. >> at the bay view safe haven, we have a project with pixar. that's going on through this summer as well. we also have another project with another participant in my program, will be taking a flight to the colorado film festival where he one a prize for a film he did about his brother in hunter's point. i will be running a right's of passage at joe lee. so our number, 4 one 5. 824-4098. i can give you a whole slew of activities. >> i just wanted to say, we had been in a conversation with maya and we are planning with a pilot program to develop an 8-week program where mondays would be career explorations. they are going to visit art musicians and bank of america and the career paths they have chosen and then there are discussions about attitude and hygiene. how do you present yourself so people want to engage with you. we are trying to work with the mayor's office and d.c. yn. >> there are a couple of youth empowerments. and the whole goal of that fund, which john may know about the details is to empower the people to be the victors of their des

an obscure digital rendering company on fire sale when george lucas needed to get rid of it called pixar. he had the idea this could be used to create full length animated movie. he thought that would be cool. he found john lsaiter and they worked on a movie called "toy story," and they spent so much money on it, he came near to bankruptcy on it, finally, he did a hail mary pass and did a deal with disney, and toy story is the top ten biggest grossing movies of all time, two sequels also on the top ten lists, and he did it not to make money. he just thought it was cool. i remember meeting steve jobs in the kitty pool in a resort in hawaii years back when we both had young children, and i went with my daughter into the pool, and steve jobs is in there. he sticks out his hand and said, hi, my name's steve, i make movies, what do you do? look, man, the secret is just love your work. what else did he do? he created itunes and the ipod. that's his third industry. he completed transformed computers, transformed movies, and then transformed music. he's not done. he created the iphone and comple

but i talk to some kids from the pixar school series last year that told me even though they were usingteacher can make up for that. >> what about the human factor? >> it plays in so strongly. when you have that personal connection between a teacher and student, an administrator and student, it makes a world of difference. one thing is having qualified effective teachers at the nation's top schools. these teachers know their subject areas and don't just want students to pass but succeed. administrators. these are people who can work with teachers and students to improve the educational climate. a positive environment on there, a place where kids feel safe. they can develop confidence in their learning. finally so important here, parental involvement and support, study after study has shown that when you have parents who are involved in a kid's education, you have kids who get a better education. >> that makes perfect sense. just that reinforcement, whether it be from a teacher, kind of a mentoring situation, or family member, it is going to make a kid excited about going to school and l