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I'm paolo pagano , I'm assistant

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professor in electrical computer and

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biomedical engineering at U . R . I .

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So today there is this beautiful event

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which is uh the Rhode Island National

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Guard open House , one of my colleagues

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from civil engineering , she basically

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sent an email to everyone in

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engineering saying you really have to

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bring uh your best exposition

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To this event . We are showing these

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signs to this uh 700 or so high school

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students . So I think it's really

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important to have an understanding of

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physics and science in general

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mathematics because it all comes into

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play . You know you have to have the

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critical thinking skills to really

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propel yourself forward um as you grow

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up to be you know an adult and in these

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different career fields I think it's

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really important to have the critical

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thinking capability to think outside

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the box and get things started . Yeah I

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think in the world we live in today ,

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you know just On an everyday basis ,

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maybe not even a career field , you

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interact in a stem capacity probably

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every two minutes between um working on

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a computer using your phone , whatever

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it is , it's an aspect that you know 20

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years ago we didn't really think too

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much of but now we got a lot of remote

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jobs , there's a lot of things going on

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where stem and science and and all of

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these technology aspects are coming

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into a much larger picture um in the

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workforce for sure . If I can think of

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like when I was a high school student I

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was unsure what I would do after that .

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Uh , and if I actually had somebody

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showing me a robot and telling me , you

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know , or showing me , you know , ocean

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engineering stuff or showing me civil

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engineering stuff and saying like ,

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yeah , you can actually do this as a

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career , you can work with this for the

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rest of your life . I would find my

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path much faster probably and it's

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really important for them . Like to

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know that there is , there are these

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possibilities for them . I think the

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whole world is transitioning toward

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technology . So the more you get

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integrated into science technology ,

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math , electronics , um , all that jazz

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engineering , it's huge . I think it's ,

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it's gonna keep getting more and more

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intricate and I think it's really ,

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really important for , for students to

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learn , um , how the stem career works ,

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understanding the opportunities that

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could potentially get you to wherever

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you want to be , whether it's in the

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guard , whether it's in your civilian

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career or even in the education aspect ,

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um , huge , huge day to be able to kind

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of learn those opportunities and then

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maybe they take it back , they research

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a little bit on their own . Uh , and it

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might be a perfect fit to get them to

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wherever they want to be in like