so please welcome michelle jaconi, jim mckelvey and anant agarwal. [applause] spent i feel like i won the moderators lottery by getting to it if you these two gentlemen who by themselves are phenomenal and together are the superpower team. i told them that washington is big, once you get past the ego's and get to the other level want to make our country better and these two gentlemen are doing it. i want to start with you, jim, and tell us about the st. louis experiment. >> i'm from st. louis, missouri. we have the same talent shortage is worldwide which is what don't have enough programmers. about a year ago i was invited to a group that wanted to teach a programming class but to teach this class it's not going to work because the student to graduate from this nontraditional class can get hired. employers have this huge bias that is not take take election a certain pedigree from certain institutions. i said we should do this experiment and we should try to change the employment landscape. what i did was i called all the ceos at 100 companies in town