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KRISTEN: My name is 
Kristen Edwards.

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I do a lot of programming
and networking.

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I am really interested
in high performance

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computing, and technology,
and things like that.

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Growing up my mother expected
the best out of all of us,

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at the age of 17 my
mother had my brother.

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My mother had me and
she had my sister Angel.

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My mother raised her
brother and also her sister.

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My mother got married, so
now I have a stepbrother

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and they adopted my
stepfather's nephew.

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And that's all my siblings.

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I loved growing up
in Springfield, Ohio.

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I love being around my family.

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It's a small town, some kids
fall into the wrong path

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because there's not much
to do in Springfield.

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When I was a kid,
I really wasn't

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interested in computers
and technology and things

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of that nature.

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KRISTEN'S COLLEAGUE: These
actually boot in Droid

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and also Windows 7.

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KRISTEN: I went to
Clark State Community College,

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I was going to be a
math education major,

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but I had to take a
computer science class.

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I caught on quick
and understood better

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than the students who were
going into the program,

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I was more interested
in computer science

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then math education.

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I decided that I wanted to get
in the Clark State Community

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College networking program.

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I did an internship
last year at Avetec.

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PROGRAM DIRECTOR 1: Avetec is
a corporate organization

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and Clark State
Community College

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is an academic institution.

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We've actually in essence,
formed a partnership

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and submitted for an ATE grant.

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That was actually the funding from 
the National Science Foundation.

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Especially within
the ATE area, that's

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really out of the ordinary
for a corporate partner

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and an academic
institution together

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to go after and ATE grant.

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SERVER: Sir,
would you like Anything?

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KRISTEN'S GRANDFATHER: Peach.

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SERVER: Peach?

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I'm all out of peach.

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MALE SPEAKER #3: That's the
only reason he came today.

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KRISTEN: I
feel like my family

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and this program are
helping me for the future.

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Doing the internship at Avetec
in a company environment

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is preparing me
for the real world.

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We took different technologies
and put them all on one LAN

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and had each LAN talking
to through the network.

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It was fun.

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PROGRAM DIRECTOR 2: What's in it
for Avetec is the opportunity

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to contribute to the
community and hopefully

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grow technology companies
throughout the community.

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KRISTEN'S GRANDFATHER:
And this is what

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I like about things at Avetec
and the community colleges

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doing together
because now they're

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bringing that knowledge back
to the city of Springfield,

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where we'll have that
opportunity again.

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PROGRAM DIRECTOR 2: Our
company also needs work.

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For example, we're
able to hire you.

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By helping create
this program, we're

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giving Springfield an
opportunity to rebound and keep

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talented people like you.

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KRISTEN:
Through the program

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I have learned if I put my
mind to it, I can do anything.

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I feel very lucky to
have found the program,

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if I didn't, I
wouldn't know what I

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would want to do in the future.

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MR. EDWARDS: I'm just proud
that she has surrounded herself

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with people that's going
to make her successful.

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KRISTEN: I
know I want to work

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with different technologies
or high performance computing.

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KRISTEN'S GRANDFATHER: You're
talking about proud.

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Oh sure I'm proud of 
Kristen every day!

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KRISTEN: I plan to
work hard to do my best to keep

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rising to the top.

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I was the kid that wanted
to do right by my mother

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and make sure
everything that I did,

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that she wouldn't be
disappointed in me.

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I've got to go back to school

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MRS. EDWARDS: Be careful

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KRISTEN: OK.

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I believe I lived up to it.