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EMILY: All right.

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This is awesome.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Wood has such beauty.

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And it really speaks to me.

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Should I read the instructions?

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You learn a lot about yourself
if you do it yourself,

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or at least try.

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EMILY: A lot of
the art that I make

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is trying to get the viewer to
experience the natural world

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and get back into that space.

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Oh, man, here we go.

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It's not the best
birdhouse I've made.

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But whoo! [LAUGHS]

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[BIRDS SINGING]

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EMILY: So I wake up, and it's
just nice to be in silence

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and be in nature first
thing in the morning.

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[SAW WHIRRING]

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Then it's off jumpstarted
into projects.

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I'm just a tornado
of creating things.

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It's just nonstop.

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ELYSIA: The work ethic I saw--
you were always here,

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always making something.

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[LAUGHTER]

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EMILY: I've always
enjoyed art and design.

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But I never really saw it as a
potential career possibility.

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I grew up in a small town
with two older brothers,

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working for my family's
poultry farm and hatchery.

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In school, I don't
think I particularly

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excelled in any
specific subject.

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So at 18, I just fell into a
major and just completed it.

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I recognized that I was not
the person that I wanted to be.

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So my journey started
when I met Alex.

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ALEX: What are we doing for dinner?

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EMILY: I have no idea.

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EMILY: Coming out was a very
difficult, stressful time.

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But there's been a lot
of growth since then.

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I chose the Integrated
Design program.

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It combined three of the things
that I was most interested

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in--

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art, design, and
construction classes.

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ELYSIA: The whole point was to build
an interdisciplinary program.

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And Integrated Design
pulls the silos together.

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TABITHA: Everyone who leaves
can have an understanding

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that there is a design phase.

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I am designing for someone.

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How can I take
the best materials

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applicable for that
job and execute

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that in a fashion that then lets
me turn out a viable product?

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MATT: Get all four on there.

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Grind off the tops.

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MATT: For the Design
Thinking project,

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students design a
public sculpture.

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It's been fun to watch how you
really just attack the projects.

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RAY: We had wood,
metal, ceramics.

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We're all teaching
the same curriculum.

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But each one of us has a
different vehicle to apply it.

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We couldn't have done this
without the National Science

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Foundation grant.

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EMILY: So what is ATE?

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ELYSIA: ATE stands for Advanced
Technological Education,

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which is a program out of
National Science Foundation.

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And Integrated Design was
built under this ATE grant.

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RAY: What color would you put
on a walnut box like that?

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EMILY: Something contrasting.

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So maybe a maple or cherry.

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EMILY: I wasn't really
expecting going back to school

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to be this fruitful.

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MAN: Hey.

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EMILY: How's it going?

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MAN: Good.

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How are you doing?

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EMILY: What do we got going on today?

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EMILY: Elysia asked me if
I was interested in a job.

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So I'm the lead fabricator
for Gnargo Bikes.

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I help with cutting,
bending, welding the frames.

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These are reclaimed bike frames
with a cargo space in the front.

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They're rethinking the
way people commute.

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EMILY: It's been life changing being
able to get up and create and do

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what you love.

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To me, that's success.

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ALEX: You have become
far more confident.

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You ask what I think a lot less.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Not in a bad way.

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EMILY: Entering this program,
it pushed me out

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of my comfort zone.

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I feel like I know what I'm
doing for the first time.

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And I'm actually doing
something I really enjoy.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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