My name is Setic Starworth, we're here at Georgia Tech, Klaus Advanced Computing Building,
and we're here today to merge Georgia Tech with the Usher New Look Foundation.
Fifty students are going to have the experience of creating their own video animations.
There's going to be roughly 12 groups of four, the teams are going to form, two members of the
group are going to learn animation, two members of the group are going to learn how to do videos,
and they're going to get back together and create their own video animation.
Technology has always been something that has been consistent in my career.
This is an exciting day for New Look, partnering with Georgia Tech in high
altitude to provide access, exposure, and awareness to our students. Usher has always
had the idea of exposing kids to the things that they need to be successful and match
their career track to their passions. And so with this hour of code, it's the new and
trending innovation of our time. And that's always indicative of what Usher, the performer,
the businessman, and the philanthropic leader has always been a part of.
People are going to do the music, sit with your teammate over here, and people are going to do the animation, sit with your teammate over here.
Today we are teaching middle schoolers and high schoolers how to make their own music animations.
They'll be mixing their own beats as well as creating their own animations to go with the music they've mixed.
It feels really good, honestly, to work with the kids. I personally am in music production and audio engineering.
So to be able to teach kids some of the things that I have a passion for, it's really honestly a blessing for me.
I think coming here and being with everybody, it teaches us to be a producer instead of a consumer.
It teaches us how to really be professional in a business workplace and help us succeed in life.
Today we are eliminating excuses not to be successful.
That's why today I'm very excited to see the kids and they're working on the music and they're remixing Usher songs and they're being exposed to new possibilities.
As a father of four daughters, I always wanted to expose them to different things.
This was one thing I thought would be great for them in character building and exposure for what they would do later on in life.
If you're in this room, you're obviously ahead of most kids that are probably around your age.
This is an excellent program. I recommend anyone that's not familiar with it to get familiar because it's all about exposure.
Those are the things that changed my life as a kid and that's why programs like this work.
Team F!
I love being able to work with someone that I've never met before and working together as a team for something that was fun for me to do.
It was just really cool.
So while today was a wonderful event, it's kind of an epitome of what we believe most of in higher altitude.
Since today, working with Usher's new look and Georgia Tech, we took these young people's interests and really connected them to opportunities around them.
I think that what we learned here really motivates us, motivates the kids to go into a career with technology.
There was something that I wanted to expose my son to. I'm not sure if he's going to go on an artistic path, but I just told him that technology is the future.
I thought it would be extremely beneficial for him to experience today.
What an experience. We came in here just a few hours ago. Students did not know how to create music with computers.
They didn't know much about doing animations with computers. In a few short hours, they've worked together on teams.
They've learned these two creative mediums. They've learned how to code with it and just really have created a different expression in terms of computing.
So we really hope that these students have taken something with them, have gotten that excitement and that insight into, hey, computing is going to be a part of my life.
I need to make it a creative tool. We look forward to doing it again and having more students involved and creating even better things with computing.
