[Music]
what if I told you that I had the answer
to reduce in poverty to closing the
skills gap in the United States of
America to meeting the need of the aging
baby boomer population retirement crisis
that’s coming upon corporate America and
created an opportunity for more
corporations to be socially responsible
now what if I told you that the answer
to all of those things is one in the
same I know what it is and I do it every
day for a living you want to know what
it is I get kids high every chance that
I get every opportunity that I get I
look for an opportunity to give them the
best high that they’ve ever accomplished
you don’t believe me watch this you got
to fly in the cockpit how was that you
loved it Wow so as you can see I
literally get kids high for a living
let’s talk about getting high dopamine
norepinephrine and serotonin are
probably the three most familiar brain
chemicals that you guys have heard of
dopamine deals with alertness serotonin
satisfaction but the sweet spot is the
norepinephrine that’s for the people
like me
dopamine helps you stay alert it helps
you stay focused helps you get motivated
to do work it helps your memory recall
serotonin actually helps you identify
your flight-or-fight response
it actually helps you balance your
emotions and deal with social emotional
behavior issues but the norepinephrine
does something really different
it actually compels you to be active it
compels you to move it gives you the
strength and the determination that you
need and it allows you to pull that from
within yourself so to put it simply the
serotonin is a downer the dopamine is
your upper and the norepinephrine is
your hallucinogenics so when there are
chemical deficiencies in young brains
and I think 95% of teenagers have
chemical deficiencies in their brains
we’d like to think the hyperactivity the
compulsion that type of behavior is
allowing them to act out to seek a new
high they go after high-risk behaviors
to achieve that goal in the minority
community a lot of people want to claim
it on blame it on the lack of education
or things like that but to understand
that most of the young people and the
minorities that serve and work and live
in this community operate at a high
sense of alertness and awareness and
trauma on a daily basis so those high
risk behaviors going beyond what they
already accomplished and achieve on a
regular day drive them to compare to be
compelled to high risk behaviors such as
actually doing drugs being involved in
gangs robbery and crime but when you get
kids high you move over into the
positive sphere will you actually
redirect that exact same energy and
compel kids to be motivated to get high
on something that transforms their lives
for the better this is where you see
peak performance and you’re driving kids
to be the best that they could actually
be the same kids that can’t focus in
school that can’t sit still that are
being diagnosed with a DD and ADHD these
are the three chemical imbalances that
are strongly associated with those
behavior disorders so I want to propose
to you four different ways that we can
hack into getting kids high and I’ll be
a part of
providing a solution the first one is
American fail in academics the second is
the United States skills gap the third
is the baby boomer retirement crisis and
the fourth is corporate social
responsibility now to look at this we
understand that the United States is
currently ranking xx in math xx and
science and 27th in math amongst
developed nations we know as a country
the United States can do better
practical applications of classroom
content is lacking I have never used the
algebra that I learned in high school
and I went on to have a successful
career in aviation in aerospace we
recently featured in Forbes magazine in
a title as you can see was America
students take flight how innovative
education is caring the pilot shortage
we believe that in our Aerostars
after-school programs we engage students
with the exact same content that we paid
thirty thousand dollars a year to learn
at the University and they get a
paycheck to do it we believe that
students can learn if you give them an
opportunity to learn and you give them
the skills that they need to be
successful we were also featured on ABC
and they did a wonderful piece about how
we are changing kids glass the radiation
in aerospace education and as soon as I
went to pull this link up on the
Internet to send it to a friend the
breaking news of the day was three
teenagers shot on the south side of
Chicago this is the norm for kids in the
community that I serve the United States
skills gap is more serious than I
believe we want to recognize 65 percent
of today’s primary school students will
work in jobs that do not currently exist
when I was in elementary school I didn’t
come home and say mom I want to make
cell phones the only phone that I knew
of was hanging on the kitchen wall with
a curly cord attached to it the jobs
that are coming down the pipeline are
going to take the next generation
innovators to be able to pull this off
but only 90% of current schools offer
computer technology classes the skills
gap is real 9.1 million people
unemployed
in the United States of America while
4.8 million jobs go unfilled the only
reason why they do not have those jobs
is because they do not have the skills
to fill the position that’s the only
reason
employers are feverishly looking for the
right candidate and with everyone having
master’s degrees bachelor’s degrees
associate’s degrees they have absolutely
no skills no licenses no certifications
and no credentials Aerostar is aiming to
change that the baby boomer bus is here
if you know anything about the United
States history then you know that during
World War two after the war was over all
that fraternizing that happened when the
soldiers came back home produced the
population larger than the United States
of America has ever seen at one time to
give you an example it’s like putting a
basketball into a water hose and
watching that population move down the
line well now in 2012 the first baby
boomers have just begun retiring 40
percent of leadership in corporate
America will be retiring in the next 15
to 20 years 23% of the highly skilled
trained workforce will be walking out
the door in the next 15 to 20 years does
America have time to wait to train up
the next generation professionals I
don’t think so
the Boeing Company along forecasts 1.5
million pilots and technicians by 2035
this number at first glance would seem
impossible to reach
but with innovation and forward thinkers
like the Boeing Company we recently
received a grant from Boeing in Chicago
to start our first K through 8 aviation
and aerospace education program
and that leads me to my fourth point
which is corporate social responsibility
the days are long past where
corporations should write big checks
just to buy a banquet table or write big
checks just for headline sponsorship at
an international conference I am asking
corporations to write big checks and
invest time and staff to train up their
future employees it’s time for
corporations to take social
responsibility in the education in the
academics and certification the skills
that industry needs in order to be
successful and viable into the future in
the midst of corporate gains you see
here some of the biggest margins in the
history of some of the top aerospace
companies in the world we believe they
have an opportunity to invest when
employers want you to have 10 years
worth of work experience with 22 years
old this is what it looks like but you
know what this is what we’re doing
through Aerostar in our partnerships we
are now training young people as early
as kindergarten and exposing them as
early as pre-k to careers in aviation in
aerospace and we know that there are
boring partnership in the talent
pipeline development project we hope
more companies take notice and in
developing the next generation of
aviation professionals from kindergarten
to career because talent pipeline
development is the only way to save the
economic viability of the United States
of America and beyond I want to share
with you a little story about me growing
up in Maywood Illinois was tough on the
third of seven children and let my
father tell it in his so you’re gonna
marry my daughter speech to my then
future husband I was the worst one I was
a terror school was easy the life was
hard growing up in poverty violence
I completely understand the climate of
today’s youth in Chicago one day I found
myself in the back of a police car after
a huge fight and I clearly heard a voice
say to me it doesn’t matter how smart
you are now does it weeks later
my mom I think she knew that I was
chasing this high and she wanted to get
me high my mom wanted to give me high
she told me to get up early one Saturday
morning and go take an airplane ride
with the Chicago area Tuskegee Airmen I
showed up at the airport it’s a
beautiful day I saw all of these guys
giving kids airplane rides it was my
turn and the pilot took me up and he
asked me you want to take control and he
didn’t know how crazy I was I said
absolutely I took control of the
aircraft we turned it around and we were
flying toward flying over the skyline of
Chicago and then I said I could do this
for the rest of my life that day
aviation saved me I went on to graduate
high school with a 4.2 GPA on a 4.0
scale with 13 college credits to go with
me to southern Illinois University
I finished my aviation management degree
being one of only two aviation students
in the aviation program out of 204 years
one of two african-american females by
the time I graduated elementary school
half of the young men that I went to
grade school with were dead or in jail
by the time I graduated college another
34 or 40 were in prison or in the
graveyard I went on pretty supersuit my
career in aviation in that 25 years old
I excelled greatly in the company I had
a corner office with a view I had a
house with a swimming pool in the
backyard sitting on three quarters of
acres of land and I still was chasing
that high it never left and so after a
lot of thought I decided that I was
gonna start my own company and now
Aerostar is one of the only female and
african-american on aviation companies
in the world we now dedicate our life to
saving and changing laster aviation and
aerospace but I still chase that high
that number set on the record board all
day long as I hit 147 miles per hour and
a Lamborghini on the Las Vegas Speedway
if you can find your post then you can
find your purpose Billy Williams said
that but I say what do you say to all of
the parents who have lost a child to gun
violence this young man was boisterous
funny hilarious his eyes and smile lit
up
room this was his first airplane ride
his sophomore year in high school
three months after high school
graduation he was gunned down on a
playground this is my nephew
Joshua Holmes dead at age 18 this young
man known him since he was in second
grade had a huge love and fascination
for things faced in aviation our last
trip together was to the Adler
Planetarium where you see us there he
was shot in the head by a passenger in
his own car this young man was an avid
aviator education student he had a huge
promise ahead of him to have a career in
aviation coming home from the store one
night with skittles in one hand and a
soft drink in another he was gunned down
by a community law enforcement officer
this young man is Trayvon Martin don’t
tell me that the sky is the limit when
our footprints on the moon wrote Paul
Brent well I’d like to compare you guys
today to understand that now that we
know the vastness of the universe we
also know that no opportunity has an end
the opportunities for our young people
today are enlists this young man that
you saw in the video was his first
airplane ride at his freshman year in
high school he’s now a licensed pilot
and he’s still in high school at 18
years old graduated in three weeks we
are really trained a lot changing lives
through aviation and aerospace education
so I want to ask you to help us pique
the curiosity of the next generation
will the one that lead us to
interstellar space travel survive to
live past age 21 are we committed to
bring to bear the resources that we need
to save lives through science technology
engineering and math will corporations
be socially responsible and do the right
thing to help train up the next
generation of aviation professionals I’d
like you to help me I’d like you to help
us I’d like you to help America get kids
hi thank you
[Applause]
what if I told you that I had the answer
to reduce in poverty to closing the
skills gap in the United States of
America to meeting the need of the aging
baby boomer population retirement crisis
that’s coming upon corporate America and
created an opportunity for more
corporations to be socially responsible
now what if I told you that the answer
to all of those things is one in the
same I know what it is and I do it every
day for a living you want to know what
it is I get kids high every chance that
I get every opportunity that I get I
look for an opportunity to give them the
best high that they’ve ever accomplished
you don’t believe me watch this you got
to fly in the cockpit how was that you
loved it Wow so as you can see I
literally get kids high for a living
let’s talk about getting high dopamine
norepinephrine and serotonin are
probably the three most familiar brain
chemicals that you guys have heard of
dopamine deals with alertness serotonin
satisfaction but the sweet spot is the
norepinephrine that’s for the people
like me
dopamine helps you stay alert it helps
you stay focused helps you get motivated
to do work it helps your memory recall
serotonin actually helps you identify
your flight-or-fight response
it actually helps you balance your
emotions and deal with social emotional
behavior issues but the norepinephrine
does something really different
it actually compels you to be active it
compels you to move it gives you the
strength and the determination that you
need and it allows you to pull that from
within yourself so to put it simply the
serotonin is a downer the dopamine is
your upper and the norepinephrine is
your hallucinogenics so when there are
chemical deficiencies in young brains
and I think 95% of teenagers have
chemical deficiencies in their brains
we’d like to think the hyperactivity the
compulsion that type of behavior is
allowing them to act out to seek a new
high they go after high-risk behaviors
to achieve that goal in the minority
community a lot of people want to claim
it on blame it on the lack of education
or things like that but to understand
that most of the young people and the
minorities that serve and work and live
in this community operate at a high
sense of alertness and awareness and
trauma on a daily basis so those high
risk behaviors going beyond what they
already accomplished and achieve on a
regular day drive them to compare to be
compelled to high risk behaviors such as
actually doing drugs being involved in
gangs robbery and crime but when you get
kids high you move over into the
positive sphere will you actually
redirect that exact same energy and
compel kids to be motivated to get high
on something that transforms their lives
for the better this is where you see
peak performance and you’re driving kids
to be the best that they could actually
be the same kids that can’t focus in
school that can’t sit still that are
being diagnosed with a DD and ADHD these
are the three chemical imbalances that
are strongly associated with those
behavior disorders so I want to propose
to you four different ways that we can
hack into getting kids high and I’ll be
a part of
providing a solution the first one is
American fail in academics the second is
the United States skills gap the third
is the baby boomer retirement crisis and
the fourth is corporate social
responsibility now to look at this we
understand that the United States is
currently ranking xx in math xx and
science and 27th in math amongst
developed nations we know as a country
the United States can do better
practical applications of classroom
content is lacking I have never used the
algebra that I learned in high school
and I went on to have a successful
career in aviation in aerospace we
recently featured in Forbes magazine in
a title as you can see was America
students take flight how innovative
education is caring the pilot shortage
we believe that in our Aerostars
after-school programs we engage students
with the exact same content that we paid
thirty thousand dollars a year to learn
at the University and they get a
paycheck to do it we believe that
students can learn if you give them an
opportunity to learn and you give them
the skills that they need to be
successful we were also featured on ABC
and they did a wonderful piece about how
we are changing kids glass the radiation
in aerospace education and as soon as I
went to pull this link up on the
Internet to send it to a friend the
breaking news of the day was three
teenagers shot on the south side of
Chicago this is the norm for kids in the
community that I serve the United States
skills gap is more serious than I
believe we want to recognize 65 percent
of today’s primary school students will
work in jobs that do not currently exist
when I was in elementary school I didn’t
come home and say mom I want to make
cell phones the only phone that I knew
of was hanging on the kitchen wall with
a curly cord attached to it the jobs
that are coming down the pipeline are
going to take the next generation
innovators to be able to pull this off
but only 90% of current schools offer
computer technology classes the skills
gap is real 9.1 million people
unemployed
in the United States of America while
4.8 million jobs go unfilled the only
reason why they do not have those jobs
is because they do not have the skills
to fill the position that’s the only
reason
employers are feverishly looking for the
right candidate and with everyone having
master’s degrees bachelor’s degrees
associate’s degrees they have absolutely
no skills no licenses no certifications
and no credentials Aerostar is aiming to
change that the baby boomer bus is here
if you know anything about the United
States history then you know that during
World War two after the war was over all
that fraternizing that happened when the
soldiers came back home produced the
population larger than the United States
of America has ever seen at one time to
give you an example it’s like putting a
basketball into a water hose and
watching that population move down the
line well now in 2012 the first baby
boomers have just begun retiring 40
percent of leadership in corporate
America will be retiring in the next 15
to 20 years 23% of the highly skilled
trained workforce will be walking out
the door in the next 15 to 20 years does
America have time to wait to train up
the next generation professionals I
don’t think so
the Boeing Company along forecasts 1.5
million pilots and technicians by 2035
this number at first glance would seem
impossible to reach
but with innovation and forward thinkers
like the Boeing Company we recently
received a grant from Boeing in Chicago
to start our first K through 8 aviation
and aerospace education program
and that leads me to my fourth point
which is corporate social responsibility
the days are long past where
corporations should write big checks
just to buy a banquet table or write big
checks just for headline sponsorship at
an international conference I am asking
corporations to write big checks and
invest time and staff to train up their
future employees it’s time for
corporations to take social
responsibility in the education in the
academics and certification the skills
that industry needs in order to be
successful and viable into the future in
the midst of corporate gains you see
here some of the biggest margins in the
history of some of the top aerospace
companies in the world we believe they
have an opportunity to invest when
employers want you to have 10 years
worth of work experience with 22 years
old this is what it looks like but you
know what this is what we’re doing
through Aerostar in our partnerships we
are now training young people as early
as kindergarten and exposing them as
early as pre-k to careers in aviation in
aerospace and we know that there are
boring partnership in the talent
pipeline development project we hope
more companies take notice and in
developing the next generation of
aviation professionals from kindergarten
to career because talent pipeline
development is the only way to save the
economic viability of the United States
of America and beyond I want to share
with you a little story about me growing
up in Maywood Illinois was tough on the
third of seven children and let my
father tell it in his so you’re gonna
marry my daughter speech to my then
future husband I was the worst one I was
a terror school was easy the life was
hard growing up in poverty violence
I completely understand the climate of
today’s youth in Chicago one day I found
myself in the back of a police car after
a huge fight and I clearly heard a voice
say to me it doesn’t matter how smart
you are now does it weeks later
my mom I think she knew that I was
chasing this high and she wanted to get
me high my mom wanted to give me high
she told me to get up early one Saturday
morning and go take an airplane ride
with the Chicago area Tuskegee Airmen I
showed up at the airport it’s a
beautiful day I saw all of these guys
giving kids airplane rides it was my
turn and the pilot took me up and he
asked me you want to take control and he
didn’t know how crazy I was I said
absolutely I took control of the
aircraft we turned it around and we were
flying toward flying over the skyline of
Chicago and then I said I could do this
for the rest of my life that day
aviation saved me I went on to graduate
high school with a 4.2 GPA on a 4.0
scale with 13 college credits to go with
me to southern Illinois University
I finished my aviation management degree
being one of only two aviation students
in the aviation program out of 204 years
one of two african-american females by
the time I graduated elementary school
half of the young men that I went to
grade school with were dead or in jail
by the time I graduated college another
34 or 40 were in prison or in the
graveyard I went on pretty supersuit my
career in aviation in that 25 years old
I excelled greatly in the company I had
a corner office with a view I had a
house with a swimming pool in the
backyard sitting on three quarters of
acres of land and I still was chasing
that high it never left and so after a
lot of thought I decided that I was
gonna start my own company and now
Aerostar is one of the only female and
african-american on aviation companies
in the world we now dedicate our life to
saving and changing laster aviation and
aerospace but I still chase that high
that number set on the record board all
day long as I hit 147 miles per hour and
a Lamborghini on the Las Vegas Speedway
if you can find your post then you can
find your purpose Billy Williams said
that but I say what do you say to all of
the parents who have lost a child to gun
violence this young man was boisterous
funny hilarious his eyes and smile lit
up
room this was his first airplane ride
his sophomore year in high school
three months after high school
graduation he was gunned down on a
playground this is my nephew
Joshua Holmes dead at age 18 this young
man known him since he was in second
grade had a huge love and fascination
for things faced in aviation our last
trip together was to the Adler
Planetarium where you see us there he
was shot in the head by a passenger in
his own car this young man was an avid
aviator education student he had a huge
promise ahead of him to have a career in
aviation coming home from the store one
night with skittles in one hand and a
soft drink in another he was gunned down
by a community law enforcement officer
this young man is Trayvon Martin don’t
tell me that the sky is the limit when
our footprints on the moon wrote Paul
Brent well I’d like to compare you guys
today to understand that now that we
know the vastness of the universe we
also know that no opportunity has an end
the opportunities for our young people
today are enlists this young man that
you saw in the video was his first
airplane ride at his freshman year in
high school he’s now a licensed pilot
and he’s still in high school at 18
years old graduated in three weeks we
are really trained a lot changing lives
through aviation and aerospace education
so I want to ask you to help us pique
the curiosity of the next generation
will the one that lead us to
interstellar space travel survive to
live past age 21 are we committed to
bring to bear the resources that we need
to save lives through science technology
engineering and math will corporations
be socially responsible and do the right
thing to help train up the next
generation of aviation professionals I’d
like you to help me I’d like you to help
us I’d like you to help America get kids
hi thank you
[Applause]
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