noticed a whole lot of fires yet just due to our ground track. But the Earth observation folks on the ground keep us informed and we try to take as many pictures of the events as possible. And microgravity, I know that's another ongoing experiment in space. What's been the latest with that? Actually the microgravity experiments are going on very well. Today we're processing the particle engulfment and pushing experiment. And also we have some enclosed laminar flame experiments going on this afternoon. We did wetting characteristics of admissibles on yesterday and the day before yesterday. And the principal investigators on the ground are quite happy with what they're seeing. I can tell you. Commander Kevin Craigle, Mission Specialist Winston Scott, payload Specialist Lena Kadenyuk. We thank you very much for joining us this morning on Up to the Minute. Thank you, it's been our pleasure. While working with the Brassica-Rapha plan, do you look at it as the partner in the experiment? Do you talk with it as if it was a person? Really, I'm working with the Brassica-Rapha plan every day. And I'm spending most of my time close to this plan. I even sleep close to it.  Or on the wall. How long will the experiment with the Brassica-Rapha last? This experiment starts before the flight. And the plan grows for 14 days altogether. And as you know, Brassica-Rapha, the cycle is rather short. That's why it leaves 14 days on the ground prior to the flight. And then we send it up to the space. And this experiment will last even after the flight as well. We will compare the results of the growing process in space as opposed to what's going to happen on the ground afterwards. And it will last for another month on the ground. What other experiments are you conducting presently? On top of the Brassica-Rapha experiment, we run some other experiments, primarily with soybeans and some other plants. I've run a couple of more experiments that are over by now. At least my part of those experiments are over. We are growing some plants on the orbiter. And we are trying to assess the growing process. What are the future applications of the results of this experiment? From the technical point of view, the experiment was prepared in the most excellent manner. The flowers are being grown in a special box. And the experiment goes on very successfully. The entire environment in the box is being monitored by the computers, including temperature and all the environmental parameters. There are special devices used in order to monitor the process of growing of the plant. There is also a freezer involved where we freeze the samples.


I'm Shannon, and today on a new episode of Marvel Vs DC, we're going to find out who Marvel Superman really is. So stay tuned. The debate as to which character is Marvel Superman has raised on for years. Is it Hyperion, or is it Sentry, or some other individual in the Marvel Universe? To answer this question, we have to first look back to when Superman was created. The Man of Steel first appeared as a telepathic supervillain in a pulp magazine entitled Rain of the Superman in January of 1933. This incarnation of Superman was a bald madman with the ability to take over the minds of those around him.  The drug gives Dunn the powers of mind reading, mind control, and clairvoyance. He uses these powers maliciously for profit and amusement, but then the drug itself wears off. Leaving him a powerless vagrant again, Schuster provided illustrations depicting Dunn as a bald man. So if we look at the original Superman, we see that he shares many similarities to that of X-Men founder Professor Charles Xavier. First appearing in the X-Men number one in September of 1963, Xavier was a telepathic bald man as the majority of people today know, which matches with that of the original Superman, but his personality is also similar to that of the Superman we know today. But since Xavier came along in 1963 and he bears more of a resemblance to the original pulp character rather than the hero we know today, I think we'll go ahead and cross him off this list. The second incarnation of Superman came in July 1933 when Jerry Siegel teamed with Leo Malia and created a scientist adventurer from the far future when humanity has naturally evolved superpowers. Just before the earth explodes, he escapes into a time machine to the modern era whereupon he immediately begins using his superpowers to fight crime. However, this version of Superman was more or less a complete ripoff of Doc Savage, the man of bronze, so we'll go ahead and not even include him into these comparisons. We then receive one other Superman in 1934 before the Superman we know of today was created in 1935. Some of the influences for Superman were John Carter or Mars, Philip Wiley's 1930 novel Gladiator, Zorro, Robin Hood, Popeye, the Scarlet Pimpernel, and Doc Savage. Superman's current power set is that of super strength, invulnerability, super speed, flight, super hearing, telescopic, microscopic x-ray, and heat vision, as well as cold and super breath. With that being said, there are currently three characters in Marvel's history that have long been argued as being Marvel's Superman, Hyperion, Century, and Gladiator. Hyperion made his first appearance in Avengers No. 69 in October of 1969. The first Hyperion, as there have been several alternate versions over the characters history, was Zibran, a member of Squadron Sinister. This Hyperion was a villain, and it was eventually revealed that he was a duplicate of the Earth 712 Hyperion and created by the Grandmaster. The Earth 712 Hyperion was a hero and belonged to the Squadron Supreme, but he eventually became a villain when the Squadron believed they could keep everyone safer by taking control of the nation. Neither of these versions of the character truly fit with who Superman is. It wasn't until 2003 when Marvel Comics launched Supreme Power, a new take on the Squadron Supreme Universe, designated Earth 31916, where Hyperion is an alien baby sent to Earth from a dying planet. The origin mirrors that of Superman, but Hyperion is found and raised by the United States government to be a super-powered operative. He later turns on the government and helps establish Earth 3196's first superhero team. In any case, Hyperion's powers include superhuman strength, stamina, speed, durability, flight, and in a few cases powerful breath enhance sensory perceptions among many other powers. In October of 1977, X-Men No. 107 introduced the world to Gladiator. Gladiator and the Imperial Guard were an homage to DC Comics Legion of Superheroes. Gladiator was the analog to Superworld. The name Gladiator was a conscious homage to the Philip Wiley novel Gladiator from 1930 on which Superman was partially based. His powers include superhuman strength, superhuman speed, stamina, and durability, reflexes, microscopic and telescopic vision, x-ray vision, heat vision, super breath, frost breath, super hearing, regenerative healing, psionic resistance, and warp speed flight. The current version of the Century, which is widely considered to be Marvel's Superman, was introduced in Marvel Night's limited series, The Century No. 1 in September of 2000. His powers include superhuman strength, speed, and stamina, healing factor, light manipulation, nigh-end vulnerability, psionic powers, flight, enhanced senses, transmutation, and intangibility. If we were going only by introduction date, then Hyperion would obviously be Marvel's Superman. However, we should take everything into consideration, introduction date, powers, and whether he's a hero or villain. Hyperion meets the power and introduction date requirements, but given that he's mostly considered a villain, I would actually say that Hyperion is actually Marvel's Black Adam. So that just leaves Century and Gladiator. Both are considered heroes, both have similar powers. Gladiator debuted in 1977, while Century debuted in 2000. I'm going to have to say that given Century's origin story, he's closer to Marvel's version of the Black Terror than he is that of Superman. But if you have to compare him to DC character, Century would most likely be Marvel's Shazam. Which means Marvel's Superman is actually Gladiator. In fact, his real name is even a combination of both of Superman's names, Kal-El and Clark Kent. Gladiator's real name is Kel-Ark. Honorable mentions include Mar-Vell. Captain Marvel made his debut in Marvel Super Heroes number 12 in December of 1967. The reason Mar-Vell was excluded from this list is because the majority of his powers didn't come until much later due to being enhanced by someone else. When he first came to Earth as an agent for the Kree, he had no superpowers. He was only slightly stronger and more durable than most humans. Honorable mention number two is Prime. Since Malibu Comics was bought out by Marvel on November 3rd, 1994, the ultra-verse hero known as Prime became a Marvel character. He made his first appearance in Prime number one, which was a part of Malibu Comics Ultraverse in June 1993. Prime was excluded from this list due to the fact that his secret identity is that of a teenager who transforms into a full-grown super-powered man, which would actually make him another of Marvel's Shazams. The Blue Marvel debuting in Adam, the legend of the Blue Marvel number one in November of 2008. Blue Marvel has nearly all the same powers as Superman to the point that he should by all measure be considered Marvel's Superman. Created by Kevin Greveau, to answer the question what if Superman wore a suit covering his entire body, saved the people of Metropolis and was praised for it. But then what if he removed that suit and revealed to the world that he was a black man? Would they rally behind him or would the government ask him to retire? The reason I excluded him from the list is because he's such a new character in comics and he was meant as more of a what if character than anything, which would actually make him more of Marvel's version of Icon. The next honorable mention is Marvel Man. Created in 1954 as Marvel's answer to DC's Captain Marvel also known as Shazam and we have Wendar the Aquarian first appearing in Fear number 17 in October of 1973. Wendar's origin story is nearly identical to Superman's and even has all of Superman's original golden age powers. The reason he was left off the list is because he was actually more intended as a parody of Superman. Up next is Superior, created by Mark Miller and Lionel Francis U and running from October 2010 until March 2012. A comic inside a comic similar to Big Bad Beetleborgs. A 12 year old boy suffering from multiple sclerosis who idolizes comic book superheroes is granted one wish and becomes superior. The comic character inside this comic may very well be Marvel Superman but the character this story revolves around should actually be considered to be another of Marvel's versions of Shazam. Finally we have Thor, created for Marvel Comics and introduced in Journey into Mystery number 83 in August of 1962. While there are some similarities to DC's Superman, Thor was left off this list simply because he is an actual god in the comics. So there you have it my friends Marvel Comics Superman debate has finally been put to rest with Guardian taking on the title. Hey guys if you enjoyed this video make sure you hit that subscribe button right there and also go ahead and check out one of these two playlists here that goes along with the video you just watched. I'm Shannon for Come Again TV the only place on YouTube where all geek culture collides. Take care my friends.


What is going on guys luxury for an empty journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress? I first want to say happy Thanksgiving to all of you guys I am so thankful for having each and every one of you as part of this community Even if it's your first time to this channel, welcome to take a sit back So there's gonna be a combination of like a tip video with the vlog As well as a pretty cool announcement and I am waiting for my dinner to be ready my dinner for any of you guys Curious my favorite food. I've had this every single day of the week so far. It is only Tuesday, but pizza and this thing is Yep, so let me grab that and then I'll talk to you guys in a second Let's fix you guys.  So forgive me if it beeps But like I said, this is going to be a vlog a tips video in announcements Let's do the announcement first cuz I'm super excited about this Last year I wrote my first book for the MD journey.com and I never imagined myself being a writer But the book was successful. So I wrote another one This has setting June now and did even better and I was wondering which Element of the medical journey. I had still missed on all my tips all the blogs on the post like who was I missing and helping out I realized the majority of the questions and emails and comments I usually get are for people who want to go into medical school, but still aren't there And so the pre-meds out there. I hear you guys I wanted to create something special for you and so for the last about month and half of the working on my third book and So the pre-med journey or this is the cover as of now is going to be released probably within the Next week on Amazon. So it's my first book on Amazon super excited And so my plan is while you're watching this video likely around Thanksgiving time To have the book out in about a week. So I'm gonna put it in the link in the description It's just like a waitlist info where you get to hear about the book as soon as it comes out Basically, I'm gonna try to give it to you guys for the lowest price that Amazon allows me to give it to you for And I just want you guys to let me know what you think That way I can fix it up and improve it and make it even better, but I'm super excited for the pre-med journey My third book so far and not my last but definitely one that I'm really proud of Just because I feel like I've been missing out on helping you pre-meds out for a while and Hopefully this book kind of covers that so once again if you're pre-med You just kind of want to see what tips I would give to myself as a pre-med from day one to you know Getting accepted to medical school. What I would have done differently throughout the process check out this book the pre-med journey Hopefully you guys like it super excited, but likely will come out within a week So link is in the description if you guys want info and kind of be the first ones to have a crack at it when the book comes out That's it for the announcement. I'm gonna take it as by this pizza real quick All right now that I have some food inside of me Let's get to the tips portion of this video and the tips I want to give are what six tips would I give? To create the most successful pre-med what tips would I give to myself from day one of college? to the very end My pizza is about to get ready. Sorry But what tips would I give to myself as a freshman in college to the person who got accepted medical school? What would I have done differently? And so I'm gonna give you some six different tips some of them are a little bit more details and others But hopefully each of them you can take a home with you and do something I have trouble if you feel like you can make some adjustments so number one Everyone wants to know how to study. That's the questions that I get all the time and what I tell everybody who sends me an email something about studying is that you need to worry about systems over methods For example, I teach a lot of my students different techniques on how to incorporate Active learning into their life from the start to the very finish and that way they can be more efficient with their time a lot of the kind of setback that I get is when the student takes those techniques uses it for a bit But then still kind of goes back to using the techniques that don't work and when it's combined It's not super efficient. It's not that the technique doesn't work. The system is broken You know you can improve your engine on a car for all you want But if the rest of the car doesn't work well together then the car is still not that great So you need to approach your studying in the same way Everything you do whether it's reading the syllabus for the first time going to lecture reviewing your notes Studying for your test taking practice questions taking the actual test Be critical of how you can be more productive more efficient ask yourself Is this something that I should be doing because it's actually helping me one and two How can I make this better? How can I be more efficient? Am I being distracted? If so, how can I improve it? Is this technique actually allowing me to retain info? If not, why am I still doing need to be critical because every time you are able to self-assess? Each kind of step along the way you're going to improve the system There's a reason that they come out with a new car of a year and ideally that car is a better car than the prior Year if they're improving on some aspect however small but then overall you have a better better car Along the way same thing goes for your pre-med journey Every step from your freshman year to your senior year in college You want to approach your studying your productivity like a system and ask yourself what type of things are making your system that function? Correctly improve on those and then don't be satisfied. Ask yourself What's the next step you could take to make it more efficient? I think if you approach a lot of your things in your life like systems instead of just methods and techniques Sure, you may get some success here and there, but it's very easy to be demotivated When things don't work, but if your system is in place then you're much less likely to have things kind of fall through So remember systems over methods So tip number two and this is something I give a lot of different variations throughout my videos But it's an importance of continuity and uniqueness over just going with the flow If you're a pre-med you're likely a bio major you likely do a pre-med Organization you may probably volunteer a hospital You know if you're watching this video, maybe at least two of those three if not all three of those things apply to you And those are totally fine But a lot of times we do those activities because we see everyone else doing it So we're like well, you know, this is what I need to do to get into medical school But remember when people are looking at your application Your application is going to look exactly like the people around you because you're doing the exact same things that they are So to make yourself stand out to kind of get a second look you want eyeballs on your application when you turn it in you want Something to stick on your interview day when they interview you You want to have some type of uniqueness and the way you can build uniqueness is having a kind of a flow of continuity Instead of trying to do a lot of different things focus on a few things and do them well and try to progress Make a bigger impact along the way just make a bigger mark And that way your application can show kind of a little what I like to call cohesion everything is kind of makes sense You're an attractive applicant because you probably have something on your application that most people don't which is you step to something Regardless of not if it seemed to be the stereotypical pre-med thing to do So remember uniqueness and continuity are much more important than just going with the flow Yes, you can have the research as you can have the shadowing But you want to stand out if you want to take the typical pre-med approach On the activities that you do, you know by all means be my guest There's obviously plenty of people that do it each and every year that get into medical school But the problem is is that most people are very stressed during this application process because they realize the reality of it Which is it's hard to distinguish themselves from their peers Well on the other hand somebody who had a very unique application that focus more on continuity kind of felt out of Side of the box and followed their passions their whys and led to their activities versus finding activities And then trying to come up with a why that first person is going to have an application That's going to be much easier to sell and that's they're going to be much less stressed So continuity uniqueness over going with the flow So tip number three and it kind of goes with tip number two to another level which is create impact and change Remember we want to kind of have that wow factor in our application Doing the typical things everyone else does doesn't really allow you to do that So instead try to find something in your application where you can grow with a role You know if you start an organization for example be a member for a semester join a leadership position the next semester going Even within those leadership positions try to make true change versus just doing what that role entails Ask yourself how in this role can I make this organization better? This community service project better this research project better try to own your role If you do that's hard for the interviewer that mission board to look at application and not pay attention to the change you've made I'm gonna give you a quick example of my own experience. I'm applying to residency after medical school The most common question that I get about my application On my interview day is I'll let you see if you guys can guess It's this it's the YouTube channel. It's the blog. It's different. It's something I created It's something that's grown with me. It's something that I'm doing because I want to have an impact every time I'm talking to this camera I act like I'm talking to at least one person that needs these tips. It may not be you and that's totally fine But there is I hope there's somebody on the other side of this camera who takes his tips and realizes Okay, they can make some type of impactful change and if that's true these videos are completely worth it And so that's my create impact and change Kind of message and approach that I took for my medical school application Now I'm not saying obviously create a blog or a YouTube channel if that's not your thing don't do it But this was my venue to help a specific Community of individuals that I kind of was attracted to for you that may be somebody totally different You may be interested in helping for example the homeless population Habitat for Humanity is a great way to be involved in that you may be involved in a community to have no idea How you can help them but you may so find that community find that Kind of thing that attracts you it doesn't necessarily have to be in medicine But grow with it and have an impact It can be an organization. It can be a bigger project something smaller It can be something like a talent that you grow To something much bigger, but make sure you're showing that progression You're showing some change and ideally you're impacting the lives of other people So if you can do that on your application people just to be curious, you know I always get the question like tell me about this website like what are you doing? You know what's kind of come out of it and they love talking about it They love hearing about it so find what that would be for you where you put something on your application And they just can't resist but ask I feel like you're going to it's gonna be so much easier to sell yourself And it's going to be a much less stressful experience throughout your pre-mediter It's tip number four I give this a lot hopefully you guys can understand the benefit of it as I kind of give these tips to you Which is you need to focus on introspection This is something that I felt like a lot of my pre-med peers Struggle with because no one really tells you to really give a crap by introspecting Maybe you were told later when you know you hit Medical school burnout or residency burnout that you need to start kind of thinking about your thoughts I'm not telling you to go journal. I don't journal What I'm telling you to do is after each experience that you do when you volunteer when you do research when you shadow When you succeed and when you fail take 30 seconds 30 seconds ask yourself What can I take from this ask yourself? How can I apply this because if you take that? You're going to be asked about those experiences that you put on your application And if you gave 30 seconds to that Experience just to think about it You probably gave 30 more seconds than most of your peers that also have those same experiences put down 30 seconds can give some brilliant thoughts and usually your brain can't resist so if you give 30 seconds It's going to take two minutes But you're going to have some very rich Connections between your experiences and you're going to be able to give advice as well as to just share your story In a very authentic way, but you can't do that Realistically, if you don't introspect enough 30 seconds is nothing guys, but I feel like sometimes we tell ourselves No, it's not that big of an experience.  What did I learn about myself? We're learned by others. What was good and what was bad? You get to learn so much about yourself people around you And just how you approach things if you take just a couple of seconds. All right So I feel like we're getting in this like motivational Groove, but I want to finish off with two tips that are a little bit more practical as well as motivational So tip number five is you need to go from the how to's and just start doing the how I mentioned this in the previous video that I recorded I'll link it down below of how we sometimes eat without digesting Sometimes we gain so much info. You're probably watching this video trying to get some type of leg up as a pre-med And maybe you just wanted to see me eat pizza. I don't know But every time we try to gain some information we we have a lot of oh, this is a something I could be doing This is a new way to study. This is a cool way to do well in MCAT, whatever maybe How often do we actually apply everything maybe we apply it like day one and then day two We try to look for another technique But we're not really consistent nor do we actually apply what we learn We just try to learn things that hope that one day will become helpful So get out of this mindset of finding the how to start doing the house Find one thing that you want to learn Or improve on learn one way to do it apply it for a few days before you start going back to the drawing board And try to understand a different way to do it You're just gonna have a lot more results Sometimes the best thing to learn from guys is your failures and not the other how's not these YouTube videos So take these how's take these tips see how they will work for you if they don't then if you understand that You know that tip isn't for you, but at least you know So remember going from the how tos to the house super important in the last tip I want to kind of end on a happy note Just because I feel like this has been a pretty uplifting video at least I feel pumped up Hopefully you do too, which is your happiness is controlled by only you The pre-med journey guys is super stressful. You have the MCAT you have a lot of hard classes You know you have to worry about your GPAs when some of your colleagues can just say p equals degree You can't do that You know there's a lot of stressors that are involved in trying to get into medical school and I get it I was part of it But as we go through the process the grind you know working hard is his own thing But sometimes we tend to look around we try to see what everyone else is doing We try to compare ourselves to our peers and that starts to get the ball rolling where we become demotivated burnt out And honestly just stressed more than we should be but just remember that the person who controls your emotions is you So if you feel bummed out, it's probably because you're giving things too much thought probably more than they Deserve things may not have gone your way. You feel like it's into the world remember, you know You're going to get through it like you've always had So understand that the pre-med journey can be an enjoyable experience I remember my three years in college and my four years in med school It's a very positive experience because I have a lot of cool memories. I have experiences like this vlog As well as the blog that have been created during this time And I can look back at those three to four years in a very positive light So understand that your emotions your attitudes are controlled by you and not by the things that happen to you So but those are my six tips. I know some of them are more motivational I know some of them are a little more application-based But take those with you guys because I feel like the students that I coach the ones who get it the ones who do well in med school the ones who Remain to be successful and then just don't just get into med school The successful med students are the ones that have these six tips They introspect they're focused on being out of the box and creating a versus just going with the flow they have systems and They control their emotions and they choose to be happy when they can't So take that with you.  I still have another slice of pizza. So I need to finish this So I'm gonna let you guys go but remember that the pre-med journey Book is coming out on Amazon ideally in a week So link is in the description if you guys want to just be on the email list to know when the book goes out again I will try to give it to the cheapest price that Amazon allows me to give And I'd love to hear you guys y'all's reviews on the book If you guys have any questions about the pre-med journey at all and not just the book But just your own pre-med journey Comment down below and I'd love to hear from you guys on your questions your Experiences your inspirations again in the honor of Thanksgiving. I want to once again say thank you so much For being part of my journey allow me to be a small part in yours Thank you for watching this video if you did enjoy it give it a like if you aren't a part of the community yet consider subscribing and seeing Weekly videos on tips on being successful as both the pre-med as well as a medical student and the next year as a resident So that's it for this video guys make sure you give it a like subscribe to the channel comment down below with any of your questions I will see you guys in the next one. Happy Thanksgiving my friends