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ANTHONY: My
name is Anthony Francis,

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I'm 22 years old,
and I go to school

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at New York City College of
Technology, Brooklyn, New York.

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I was born in Brooklyn,
but I was raised

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in the Caribbean islands--

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small tropical island
called St. Lucia.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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Occasionally, I would come
up to Brooklyn on vacation,

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summertime, stuff like that.

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MAN: I have never heard,
'I was in St. Lucia

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and I go to Brooklyn
for a vacation.'

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ANTHONY: [LAUGHTER]
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It was different.

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It was different.

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I came up here at the age
of 12 to start my schooling

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and get better opportunities.

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Here, I'm always on the go--

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I'm going to class
and rushing to work.

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Going to the city, it's
a very different life.

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I had a little bit of
engineering background

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from just tinkering with stuff.

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Then high school
came along and I

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started really getting into
the nitty gritty of math.

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My mom told me, there's the
school named New York City

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College of Technology.

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The prices is
reasonable and they

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have some very good programs.

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When I applied for
there, my first class

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was machine shop 101.

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One of my professors told
me, this is not a class

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where you're going
to be sitting down.

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So if you don't like that, you
might as well just drop out.

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I was like, you
know what, that's

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exactly what I want to be in.

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It's fun to read, it's
fun to sit down and look

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at the pictures in a
book, it's another thing

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to actually see it and do it.

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And I fell in love with it.

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And that was the turning
point of my career.

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We all know mechatronics is
the combination of mechanical

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and electrical
systems programming.

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So we kind of took that
mechatronics and then we

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tried to make it into a place
where we could all come to work

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and collaborate together.

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ANTHONY: There we go.

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STUDENT 2: There you go.

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ANTHONY: You wake up
in the morning you come over

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here like, hey I want to
build something today,

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I have an idea.

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Let's do this.

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What do you think about this?

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I definitely want to
put, like, a robotic arm

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so we have something
kind of close

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to, like, a bomb detection.

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I mean, this is a
tank, after all.

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DR ZHANG: Mechatronics technology

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is considered as a top
10 emerging technology

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of the 21st century.

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What it does is incorporate
the mechanical design,

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electrical design, computer
programming, software design

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into product design.

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ANTHONY: Dr. Zhang is more than

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a professor or a teacher to me--

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he's a mentor.

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He's my mentor.

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DR ZHANG: Anthony
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learning that programming.

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ANTHONY: Remember
the last day of class

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when I got the robot to work?

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That was a good day for me.

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EDUCATION COORDINATOR: So I was curious about
the engineering department

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here and the mechatronics
lab and how long it's

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been in existence.

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DR ZHANG: Mechatronics
Technology Center

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was set up in 2010 by a
grant from National Science

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Foundation's ATE program.

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This is a big area
in industry, that's

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why our students should be
exposed to this emerging

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technologies to benefit them
when they're looking for jobs.

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EDUCATION COORDINATOR: You just
graduated this year

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and you're working already.

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ANTHONY: Yes.

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Currently working at Makerbot
industries in Brooklyn, New

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York.

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Makerbot is all
about the 3D printer,

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creating desktop 3D printers.

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Anybody could just take it and
just run it, make anything.

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I got connected through
the previous president

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of the mechanical
engineering club.

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I applied and I
got the job, which

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was the most exciting
day of my life.

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So right now, I'm in
charge of making sure

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that the 3D printer it
is up to spec and make

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sure that when it
comes out the box

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the customer could
just plug in the power,

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put the SD card in, and
start printing right away.

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Working with something that's
revolutionizing the industry

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right now, it's just amazing.

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I am achieving and succeeding.

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Let's go out there into the
world, no matter what happens,

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try the best that you can
and you will succeed in life.

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