Hi guys, how are you today? So today we're going to do a much requested and kind of long overdue belly band tutorial. Now this is my travel art case. This is the one I take with me when I fly or drive anywhere and this holds my basic watercolor supplies which right now are just this. I can just take this and I have everything to watercolor and do sort of field sketch watercolors while I'm on vacation. I'll show you one really quick. And also my journaling supplies for documenting my year, my life, and my trip. And I can fit everything in this case plus there's usually a little room for goodies that I've picked up for free or maybe if I've been able to do any art supply shopping which I really don't do a lot of anymore because honestly I have everything unless something comes out new or I run out of something. Anyway, the case itself I got at a vintage shop and I don't know where you would probably get one. It is a small leather suitcase. It's some sort of I think originally trained case or makeup suitcase. It measures about 14 this way along by 9 inches tall. By about 5 inches deep it is expandable. The lid is expandable as you can see there and it has a cute little handle with two clips and keys. I do have the keys and never use them. The belly band is really for decoration and also if I do gather a few too many supplies and it's really full it helps ensure that it's going to stay closed. Right now it's empty because I'm getting ready to go out of town again and when you guys see this you may see it while I'm on vacation. So when you see it I'm probably going to be gone already. Just because not that I ever check this when I'm flying because I do not check this ever ever ever but because I thought it would just be cute and should it get misplaced during traveling. God forbid I should leave it under the seat on the airplane. I do have a travel tag here which let's see I'll do that because it's got my cell phone number on it. I don't need that to be on YouTube but it has my business card inside of it and all of my information so should I forget this there's a way to identify it. I've got a travel tag on the case and it usually travels with me just like this and it fits under the airplane seat. Has never been a problem checking it through TSA. I always just make sure I have nothing that's more than three ounces in here and that I keep my watercolor kit that I bring with me fairly small. I have brought the Koi pocket sketch palette before and that one for some reason always gets me stopped at TSA and because they want to open it they want to look at it they still let me through but it always gets me stopped so they can look at it so I don't know. Alright so today we're going to do the, that's a little bit about the bag. Today we're going to do a belly band tutorial. Now I've already got one for this bag. I don't need one for this bag and I tried to find another little case that was similar to this one that we could do a belly band on. I couldn't find it. So I did have this other case. Now let me gather my supplies here. Okay I do have this case. Now this case is a vintage leather camera case. It looks like this on the front. It does have the original key, it has the original handles although if I were going to use this to take flying I think I would probably have the handles replaced or repaired because the leather is a little brittle. It could use a good coat of moisturizer, it is an antique piece, a vintage piece so I don't know how long it's been sitting in storage. The rest of the leather seems to be in good condition but the handles like have a crack here. So it definitely is a piece that I would make a belly band for in case the clip or something gave way and like I said I would probably take it to my local shoe repair man and ask him to make new handles for me. It does have this, because it's a camera case it's intended to zip down here. Now because this is a vintage case these zippers are really, you can open them, they're really stiff. Again you would probably want to wax them or lubricate them if you were going to want to use them at all. It does have two side rings for a shoulder strap which is long since missing but if you were going to use this case or one like it and you were going to have the handles replaced while it was there I would ask him to make a shoulder strap. This case really could hold everything. It probably is got about the same, oh see there's a random piece, I don't know what that is. It does have about the same I think usable footage space as the other case if not a little bit more. It has this, I don't know what that is for but I mean maybe you could put paper or something back there that you need to keep flat and it's a cute case. Now I'm going to make a belly band for this bag. Now when I do the belly bands I like for them to, the idea is should the handles give way or the lid pop open it still keeps the case shut so I like the belly band to go through the handles and clip around somewhere around the front. Now when I'm done with this this case is going to be listed in my Etsy shop for sale. If you're seeing this video and the Etsy shop is closed it's because I'm out of town. So as soon as I get back into town it'll all open it. You can message me anyway. Okay so we are going to make a belly band for this and if you know I'm looking at this case and if I was going to use this case for traveling when I had these handles made, remade I would probably also have a made maybe a little bit longer. This one's in good condition but this one has a crack in it. Anyway I have a little shoe repair man in town. I would probably take it to him and ask him to make new handles for me. Probably if you have maybe a motorcycle leather shop maybe they do repair work. They might be able to also put new handles on for you so look around and see what you've got. Alright I'm going to get my sewing machine out and reposition the camera and I have some painted fabric. I've got a few smaller versions of the clips that are on my other bag and we are going to use this to create a belly band for this bag. When I list this bag for sale it's going to be listed with the belly band we are making right now. But I want to give you guys some ideas. If you have a travel case that you are working on that you can make this belly band or you can also make these to hold your journals closed. There's a lot of different things you can use this for. Alright I'm going to get my sewing machine and I'll be right back. Okay so we've got our little genomy out. We are going to use it to make this belly band. You don't need a fancy machine for this. You'll probably want to put a denim needle or heavy weight needle on your machine because you're sewing through canvas, painted canvas. So this is a piece of painted canvas or duck cloth. You could also use denim and as you can see from my table surface I have usually a piece of this on my table all the time and when they get good and painy and inky which this one is just about ready then I pull it off and I do a bunch of stenciling and purposeful mark making on it and create something interesting like this one and then I use it to do things like making belly bands, journal covers, tote bags sometimes pencil bags. That's what this is a piece of and this one's pretty old. This is quite a while ago. Alright the first thing we're going to do is square it up because it's all funny shaped. So we're going to just cut a slit at one end and then it should tear on the straight of grain. It might be hard to tear because of all the paint. If you have collage on here which you can also do then you're probably going to want to cut it straight instead of ripping it. Bonus about ripping it is you get this fun sort of frayed edge which I love. And I of course don't throw these away because I can use the little pieces of that to make tags and things with. Alright let's do the other side. Alright now we want to cut it in half because this is not too fat to fit between the handles but it's not long enough. With the other one that I made I had a longer piece of fabric. This one's not quite long enough so I'm going to fold it in half and I'm going to just hold it and then I'm going to cut a slit at one end and hopefully it's going to rip straight but we'll find out right? Ready? Alright. Yeah it did. Cool. Now I'm going to take all these loose strings off and I take that back. These pieces we're going to need these so don't go anywhere with those. You're going to need a few small pieces and you might be able to use some extra from these long strips but if you don't have enough of your long strips then you are going to need those other little pieces. Okay so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to pick a couple of ends and we're going to just overlap them so that the two pretty sides are facing up. We're going to overlap them by about an inch and a half or so and I'm going to just sew a square around where they overlap, a rectangle I should say, to attach them together. I'm using turquoise colored thread because not only is it my favorite color but you guys are going to be able to see it pretty well I think so. I'm using a big stitch because you don't need a small one for this. Don't forget to go back and forward, backwards and forwards at the beginning and the end. Stop about a quarter inch or so from the edge and lift your presser foot up, leave the needle down and turn your fabric then sew the short edge. Again about a quarter of an inch away from the raw edge of the fabric.  You're going to have that, something that looks like that and that's attached to our two pieces of fabric together so now we have one nice long piece. You want it to at least fit around your bag to where it meets at the other side. Here's our bag and I'm going to move the camera back so you can see a little better. Hang on, I'll be right back. We have our bag here and what we're going to do is we're going to wrap our strip around the bag up underneath the handles and around to the front. We have plenty of fabric here to use so that's fabulous. On my other bag we have a two inch space where you have the strips here for the clips. We're going to put the clips on one end, we're going to cut these strips, sew them on one end with the half of the clip on it then we're going to eyeball it to put the other side on. I'll show you what I mean. There's plenty of fabric there to use. You want to make sure it at least meets here in the front if it overlaps even better. I'm going to take these leftover pieces. I've got this one nice piece I can use and I'm only worried right now about cutting at least two strips but if I can get four out of this piece that would be great. Again, I'm just going to tear it. I'm not cutting anything. These clips are smaller than the ones I used on the other bag so I have to rip these a little bit smaller so I'm going to cut them in half again and it looks like I should be able to get four out of these scraps. There's enough scraps that I need a thin strip and I only need three of them. I don't need four. I don't know why I keep saying four. I have three clips. I couldn't find the bigger clips when I went to go make this so I got the smaller ones. They're the same thing. Now before we do anything else we are going to sew a stitching line across here that will prevent it from unraveling too much. So let's do that before we do anything.  Then I'm going to take our clips and I'm going to unclip them. I'm going to take not the fork part. You see that this part has like a fork? I'm going to take this part. I'm going to set the little forks aside. I don't know what they're called.  We're going to take a strip of our fabric and I think that we can cut these in half and thread it through our half of our clip. Like that. So do all three of them that way. I need one more half. Now you could sew stage stitching around all the edges of these strips if you want. I don't think you need to. I don't think I did on my other bag, but you could. That's up to you. You could also use ribbon for this. You want the clip in about the middle because you're going to fold it over like this and then we're going to sew it to this edge that we just stitched on. We're going to put one on each end and one in the middle and I'm going to put it up high enough that I can sew a little square right here. I'm going to start at this end. My only problem with a little genome machine is that there's no light underneath here. I don't know if I've mentioned that before. So it's kind of dark. Don't forget to go back and forwards at the beginning and the end. I got too close to the clip so it doesn't want to turn. We're going to do something a little different. Let's see. Nope. I got too close to the clip. Make sure you're far enough away from the clip so you can turn it easily without interfering with the presser foot. Let's try that again. That's easy. There we go. It doesn't have to be perfect. You just want it to be on there well. You don't have to sew in a little square. If you want to just sew it by just going straight across, we're going to do the next one in about the middle. I'm not going to clip the threads. I'm just going to loosen up the thread and then pull the fabric straight across and then start on the next clip. Let's see. I'm too close to the clip again. Let's see if we can make it work, though. Fabric one more time. We've got one more clip half to put over here. This particular strip has a plain side and a pretty side. I'm going to put the pretty side, the painted side up, loosen up my string. See, I got a knot there because I pressed on the presser foot before I was really ready. Now we have to cut everything. When you just travel from one space to the other, you get this string like this, which is the lazy sewer's way of doing it. Then just trim off that string that traveled between the two sections. Let's try that again. All right, we've got one more to stick on here. Hold your thread so you don't get a knot like that. That's part of the problem that I just did.  Of course, you can use matching threads so it doesn't show. Or you can use a fun color like I've used and then not care if it shows or if it's straight or anything. It just adds to the charm, right? Because we're a mixed-media artist, so it doesn't matter. All right, so now we've got three clips on one end. So now, before we do anything else, we need to take it back to our bag. We're going to put the clip end through the handles like that. We're going to bring the rest of the strap back and around. Make sure it's flat and not wrinkly. There we go. And you're going to eyeball it and figure out about... You want it to fit kind of tight. Figure out about... There's about an inch here of space where the clip is overhanging the fabric. And we want probably about an inch from the other cut edge so that the clips clip together but are nice and tight. So I'm thinking right about there. And I'm going to cut it. I know that's probably the scary part, right? All right, so again, we're going to put the bag aside. And now we're going to go all the way around all of these edges with some more stay stitching. Because this piece, unlike the clips, is going to get rubbed on a lot. And you probably don't want to continually be fussing with cut strings.  You're going through lots of paints and things. If you've painted the fabric yourself, maybe some collage. If you've got collage bits on there. So don't go fast.  So that actually lends itself very well to this. I'm just using the edge of the presser foot as a guide for where to have the torn edge of the fabric. And I'm going to go all the way down to the other short end. We're going to stop with the needle again in the down position. So it's still sticking in the fabric. About a quarter of an inch away from the edge. The needle is down. We're going to lift up our presser foot and turn. And then keep going. Stop again and then turn and keep going. Alright. Now we can put our corresponding fork end of our clips on this other side. So we're going to take some of our little strips of fabric and do just like we did before and thread them through our clips. And again, if you wanted to, you could stay stitch these also or put glue around the edges like fray check, which is a glue made for fabric to prevent it from unraveling. The acrylic paint that's on here is going to make it so these are difficult to unravel too much because the paint will keep all the fibers together. This is a little easier if you can find the bigger clips. When I did my other bag, I found the bigger clips. Since I made that belly band, we had a fabric store close. So now it's harder to find them. Alright. So again, we're going to do painted side up and we're going to sew these down one on each end and one in the middle.  If you're going to use Velcro instead of clips, then you want to have the fabric overlap so you have room to sew the Velcro on. I'm going to do it correctly, hopefully. Again, you can just sew it straight across if that's what you want to do. You don't have to be this complicated about it. You could put metal hooks, you could put a zipper. Those are a lot more complicated and more expensive. These little plastic clips are not expensive. These little small ones I found at Hobby Lobby. The day I went, they were out of stock of the big ones. And again, our fabric store, other fabric store closed. We have Joann's, but they don't always have what I'm looking for. And I was at the other end of town the day I bought the supplies for today's video. So I'm just going in and I'm clipping all my threads. I had the traveling threads between the clips so I want to make sure I get rid of those. Now we're all ready to see how it fits on our bag. That's the wrong bag. I do have a video for the luggage tag and I will try to remember to link it in the description below if you want to make a luggage tag for your bag or some kind of identification tag. You just clip them together. And you have a cute belly band for your travel art case. And I don't know when I carry mine what gets more attention in the shape of my case but I have a big belly band to be honest with you. So there you have it. I hope it gives you some ideas of what you can do. You definitely can make these to hold your journals closed if you're making a fabric journal cover like my traveler's notebook journal cover which at this time you may not have seen yet but the plain one has, there's a couple different versions of it coming out. One of them is out already and I will make sure to link it in the description below but you definitely could sew the center of this of the cover before you put your journal in or anything and that would be really cute and then you would have a way to keep your journal closed. You might want to add a few extra inches to it in case your journal gets really fat. You know, mine tends to get pretty fat. Alright, that's it. I hope you find that helpful and useful and it gives you all some ideas. Remember you want about a two or three inch gap here between where the two ends are and where the clips fasten. This is about a two inch. You don't want it too tight because you want to know this is empty. Yeah, it's about a two inch.  Alright, that's it for today everybody. Don't forget to go out and have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye.


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Pamela Sari, and I direct the Asian American and Asian Resource and Culture Center. Our center was founded in the spring of 2015 as a result of faculty, staff and student activism for more than a decade, decade long. So fun fact about me was that I graduated with my PhD from Purdue University. And when I was a graduate student, I was involved in some of these efforts to propose the Asian American and Asian Resource and Culture Center. So I always say that I have a full circle of engagement with the center. So our center is a resource that invites all Purdue communities to weave diverse Asian and Asian American experiences into our campus life. So we do this through the intersections of pedagogy, cultural work and advocacy. Some of our signature programs include Lunch and Learn every Thursday in the fall and spring semester. And also our speaker series, we invite speakers from all across expertise into Purdue campus. And we also celebrate cultural events such as our annual Lunar New Year celebration. We also work with faculty and staff across the colleges to weave Asian and Asian American experiences into the classrooms. We also work very closely with Asian interest student organizations. There are so many of them that you can get involved with. So again, we welcome your interest if that's that's something that you are really interested in. We also have an active social media presence. On my background is our website. And also you can find us and our daily thematic content on Instagram and Facebook. And also we are on Twitter as well. I can speak of the impacts in terms of two things. One, for students who identify as Asian and Asian Americans, we foster a sense of belonging and growth of identity, and also a sense of collaborations with each other in terms of Asian Americans and Asian internationals. Due to systemic racism that often happened against our communities. Sometimes we are in the position of trying to position ourselves away from each other. And I've seen that the art is trying to build the bridges among the two communities. For example, this just came up in some of our programming last semester. Some of our students come from communities like Hannah mentioned, where they might be one of, or the only Asian in the community. They never see other people who look like them. And when they're in school, suddenly, there's a feeling of shame about, you know, bringing their own food to to the school, for example, there's, there's a sense of shame and also a sense of of shaming. And when we talk about, right, food, for example, what is what is your favorite thing to cook? And suddenly that conversation is flowing about, Yeah, I remember the time when I feel ashamed of bringing even my own cultural food, food that I eat at home, into my education setting. So the opportunity to get together and discuss these issues have allowed, you know, the growth of identity and the growing sense of belonging as members of the communities. Asian Americans and Asian internationals have different, but also intersecting histories that we would like to share and celebrate with each other. So and we see some of the people that we've interviewed, they said that they grew up without a sense of role models through the TV, people around them, they don't see people who look like them. And what a privilege it has been to bring people like Wong Fu production, Mirai Nagasu Olympian and USVU skating team, where people can say to us that, wow, there are people who look like us who can be successful. So it fosters a sense of growth in their identity. So for the rest of campus communities, the presence of the art can foster a creation of strong allies to help us dispel some of the myths that we often hear about Asian and Asian American communities. For example, the idea of a model minority myth, the Asian and Asian American comes into college campuses, successful, don't need help. So and by looking into the diversity of our communities, we can begin to see, right, many of us actually need help. And how can we be allies to each other in this sense? So hopefully that that will continue to to Purdue, as we know, have has excellent academic programs, which means that our students are really working hard to achieve their academic success. And my favorite, and honestly, my favorite, some of my favorite moments at the arts is late afternoon, when students come together with their communities, working at the ITAP computer lab at the center, or you utilizing the conference room at the center, and I can see them trying to teach each other homework while singing together, going to the kitchen to get something to eat and back and discussing again about their homework and their classes. The creation of communities of care are just refreshing to me and encouraging me every single day. And in fact, from some of the students that we talk to and also staff members that we talk to, mental health professionals actually also recommend our students go to these types of communities and go to student organizations in our in our case with Asian interests to to get that that sense of community and and to get that sense of care with each other. So that's something that I really am touched every time for and our student organization have been very forward thinking in terms of including Asian American and Asian internationalists in their groups. And so I can see these these bridges are being build relationships are being fostered. So that is that is one of the excellence efforts that I've been seeing coming through. And also our students have been gaining skills from their involvement with the center and their involvement with the Asian interest to an organization skills that are translated into academic work that look into the diversity and intersectionality of our communities. For example, I work with several students who eventually through their involvement at the art, they're interested in taking more courses like intro to Asian American Studies or other courses in other colleges that look into intersectionality of our identities, and they decide to pursue further education, looking at their own communities, looking at intersectionality of work in, you know, across our communities. And they translate that into graduate school applications into their work. Writing letters of recommendation is also one of my favorite things to do because I can see that their aspirations really translate into growing skills, growing academic work and skills. So there are many ways that you all can get involved with the art. First one is like the other directors have said, visit the course or centers. We have welcoming staff at the art. We also have a graduate student and two undergraduate staff members who can speak with you. And if you want to learn more about what you can do to get involved. Also, I would recommend participate in our events, not only as attendees and attendees are great, but also as organizers and presenters. Our students have been presenting at our weekly lunch and learn, for example, one time, a couple of students presented on the history of chopsticks and how, you know, the history of chopsticks represent diversity of our communities. The student organizations that we work with, they volunteer to host tables at our events, for example, at the Lunar New Year celebration, they host different events again to emphasize the diversity of the Lunar New Year experiences across countries, across regions in the United States. They participate as volunteers in our speaker series. We try to collaborate with student organizations to when we invite each of our speakers that way, our students can also get experiences of hosting and also organizing planning events. And the third one is participate in our communication efforts. So subscribe to our weekly newsletter if you haven't done so. Follow us on social media and also participate in our social media thematic events. And lastly, we are now trying to grow our services to fulfill our mission. For example, we just started our ARC research labs. We're doing research right now, for example, on media portrayal and media impact on Asian and Asian American communities surrounding the issue of COVID-19. If that fits in your academic work, come talk to me and how you can get involved and how you can participate in this research. And also this is something exciting. We're starting our lion dance team that hopefully will be able to present in some of our major university campus events in the future. So if you have talents in the area of you would like to practice and grow your skills in the area, please come join us in our this upcoming lion dance team. So there are some of the ways that you can get involved.


Good afternoon folks. Ted Rolston here in our studio downtown Honolulu think tech studios with our show where the drone leaves with a fantastic panel of guests that string halfway through the Hawaiian islands here. Sitting with me at the table in Honolulu we have, first of all, our most important guest here. We have Katrina Kuo, eighth grader at New Valley Middle School, and we have her overseer, protector and principal, Sean Tajima, and we have, to Katrina's left, we have Dr. John Rand at UH who runs the outreach and the in reach for STEM for the state. STEM education, STEM involvement and community outreach and such. And standing by on the line we have one of our frequent flyers on the show, there he is, George Purdy. George Purdy of many different skills and world recognition in the world in the game of STEM and in the game of drones and such. Anyway, welcome on board folks. We have a lot of people, a lot of opinions, and a long way to go on the show. We talk about drones in general, where they're going, where they're coming, what problems they have, and what we have to do to make them useful to us in society. But you've got something coming up in a week that's really cool where a lot of this will start to happen at the science level, at the engineering level. And this will be the annual, the semifinals, you might say, for the state of Hawaii's science and engineering competition. It used to be called Science Fair in my days. That was a long time ago. In fact, you know, when I was born, the earth hadn't crusted over yet. So we had to wear thick shoes because it was all molten out there, right? But it's since hardened over and we've been in the streets and all. Anyway, this is an incredible issue here STEM in Hawaii. Tell us a little bit about how you and UH and the community colleges can kind of wrap your arms around this whole issue of STEM and how do you define it? How do you turn it into a value for the society and help it go forward? Yeah, science, technology, engineering, and math is a national phenomenon that's going on. I think everybody recognizes the very, very important part that it's going to play in our future. And you can argue that it's here now. But it's going to grow and it's growing really fast and it certainly is going to grow here in Hawaii. We're going to, we at the University of Hawaii are committed to really trying to make sure that our state is competitive and that we have enough skilled workforce here. And so we've set up the Office of STEM Education here at the University of Hawaii and we are now in the process of trying to get coordinated to all of our different campuses and all of the kind of work that we're trying to do in STEM to kind of get a better arrangement in terms of coordination so we can talk more clearly to our K-12 partners and we can talk to the workforce here in Hawaii and let them know that we have students that are going to come out that are extremely well trained to take the jobs of the future. And then we have to design a program at UH that attracts people like Katrina, so she doesn't end up going to California to go to college, right? Want her to go to UH and continue developing the breed here.  It's always significant in Hawaii. We oftentimes lose our best and brightest, but I think there's been a lot of really wonderful opportunities recently that have begun to slow that down and we want to continue to keep that happening. And of course, if you can go to the mainland, you're very successful, go but come back. Come back after you've made your mark there. And so the job of all of us is to figure out the architecture and the plans and the programs that will go forward and produce something that people can come back to. I know I went away in 1963 and this came back five years ago. That's right. That's what we do. So Sean, in the curriculum you develop at school and such, how do you take advantage of or get frightened by this evolving, undefined domain of STEM? So we're pursuing a lot of advancements in STEM ourselves. We have an excellent science program at the Valley. We have an after-school robotics team that does very well. And we have students like Katrina who are doing really great projects and are very successful. Katrina is the winner of our school science fair. She created a project on her own with an electronic device to measure medication for patients that alerts them and also measures the correct dose. And she'll be going on to the district science fair, which is coming up next week Saturday at Kapilani Community College. And people in the public can come to that too, observe the judging and interact with the kids and see the projects and things going on. I've actually been a judge at the state competition down at the convention center and I'll tell you, it's a stressful day because there's a lot of stuff on display and it's so well done. It's hard to actually take it in and judge one versus the other. You want to give them all the blue ribbon, you know? Anyway, and then we have George Purdy on my eye. George, you're involved heavily in the STEM program and Pulama and other cultural and technical events on the island. How do we hook you? How do we take his ideas, what he's developed, which are pretty incredible, and bring them over to Oahu? And how do we take what Oahu's doing and get it over to George? Well, I think it's a great missing link because a lot of the questions coming out of my community is where does it fall within our university system, which is UH. So I'm glad to finally meet Dr. Rand that this is the connection that we've been missing. So a lot of parents here, I believe now with a start from K through university level that it'll help them push their child and also give us more support in what we want to do.  And that's what I want to avoid. You know, a lot of the education within the STEM, we need some policymaking so that our young folks can actually voice their opinion and help create these new bills to pave that pathway so that our kids can stay home or come back to a way. We don't mind them leaving, but we need to get them to come home. That's what I've been seeing is we dealing with all the emails that we've been doing. And Katrina, I give you props that what I'm trying to do here is for my child and every child in the state of Hawaii, and I'm very proud of you. I'll do my best every day. Can you imagine a better spokesman for our collective effort here than George? And George was back a long way to the famous Purdy family of 1912 in the National Rodeo Competition in Nebraska or somewhere, which Purdy family won them all. So anyway, George is still carrying that flame forward. So this is a lot of things come to my mind. I was thinking, when you describe what your project is, Katrina, it made me think, how do we scale what you might call a research question that we make available to kids? Through the organized STEM programs, the university and the scholastic level, we do have the opportunity to sort of manage how we put out those problems. But I think that might actually harm the situation. We ought to put the full load on you. It's your future, and we're just in a way right now. So we probably need to reveal to you the big scope of all the things that the future has to think about. And George was just alluding to some of them right here. We've been spending all week at the legislature dealing with proposed bills and such that if incorrectly interpreted, slow things down and get in our way. So one of the issues we have to have you help us face and tackle is these issues of technology incorporation in the future world. And so that's a problem we'll leave on your table. In fact, we'll be speaking at John's at the final session on Capilani on Saturday, we'll be doing a drone demo with some other folks out there. I think we'll give you guys a list. Here's your task list, which you have to take care of for the future that we didn't do. So thank you for being so good at what you're doing. Thank you. And make all your friends do the same thing.  We got to hook up with George. We got to get a Lanai Oahu combination going or maybe a sister school, something like that, and get George over here and get somebody from your school over to Lanai. How about that, George? How about we do a little exchange? Well, I'm no problem. Anytime, any. Let's do it. It's easy, you know, the more kids that our kids get exposed to and vice versa, I mean, this is a great place to learn. And it's wide open. It's not congested. You know, it'll be just nice once that is able to happen. We have the UH here. Why not? You know, our kids go there for UN, junior UN and other scholastic leagues. This drone thing is it's right up our alley. That's an interesting point. And it kind of takes us back to the whole drone issue. I got into this out of the aerospace industry, so I had some knowledge of the pieces that go into it. The schools and universities just picked this stuff up and running with it. And it's sort of interesting because it's cuts across all denominations of the scholastic system, engineering, science, materials, software, coding, testing. All this stuff is all combined here and something that turns ideas into reality and into success or failure really quick, unlike business where it may take a year between the time you start something and the time you get some feedback. So it's a great tool for pulling together all these different ways to look at things and manage them. So in terms of the drones themselves, there's also a big list of things that they need to be successful in the future. What we have today in drones probably won't survive the next couple of years because there's not enough reliability, not enough standardization, not enough ability to really be economically useful in the configurations we have today. We need materials work, we need propulsion work, we need communications work, software work. So that's gonna be on the list that you guys are gonna get from us on Saturday, okay? Okay. So John, then how do we take what George is thinking about and you mentioned that you're starting to put together the pieces that connect to all the community colleges and the schools. What, how do we do that? How do we get everybody together? It's a, it's a, it's a classic tension that takes place between the really cool things like a drone. No question about it. Everybody wants to, you know, fly them and then we wanna learn about them. We wanna use them as a primary source to learn from. The technology is without question, fantastic.  But you also gotta have the fundamental sciences. So we always gotta have that tension and balance. We need a clear message to our students if you wanna do this kind of stuff, which is great. You've still gotta, you gotta take math classes and you gotta take your science classes. You know, there's a minimum science requirement in Hawaii. If you wanna be a scientist or a science major or an engineer or someone working with technology, you gotta go and take an extra science course, you know? And that course might be something that is related to this, you know? We took off in robotics more than a decade ago. The state made a conscious decision to push robotics. And since that time, I mean, it's worked. We now at the university are starting to see our students who came in from the VEX programs and from, you know, the Lego leagues and first robotics. From New Valley Intermediate School. Yeah, sure, I'm sure they were part of it. And it was a big revolution in Hawaii. We're gonna push robotics and it seems to really work. I mean, you put that kind of emphasis on a program. It really works. Students get excited and jazzed up about it. But always remember, take a lot of courses. You can't, you know, if you have elective credit and you have time, think about that because it's really, really important to your career. It's always gonna help you. And I'm talking about physics. I mean, the physics of how this thing works is fantastic. The engineering that goes into it. The chemistry, right? You mentioned material science. Super, super important. And of course you gotta get up to the levels of calculus if you wanna have a STEM degree. So you wanna don't just take the minimum, try to take that extra course if you can. But if we decide to go in this direction, and I'm all for it in terms of building up drone technology and drone academics related projects in the state, I think it's a fantastic tool to teach kids and to get kids engaged and so on in STEM education. There's two quick anecdotes come to mind. One was an advertisement that one of the professional societies ran several years ago. It showed an Indy 500 racer pulls into the pits and the guys jump all over and change parts and things goes out again and all this high techs up and really cool looking uniforms and all. And the thing is, this is great. You wanna be a part of this? Go get yourself a PhD in engineering. Cause no one touches this car or the tools or the pit without a PhD in engineering. Oh, I didn't think about that. So that's a good motivation. Well, the cool thing about this though is it isn't gonna, I mean, there's technician jobs all over the place. You mentioned the community colleges. You know, we have a lot of programs. I'm sure drone piloting is probably not gonna require a PhD. We're gonna take our first break here. Let's talk about how we're gonna build this whole program up in drones, like you did in robotics when we get back from our break. It's me, Angus McTech, wishing you a welcome and join us to see us on Hibachi Talk on Think Tech Hawaii. Join my co-hosts, Gordo the tech star and Andrew the security guy every Friday from 1300 to 1345. We look forward to see you. We'll talk tech and we'll have some weeb and fun. And remember, let your wing gang free. Where are you be? Aloha. Aloha, I'm Carl Campania, host of Think Tech Hawaii's Movers, Shakeers and Reformers. I hope you join us over the next several weeks as we take a deep dive into biofuels in Hawaii and explore the alternative fuels supply chain necessary for the local and global transition towards transportation fuel sustainability. Join us as we have good conversations with our farmers, our producers, our conversion technologies, our investors and our legislators as we try to achieve our transportation sustainability goals. See you soon. We are back folks live here in Honolulu and on Lanai. Ted Ralston here with our incredible group of people from the West to the East. We have George Purdy standing by in Lanai City and the sun hasn't set yet in Lanai City. It's nice. And at the table here, we have Katrina Kao. Cole. We have Dr. John Rand and we have Sean Tajima, two from New Valley Middle School, principal and principal winner of the science fair. Heading off to the regional championships, regional finals next week, next Saturday at Kapi Atlantic Community College. Dr. John Rand from UHU is attempting to both manage and also unmanage this entire evolving world of drones as a subset of robotics. So we're talking John during the break about whatever, however, how did the expansion, the promulgation and the value extraction out of robotics work? How can we look at that as a model for how this broader version here, drones might follow in terms of the schools and such? I think that there's a lot of opportunities for students to really get engaged when they begin to work with this kind of material in classes and stuff. I mean, it's just a way to get everybody really, really excited about things. And I think that happened through our big emphasis with the robotics programs that were, that took place all the way from middle school to graduate school at the university. And it became a really important kind of initiative that we could rally around. And we're now seeing some of these students that started off in First Robotics and so on. They're coming to the University of Hawaii. We had a huge increase in the number of mechanical engineers that came, specifically mechanical engineers, which told us it was probably robotics. I mean, it wasn't just a bump, a blip in the data. So you can see this track. We can actually track these students and we can see, especially the transfer students that are coming from our community colleges, it was much larger in the field of mechanical engineering. So we're gonna track Katrina for the next eight years, right? Absolutely. So we're gonna have to record it and... Starting right here. But it's real key that these students, they get themselves prepared so that they have all the opportunities that they want. Because the more math and science that you take in the K-12, the much better you're gonna be and the more you're gonna be able to do this kind of fun. And in that regard to robotics, was there, say, several fundamental principles or several major themes that distinguished that approach to robotics from, say, how we deal with physics or math or chemistry? Was there some formative, structured thought that drove that forward? Yeah, I think we weren't as intentional back then. I mean, it was a great opportunity. It was only 10 years ago, Johnny. Well, you know, we've been learning how to do this right. You know, I think we didn't align the curriculum as well as we might have. We didn't do that kind of faculty development so that some of our high school teachers and middle school teachers had a lot of experience with robotics, but we got mentors from the field to come in and support the schools and we did it sort of that way. I think that students love this kind of stuff. Having an opportunity to really engage in what they're doing. And I think we need to expand that and get a lot more faculty development potentially for our K-12 faculty so that they can be the ones that mentor their students directly and have a really rich experience with their students rather than trying to, I mean, we still gotta do that, right? We gotta have guys like you and our friend over on Lanai who know this stuff, you know, really know it to be able to help us. But I think that we need to merge that or blend this kind of technology and research with the education piece. Okay, we can get some of that from some of the work George has been doing with the public safety people on Lanai. They ran a simulated aircraft accident issue at Lanai Airport right at the airport with the FAA part of it and ran drones as part of the recovery space identification. So coming from that alone is a way to pictorialize how first responders think and how their thinking can be enhanced by this sort of thing. So we could work maybe this year and kind of come up with these themes that drones are expanding from robotics would capitalize on. One that I find really interesting is these are complicated systems. We got this unit here. We got the ground controller or maybe some future version that Katrina's gonna design for us that's better than these. We got radio communication in between them. We've got video down. This is a really complicated situation. We've got the atmosphere in the middle of it. We've got GPS satellites feeding information to it. This is, we need to model these things in a scientifically sound modeling method. Not just one, but 500, 5,000 over on Google. 500 over on I. And how does this whole thing, how does this whole system behave and be reliable and be safe? That's one more thing on the list, Katrina, for you to think about mass modeling of these really complex subjects. We'll take those props off of there. Give the kids a piece of balsa wood and say, make me a prop for that. Just a replacement prop and you have to learn about pitch and the way the force is generated when that prop moves. You need to know how fast it's gonna spin, right? Is that's gonna generate a different amount of force? Those kind of principles are absolutely vital to a physics course, for example. But, I mean, the fun part is to actually whittle it down and actually get a piece of balsa and make that pitch properly and maybe use, test it against the real drone and see if you get the same lift capacity with the students props versus. So you just introduced the stress to the system. You said, instead of taking a prop out of a box of somebody else made, figure it out yourself. And then figure it out better, that's cool. Are you feeling a lot of pressure here? Are you and your peers at George's Kids on Linae? Yeah, but it's also kind of fun to build stuff. Okay, we can't forget the fun part, can we? Yeah. Okay. And that means bringing in your family. That means bringing in the community. Another one would be collecting all the plastic trash that's in the ocean, reverse engineering all of that and building airframes and props out of that. This guy is brilliant. And the goal is holding her out. Hey, George, you only get three bright ideas for show. That's two already, almost five, brother. So, George is well-known across the country through a lot of these TV shows and other things is trips to Alaska and such. And they're picking his brain left and right for how to make these things move forward in exactly that domain. Take something that's a problem today and make it better. So that's where the schools could come in on Oahu as well. We could, yeah, I think they, I think we're to you. Katrina's a model student as a STEM student for us and she's taking up the opportunities we've provided. As I said, she's our science fair winner and she's also on our school robotics team that went to the state tournament. And this weekend, she's gonna be competing with our math team at the math competition. So she's a very well-rounded STEM student with a bright future. And I'm hoping she continues to succeed as I had a unique opportunity to travel for the International Science and Engineering Fair for the past two years. So we took the winners from Hawaii to the mainland. So last year we went to Arizona the year before as in Pittsburgh and there was about 60 countries present with about 2,000 projects. So the best and brightest of the world. And I'm proud to say that last year we had our highest rank ever, a student from Roosevelt trying to find a cure for Alzheimer's and he placed, I would say in the top five out of about 2,000 projects. Wow. So we should not be at all hesitant about putting real serious problems on the table in front of these kids. I don't wanna be differential on calling you a kid. I'm sorry about that. It's okay. It's just an age thing. But anyway, these young people who are moving forward fast and are gonna solve some of those problems. Exactly. They're able to think very globally and it never ceases to amaze me on the level of projects that they've done. Like Katrina's as an eighth grader when she created this is remarkable. And moving on to the science fair, she's gonna be one someday to create something great that's gonna solve a big problem in the world. Okay, I just want her on my team. Thank you. We want her all on our team. So the other part as a parent also, if we can get UH, the university to put pressure on the DOE to connect that link, there's a missing gap that a lot of our DOE students even for the principal here, sometimes he feels a hogtie. We've done all our after school programs in after school, not even during school. They learn more in two hours than they do all day sometimes. So that's what I wanna change. And that's what I'm working hard. UH put pressure on DOE to start getting these things. Katrina, perfect example. What if we had a whole school? Like our school is 500. What if we had 500 kids just like Katrina? What a golden opportunity and the folks that we have in Hawaii that the rest of the world would want. Oh, there you go. You know, George makes another good point without saying it. And that's that we, in this show, we've had like a hundred episodes. We talk about these things and look at the problems and look at the future. We kind of decided that for this year, we're gonna make community involvement and educational involvement the theme of this basic discussion to the extent we can. And we got a bill that's a Senate bill on a house bill in the ledge that is asking for some funding to generate field experiences, field exercises, taking real problems and solving them with real systems. And in agriculture, in public safety, public health, environment, beach erosion, atmospheric issues, ocean safety, and fire and volcanic issues. Every dimension we can think of where there's a value to the proposition potential. Let's create it by a field exercise with everybody involved, the community involved. So the community votes and includes the schools and the kids and the parents. It votes on what is most useful and now we get the community involvement and also probably some really good ideas on how things might wanna go forward. If we don't do that kind of active involvement and penetrate out in the community and find what works and what doesn't work, we'll probably have a little bit off on our theme. But if we can do that and get that kind of involvement, just like you're doing on Saturday, we can get the target zeroed in a bit tighter and go forward. And the community involvement with schools and what you folks are doing, we'll actually put the community in a better place when they talk to their legislature to write good bills that help support to grow an industry, put the right rules out there and not us beating the old folks that have the chain on the brain, as well as I call it. Okay, boy, we heard four from you, George, this time and not just three, so you're over your limit on the show. I'm squeezing it in there. That's great. Okay, well, we wish you the best of luck in the continuation of your eighth grade career, which will have the state finals coming up in what, April, I think, right? March? I think it's in April. April, right, at the convention center. We'll get on there and be part of that and cheer you on. Thank you. Sean, for you for coming here and talking about the school program and maybe you can generate a hookup with an eye and talk about how that goes forward. Yes, Sean. We love to see you here. Okay. We need to do it. You're the new principal I want. Thank you, thank you. I love to work with you. And we want to invite all of you to the regional science fair, the science and engineering fair that's going to be at Capulani Community College on the 11th of February. Yeah, let's talk to the public about that. Yeah. On the 11th of Saturday. Right, right, because I was asked originally by the group to go and talk to, you know, the group and the students in the afternoon, I think. And so that's kind of how we got kind of got hooked up. I was looking, there's a drone team at the University of Hawaii and the engineering college and they are going to do some cool flying and so on. I figured that you didn't want to hear me just drone on. No pun intended. So we actually invited the drone folks to come and I think it'll be exciting program. Okay. Let's start talking about that. Hope to everybody to have a look at. That starts at? Two o'clock. Two o'clock? Two to three, we're going to be flying drones and doing drone simulations and all kinds of fun things that relates to drones. What time is the science fair itself? Science fair is in the morning. Okay. And the students will be judged and that's the tension time. And hopefully then after lunchtime, it will turn into a real neat exploratory kind of have fun. Okay. And hopefully a lot of good partnerships. So we'll see a lot of the public there on the 11th. And let me thank you all for coming on the show. We are at this point out of time, but we'll see you all next Friday on the show. And George and Lonay, thanks very much for joining us. John, Katrina and John. Thanks so much.