I'm Rusty Komori and this is Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. I was the head coach of the Punahua Boys Varsity Tennis Team for 22 years and we were fortunate to win 22 consecutive state championships. This show is based on my books Beyond the Lines and Beyond the Game, which is about leadership, character, and creating a superior culture of excellence. My special guest today is one of the top most sought after photographers in the world and his clients include Jessica Alba, Zoe Saldana, Lucy Hale, Noah Centineo, Shay Mitchell, and Charles Melton, just to name a few. He is the one and only Hudson Taylor and today we are going Beyond Beauty. Hey Hudson, welcome to Beyond the Lines. Hey Rusty, how you doing buddy? Good to see you. Hudson, you have been doing such incredible photography through all of these years now. I mean it's truly impressive but I want to start off by first if you can share about what you did with your life growing up in Hawaii and what schools you attended. Oh that's a that's a fun one. You know I think my main school was beach. I wasn't quite an academic which is why you know an academic person which is why I think you know I went into the art world. I never did well in school. I would I would try and I would just get busy you know my brain would go off in different things you know the beach or or art but I did go to word of life. I graduated from word of life academy, loved that school, taught me a lot of good morals and whatnot and got me ready for for the future but I went to like three other schools before that high schools at least. Yeah but yeah. Hey Hudson, beach is a good place to go school at huh?  Yeah it is it's definitely one of the the top mother agencies I would say you know even in the world definitely the nation she just put so much passion into the agency and people we started the whole agency just to help people honestly and it just happens we do it here in Hawaii because we love Hawaii you know so we like to grab a lot of people from Hawaii and bring them on the grand scale anyway we can so my photography kind of helps that and Serena manages it all she was an agent at Elite Models big agency in LA New York it's kind of a worldwide agency as well so she has you know she just knows how to run an agency which she yeah you add that with taking care of people and you got a good formula. No that you know that's so terrific to to see what she's doing and you were a model for around 10 years and Hudson what is the best part of modeling and what's the toughest part of modeling? You know that's kind of a catch point too because the best part of modeling is it always keeps you on the toes you know it's it's always changing evolving and you never know where you're going to be next and that's also one of the hardest things of modeling you never know where you're going to be next you never know if you know the you're going to get a flight an hour from when you just settle down from your last flight and and that's also hard but it's also a gift because it keeps you you know not bored so that's kind of the best thing but again just the travel being able to meet so many people and everyone just has you know so much different perspectives on everything and so meeting all these artists around the world it's just really really cool so yeah that's that's I think the best and and worse probably. No I think I think the traveling would be incredible I mean just to see all these different different countries and and Hudson what got you interested in photography? Oh yeah that's a question and it's kind of a longer I guess answer to it but when I was when I was a model I would I would keep fine I don't know I have like this deep thing in me that just like I know it sounds you know trying to pat myself on the back but it's it's actually true I have like I get like this vision of when I see somebody I just wanted to do it like just do better you know like and like so I asked I'm like oh my god you have so much potential so anyways when I was doing modeling I would find all these friends and they're like oh yeah I'm not really you know making a money doing this or I'm not really able to travel I'm not able to you know really get my goals and you know I don't like my agent I don't like this this this for that and I you know I I would always have a big heart for them I guess in that way so I would just help them I made a lot of friends so I would consistently introduce them to different agents and different friends and and they always just kept helping all my my friends and it got to the point where I started probably over a hundred models around the world just just placing them so with with different agents and different companies and now the way that works normally is that you get a finder's fee if you place them with like a big agency or something that you do really well and some of the people I did start work the you know did become super models and but I never asked for a dime for it so this went on for probably three four years of me just placing people around the world and and so that made me have a lot of really really good friends because people are like oh my god who's this guy just giving away money and giving away money and giving away his time was to help people and and then it got to this guy a lot of people know him here in Hawaii his name is Jay Alvarez great look and at the time I you know it was hard for me to help him more so than introduce him to like some big agents because he needed photos and I was like you know I'm pretty sure I could take like a photo better than than you know so and so photographer just like a basic just one photo as long as I get one photo for him it'll really help him so I so I picked up a like a disposable camera and and I went out there said look we're gonna at least I saw somebody shoot film and this is film so I'm gonna at least get you a basic photo so I started shooting a couple basic photos of him and the agents started using it as this front comp card so then three months into owning a disposable camera I told my wife I was like yeah you know I kept and again this is like blind confidence it's it's really weird I had no skills trust me I'd never done photography in my life and it was just the confidence pushed me forward as I looked at the the photos and all these other photographers shooting I was like okay it's like it's like a math problem in a way which I wasn't good at math but it was like you add you add clothes you add person you add good emotions and you got yourself a photo I could do that so I was looking at these billboards around the world like I could do that I just add this this this so anyways I I told my wife I'm gonna buy all the gear so I put like close to $20,000 down on like all this gear and stuff and thinking I'm going to be the biggest photographer and like that and and I started shooting photos and the good thing was it it did happen for me really really quickly really really quickly just because of how many people I already helped around the world that were also now willing to give back to me when time was needed so they you know gave me great models to work with and all that stuff but I guess credit to my my confidence at the time is I screwed up so bad so hard so many horrible photos to the point where I have people Instagram messaging like you should not post that I don't know about I don't know about you guys but unless it's a political thing I don't I don't know how many times you get you should not post this like this is just a photo of a person and you should just not post this because my Photoshop was all off everything was just I mean it was it was gross a look at of my my progression but it eventually started fine tuning and I I kept wanting to just get better and and again credit to my wife she she was like I think I could probably Photoshop that better than you because she knows art and I was a little bit and I was I was like no this is my thing so I had a whole little ego trip this is like six years ago I was like no this is my thing I could do it I promise I could do it and then so she would just be home Photoshopping in the background not knowing that like that I was kind of paying attention what she was doing and I just know she started doing really good like she started like like making things way better than I could so then something went up happening she ended being one of the best retouchers I've ever found all those all those covers you see all the photos she retouched we've I don't think we've only had retouchers on a couple big jobs that's just because of the sheer mass of how many photos needed to be done but she's edited all my photos so I really am proud of her for you know helping me I had a lot of great people to help me bottom line a lot of great people to help me that was kind of my journey of the beginning stages of photography no that's that's really fascinating to hear how how you made that transition from modeling into photography and and how you and Serena just make such a great team together and Hudson tell me about when you're working with Jessica Alba and Zoe Saldana for example yeah you know they they have their style I mean what how what do you do to try to compliment their style or to enhance their style well I think and this is this isn't what most artists do I've never really saw myself as an artist per se I I I've really focused on you know just trying to do my best for people and care about people um so that's number one is just you gotta care like you can't just like make up stuff you know um so make up stuff just for your own sake because right now you're working with teams so so bottom line if I start caring about you know like really care I'm the only people understand the depth of caring they're like oh yeah I care no I mean like really freaking caring you know like saying hey you know um you know Jessica Zoe like how how can I make you be seen in the best light not just my art which is I think the reason why I've done well is because I focused really on them caring about them so when it comes to Jessica Alba Zoe Saldana or just anybody um it's it's it's about potential potentiality whereas that I you look at them and you see what could be what could be if you gave them all the tools to become and so uh I focused really on yeah vision um and and making sure that that that the way I see them isn't isn't too far off from their essence uh yeah no that that that makes sense there and you know it it's like I mean you're working with them I mean you're trying to bring out the best in them and and I like what you said about caring and and Hudson now the younger generation I mean they're really really popular I mean Lucy Hale Noah Centineo Shay Mitchell Charles Melton I mean these these young ones I mean what how different is it for you working with them versus some other clients that you've worked with yeah um how different is it working with them just you know I mean I think it's it's interesting because um people I don't think give enough credit to the people who have done it before them um whereas that's uh you know I'm assuming that's the difference you know if you look at um I let's kind of break it down like the beginning stages you know the the 10 years old and that group and then them in the 20s and then the 40s and 50s you you look at it everybody and you kind of just see where they're all heading so so it's almost like a timeline almost whereas that you just see oh yeah yeah Jessica went through that Zoe went through that and uh and and you're gonna learn this and you and and through time and then you kind of just like I think that's the biggest difference is you just kind of break things down as timelines and and and knowing where they are in life I think that's a interesting perspective on working with people because then you know how to talk with them where they are in life so the young ones it's just you you know where they are in life and you kind of um it's a little more playful it's a little more fun it's a lot more sensitive because you know some some of them uh can have a lot of preferences way too early on and and you know a lot of uh the older group uh and I wouldn't say older but the more experienced the group they they've learned um how to streamline things if that makes sense but but it's uh yeah streamline yeah I think that's the thing that you notice as time progresses for people um but the young ones are just so much fun like Noah we went on a week long um uh trip to where do we go into um uh Sedona and uh we um pretty much like camped in the middle of the cabin which it was snowing and it um it was snowing in we're Grand Canyon um we're in a cabin in the Grand Canyon there's snow everywhere and that's where I got a couple of those photos um most random snow I've I didn't know it's snowed there so that was weird um but yeah just fun a lot of fun with that group that age group um and so it's so cool to see where they're at and where you know they're heading um that's that's an interesting thing no and and Hudson I mean it's a it's a talent for you to really bring out the essence bring out the best in your clients and really make them feel confident and and comfortable and I want to I want to talk with you about my books you know you I talk a lot about striving for that superior culture of excellence and that's really what you're about I mean you have a constant striving for excellence and I also talk about the importance of taking risk and I want to get your thoughts about how important it is for you and others to really take risks to become successful oh yeah I mean it's uh risk are are everything I mean it's you can't even you you don't it's it's like this weird um whatever you believe in universe god um all stuff it's some sort of weird like pattern that's um you know uh uh it was given to us to say that hey you're welcome to stay exactly where you are I'm okay with that like that's just what it's saying all times to to to us I feel like the the universe god is always saying to us is that yeah you're welcome to stay exactly where you are unless you want to do something different but I'm going to have to prepare you um and so so that's that's stretching you that's that's making you stronger one way or another to experience it at the highest level um so yeah I mean I've I've always taken all the risk I didn't I didn't really start collecting any sort of um uh any sort of my finances or anything together until like you know three years after um I started really like working because I just put it all back into the photography into travel into I mean into anything I could just to create something bigger which is all with all these you know mega mega companies have done Amazon Tesla Apple any of them they've all taken the biggest risk and they've got the you know the biggest rewards for it um so yeah I mean I mean you're nailing ahead it's it's all risk it's all risk um um but I mean you get I think most people aren't willing to risk stuff so so you're so once you're willing to risk stuff you're competing against a much smaller group for what it is that you're trying to get um and so I like I don't like competing I don't like competing against a lot of people so I rather just do the work and I'm in my own little little area over there you know just just doing me um and that's the way I keep from competing is is doing the work um and and taking the risk and and betting on myself over and over and over um yeah Hudson Hudson I I like hearing that uh big time and and how does it feel to have your photographs be on the covers of so many famous magazines throughout the world I mean how does that make you feel you know it's um it's it's a it's a beautiful thing I'm so grateful for everybody you know that helped me and and uh just everybody who's come together and it more and more so it's looking back at things where you really appreciate things um like really looking back um because you know when you're in the midst of it it's pure chaos um everybody like and this goes for anybody who's ever done anything great everyone's like oh yeah that person's a basketball player that NFL player this person's a artist this person's an actor actress you know and like that looks easy I could do that it's pure chaos what it's happening but uh uh but but um you know it the rewards looking back at it you know that you've changed some people and and hopefully inspired some people and hopefully people are looking at my stuff saying that it looks easy so at least they get the foot in the door and then obviously they're going to figure out the fire after but but at least it it it got them nudged in a direction of interest you know no that's that's so good I mean what I mean what an honor for for you to have that kind of success Hudson and and I want to ask you about what are the variables that that you deal with that you're trying to in order to create the perfect picture the perfect photograph what are the variables what are the details you think about behind the scenes um oh so yeah I guess I do have my kind of checklist in my own mind um I I'm already assuming and I already know it's not going to be how I thought it's going to be it's never the way you think it's going to be something I don't I I've never I don't think I've ever I've had thank God I haven't really had too many failures with shoots per se because obviously there's things you can learn from everything but I really haven't had that many like crazy failures with the shoots because they reflect fixes so I was able to you know fix things but but it just never goes as planned so my mental checklist I think is just understanding that number one is get your intent right okay the end of this end of the chaos it's it's going to look something like this however it's going to get there it's going to do that so I think intent is huge huge thing bottom line just fall forward like before getting into this this um um conversation with you uh my my intent was just it's going to go great I don't know what's going to happen like at the very end I was just like okay he's going to be excited that this all but but I don't know what's going on in between so number one is um I think all athletes do what they envision uh you know they envision uh um the ball going in or or the men's zone or whatever it is uh I envision you know people smiling at the end of it all I envision people um hugging me at the end um high-fiving me at the end um being thankful for for me showing up and and vice versa um that's that's number one I think is is you know having that intention um but uh the the things that I really focused on during the shoot is um it people usually find me like when we start shooting is to do something different in a way like normally when I when I find a person and they have like a thing they have like this it's a huge thing it's call it the model um the model uh the model face the model face with a it it's really interesting because they saw like maybe you know 30 years ago they saw a um uh ad and they saw a girl do like this or like they saw a guy do this and and then they and then they just mimic it so they mimic it right we all mimic each other but they don't understand that so these supermodels so what made them a supermodel is they weren't just brooding they were actually feeling the brooding-ness of everything like the inks they they actually felt all that and and so I think when I when I see this generation is they're just flooded with not just this generation just everybody just anybody that comes in front of my camera they're flooded with information and they're all just trying to mimic each other so when I when I meet somebody my goal is that they just at least tell me a real story um whatever that might be so that could be you know just this just them listening if I'm talking a lot and and then the listening they look like a human being in that moment not just the person's like just faces every all over the place you know um and and some people are just really good at where I never have to say anything or I'm just like yeah that person's feeling something not afraid to feel something but a lot of people I think nowadays they're just afraid to feel and they rather just do do things with their face and bodies and stuff so I make sure that we get our our our essence right first and foremost is this a real human in front of me can I bring that into the photo um and uh next uh you know I I think it's it's you know trying to calm down everyone to not try to for them to not just not just a one person to be the star on the on the set like I can't have the hair just trying to be the star and the hair person and then they're like and then like but then it doesn't match the makeup and then the styling decided to you know throw in their their two cents with the hair and makeup and then and then it goes and then it starts going everybody has to be on the same um vibe and and trying to create um the master goal nobody's a star we're all the stars and and that's where I think you know if we kind of come together and do that then we start start creating um better work um so that's another thing too but intent um intent if I were to just put it as a whole um I intend to to make people feel good about the end of it yeah and everyone has to be focused on the mission and the goal and everyone plays a key role in the success of the photo shoot and and Hudson what are what are some of the reasons why you are successful in as a as one of the top photographers um I think uh I care bottom line and again I I go back to that and even focus I've you've heard we've all heard it the you know in our entire lives like just focus focus like yeah I'm focused yeah I'm focused there are levels there's depths of of focus there's depths of caring there's there's um and and I notice when I'm like out of tilt and things are going like not as good it's because I was caring about the wrong things either myself my own my own um um uh you know um stress levels uh even that's a thing like on set if you're if I'm caring about my own stress levels on set then I've I've lost I've lost game I've lost the I've lost the the photo shoot um because now that energy's out there now that person's going to start caring about the cells because they know I don't care about them so who's going to care about them nobody so they got to care about themselves and then it becomes this disconnect um so and and I'm not perfect at this but I think I'm better than most uh at least I try to be um just really working on on caring about people so I think that's a big thing um and that's uh yeah honestly if I were to not shell everything in there I did be that um that it's the caring um the next uh I think one other thing too is um if anybody gets into the art world I try to tell them is that um you get paid for your aesthetic you get paid for your aesthetic so in other words um I you know I was able to do these things because I have an aesthetic of what looks real um I have aesthetic of what is um uh high quality I guess you might say and the only way you can do that um is understand um how quite honestly how simple humans are in a way we um if I start singing a song do I do I did it down did it do we might all start mimicking that later tonight um whenever this airs you know you might just hum it a little bit um we're that simple in that way and so what you're filling your brain with um is is also a thing um I I had a one of the biggest photographers in the world um um he was like number one two or three still alive um and he told me he said essentially that when you press down the button it's because it reminded you of something and if it's if you're being reminded of things that aren't of high quality then that's the work that's going to come back out so so my thing is is which aesthetic I really focus on my aesthetic so I don't look at like you know nothing too of a brand new photographers you know they're brand new great amazing I I can't really necessarily taken too much of that or else I'm and and I might start creating from that kind of space versus if I just look at like the biggest billboards in the world all day then when I click the camera when I click it it's because that person's mood on that billboard it it reminded me of something now a brand new photographer you know they they might be worried about is the photo looking good is is there might be a bunch of insecurities happening on stuff and that energy's floating around and then so I would be replicating that energy if I clicked it during that time remembering their work that makes sense so I I I'm very conscious of of flooding my brain with essentially the Picasso's of the world so that when when I am given the opportunity to have a camera in my hand I press it at the moment or at least know how to guide it to become a version of that moment you can literally you can mimic if you pick the top photographers work right now try to mimic it exactly I'm telling to a tee this photographer this other photographer told me to do it I don't do it but it's just a concept that's really interesting is I've done it before and and if you try to copy it to a tee no matter what even if you try to draw you know a Picasso or something to a tee no matter what it's going to have a different look no matter what the model is going to be different even if the model's Caucasian and still it's different there could be a different type of look in the Caucasian you know the model the hair could be could be brown it could be white whatever might be the hair slice might have just messed up a little bit right here if the girl is two inches shorter then it's going to look different and then it comes down to which photo are you actually going to pick are you really going to pick the the one that looks exactly like it or are you going to pick the one that has sort of your version of it so so I think it's important to just give credit to the artists who've done it before but we're mimicking art over and over and over because we're inspired and we just want to keep creating that with statement sports that's why people shoot the way they do you know all that stuff it's because they're inspired by somebody that they saw do it so so yeah so aesthetic I think that's that's a big key to focus in on Hudson I like hearing your insights and and you know just just hearing your what you're sharing I mean it's there's so much that goes on behind the scenes of a photograph and that's really I like how you shared all that and and and Hudson obviously that's why you're successful you care I mean you have that constant striving for excellence and I just really want to take thank you for taking time to be on the show today of course thank you so much for having me I really appreciate it rusty I mean god it's good to see your face again I haven't seen for a year or so at least so it's good to see your smile too buddy um yeah I appreciate you thanks Hudson and thank you for watching Beyond the Lines on Think Tech Hawaii for more information please visit Rusty Komori.com and my books are available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble I hope that Hudson and I will inspire you to create your own superior culture of excellence and to find your greatness and help others find theirs aloha


Hi, my name's Ben Jones. I'm a second year D.P.I.L. student here with the Health Systems Collaborative. I'm a junior doctor from Australia and that's where my research is based. I'm studying a disease called rheumatic heart disease, which is an entirely preventable disease of childhood that can lead to early mortality. Australia has some of the highest rates of rheumatic heart disease in the world and one of the biggest challenges with rheumatic heart disease is the detection and monitoring of the disease. So our innovative solution is to train community health care workers to do the echo screening on other community members so that they are able to detect and monitor the disease within the community so that care can be provided on country. And specifically within this project, my role is to look at well how can we move this innovative research method from research into a fully fledged public health intervention. And part of the things that we need to learn along that journey are things like well who does it work for, why does it work, how does it work for them so that it can be scaled up and used in different circumstances. One of the other things that I'm looking at is well can this model of task sharing with local community health workforce be used as a broader solution to Australia's rural health workforce crisis? The approaches that I'm using to conduct this research implementation science research methodology specifically using things such as realist evaluations and theories of change to really unpack and understand this issue and all the nuances.


Hi everyone, it's great to see you all. My name is Marin Axe. I am the academic administrator for the program. I oversee curriculum as well as admissions. My goal is to help you find meaningful employment to connect you to our alumni and to our employers. Hi everybody, my name is Justin Snow. I work alongside Len in the career space, also point of contact for all of our SCM alumni and I've been with the staff for about six years. And Kate is also with us. Hi, I'm the program assistant so I just provide support for the admissions process and the students while they're here on campus. Yeah and then we will have later some other speakers today. So also we have another team member, Lisa and Ma, they are running their marketing and communication and also we have a team of postdocs who are working here at SCM doing different kind of research-oriented and educational-oriented activities. And on top of this we have also then other instructors that we will see later. So could we go to the next slide? Perfect. This is the plan, the agenda for today. Then we're going to start, I mean, visualizing where you will end up if you follow our journey. So then Len will share the career outcomes. Then what will be your path to become a top supply chain management professional? This is what we intend to do and then what are the next steps? So how you should apply to our program. So then where they will end up? Sure. So I know it's hard to imagine you know where you'll end up but our focus is clearly oriented towards helping you find meaningful employment, challenging employment where you'll learn where you'll grow. And you know I have to say I've been doing career support, career advising for graduate students, MBA students for over 20 years. This is the best program, the greatest program I've ever been associated with largely because of the strength of the alumni. It's enormous the power of the MIT alums in helping students find their next role. You all know that it's a great time to be at MIT, especially in supply chain. You know companies, I think every company realizes that supply chain is now a strategic advantage, a competitive advantage and they're looking for talent. And the first place they look for talent is at MIT and you know I can't speak you know more about that. Just this past week we had four companies reaching out to us to recruit Apple, Tesla, Walmart, J&J and Caterpillar just in the last seven days. Like these are the companies that want to hire graduates from our program. You know there's always going to be employment cycles, there's always going to be ups and downs, whether it's tech is up, tech is strong, consulting is up, consulting is down. But the one constant is when you're a graduate of the MIT program in supply chain, your resume is going to be at the top of the pile. And I think that's just enormously such a competitive advantage. Our focus is really who will you become? You know I want you to take the long view. You know that we have the resources, we have the connections, we have the toolkit that every other program has. But what's unique about us is two things. One, we're going to work with you in a very high touch kind of an environment. You know Justin and I meet daily with every student in the program practically. I mean certainly you're going to be meeting with us so many times during the course of your experience here. We're going to get to know you, your aspirations, your goals, and we're going to begin with an understanding of talents because you know honestly I want you to take employment off the table. Employability is really not a concern. The focus for us is a higher level concern. That is identifying what your strengths are, what your talents, your interests, your values are, and finding opportunities that are a great match for that. But the easy part is finding the job and you know this is our promise to you. Like I said very high touch and and we're very connected to our alums. Here's a sense of our outcomes. This is from the class of 2023 that just graduated. So you know typically you know by graduation or shortly thereafter we have extremely high placement rates and you know this is regardless of the economic cycle that we're in. So we're just enormously confident of what we can promise, what you can expect from us when you come into the program. And frankly as soon as you accept our offer of admission we're going to be meeting with you. Literally the week after you receive that we're going to be in touch with you because we know we're an accelerated program or a 10 month program. We want to get to know you early to get you prepared so that by the time you graduate you are in a great position. So we're going to begin making connections and and making you know supporting you in your in your progress. So like I said every school has a toolkit but you know year after year the companies are coming back to us because they know what we can offer. So with that I'll certainly have time for questions. Feel free to put them in the chat and we can answer them throughout the webinar. Thank you. Next what is your path to be copying a top professional in in the field? So then this is our value proposition. Then just to develop world class global leaders in supply chain management with an innovative MIT educational model. Every single word here has an important meaning for us. World class we are changing our curriculum based on what is expected from the real professionals of the real field. As you will see then we have a close connection with the top companies all over the world and top departments in supply chain and top executives in the field. So we hear for them in a regular manner what they expect to what we should form which would shape supply chain management professionals. Global leaders is so important. This is why intentionally we have students in the program from all over the world sharing their culture, setting their perspectives as a global supply chain should be. Of course supply chain management is our topic and innovative MIT educational model. So we hear at MIT we have the vision that our mind should work together with our hands. This is one of our most important principles. So then we love to propose experiential learning in every single I mean educational component that we are putting here bringing the best of the companies the best of the applied innovation from all our instructors but also the best from you guys. So then you are bringing your supply chain experience could be a short experience in the field could be two years of experience but you are bringing your best and then you will share and the collective in I mean learning will happen the magic will happen. I mean gathering all these stakeholders with our educational model right. And then yeah so then we're pretty proud of these figures and they is really proud and then we have been recognized number one all over the world by different rankings. So then ranking is applied to a management master in supply chain management by the their ranking the QS ranking global ranking. Then number one ranking also in by EDU universe all together with our scale centers. Also number one in by US news that is one of the most recognized rankings for the school of engineering we belong to the school of engineering but we work closely with the MIT Sloan School of Business. So then we have the two sites of them of the key components in supply chain that is engineering but also business. So then we have and you can follow two different paths. I am sure that you have already viewed our website. Then we have you have two different paths to follow. The two of them are intensive if we compare with other paths that maybe you are thinking about compare with MBA for example MBA typically is two years. So then in our program we want to be intensive and purposely on supply chain. So then you have two options you can go to the residential program is intensive program full-time program 10 months on campus. You will obtain the master degree. So then typically is designed for early career supply chain professionals. So we have professionals with four or five years of experience could be supply chain experience. But if you don't have direct supply chain experience please apply because I'm sure that you have a lot of strengths than then we would like to have your strength in our experiential learning class. Then again a customer career development as Len and Justin explained and also then with the residential path you will be eligible for OPT STEM work authorization in the U.S. if you are not a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent resident. You have other options instead of being 10 months outside of the workforce maybe you can follow the blended program. The degrees are exactly the same coming from residential path or coming from the blended plus path exactly the same for for the blended is is an alternative pathway. So then first you take the MITx micro master certificate is an online program. You can take your own pattern and your own cadence for taking the courses in the micro master. Once you have the CFX the exam then you are eligible to apply to our program. So somehow we take the full term from the residential we waive from the with the micro master certificate this means that we join us in person in January and then you are five months with us in a very intensive path here in campus. So then you will graduate with the residential at the same time in May right. So again the difference big difference is 10 months residential from let's say August till May or five months in campus with the blended plus previous micro master right and then you will graduate exactly the same in May the same degree an MIT master degree we will display in in a minute. So then yeah as we mentioned then we are very applied research oriented. So then we have several labs that are part of our center for transportation logistics all our instructors then they lead a laboratory where we are doing applied research mainly with companies will love to do applied research this is why we are here. So then I am putting here my lab digital supply chain transformation because we are providing in in alphabetical order but then we have also food retail trade lab led by Dr. Chris Capples humanitarian supply chain lab mega city logistics lab we are working with the best companies all over the world right including I mean FMCG retail companies logistics service providers who are leaders in technology and innovation in the field of logistics we are working with Amazon from many different angles so again then we are bringing this applied research into the classes from from our labs a lot of publications you can take a look at the website if you want so then our timeline then especially talking about the residential program so then you will start with the onboarding so once you apply once you get accepted then then you start once you are accepted because we start the onboarding right we are I mean shaping your path and let this customize according to you so then we have the orientation in August so then we start working on some recruiting preparation with Len and Justin the capstone introductions so you will be able to select out of this year for example out of 45 capstones working with the big company the big players that are impacting the real operations in supply chain I mean we are talking about PNG we are talking about Mondays we are talking about the Starbucks masks so different companies that are are impacting their field then in fall we September to December we start the proper courses in supply chain management in January we welcome all our scale centers coming from all over the world here MIT three very intensive weeks very global I mean with supply chain leaders from all over the world and then from February to May in the spring then your electives you have more than 300 electives then you can select from and then you finish your research project and then we have the final graduation a beautiful moment with this picture so picture yourself within this picture right I mean graduating from MIT in front of the dome that is the concentration of knowledge as we see here at MIT what is the timeline for the blended so here then you will see a different path as we mentioned so then first you need to take micro master go there review the what are the courses and the timeline so once you have finished the micro master you are eligible to apply to our blended path you are also eligible to apply to the residential if you want to PT huh so then you can definitely go with the residential path if you have a micro master holder but the typical I mean in the blended are again profiles of five to seven years of experience so then in the fall in the you will be online you will do pre work you were preparing yourself we are equipping yourself to follow the pattern here at MIT and your education so then in again in the fall then you will take some online courses with us and you will be doing your capstone project with one of these companies let's say Starbucks so then you start I mean providing a solution for a real problem in supply chain for the Starbucks and then in January you join us in campus this is when we start counting the five months on campus experience so typically in the blended cohort you don't leave your jobs right then you I mean request a leave of absence and in your work you come here you equip your network you enjoy the MIT ecosystems and then you come back to your work but also if you decide to change gears and come and leave your job this is another option we will provide also a lot of recruiting opportunities if you decide this path so again January scale you join the residential program you join the scale program and also in spring all these electives and you continue with your capstone project and at the end you will receive the I mean the same exactly the same degree the same master degree than the residential program here the post program is that then you will continue working with us we will continue providing recruiting services here with Len and Justin so then then until you you will get your your job you decide to change the the job yeah so then next slide is the curriculum I want to go quickly because we want to make sure that they will have time for you to ask your questions and also then then we will be um we are recording again this this webinar so then you can visualize again and then stop where you want to stop so this is our curriculum in a nutshell so then we are having the full term that it is a little bit changing if we compare residential and and blended so but then I will go more with again in the full term it's mainly residential so then again logistic systems we are working about data data analytics is important but we are not a master in analytics but we work with the most advanced techniques for analytics in supply chain domain yeah um we are you are gonna have also supply chain design core course and you start your capstone project maybe you will have some elective here or in a loan starting IEP in January IEP is a very coin term here is independent activities program something like this so then yeah and it's January it's mainly January we are gonna welcome all these students from scale from Europe Saragosa Luxembourg China Latin America we welcome here 200 students coming from all over the world with a very exciting program of activities leadership speakers very top speakers their entrepreneurs some competitions will love competitions supply chain challenges with data and real challenges from real companies and then you wouldn't I mean put another dimension of your network with the global scale network and then spring as I mentioned so then typically we pay a lot of attention to writing and presentation communication skills in the supply chain domain data science and mature learning we pay a lot of attention to mature learning artificial intelligence in supply chain again this is what we are hearing from our partner companies and the executives we are working with so then every year we are reshaping according to the latest trends the latest methodologies in artificial intelligence and all of us all the instructors we are working with artificial intelligence from many different angles uh and this is a beauty of MIT we are totally working with the real world in order to bring it into our class then in spring we are also having electives finance elective supply chain elective and also management elective so again a beautiful I mean portfolio of choices you can take here 90 units in total but typically the students are taking more than 90 units so this is that you can customize your path I mentioned then you can take more than 300 classes all over MIT on top of our core curriculum so these are some of the courses that we offer that are a lexical supply chain but again on top of that I mean the College of Computing AI or maybe the Sloan School of Management yeah different kind of electives so here you have some of them so then going to the path you can follow I mentioned that then you can follow residential path 10 months mainly blended plus blended path together with micro master then a five month in campus very intensive the same degree but you can select two kind of degrees then you can from both residential from blended then you can go with the master of appliance sciences then this is our preferred path but also if you want to do more kind of research then you can go to the master of engineering and supply chain management so then we know what is the itinerary you will follow again we recommend uh we equip you more to go to work in a company this is why we the master of appliance sciences in supply chain is is the preferred path but then you can make the selection to go to the master of engineering if you are you are especially motivated by research so then so then Martin would you like to share the MIT experience also from your experience at MIT yeah thank you so much Maria all right everyone so Maria and Len talked about you know how you're going to look at the end of this program where you're going where your career is going to take and then how you're going to get there academically but you know that's only one aspect of our program we also have a vast MIT experience that you get to partake in whether you're here as a blended student for five months or as a residential student for 10 months so this is our beautiful campus and as we talked about the mission of MIT you know we live by this mission it is a part of everything that we do here um you know we want to advance knowledge and educate students in science technology and other areas of scholarship to best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century so this is the community that you will be joining um you will have the opportunity to engage across campus especially as as you're here physically on campus um you will be able to engage with students across all different schools all different walks of life within your cohort but also within the school of engineering within the larger MIT community as well we also as part of our community building process we take you on a trek we have in the past years gone to Panama and to San Francisco just to you know give you some industry knowledge and connections it's also a really wonderful bonding experience this is my first year on the team and I'm really looking forward to going on the trek this year so this is a really great time for our students to kind of build those relationships within within the cohort and also within the industry while you're on campus you know there are plenty of student clubs and activities to take advantage of in our building we actually have the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship that many students like to engage with and one of our electives or sorry one of our core courses is also taught by Paul Cheek who is the executive director down there um there are many of our students take advantage of the Sloan clubs and activities um as our program does cross over with many of the Sloan course offerings um and there are some areas of interest that overlap so why should you consider the MIT SEM program well you can take only 10 months or five months away from work it's an accelerated program you only need to stop working for a short period of time and then you can come back with more value to add to your industry um we have comparable salary outcomes to every top MBA program uh you know it's just a little bit more specific and a little bit more accelerated to get you where you're going a little bit quicker the SCMR are the residential program does offer OPT and that's up to three years of US work authorization if you're an international student looking for that kind of opportunity this is a cohort experience I talked a little bit about it but really you are going to be a part of a very clear and well bonded cohort when you come to campus um you will have 40 about 40 students in the residential cohort and then in the spring you'll you'll double your size and the blended students will join you so that's a really wonderful network that you get to build and experience and then as I mentioned we have study tracks available that you know allows you to build your global network so we've now talked about the whole program the whole experience at MIT how do you get there how are you going to get into this program well you're going to apply we're really looking forward to seeing all of your applications so here are the brief rundown of our application requirements you know for the residential only we are looking for you to either have taken the micro masters program or the GMAT and GRE as well as a written statement of objectives for the blended program you know we are looking at your performance in the micro masters program as well as on the exam for that program and then your project proposal so you will need to submit a two page description for your capstone project for both of these programs we do require the IELTS or the TOEFL if you're from a non-english speaking nation a video statement is required resume letters of recommendation and your undergraduate transcript we do look holistically at all of these things so here are some tips your video statement first of all should be two minutes long please do not make it longer than two minutes this serves as a personal introduction to the admissions committee and it's really an opportunity for you to demonstrate who you are and tell us about yourself talk about your personal experiences but also your professional accomplishments really try to be yourself don't read a script if you can avoid it we want you to talk to us we want you to be yourself and be authentic and try and have a good time with it I know it's kind of nerve wracking but we suggest practicing just a little bit before you do it just use your webcam to record your video you could use zoom you could use anything really just to make sure that you can record it and then just make sure you know you're well lit we want to be able to see you and we want to be able to hear you clearly we also get a lot of questions about work experience and so Maria talked a little bit about this our typical student has between four and seven years of work experience but it's a two-year minimum requirement if we see a student that is an applicant that has two years of work experience but is stellar and wonderful we're you know we're absolutely looking forward to considering your application and then your resume where you will clearly lay out your experience and your professional journey so far we do have select fellowships and funding available we consider all applicants for fellowships and funding so you can apply in the early rounds in order to kind of be considered a little bit earlier so these are kind of some of our fellowships the scm departmental fellowships that those are within our department here scale scholars which are scholarships towards our scale centers which are located all over the world the awesome fellowship is specifically for women applicants and then the ups fellowship is specifically for ups the ups assigns those fellowships themselves deadlines so we are looking forward like I said we're really looking forward to reviewing your applications and here are all of our deadlines so you can see that our first deadline is coming up on november 1st we're hoping to see many of you submit your applications before then and you'll have decisions by november 28th and then our first blended deadline is december 19th and you'll have decisions by january 2024 the rest of our deadlines are outlined there and we are looking forward to reviewing and now i'm very excited to hand over our current student perspectives drake and mayank who are two of our student current scm residential students class of 2024 and they will share a little bit about their current perspective as they're they've now been on campus what three months so drake and mayank please join us turn your video on and take us away hey everyone um mike i will kick it off i'll give you guys a quick background and then maybe some of the questions that that kind of i'll consolidate and talk about those a little bit um so i studied supply chain in my undergrad i'm originally from south carolina but i've been in chicago since undergrad before moving to boston um studied supply chain from a business perspective and then spent the past four years working in supply chain consulting around um logistic systems kind of in logistic space and technology space anything that overlapped with between those two could be in my realm um so i built a pretty good business background but coming to mit two of my goals were kind of get a broad end end supply chain experience so if you've had a lot of kind of domain experience in one area of supply chain it's great to broaden out and then two on the kind of data and analytics side right maria talked about it everybody's using it now and so to sharpen those skills that was a big focus for myself um i'll say one thing a lot of the questions in the chat were kind of hey if i have this background in this number of years of experience you know what would i fit in i'll say the one thing there's no mold of what the program's looking for there's no specific experience that is being looked at the point of coming to grad school is to have diverse experiences right so some of us worked in supply chain some of us some of my peers were in venture capital they were data scientists they were in manufacturing and it really adds to the program because if we were all the same we wouldn't learn from each other right and so regardless of what your background is if you have an interest and passion in supply chain like definitely apply that's what makes the program beautiful because we have so many different experiences that contributes to all of our classes um and makes it just a lot more learning even outside the classroom um so my i'll let you introduce yourself give a quick background and then happy to answer specific questions about our experience yeah hello everyone and good evening to people who are joining late my name is mayank i'm from india before coming to MIT i worked as a manager position in automobile industry way back in india in marty suzuki where i grew from an engineer to a managerial position learning from my cross functional experiences there and at some point i realized that i needed in-depth knowledge in one field so i pinned down to supply chain other option i had was an MBA but i feel that to get the role to get the outcome that i need a specialized master's program in supply chain is better suited towards me and then i applied for MIT it is the best program that supply chain offer on this planet and coming towards the questions that i seen the q and a many of you have like um queries about like am i eligible to this program or is my experience suitable for it so the only way to get to know us talk to us like reach out to us will help you and there is no correct answer like this program is really looking to having a diverse cohort so the better the sooner you apply the better the chance to get in because there won't be like many people that have similar backgrounds so it is like that for this program and i'm also looking for some questions that i'll be i love to answer thank you so much both of you um um maybe um each of you can talk a little bit about what drew you to a graduate degree in the first place um what are you hoping to do after you you leave the SCM program so my goal is to continue working in the industry with this specialized supply chain knowledge i'll be able to understand the business perspective of supply chain in a better way i want to improve as a person i was before the supply chain and with the challenging courses and the transformational learning that i'm having here i'm sure that i'm in the right direction and i'll definitely reach my goal here yeah so i mentioned it a little bit maybe i'll talk um right because i looked at MBA programs right so maybe about our program versus MBA programs i think it all depends on what you want to get out of the program i'm biased the cost benefit is is uh much stronger with our program right and the the beauty of it was i knew i didn't want to i wanted to get technical and analytical experience but i also still wanted some of the quote MBA s classes if you want to call them right and we talked about kind of the the relationship with Sloan you still have that opportunity and so it's kind of the best of both worlds with our class in only one year so career opportunities are comparable you're still in classes with MBA students they're in your group projects but you also get kind of the focus supply chain experience as well so i think it's the best of both worlds um i wanted to broaden out and so that that gives me the opportunity coming here to broaden out and kind of looking forward um get a little bit more into and on the supply chain side it's great to talk to Len you know i have an idea of what i wanted to do and Len and Justin have been very very helpful and and you know thinking through what's next um so if you don't know exactly what you want to do after that's okay i know directionally what i'm interested in but fleshing that out on specific companies you know sometimes it's tough the the great thing is with the alumni even this summer right i talked to Len over the summer he connected me with alumni that i was talking to in july before i even got on campus and so the alumni all those conversations that you have allow you to figure out what you want to do next so if you don't know directly what it looks like coming out the program that's okay um it might change what i came in and what i do after may not be the same thing but that's okay with that said i do think as you guys apply you know put some thought into types of work you want to do after um it's important that from the program perspective yes we're looking for you to have good experience but also you know we want you to be successful after this and the program stays number one because the alumni are very strong so put some thought into how um you're going to help out the program while you're here as well as as after because that's important in your applications i would like also to emphasize i mean what would rake mention about the alumni then is a very strong alumni network so we have the senior bp of supply channel tesla we have ceo's in our network and they are super committed with the with the community the mit community because they have been using the alumni when they were here so then is a very powerful alumni network that we cultivate and then once you graduate you will be in that site so you will come back here at mit campus and then you will love to come back here to mit campus to reconnect to remember your good times when you were here and also to hire and this is a very i mean a very fruitful engagement um that we are having with the alumni as rake mentioned great thank you both kate do we have a question for our panelists yeah yeah we have a few that came through um so someone's wondering what your favorite thing about your experience so far has been as the semester started related to the environment or classmates or classes like maybe what's your favorite class great question rake do you want to start us off yeah i'll list a couple of things um so one i love that our class is so international so we're 60 or 70 international and so it feels like there's a holiday in some part of the world you know once a month or once every three weeks and so i've just learned culturally so much more um so there is a social side to it right we work hard but there's also a lot of social aspects to it um we have you know social event leads stuff like that so the international aspect is a lot of fun um going on clubs so i'm learning to row right now and so wednesdays and fridays i'm up at 5 30 in the morning on the charles river and so there's a lot of opportunities like that a lot of my peers have learned to sail um so that's a ton of fun and the clubs are kind of open to all of us right um my favorite class people love or hate this class it's called system dynamics it's a lot of work i spent a lot of time on it but it's really interesting kind of moving from especially in supply chain context you know if we make this decision what are the four unintended consequences that that are going to affect us so kind of circular thinking versus um kind of linear thinking it's just a completely new way to think about things um so we're really enjoying that class yeah for me i'm really enjoying uh logistical systems it is a core course of supply chain management very important chris kaplis is taking it i really love the way he teaches and as far as boston is concerned yes i'm also exploring boston very much the walk and the run besides the charles river it's amazing like everybody's exploring it and yeah the main thing which i enjoy is the diversity of the program like you know you are getting to know about the diversity how supply chain functions and the way people like end of the day supply chain is people's job so you need to understand every aspect of like whatever chance you get to understand people that that it is and this program offers you that the diversity it is the most favorite thing that i really enjoy another question is how busy is your class schedule so how many classes do you take a day what is your week kind of look like in general yeah so it depends on how much credits are you taking like if you are taking a moderate credits like you can be having one or two classes from monday to thursday and recitations on friday and if you are like choosy and if you're taking less credits like moderately then you can have maybe a day off like i have my tuesdays off so i use that day to cover my homework and assignments and rest of the day i have classes yeah just real quick so i we also have these half terms and so it gets a little bit more nuanced but i have three classes on monday wednesday and then one on tuesday thursday the rest of the time is pretty much spent in group projects it's a lot more group projects and so you're still working it's not like you're going to class there's a lot of preparations for the classes so yeah you're spending time even if you're not in class still doing work but there is time for social stuff you're not working you know 90 hour weeks um just on classwork i mean this is mit this is a rigorous program we would expect that you all be working hard uh but also playing of course because this is your one year to make the most of it i just to emphasize here that then the the minimum for for graduation is 90 credits yeah but we allow up to 120 credits so it means that then you can customize the effort you want to put without any extra money yeah because it's a typical question oh i am going i'm going to pay more no then you have the freedom to decide which kind of law would you want to do because maybe some of you you want to take leadership in the clubs or maybe to do more networking or more recruiting than others so then you can customize your pure academic effort with other activities you can run here that's a really great point maria and also uh a thing that i heard from both mayank and drake is that you know your team classes um in specifically in supply chain like supply chain logistics which mayank mentioned and then also system dynamics which is actually a slown course um that drake is taking right now um so that just kind of emphasizes that you can be taking classes across mit it does not have to be only within our specific school you are as an mit student you are open to take classes wherever you want right any other questions kate um someone's wondering about your experience so far with career consulting and job fairs maybe you can talk about some of the companies that have come in and talk to your class yeah i can start on this one um so i've entered the process of interviewing right now so have some interviews next week so it does start fast i will say one thing that was mentioned is you know if you're going to get a job employability it's not um something that you should stress about i think one of the things that has surprised me a little bit is how holistic the program is of don't worry about getting the job like think about what you want to actually do and so during orientation we have kind of strengths assessments and then a coach come in and talk us through it's much more about your skill development and how you want to think about things and how you present yourself what you want to do and then how to how do you articulate your strengths of um why you would be able to do that and so i think that's maybe one thing right there's all these companies coming here we have career fairs through mit i think i've just been pleasantly surprised on the overall development not just hey get a job and then kind of move on check them off the list and they have a job and they're fine um even with alumni right they still have access to learn and just then to reach out um which which is really nice it doesn't intense when you've made your caps into classes and uh recruiting but i'll say just it it's really helpful to have a clear idea you know as you figure out what you want to do next first thing i have no idea and then um you know just figuring it out that's more stressful uh i think the career services that this program is really amazing just in ann land they provide feedbacks for everything like as soon as i got my admit they were in touch for improving our resumes and what works in us versus what not works in us that's the thing because we are specifically looking jobs in us so everything has to be customized according to us and after we came here like we had constant meetings understanding ourselves like they have helped us to understand ourselves better to leverage our strengths and look for a goal that will suit well for our purpose so they are doing great job at this and i don't think any other college provides support of this extent in supply chain so this is really amazing one of the quick thing i'll add so um i'm looking at consulting and some of my other peers are i think in addition to the career services having that diverse cohort like when i'm doing case prep with my peers they see things that i haven't seen and i see things they haven't seen based on our experiences um so even from your peers in the class there's a lot of uh just encouraging people um in their application process if one of us had an interview and somebody else has it the next day you know helping you know here's how you can think about prepping for it um but also having those varied backgrounds definitely helps people to get jobs right we're stronger because we have diverse backgrounds i'll also add a thing to it like since we have come like every week there is a company coming we have coffee chats we are getting perspective of what alumni's are doing from MIT SCM and what are the goals that we can have in mind after this program so yeah and MIT career fair you can attend Howard career fair so it's open to all the students it's a very good way to network to organizations and see what what works in us and what doesn't work all right thank you so much both of you for joining us and um everyone uh please join me in thanking our Mayank and Drake for sharing their perspectives and thank you everyone for your really awesome questions um but we are coming towards the end so if you need to hop off it is no problem but thank you so much for joining us i'm going to stop sharing my screen thank you so much


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Nice hit cards on the first Otto. We've got a Blue Mookie. Nice one there to 75. Blue Pulsar. Himinakunya going at it for the MVP right now. We've got Cy Young Chain for the Rays. And we've got Tyler Freeman on the Silver Rookie Otto for the Guardians. Not numbered there, Silver Rookie Otto. Ready guys? Box two. Box two here of Pristine. Thank you, Sean. Taking a couple spots in the Prism. One in each, it looks like. Thank you, Sean. Ryan taking the Metz in Finest. We're down to one guys, down to one on Finest. Wow. Just the Cardinals for 169. Just the Cardinals left. Appreciate you guys helping fill us up. Thank you, William, Brian, Leonie and Travis taking spots. All in going. Alrighty guys, good luck here. Box two of Pristine. Roeblaze Refractor and Gold. It's Aaron Judge. Nice one there to 50. Old Judgey Gold. Frankie Alvarez on the Fresh Faces Rookie. Moving. Don't twerk down. Oh, it's Field Gold. Thought that was the QB. Got a Brent Beatty Rookie Silver. Judgey on the base. There's Sabato Perez going, going, gone. Let's go. There's Agerar and Cardinacium Refractor Rookie and Blue. Estrella Ruiz the 75. Eights. Looks like you really struggled with that. That was probably like a 40 yarder. There's a Blue Shohei. Nice one there going, going, gone. Otani for the Angels to 75. And Frankie Alvarez going, going, gone. Rookie. It is going to be Hideki Matsui. Nice one there around the Diamond Jersey Auto. Nice one there. Yankees on the game used Relic for Hideki Matsui. Yankees.  Not numbered there on the base, Relic Autos. It's a Gunner. And Fresh Faces Morrell. Volpe on the Refractor Rookie and Josh Naylor to 99. Bryce Harper, Osnatt. Lubaugh Refractor and a Pedro. Pedro Martinez and Frank Thomas on the Going, Going, Gone. Now for our Mags, we have Blue to 75 Xander Bogarts. Not numbered on the Pulsar Cori Sega Rangers. We have Rookie Otto Oscar Gonzalez, Guardians. Not numbered on the Refractor Rookie Otto. Guardians. Got a Gold. This one's going to the Blue Jays. Hunjin Ryu. Blue Jays Gold. Got Jason Alexander, Kastanza there for the Baruchu, Pulsar Rookie. And Otto on the back is a Refractor Otto Max Castillo for the Royals. Alrighty guys, now we're onto some Cosmic. We start with last year's Cosmic. Sold out of Finest, guys. Appreciate whoever took the Cardinals there. Looks like Larry. Missed the Larry. Yankees sir, sold out on Finest, guys. We'll get that going right after this. Next break with spots to fill, we got Select H2 Basketball. Let's get going on that one. Appreciate y'all helping fill us up so far today. Bright got four boxes left. This one is 22 Cosmic. Start us off. Whit Merrifield. Rookie Dettmers. Yordan. Pobeshet. Got a Refractor. Badu. Manny Machado. There's a Black Disco. This one's Miguel Cabrera for the Tigers. That is number nine out of ten. Nice hit there, Tigers. Future All Star. Miguel Cabrera there, number to ten. Nice hit Tigers. I like that Black Disco. It's a clean design. I will say I do like the 22 design, but I think they did even better on 23 this year. It's a Josh Hader Rocket Arms. Turner. Yeah, the Black Disco. I like it. It's another one. That's another Black Disco. Brian De La Cruz, Rookie. And it is Supernova of Jose Altuve. Three out of ten on the Black Disco Astros now. That's crazy. Holy cow, that's crazy. Two to ten in the first couple packs here of the 22 Cosmic. Let's keep it going. Let's keep it going. Refractor Tay Oscar. Rookie Duran. Carlos Correa. Zach Wheeler. There's a Launch into Orbit, Salvi Perez. Tatis Musgrope. Yeah, I think they definitely did better on the design this year. I think I like it better. Plus the planetary pursuit chase. I think overall it's a cool looking set. A little bit better this year. Launch into orbit. Juan Soto. What's up, Jonathan? How we doing today? What up? Yeah, thank you, Larry. Closing out. Finest. We'll get that one going right after this, guys. N'Chanager, Bieber, Rocket Arms. USC quarterback, man. It was pretty good. He was scrabbler. Plumlee last year. I think he was pretty good last year. It's hard for me to remember. He's got some legs. I don't think he was their only QB last year, but I'll hit that guy in the street. Blue Pulsar. This one's Casey Mice. Number 1099 and Torkelson on the Scope Rookie. All right, we'll see if we can get a red for you then. How about a red, Jordan Walker? Maybe we can do that. There's a rookie, Jeremy Pena. God, Tim Anderson. Scope, Jayrod Rookie. Julio, Max Kepler. Refractor Rookie of Seth Beer. Stop. Beep boop. Beep boop. Oh, God. Oh, God. Every action changed quickly with it. The guy coming in. Kyle, you better get some of the yellow card. Good, nice gray shirt. Orlando Rocket Arms Mueller. It's not even worth it to yellow card these two. That's true. They already know what they deserve. There's a rookie, Kirby Castellanos. Alrighty, guys. Now we've got another box, 22 Cosmic. Full up on Finest Next, guys. Next break with spots. We got Select H2 Basketball. A bot trying to open this box right now. There we go. Finest Breaking Next.  Keep on moving here. There's no way you guys just happened to roll at the same time. Right. Had to be playing Fortnite or something. Rookie Griffin Jax. Got a Trevor Story. Got Jeff McNeil. We had Jupiter and Saturn. Saturn of what was the record? You know. Launched into orbit, Big Mac. We had Adley. There's a Bobby Whit Rookie. We had Adley Jupiter and Adley Saturn in the same half case. I think that's going to do it. I think that's going to do it for now. So Rookie Colton Welker, Elio Ramos. Yeah, Adley, the O-Spot 8 on that last half case. Launched into orbit of J-Rod. Who's there? Oh yeah, and two gunners. Yeah, glued to 199. Same half case. Yeah. That was an Orioles half case, man. So really good for the O's. Chris Sale. Clement. Yeah, really good break for the O's, I'd say. Rookie McGill. Say it's a Zookie Base. Johnny Cato. There's a Mark Simeon. We got a Scope. Rookie Steve Kwan. Guardians. McCluschen. That guy still got work to do on prism draft picks for tonight. We only got one more basketball break with spots to fill. It is select H2 basketball five boxer. And then we're on to prism draft picks for the rest of the night. And we got a NTPYT case to close out the night. Over all this Chapman, Contreras. Yeah, I think Sam's gone forever. Refractor Josh Jonathan. Matt Veerling, he got his one line in. I won't call him what Carl was calling him. There's a Silver Matt Veerling. Refractor Fils. Down to 13 to go guys on that first prism draft. Very nice. Let's keep on moving over halfway on the first one. Chef G. Byron Buxton. Fletcher got a Randy. Starling Marte. A few more packs in 22. Then we'll do 23. Looking for a Pluto. Got blue. Josiah Gray on the rookie to 99. Yep, 80 of 99. Josiah Gray, Nationals. Miguel Cabrera, Rob Muto. Tegrom. There's Soler and O'Neil Cruz, rookie base. It is gold. Justin Turner for the Dodgers. That's the Red Sox legend. Justin Turner, gold to 50. 47 out of 50. And Vlad Guerrero on the back. Alrighty guys, now we got two more boxes. It's going to be 23. Tops Chrome Cosmic. Appreciate you guys. Down to 13 to go on prism draft. Very nice. Select H2. Down to 8. Down to 8 to go guys. Select H2. Breaking after Finest. Coming up next. Three now. Let's see a Pluto. There's a Star Clusters. This one is going to be a triple. We'll roll a dice here for all the triples. Got one, two left, three, four in the middle and five, six on the right. Go one. Left side for the triples. That'll go to the Philly Star Clusters. Eloi. Yeah, I think I do like the base design for 23 a little better. Now I'm getting like the back to back 22, 23. There's a Jordan Walker ET. Logan Gilbert. Hey, that's awesome Puka. I hope you get it my friend. Nothing to get it man. There's a Pete Alonso launched into orbit. Just trying to pick up another job. I gotcha. It's fun man. There's a Clusters of Blue Jace. I work in the shop out once a week usually. It's a good time man. You never know what's going to come into the shop. That's for sure. Got Corey Seeger ET. Some people bring in some fun singles to sell. Some people come in looking to rip. You never know. It's a Christian Walker Scope for the D-Backs. A Star Clusters Rangers. Always good getting to meet some customers as well. There's a launch into orbit Alonso. Say George Kirby to 199. Mariners. Bobby Shett. Joey Vado ET. Yeah, I will. I will Puka if someone comes in trying to sell something. I'll do comps. I'll buy it. There's a Pascatino rookie refractor. Joe's typically our guy who works the shop. He works like five days a week. I only work one. Ooh, Orange. But yeah, we'll buy stuff if people bring it in. Jordan Walker. This one is Orange. Christopher Morell. Nice one there for the Cubs on the True Rookie to 25. Very nice. Morell Orange Lava. Hey, what's up, Mark? Afternoon, sir. How you doing? Evening. Nice Morell there to 25. Great hit Cubs. Nice rookie. O'Neal Cruz ET. We got a Star Clusters Yankees. How big is the team? Probably like 20 employees around there. I grew up with 30. 30? Was that including gaming, or is that just here? Padres Clusters for the day. I don't think we got 30. Maybe we do. There's a scopes of John Carlos. I'd say between like 20 and 30, Puka. Yeah. Corbin Burns refractor. I think that was before gaming at their own store. Yeah, there's more people devoted to shipping and sorting the brakes than breaking the brakes for sure. Ricky Von Grissom. A couple of people who work in the shop. And we got a couple of people who do like marketing, who do like inventory, that kind of thing. Got a pretty big crew. There's a Starry Knight Brights Harper. Miguel Vargas. And last box here, guys. Pops Chrome Cosmic. Yeah, no, at Lane Gaming's, they got their own thing going on. They got probably 20 employees as well over there. They stay open a lot longer though. And they do all the in-game, all the in-store tournaments and stuff. So they got a lot more going on. Definitely more retail employees over there, more business, more people come through the door. Wow, Mark. Take up space. Okay, well, good to know you guys. I'm going to head out. Happy Clutchman. Happy Clutchman. Back to back. Glaver Torres. That's not nice, Mark. I need Donnie. I need Donnie. It's a Michael Harris rookie. Yeah, I'll get the top loader. E.T. Wander. There's a Star Clusters Rangers. James Outman. Pretty much Puka. Yeah, pretty much. And it's just, in general, it's more popular for walk-ins and stuff. Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh and all that. More of like a retail. Alrighty, that's a planetary pursuit. It is the sun, and it's going to be J-Rod. Nice one there, Mariners. The sun J-Rod on the planetary pursuit. To Grom. Yeah, pretty much all weekend they have different tournaments going on, launched into orbit of Giancarlo. Metazoo tournaments, Pokemon tournaments, Warhammer tournaments, Volpe, Magic the Gathering tournaments. Yeah, they stay busy over there, man. They stay busy for sure. There's a Juan Soto. E.T. Rafi Devers. Refractor Nemo. Xander Bogartz. Trias Clusters is going to be Phyllis. Cabrera. Ooh, Crossbar. Frankie Alvarez. E.T. Extra-Trustral Talents. Casas. There's a Scopa Miguel Cabrera. Mike Trout. Oh, yeah, man. Last week when Lorcaana came out, there was a quite a line at late in gaming. Quite a line. I mean, two weeks ago now, but Miguel Cabrera launched into orbit. They had the release day, and a lot of people showed up, man, looking for some Lorcaana. For sure. I know, Mark. I was just playing along. There's a Clusters of Red Sox. Hakunya. There's a Clusters Braves. Yelly. Always go along with whatever happens. Ricky Paraza. Herrera. Garcia. We know what you're up to, Mark. We know what you're up to. Tim Anderson of 199. Aqua Wave. Josh Hader. There's a Bobby Whit. E.T. Star Clusters. Metz. I mean, we don't... No, not really, Puka. Not really. Most of our, most of the sports stuff is online, really. Yeah. Refractor Vargas. We are probably 20 minutes away from the gaming store. The gaming store is a little more centrally located. It's over by a big mall. So that's kind of more reason why they get a more foot traffic as well. Josh Young. And it's just bigger. Gunner Henderson Rookie. They got more room for stuff. I would say 95% of our business is online. Yeah. There's DeGrom, Starrie Knight, and Corbin Carroll on the back. Foot traffic is not a lot over here. Alrighty, guys. Let's do a hit recap real quick. We'll move on to Finest. Full case Josiah Grada 99. We had Casey Meis to 99. Gold to 50. Justin Turner. Dodgers. We had Morrell, the 25. Nice one there. Orange Wave or Orange Lava. 25 to 10. We had Altuve, Supernova. And to 10 we had Miguel Cabrera, the Black Discos. We had Hideki Matsui around the Diamond Jersey Auto Yankees. We had Starling Marte Metz on the Relic Auto. This is Max Castillo, Silver Auto not numbered. Had Officer Gonzalez, Guardians not numbered. Tyler Freeman, Guardians, and Alec Burleson. Silver Auto for the Cardinals there. Alrighty, guys. That will do it for the Cosmically Pristine Six Box Mixer number three random team stop. Next up, we will have some Finest.


I'm Andy Robinson, I'm the extension potato agronomist for NDSU and the University of Minnesota and we're really happy to see everybody here today. It's good that we're all here and able to gather after not being able to for a while, so thanks for coming. Before we get started, I want to recognize a few people that are here today. We have Greg Lardi, who's the Dean and Vice President for Agriculture at NDSU. Charlie Stotenall, Assistant Director for Extension, wherever Charlie's hiding, I don't know, he's in the camouflage coat, so he's probably hiding somewhere, you can't see him. And Jane Shue, where's Jane at? There's Jane, so she oversees the research at NDSU right now, so we are glad they're here. Also, I want to thank Carl Hoverson and the Hoverson Farms for hosting this, like they always do every year and for the great breakfast, so let's give them a hand. Thanks again, Carl, for your generosity and everything you do. I also want to recognize the MPPGA staff, Donovan and Ted and Todd right there hiding with us back to us. He's handing out programs, but thanks for them and all they do. First of all, I'll just give you a quick update for the summer as we all know it's been a hot year and as a result of the heat, I've had a lot of people I've talked to. We've had seen low tuber sets, that first tuber set was very low, so we have that, we have a second tuber set, and so yields are probably likely going to be a little bit changed, the profile is going to be changed, and there might be chances for physiological disorders in tubers, but that's kind of some of the things we're seeing. But because of the stress too, we've been seeing plants that are maturing quicker earlier, starting to senesce earlier because of that heat, and so this can also result, if you're storing seed or tubers, this can also result in added physiological aging in potatoes. So something to think about when you're storing and managing potatoes this winter. So that's certainly been a big issue as part of this heat stress we've had and the stress of the plants. I'm seeing more and more soil borne diseases starting to take hold in the plants, more verticillium, black dot, and Julie might talk a little bit more about that when she's up here, but I've been seeing that as well this year. Something else to keep in mind, I think too, we've had a few with the dry conditions we've had, we've had some herbicide carryover issues from last year, and so going into next year, herbicide carryover could potentially be a problem just because herbicides, when they're on dry soils, they tend to bind harder to the soils and they're less likely to get broken down between years, and so that's something just to be aware of as you start thinking about next year's crop and your fields. And one of the things we're working on with some of my associates is we're going to hopefully have an article about how to do a bioassay, but a good way to test if a field has herbicide carryover is more or less to dig some of that soil up and you put it in pots and you can plant some seeds in there, either potatoes or other indicator species that might show if there are any potential herbicide issues with that soil, so something just to keep in mind going into next year. So those are kind of some observations from this year. We haven't had any late blight found, disease pressure really has been pretty low, full year disease pressure has been low because of the weather, so that's been a good thing from the weather. And overall, you know, it looks like a good average crop that's coming on. So as far as research goes, I'll highlight one project that we have going on here actually at Hoverson Farms, my grad student, Jed Grove, wherever Jed's at, he's got a cowboy hat on, he's hiding somewhere, there he is. So he's doing a project here we've got going, it's funded by a specialty crop block grant, so we're looking at three varieties, Russet Bear Bank, Vanick Russet and Dakota Russet, and so we have three planting dates and we're doing a bulking study. We're looking at how fast they bulk, every two weeks he goes out and he takes a sample and he digs those out, and then at the same time from those samples, we're working with Dr. Pashy and she's looking at the amount of verticillium that's accumulating in those stems. And so we're not only looking at the bulking rate, but we're also looking at the rate of verticillium accumulation. And so that study is going on here, just down the road here in Laramore, and then we also have it replicated in Purim. And so it's a very interesting study, we hope to learn a lot of information, this is the first year, but hopefully by this winter's meeting, Jed will have some information to share with the growers about what we're learning about verticillium and bulking rate of some of these newer, different varieties that we have. We've got a lot of other trials going on this summer, we've got trials in Oaks, Tappin, Inkster, and in Minnesota and Purim and Becker, so doing a lot of different things with fertilizers, variety development, some of the culture management practices. And I have a student who's here, Fabian, he's doing a project on looking at, we're looking at narrow row spacings for red, yellow, and shit potatoes. And so we'll see some of that at Inkster this afternoon when we get up there. So those are some of the things we're working on in the agronomy program. We're just happy to be able to be here, to be together today, and I'm glad everybody could make it.