Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National Book awards am calling you to see if you have advice for your child go she said that she always has been to make the call. Let me ask you something, son. What did i make you say every single night before you got into bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this right now she said no dont know what did i. C. E. Make you say every night when you got into bed . I said you made me say i can do anything. Exactly you can do anything. You tell me this all the time on. But i never asked
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He was not the best student in high school, he was a c and d student but he loved to rock climb. He was already, as a teenager, a worldfamous rock climber. He had been on some rockclimbing magazines of the young prodigy and all he did in class was think about rockclimbing and one day he went hiking in Mount Washington New Hampshire with his friend in the ice climbed and they got the top of the mountain, the wind shifted and they were in the middle of a blizzard and they went down the runway. They descended into the wilderness. They wandered and they got lost and they almost died and they were rescued on the brink of death and he had severe frostbite in both his legs were imitated below the knee. The doctors told him he would never walk or run or climb again and every night he would go to sleep and he would dream that he was running through the cornfields behind his parents house with hair, the wind running through his hair and he would wake up and see his legs were gone and was devasta
It takes up more room than the actual article itself. Want to introduce the subject of this next session which is this booklet here. Its called transform which is very beautiful and its about an initiative that we were privileged to fund called exploring innovation frontier. I want to give a shout out to promote the head of our engineering director at the time a few years ago when we made the decision to fund this. He has gone on to uc irvine where he is a vice chancellor for research. During this time there have been several workshops around the country and ill say a few words about that and then you will hear from two of the people that were greatly involved in those workshops more about this. Let me make now that ive kind of introduced the subject of basic research, leading to innovation and leading to engineering applications, let me make some formal remarks. I will just begin with the quote from our inspiration of the National Science foundation who believed that there must be a s