here with me now is the founder, timothy kroul, the founder and oscar hernandez is grammy award winningrtist helping out with the program. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> you heard the students in the previous segment. how encouraging is that, the fact they are able -- it's not easy to sit in front of the lights and cameras here and knowing the host, asking him questions, pretty impressive? >> very impressive and utterly inspiring. their stories resonate with us at siembra and we've seen people come up through the system also in east los angeles who want clear pathways to success. >> what are you doing to help them get there? >> in california there's a 800-1 student to counselor ratio. that disproportionately negativively affects the latino student. they need a reference point in order to gravitate towards higher education. what we're trying to do is apply technological solution to help augment and give them an ability to social network with the caseload and open up possibilities in terms of providing remedial content and clear pathways for the students. >> how is that working? >>