Boston City TV, MA Boston Center for Youth & Families (BCYF), 16 May 2023

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From YouTube: BCYF Shelburne STEM Lab Opening

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Robots, virtual reality, and fruits that make music; just some of the new experiences young learners can look forward to at the newly opened STEM Lab at the BCYF Shelburne Community Center in Roxbury. Join Mayor Wu and other city leaders as they celebrate the occasion made possible by the Boston Celtics and AbbVie.

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My name is cashkin and I'm here, representing the Boston, Celtics and I'm excited to be here to share this space with you all. We we, as in the Boston Celtics we partnered up with Abby, which is a great company, and we wanted to be here. We wanted to be in the community. We wanted to provide some support. We wanted to provide resources and what better place to do that than at the Shelburne.

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We're just going to celebrate we're here to have a good time. Welcome to your new stem lab. You guys excited about it. How does it look what.

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Are we doing yeah.

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What's the question yeah.

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That the basketballs that are in here can we can come downstairs. You.

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Got to earn those basketballs.

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So welcome to your new stem life. First of all, who knows what stem stands for? Who could tell me, raise your hand, don't yell at all.

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Who can help them out?

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What was the E, though the E? What is not education? It stands for engineering there.

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You go okay, so.

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That's what it's about today right. We wanted to provide these type of resources to hopefully inspire you all to motivate you to potentially explore a career and stand there's hundreds and hundreds of careers in stem that you could be privy to. So we wanted to make sure we provided that support So to celebrate that space. I have some special guests who you may be peeking at through the door, our first really special guest. You may be familiar with she's the director here. Let's welcome Diane Galloway come on in.

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Looks like you got a little kid. That is that, for you or no.

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Testing does this work, I, don't even know if you have to test. Oh I, guess: I, don't know if.

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I have to turn this.

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Off you can hear me: okay um first I would like to say: welcome to everybody. I would like to thank ad V so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Boston Celtics. Thank you so much because this is a day waiting to happen for our young children and they're very appreciative for it, and we are too, and it just gives our kids the opportunity to be able to enhance their science.

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You know their technology, the engineering, their mathematics to another level, and it's only because of these great sponsors at V and the Boston Celtics I want to thank you know my staff. You know my counsel for your support, my staff that was in here you know helping putting this together, but I gotta. Thank somebody that really advocated for the showburne to make this happen. You know I gotta. Thank you, know. Jonathan train from the Boston Celtics for advocating.

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And he he advocated for the bcy of Shelburne Community Center to have this stem lab a place where they can come and enhance their skills and I. Thank you. So much and now I gotta give a gift away and I'm not sure where so many, why you put me in this position.

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I want to give it to this young man over here, because when I told him- and he just said, can I give you a hug Miss Diane. Now you can come give me a hug.

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Thank you, Diane. We have a few more special guests um next on the list, I already mentioned them, Abby we wouldn't be here without them. Actually they were a huge advocate for making sure we got the right place and the right resources in the right place. So um representing Abby, we have joking Southfield.

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Give him a nice big round of Hotel yeah there he is come on in.

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Oh he's giving away a hat too he's giving away the Hat all right there. We go.

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And I'll, have you say a few words in just a second? Let me get everyone else in here: okay, our next guest, of course, um I said I'm representing the Celtic I'm, not that cool when you think about who we have as a part of the organization.

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um Obviously our players are not here, but we've we have probably the most athletic person or mascot in the entire organization. Here, he's also really really intelligent. So, let's give it up for the Boston Celtics mascot lucky.

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A head you're good.

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I spread the love all right, thank you lucky and then last but not least, and I'm sure you all are not surprised that she's even here, because she always shows up for the community. Let's give it up for the mayor of Boston, mayor Michelle, Wu,.

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We got Shades too.

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So we have all these activities we're gonna get to it, but I want to make sure we hear from all of our special guests. So we already heard from Diane, so um yoken I would love to hear from you just about what Abby represents and why you all are so invested in the community.

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So hello, everyone, my name- is Johan sarfeld I'm, the vice president for discovering Immunology virology at Apple, I'm, also the site head for our many sites. We have many sites in Massachusetts, both Discovery and Manufacturing, and giving back to the back to the community and being part of the community is integral to who we are at every. So we have many programs at app.

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We, where our colleagues and scientists can actually either volunteer or donate to the courses where they call the need, is the greatest to make the greatest impact and for us it is really amazing to to be teaming up with the Boston Celtics May, the winter night in Philadelphia to an organization of Celtics who have dedicated to give back to local community to work with them and today unveil an amazing stem lab that hopefully has impact on young children for years to come for our scientists, our company, by the way in case you wonder what do we do?

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We actually do a lot of science. We make medicines using amazing science, something that Massachusetts is famous for um so for us. Being part of this is really part of Who We Are, but we also know that a good stem medication very early on in a child's life is so critical to excite. You guys you guys to become great leaders in the field if you so choose to become a scientist or leader in the technology field.

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What what areas that make Massachusetts so vibrant severe as every are committed to continue working with the bcyf and with the Celtics to continue making impact on the community and to allow the children and families and committees to thrive and the children to build amazing careers in this amazing state of Massachusetts. Thank you.

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And then um maybe this is your city. We would love to hear from you I'd like to open the for you thanks.

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Hey everyone nice to see you all again, um I guess what I want to say is this about the Shelburne I'm in a lot of spaces all across the city I'm in a lot of rooms where people are making decisions, or they want to tell us about some major invention that they're making or a really important program that they're, starting and in space after space after space What are the most consistent things that I hear was Miss Harris raised me at the Shelburne right, so the room that you're in now and all the rooms here at the Shelburne.

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There are people in charge of just about everything in the city today who are where they are because they kept showing up to the Shelburne and they kept listening to the people who were here to create opportunity, and so I want you to know how many people are fighting for you to have every bit of cool technology, opportunity, um programming, funding that you can and that it has started with many many folks who are now trying to pay it back, because this group, the board the folks who have been in leadership at the Shelburne over many years, made it possible for for people to grow themselves and be where they are.

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So. Can we give a round of applause to Diane, Miss Harris and the entire board here.

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They have found that one important organization that has wanted to give back in so many ways to the city is the Boston Celtics. So we're excited for tonight. We're gonna. Do it we're gonna, we're gonna, make it happen um and I've been able to see the Celtics in action in a lot of different ways in different community centers. The way that they're showing up the when the players are free, they're involved in the community.

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They come sometimes just to spend time at um different games and and tournaments that are happening in the city and then they're pulling an even more partner. So we want to thank Abby today for joining our Boston family.

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It's a strong family where people have your back and we're our we're focused on the future, and so um I can't believe.

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I've only ever used these virtual reality things like one time before my whole life, and it was really uh really an experience, so I'm so excited that you all will be able to not only use it but learn how it works and I hear there are things here where you can make a banana into a phone or a light or something all the different, all the different ways that we're trying to create jobs and invent things and save lives here in Boston, it starts with the science that you're now going to be able to have access to every day.

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So thank you so much to everyone here. The team at the Shelburne, the Celtics Abby I, want to give a special shout out also to folks who are trying to create opportunities at every Community Center across the city. So we have our commissioner here, commissioner Marta Rivera. Thank you for your leadership. Boston Center for Youth and Families, um our chief of Human, Services, Chief, Jose maso, is here also oversees. So many ways we're trying to serve our residents, so, let's keep it going.

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um We want to make sure that you all are champions in every way that you want to grow and Thrive and we're going to be here to keep fighting for what you need and what you deserve to to lead the city, not too long from now.

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Thank you very much um are y'all ready to start engaging with the activities yeah. That was like a seven out of ten. Now listen. We have a big game tonight, huge game tonight, I'm going to watch it in isolation, because it's that important.

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I'm, not you know what I mean so like we need. We.

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Need all the energy y'all have on Celtic shirts, so I'm going to ask again are y'all ready, yeah.

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So we mentioned him already, um but where's Johnny I'm gonna have my colleague Johnny. First of all, we got to get one more round of applause to Johnny, because he's.

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A lot of people behind the scenes doing a lot of great work to help everyone in our community Johnny's, one of them.

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To give him the honor of actually running through quickly running through the activities, so you know what to expect so.

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Quickly, 20 seconds, we got a game: a FIFA over there 2K over there, a little bit of Lounge a scene with some couches and some feedback chairs in the middle. We have some meta, Quest, Oculus, VR type of stuff, do yourself Boombox and wonderful, robot, and then some some kits also sometimes use Chef sets in a LEGO Mindstorms.

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uh We got coding on the left of the bed and the right. We have those Makey Makey kits where you can make some sounds music with a banana and a piece of fruit.

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Figure station: let's have some fun.