[roar] you can log onto he library of Congress Website and let the journey begin. Happy that all of you could come out and join us, you know, on this evening. My namey. The director of the night rover challenge. Im going to kind of be the moderator for tonight, as we go through this firstever challenge america summit. So ive got just a few things that, you know, i wanted to do with everyone, before we get into the program. First of all, i just want to take a minute and have everyone just look around this room. In this room, we have amazing people that are corporate, nonprofit, and government, all focused on challenge driven innovation in some way or another. This is a really powerful,interf people that are gathered here to look at how competitions can drive innovation. Thats what tonight is all about, is, you know, the next step in creating a real wave of innovation. My job tonight is just to give you a little bit of background on what we are, what were tiqp q s that we have. Roup of so just to get going with that, i want to tell you a little bit about this thing called the night rover < challenge. This is a collaboration between the clean tech open, unoodle, and nasa. Its a program from nasas office of centennial challenges. And its challengin the best innovators in america to create radical new Energy Storage technology. You know, way above what we have now. This is something very powerful, to be able to keep rovers going on the moon, in mars, things that could be useful, in your cell electric vehicles, something that just is a radical leap in new technology. But i dont want to go into a lot of detail on that. Youll hear more about nasas efforts later. And what im going to do1r is ge a little more background on challengedriven innovation. And im going to do that just by plaijerrizing some people because it makes it a loteasier for me. I want to look at this quote, prize is a very old an old idea that is surprisingly powerful in our modern society. This is by a study that by mckenzie and company, back in 2010. Prize is a very old idea, very powerful in our modern society. Surprisingly powerful in our modern society. Mckenzie also said this, 32,000, in 2010, there were 32,000no competitions, competitions, prizes, awards. Thats a big number. It could be bigger but its a big number, for one year, 32,000 competitions happened. To continue on in myk mckenzie also said this, while tens of thousands of prizes and awards are give out every year, weve been struck by the lack of conferences or professional associations to share best practices and facilitate collaboration. Now theres some kind of relationship between what doing here today, and that. I dont know exactly what it is, but hopefully by the end of tonight and tomorrow, we can start j were doing here, can really start toqphp having an organization, or, you know, somethingd exactly what mckenzie is saying is missing. So this just brings me to myo last question. And its why are we here. Here inca this room. Thats just one side of