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LLEW: My
name is Llewellen Powell.

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I don't think I had something
where, I was like, yeah,

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this is my calling and
what I'm going to do.

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I think I wanted to be a spy
or something like that, nothing

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that I had really
thought out at all.

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I just like figuring out
how things work together.

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I had bought myself a
motorcycle and the motorcycle

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was sort of questionable.

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So I was like I like
learning how to do things,

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you know it'd be really cool
if I could fix this thing up

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and get it running.

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It's an alternator.

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I am 34 years old

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and I go to school at
the Benjamin Franklin

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Institute of Technology.

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I bounced around a little
bit when I was younger.

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I was born in
Richmond, Virginia,

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lived in North Carolina
for a little bit,

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lived in Charlottesville,
Baltimore,

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Colorado for a little
bit, lived in California

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for a couple of years,
then I moved to Boston.

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My first attempt at college
didn't go terribly well.

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I didn't really know
what I wanted to do

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and worked random jobs.

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I was like this is not the most
rewarding thing in the world.

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But I had the chance
to go back to school,

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so I was like it would actually
be really cool to understand

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how cars work.

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I went to Benjamin Franklin
Institute of Technology.

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Woah.

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INSTRUCTOR 1: A lot of students come
in the same situation as Llew,

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pretty much ground zero.

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LLEW:
The curriculum I'm

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in focuses on hybrid and
alternative fuels technology.

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INSTRUCTOR 2: What are you
going to feel for.

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LLEW: Clearance,
rock rotation, all that stuff.

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INSTRUCTOR 2: Right

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LLEW: If you want
to know about how to fix cars,

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you're going to have to hybrid
cars, alternative fuels.

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There has been a paradigm shift.

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If you don't know
how to do the stuff,

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you're not going to be
employable in any real sense

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as a mechanic.

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The traditional framework is
around standard combustion

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engines, like
American muscle cars.

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And the hybrid thing is
going to change all that.

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INSTRUCTOR 2: With the automotive
industry changing

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significantly, you guys
in the alternative fuels

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industry will probably increase
your income significantly.

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STUDENT 1: If you're planning for the 
future and planning for your career,

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you've got to be smart and think
hybrids is where it's going.

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LLEW: This is new
and this is interesting stuff,

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so to be really engaged
in it is pretty cool.

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We've gotten a grant
from the National Science

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Foundation, which helped us
build the garage and the lab.

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What is ATE?

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INSTRUCTOR 1: ATE stands for Advanced
Technological Education.

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NSF filters down money to ATE,

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which finds projects to fund
for students to be able to learn

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technical education.

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We got equipment.

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We've got hybrid vehicles.

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We got a multi fuel engine so
you can see the actual flame

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as the engine runs.

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LLEW: We get
access to all this cool stuff

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that we didn't have before.

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INSTRUCTOR 2: The government is
trying to get people trained

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and working on cars and not
just cars but other things.

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We have solar, we have
wind, we have hydro power.

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All this stuff is going
to be coming up, up, up.

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LLEW:
Oh, that's true.

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INSTRUCTOR 1: Once there was
power applied to it,

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if it was in the
car, then you would

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know if the alternator
was going to function.

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LLEW: I actually
really like doing this,

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and I'm good at learning it.

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STUDENT 1: I went to college
before I came here

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and I was doing awful.

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And every since I came to
Benjamin Franklin, started

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doing I love, I've
been on dean's list

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every semester,
getting good grades.

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So-- and I'm really
happy and grateful.

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LLEW: I took apart
a hybrid transmission today.

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You asked me that
six months ago, I

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would've been terrified of it.

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But I feel skilled.

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I feel like I have
knowledge and experience

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for the rest of my life.

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Any place I am, you
can use this stuff.

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It's worthwhile stuff.

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Something doesn't work,
do some work on it,

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and then the thing that
didn't work does work.

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That's a concrete
satisfaction that you

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don't get from a lot things.

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There's a sense
of accomplishment

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there, which is pretty awesome.

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