WEBVTT 00:00.301 --> 00:02.528 (heart beat) 00:02.528 --> 00:04.945 (rock music) 00:12.940 --> 00:15.420 - Welcome to the Zama Pulse, I'm Specialist Cory Makuch, 00:15.420 --> 00:17.140 and I'll be your tour guide on this madcap 00:17.140 --> 00:18.610 tour of magic and wonders. 00:18.800 --> 00:19.633 Let us begin. 00:20.300 --> 00:22.330 U.S. Army Garrison Japan placed another feather 00:22.330 --> 00:25.110 in their cap, almost literally, when they received 00:25.110 --> 00:26.490 a new streamer for safety. 00:26.980 --> 00:28.640 The Safety Excellence streamer is presented 00:28.640 --> 00:30.422 to organizations that have had at least 12 months 00:30.422 --> 00:32.710 without a soldier or unit at fault in 00:32.710 --> 00:35.866 a Class A or B accident, achieved 100% risk management 00:35.866 --> 00:38.800 training, and have completed the Army Readiness 00:38.800 --> 00:40.660 Assessment Program, known as ARAP. 00:41.080 --> 00:43.350 This is quite the achievement for more than 00:43.350 --> 00:46.590 2000 personnel working with U.S. Army Garrison Japan, 00:46.590 --> 00:49.230 especially considering that the workforce is not 00:49.230 --> 00:51.590 just at Camp Zama, but is spread all across 00:51.590 --> 00:53.510 Japan's main island of Honshu. 00:54.010 --> 00:56.420 The garrison covers 10 distinct working locations, 00:56.420 --> 00:59.960 and has logged over 437,000 work hours without 00:59.960 --> 01:01.380 a major accident or injury. 01:01.600 --> 01:04.920 Way to go, guys, (applause) let's hear-ow! 01:05.510 --> 01:07.730 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Japan District 01:07.730 --> 01:09.610 welcomed Engineer Week in the traditional 01:09.610 --> 01:11.270 Army celebratory fashion. 01:11.396 --> 01:13.520 That means that there was cake involved, 01:13.838 --> 01:15.240 and they cut it. 01:16.110 --> 01:16.990 There it is. 01:17.460 --> 01:19.020 They opened their doors to the students from 01:19.020 --> 01:20.850 Zama American Middle High School. 01:21.028 --> 01:23.420 ^- Engineer Week is an opportunity that we have 01:23.420 --> 01:25.630 ^as a nation to take time to celebrate 01:25.630 --> 01:29.310 ^on the achievements of engineers, and really focus on STEM. 01:29.570 --> 01:31.770 We're taking this opportunity as an outreach 01:31.940 --> 01:34.110 to our community, as we're starting a new program 01:34.110 --> 01:36.640 with our local high schools to get excited 01:36.640 --> 01:38.640 about STEM and STEM opportunities. 01:38.900 --> 01:40.500 - [SPC Makuch] They also took the opportunity to highlight 01:40.500 --> 01:42.120 the accomplishments of members of the local 01:42.120 --> 01:43.650 Army Corps of Engineers team. 01:43.710 --> 01:45.590 Like Jesse Richardson, who became officially 01:45.590 --> 01:47.580 certified as a Professional Engineer. 01:47.700 --> 01:49.770 ^- For all those aspiring engineers out there, 01:49.770 --> 01:52.360 ^keep working hard, keep pursuing the hard things, 01:52.360 --> 01:54.550 and applying yourself, and you'll definitely 01:54.550 --> 01:55.383 reach your goal. 01:55.383 --> 01:58.310 ^- Engineers are here to solve the nation's real 01:58.310 --> 02:00.940 ^toughest problems, and that's really what we do, 02:00.940 --> 02:03.740 we take problem sets, we take issues, we take 02:03.740 --> 02:06.534 concerns, we apply the tools, the science, 02:06.534 --> 02:10.380 the engineering, the technology, the things that we have. 02:10.380 --> 02:13.190 We integrate those into packages and provide those 02:13.190 --> 02:17.530 solutions in a very fun and exciting and unbounded way. 02:18.030 --> 02:20.880 - And speaking of engineers, here's a story about robots. 02:20.900 --> 02:24.600 - [Charlie Mabe] Do not be alarmed, our robot overlords 02:24.630 --> 02:26.780 aren't ready to take over the world. 02:26.980 --> 02:29.590 Well, not quite yet, anyways. 02:30.050 --> 02:32.530 This little robo still has a ways to go, 02:32.650 --> 02:35.570 but it's getting there, with the help of Zama American 02:35.570 --> 02:37.840 Middle High School's FTC Club. 02:38.210 --> 02:41.630 ^- FTC is First robotics Tech Challenge team. 02:41.630 --> 02:44.560 Eight students are building a robot to take part 02:44.560 --> 02:47.580 in robotics challenges throughout Japan. 02:47.690 --> 02:49.960 - [Charlie Mabe] And it's challenging enough just building 02:49.960 --> 02:53.010 a robot, especially when you don't have the funding 02:53.010 --> 02:54.640 for the parts that you need. 02:54.890 --> 02:57.440 Here they are, trying to disassemble a desk, 02:57.440 --> 03:01.350 just to get a doohickey to use as a whatchamacallit. 03:01.720 --> 03:04.150 Look, they're the robot experts, not me. 03:04.450 --> 03:07.040 - We're kind of like, just pulling scraps, and like, 03:07.040 --> 03:09.790 what can we do, what can we do today with what we have. 03:10.059 --> 03:12.864 We would only have, like, a whole lot to get us going. 03:12.864 --> 03:16.500 ^The main goal for us right now, is to get to competition, 03:16.630 --> 03:19.220 ^because we're the only FTC robotics team 03:19.220 --> 03:22.350 in the Pacific, so if we can get other schools 03:22.350 --> 03:24.610 to do it next year we can have a Far East, and 03:24.610 --> 03:26.795 the Far East can send us to, but we can't go because 03:26.795 --> 03:29.040 we don't have any funding or anything. 03:29.040 --> 03:31.960 - [Charlie Mabe] Still, even working with just scraps, 03:32.020 --> 03:35.852 they tinker away, learning and growing as a team. 03:35.852 --> 03:38.040 ^- We're really trying to work together, I think that's 03:38.040 --> 03:41.464 ^the main thing, working together is how we've been 03:41.464 --> 03:44.860 overcoming all these problems so far. 03:44.920 --> 03:47.108 Of course, like the notebook is also a big part of it. 03:47.108 --> 03:49.940 The engineering notebook, we write down our problems, 03:49.940 --> 03:52.222 sometimes we, like, let it sit for, 03:52.222 --> 03:54.880 until the next meeting, at times we look back 03:54.880 --> 03:57.220 through our notebooks and look back through what 03:57.220 --> 03:59.415 our brainstorm ideas were. 03:59.415 --> 04:01.330 Which connects to the front. 04:01.500 --> 04:04.910 And then from there, we try to come up with solutions 04:04.910 --> 04:08.768 from off of brainstorms, and off of each other. 04:08.768 --> 04:11.780 - [Charlie Mabe] Solutions that very well may lead 04:11.780 --> 04:14.169 to humanity's downfall in the future. 04:14.169 --> 04:19.169 - (laughs) Probably not, there's, I mean, 04:19.230 --> 04:21.810 that would be pretty cool, it won't take over 04:21.810 --> 04:23.899 the world, though, I don't think the program's 04:23.899 --> 04:25.160 that advanced. 04:25.850 --> 04:28.620 - [Charlie Mabe] Reporting for U.S. Army Garrison Japan, 04:28.620 --> 04:30.330 I'm Charlie Mabe. 04:30.780 --> 04:32.832 - Now here's this week's Community Calendar. 04:32.832 --> 04:35.415 (bright music) 04:51.970 --> 04:53.410 And that's the Zama Pulse for the week 04:53.410 --> 04:57.250 of February 26th, 2018. I'm Specialist Cory Makuch, 04:57.250 --> 04:58.850 and you keep smiling, Camp Zama. 04:59.172 --> 05:01.672 (heart beats)