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Training. Not a mouthful. Just a little bit. Welcome to all of you to viewpoint. Thank you. There is a big science and engineering festival coming up later this month at the Convention Center. Tell us about it. Its the usa science and engineering festival. Hosted by Lockheed Martin. It is our it is the largest k through 12 Stem Education and Work Force Development event in the country. It is at the washington, d. C. Event center, its absolutely free to attend, and its about two million square feet with about a thousand exhibiters, and about 3,000 handson exhibits. So heres some video of kids at the festival. Stephanie, you said you took your kids recently last year, in fact. What are the kids going to be doing . So at our Lockheed Martin booth, we have a theme called this sign isnt fiction. When the kids come through, theyll get to see a things around space. One is called the Insight Lander. The Insight Lander is a real program that Lockheed Martin is working on with nasa, and thats why we say this science isnt fiction. And what the students will be able to do, it simulates the surface of mars, and the students will be able to participate in a Virtual Reality session with their smart phones exploring the surface of mars. Theyll also get to take a ride in the f35 fighter jet. Theyll get to fly the fighter jet, the newest generation fighter jet. We have all kinds of exciting things for our young people to do. And some of not our own people to do. Meeta . Yes, we are excited to be featured at the chevron stem zone, another very large exhibit. We are going to be helping kids think about Chemical Engineering by making lip balm. Were going to be thinking about Electrical Engineering careers, by making beautiful l. E. D. Lights, and thisou festival. Were very excited to be there. It sounds very exciting. Jobs in science and technology, engineering, and math are expected to grow by more than 20 , by 2018. Thats twice the rate of the countrys overall labor force. So Companies Like yours are going to need all of those things. All vested in. The question is, are Companies Going to find enough workers to do all the jobs . Well, i think thats one of the most important things of this science and engineering festival, and Lockheed Martin is so committed to it, because we have 66,000 scientist and engineers, and we know the talent they bring in helps us to deliver the Great Solutions to our customers, so we are very invested in helping stem come alive for young people, so we can make sure that we are building a very significant pipeline. Now, there is, to your point, a global shortage, so it takes all of us through Partnership Working with the School Systems, working with noof corporations like ours to invest. Lockheed martin invested over 57 million over the last five years into science, technology, and engineering and math. Statistics show theres more than half a Million Manufacturing jobs going unsold right now . There are, thats right. There are many manufacturing jobs going unfilled. Manufacturing is very technologically advanced, but one of the biggest areas of demand that we have across our industry is in Cyber Security professionals and data scientists, becoming a very significant field. Meeta, those are some of the big jobs of the future. Those are. And what we find, and tech bridge singularly has had its focus on not only helping to bring young people into that stem pipeline, but in particular girls from diverse backgrounds. While we know that theres a shortage, absolutely, we know theres even fewer folks of color, and especially women and and thats an issue for all of us. When you build something, you create an Engineering Solution to a problem. 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Were talking about the big science and engineering festival coming up at the Convention Center april 16th and 17th. And weve been talking about Stem Education, and i want to touch a little on the gender gaps that we know exist. Interested in and excel at stem classes. And that hispanic and africanamericans are underrepresented and underserved. You want to tackle that, mark . Well, i think probably stephanie and meeta would be best to tackle overall. The festival itself we do a lot to work with underserved communities, underserved groups with groups that have specific demographics that theyre targeting. Like the Americas Association of black engineers, folks like that that are really in the trenches, if you will, of trying to increase their ranks. We do a lot with them, even throughout the year with other speaking opportunities where we give them you know, its like our founder said, we are what we celebrate. And role models are important. And frankly, the color and flavor of those role models are incredibly important. As role models are important. Is that part of the problem . Thats what i was going sharing. I started off as an engineer. When i was back then in school, nobody knew stem. Now people talk about stem all the time. But our women and our underserved minorities, hispanics and africanamericans, might see that stem is a really viable career, but they might not see that its a viable career for them because of not that many role models in their communities, which is why the science and engineering festival is so important. Its also why its important for businesses like Lockheed Martin to go out into the School Systems, to be present, to bring stem alive with people that look like the people in the community. Meeta, tell us how youre working to change that. Tech bridge is singularly focused with the population and with this work. We realized early on that it really does take a variety of partners to come together, and that girls learn terrifically in our setting. They do very, very handson activities. But thats not enough. We have a very serious focus on career exploration, and that so we actually partner with Companies Like Lockheed Martin and others to take them to stem fields, to workplaces and see firsthand what work might look like. We also talk about role models, believe that as well, and bring that into our classrooms. Women who often represent the girls and so the girls can really see this is somebody that i might want to emulate one day. The other thing that we realized early on is just putting an adult in front of young people, however knowledgeable, may not resonate well. Adults arent necessarily trained to work with young people. So tech bridge has a unique training exclusively for role models. Its good that there are a lot of partner shipshipartnersh. Were fortunate to pair with girls inc. We pair with girls 912 and give them handson we teach teachers to teach stem. Light right here in d. C. , able to partner and give a Million Dollars to the d. C. Public school to serve this urban selective school. And we call it an ecosystem. Weve actually written a white paper thats going to be released with the festival on the 14th, and it has all of these concepts. Really says that youve got to bring together policymakers and parents and businesses, and educators to really make sure that if a girl or any child is inspired initially, that they stay inspired all the way through to actual workplace. The president has said that one of the issues is also the lack of teachers. The lack of qualified teachers and, of course, the lack of the numbers, the problem being the Teacher Shortage for Stem Education. Those kinds of programs are gr are not only inspiring to children, but i assume to teachers as well, and to adults who might be considering careers and encouraging College Students to study this in school. There are a lot of students in high school that have lost interest by the time they graduate. Yes, and thats true. And its nice. The way the festival is set up, ultimately we are a k through 12 education event. But it really is, if you build it, they will come. Almost 50 of the audience is 18 and above. So you could either say thats a parent child ratio or what that may be, but ultimately, in 2014, we had 325,000 people pass through our doors in three days. And so 50 of those folks are 18 and above. And even on sneak peek friday, which is the field trip day for the kids, where were only open for schools and military families, a chaperon, which is assumed to be a teacher. So we have over 40,000 students registered for friday alone. So theres 4,000 teachers that are in my building. That are hopefully being inspired, and they get to see all the resources that are out there, too, because my thsand or so exhibiters are definitely Companies Like Lockheed Martin and chevron, and those groups. But theres also plenty of Community Organizations and words that offer the resources that those teachers can accept and utilize in the classroom. So sometimes its about just seeing whats out there. And luckily, i have two million square feet of stuff left to see. You cant see it all in one day. Its hard to do. The festival stretches over a couple days. Well be back to talk more about stem and the festival right after this. Welcome back. Were talking about stem this morning, and stephanie, i want to ask you about children. The thing about kids is if you start them out with something, then its much easier to get them and keep them interested in that as they grow older. And how well would you say schools are doing at stimulating the interest in stem in the very early years . I think weve come a long way, and weve come a long way with the School System largely through partnerships. There was a time when companies, like Lockheed Martin would partner with high school for stem. And now we recognize we have to start far earlier, and so we are in the Elementary Schools working with them, and im going to tell you those Little People are interested in stem, theyre interested in space. Theyve grown up on star wars and star ek them understanding, these are the kind of cool things we do. I think its why a lot of young people dont major in these things, they dont know how exciting it is when you choose a stem career. How well are schools in the washington, d. C. Area doing teaching stem . We know about the reputation of schools such as Thomas Jefferson and mckinley tech. There are many schools with great stem curricula. But how well would you say this region is doing in terms of pushing this as the wave of the future . I will tell you that there has been great movement, and lots of great change, and i think a lot of folks really embracing stem and equipping their schools to be able to offer a variety of things. I dont know, however, that that sort of those sort of resources are available for every child yet in our region. When we talk about our regi versus wards seven and eight in the district. But its sort of a really fast, vastly growing field. The other thing schools are starting to embrace is the idea that science and math dont have to be something exclusive in a class all by themselves. That frankly, math and science are really part of every subject. And so i see schools more and more thinking about how to integrate a variety of subjects so that children see the application of those concepts in everything that they do. Yeah, and just thinking as youre talking about whether you need science, technology, engineering and math, or some concept of those subjects for whatever you choose to do in life. Whether you do want to be an artist or a singer, a lawyer. You still need to have some that background. If you think about how we live today, we all have two or three devices, almost no matter how old you are, youve got some piece of technology that gives you access to information that helps you be able to create things. So technology is in everything that we do. And theres a whole lot of that planned for for the festival. Tell us about some of the performers that youll have there. Yeah, so we try and approach inspiring kids in a lot of different directions, and one of them is by creating persons, places, and things for them to see. You know, not only does the festival have over 3,000 exhibits, but we also have about 50 stage shows, and they might be giants, the grammy awardwinning band is going to be playing. They played at the 2014 festival. Will wheaton from the Big Bang Theory and star trek is going to be out. Theres any number of others. Steve fun. What we call edutainment, which is a coined word. Theres a lot of stuff to see. Lockheed martin and chevron have great exhibits. The department of defense, we have about 120 Government Agencies there. You know, youre going to see the air force is bringing in an f16 airplane that theyre going to park inside the event. Homeland security is bringing in a fire truck and theyll be talking about Wearable Technologies and things that theyre doing. The state department is bringing in an armored limo and bringing in engineers to tell people how they make a vehicle ballistically resistant. Its not like a trade show and its not like anything these kids are going to see things this they probably would never have an opportunity to see and its all under one roof and its all free. That speaks to what you just spoke of a few moments ago, seeing it, imagining yourself doing it, seeing someone who looks like you doing it. Ive been fortunate to go for every year that weve had, that weve been partnered too and there is no other place where you see the faces of all of the children and the parents and the teachers light up with excitement. You almost feel like youre running from one exhibit to the next, because they dont want to miss out on anything. It can really change the mind of a young person. All right. Well talk a little more about stem and the festival when we continue. Weve got to take a break. Well be right back. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. In the last 10 years our competitors have received a few awards. But weve received a few more, including jd power who ranked us highest in Customer Satisfaction for the third year in a row. Only fios has the Fastest Internet on the most awarded network. Now get superfast 100 meg internet tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month, online. Only fios can. Welcome back. Stephanie, what are some of the big jobs that kids can get right now when they come out of school, and what kind of salary can you look forward to if your background is in stem . So, were always hiring students who have a background in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, mechanical engineering, Cyber Security, and data science and the salary ranges, but i would say with a fouryear degree, anywhere from 50,000 to 70,000, get your masters degree, you can command even more. But that depends on the region. Youll pass that on to your students, right . I am. I also want to mention that we have been working with students, upwards of 6,000 over the time weve been around. We started in the San Francisco bay area expressly because thats where theres such a ground swell of possibilities. And weve just launched, and thats really what i do, i run the very first east coast operation here in the district. So tech bridge is in seven different district schools. Expressly because we feel as though the district is now in the valley, there are just so many opportunities here to have jobs in a variety of careers that stephanie mentioned. Thats what makes washington, d. C. Ground zero for your i mean, its all exciting. But one of the most exciting things ive heard you say is the phone call that youre going to be making during the festival. Yeah, kasis and nasa have gotten together and helped us to put a phone call in to the International Space station, so if youre around on saturday at the festival around noon, its never Perfect Timing when youre calling the outer space, but were going to give it a shot. Around noon, were going to talk to a couple astronauts presently up in the iss. Thats absolutely mind blowing. Yeah, its really cool. I can imagine youll have a long line of youngsters waiting to get on the phone. How long will the call last . Well, im not sure how long the call lasts, but well collect some questions, some folks who can go to our Facebook Page and social media sites and put in some questions. Well see if we can get some people up there to ask those questions. But it should be a good time. Yeah, sounds like a great time. Its the usa science and a partner of yours. Stephanie, with Lockheed Martin, and youre one of the partners. Meeta sharmaholt with tech bridge. Marc schulman. Thank you all so much. Were looking forward to this festival at the Convention Center april 16th and 17th, saturday and sunday. Absolutely free to attend. Thank you so much. Thank you. And thank you for joining us. Thats viewpoint. Im pat lawson muse. 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