Hi everyone, welcome back to another amazing episode of Ed Up Learning and Development. I'm your host, Holly Owens, and today's conversation is packed with inspiration, insight and actionable advice. I'm thrilled to be joined by Cedric Scott Junior, an educator, Ed tech influencer and all around powerhouse in the learning space. Cedric has one of those incredible journeys, from a background in chemistry to becoming an instructional coach and now making ways in the Ed tech world.
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Hello everyone, and welcome to another amazing episode of Ed Up Learning and Development. My name is Holly Owens and I'm your host, and I'm super excited about this episode because this guest and I should have talked way sooner than what we're talking now, but we're finally doing it. We're finally doing it. So please welcome Cedric Scott Junior to the episode. Cedric, welcome in. Thank you, Hollywood. Yeah. And I know we, we've, we've had this conversation.
We're like, yeah, well, let's we even. Even lived in the same area. Exactly. But you know it, it happened when it was supposed to. So I'm just grateful to be here. Thank you so much for inviting me on and happy to have this conversation with you. Me too. I'm really excited and I know you're pretty. I want to say you're you're definitely an influencer out there on LinkedIn world and I follow you and all your the different work that you're doing
that's so inspirational. But for the people that are listening right now who haven't met you before, tell us about your journey. How did you get into all these different endeavors that you're you're you're doing of? Course, Yeah. So originally I started out actually in science. My background, bachelor's degree, earliest career pathway and trajectory actually was in chemistry. So I got my degree at Virginia State University, shouts to the HBC US, and I got my degree in
chemistry. And then from there, I actually returned back home to my hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, worked briefly in chemical industry, and then I decided to pivot into education. I always knew that I would do something in that, that space teaching. I'd always been, you know, supporting a lot of different people with learning, you know, growing up as one of six children, have 4 younger siblings. So helping with homework and that type of thing was, was
always there. And then just being helpful and being mindful about other people, their progression and, and just how I could be of support and service. So pivoted into teaching, which landed me in Washington DC, which was awesome and in a lot of different capacities. 1 is because I got that experience, of course, going into schools and engaging with youth directly. Started out originally teaching in 3rd grade, primarily in math and science, which was really fun.
I had a really good time. And at the same time, you know, I was fortunate to actually meet my wife, who is also a teacher. So yeah, that that all just really panned out really well, which then led to kind of Fast forward to now actually, I guess thinking more so about 2020 when the pandemic hit. And that was the same time that my son was born. And that was when I had basically made the decision to
pivot once again. Up until that point I had been a teacher in different capacities, mostly in elementary and work my way into being an instructional coach. And then my last school based role, I was actually an assistant principal at an elementary school. And when I. You've done it. All. I've done a lot. I've done a lot. Do you? Feel, I feel old. Do you feel old when you start talking about your journey? I'm like, I can't believe that I've done all this, but that's this is amazing.
Keep going. I've I've felt old since I was 10. We'll dig into that. But yeah, yeah. So, yeah, with my wife and I and, you know, knowing that our son is coming into the world, I really just wanted to be present and really be there and then and
everything kind of shut down. And that's when he was born late March 2020. And then from there, I was able to make the shift again, more so into the Ed tech or kind of education industry space, began working in curriculum and product and things like that, which allowed me also to work fully remote. And happy to say that I've been fortunate enough to be fully remote ever since my son came into the world. You know he just turned 5 this year. Oh, what a fun age.
Yeah, so it's it's been great being able to be here. I can do is commute in the morning, grab him to, you know, pre-K he's going to be starting kindergarten. And then also just being able to support and be here, be present for my wife as well, who also is still teaching, but she's doing
so remotely, which is great. And yeah, with creating all of this other stuff, I guess the, I think the creative aspect of being an educator overall is, is somewhat overshadowed often, I think in a lot of folks who might be hearing this or, you know, watching this episode probably attest to that.
And what I found was that having more time and just kind of like space and opportunity to tinker, I began creating and thinking about what are the disparities in what I saw as a student, but also as an educator in the school system myself, right? Lack of representation, history, you know, even things like financial literacy. So I started creating and producing based off of that. And then also gauging support from, you know, others outside of even the school system
itself. Thinking about what's happening in the home school world, you know, what types of things that can I put in place that could really be of benefit long term? And thinking really just outside of myself and even my own family, but really looking at community and and consideration for our future and our youth. Yeah, gosh, I you're so inspirational. I, I, you know, I love your
stuff. You just and you like constantly, you know, like reinvent things or you just take it and you just make it something better. All the different things that you're doing. But I want to talk about all your different initiatives. So tell us a little bit about you were mentioning before we started the episode the SEM 1000. You've rented 2 books. You said a black AI media.
Tell us about the things that you're doing and how like you're helping education systems, especially like, you know, underserved communities, people that aren't organized, like you're saying about the representation, which is so important nowadays, especially with DEI programs being cut by the current administration. So talk to us about that.
Yeah. Well, I'll preface it by saying that, you know, I had to anchor everything away and, and the way that I did what that was primarily thinking about my own reflection, upbringing, experiences and what kind of shaped and molded me. And one of those major influences, like many other people, you know, where was my family and more specifically, thinking about my mom, right? If I'd be remiss if I didn't, you know, shout her out.
And with that, one of the things that, you know, one of the things I had to create was a scholarship and like a scholarship fund in memory of her because unfortunately, I mentioned that, you know, I mentioned that I agree. No, no, no, it's fine. It's so ridiculous now. But no, it's, I mentioned that like, you know, I, I haven't, I've, I've felt old ever since I was 10. And part of that is due to I lost my mom when I was 10 years old. Well, you know, my family,
right? I mentioned myself, five siblings and that upbringing in my father being, you know, an amazing person, amazing man and doing all the work, every everything that he had to do to keep us moving, which I can never give him enough praise and love for that. But when I think about it, my mom was one who really instilled a lot of the passion and just like in terms of education, she was the one who was like, yes, school do well do that, you know
that she was all about learning. Yeah, that was a great in in you from the beginning, huh? Oh, yeah, it was, it was always there, right. So with that though, you know, I think I was like, well, how can I anchor everything that I'm doing? Because I am, you know, someone who is, you know, whether they what's what's I'm trying to think of what's the term? It's it'll come back to me in a second. Yeah.
But multi hyphen, right? Multi hyphenated where you got multiple things going around and you try to figure out how to put it together. So I created the the Julia Elizabeth Legacy Scholarship Fund four years ago, and I've been each year awarding a scholarship in memory of my mom for an African American high school student that's pursuing a
STEM degree pathway. So anchoring everything there, I'm like, all right, well, everything I create and produce is going to have to kind of funnel and filter into this, this overarching big major, ultimate goal of providing a full scholarship, right. So with that, what I, what I started doing initially with just creating was, you know, I, I was in education, so start producing material, content
resources. And that led me to where I am now with STEM 1000, which is kind of like my driving thing now, because if I try to focus on too many things, as most people would know you, you, you look kind of lose sight and, and veer off track. So I'm like using STEM 1000. So stem1000.com as my my grounding in a lot of this and what STEM 1000 is essentially it has the moniker of 1000 books, 1000 futures. What does that mean? So two books, I have one right here.
Actually, this is the first one initially that I started with the kind of initiative or campaign, it's called algorithms of success, STEM Stories to Inspire. So within this book, there are 50 different STEM careers and pathways it up just to kind of show it. And with each one of those there's also, you know, of course, imagery. And this is for this. Is for younger children. This is not for adults.
This is, and you know, this is not necessarily for like anybody carrying younger K to 12, but this is for younger children. Exactly. Yeah, Yeah. So fifty career pathways within this book, but then building on it, it's, it's really about exposure representation, because I like to say that, you know, exposure plus experience equals education. In order to become something,
you have to know that it exists. And then you can step into that space, engage with it, and then you become educated on that thing. And then, oh, now I can now I can step into this world. That's how I became a chemist, right? I had to know that it existed first and then I had to get experience. Oh, I like mixing things together. I go in the lab. This is wonderful. And then on the back end of it you you learn right.
So that's where I started with algorithms of success and I created another book that is even for younger children than than this book or ages 4 through 7. And that book is called a is for algorithm. And it's essentially, you know, rhyming, very child friendly language that introduces children, you know, A through Z to technology based concepts. So this a is for algorithm, you know, all the way down to like zeros and ones and everything in
between. Where there's also some some really kind of I think been able to tie in some of the more innovative aspects of of creations and creativity and in production like using AI for example, for even in both of these books, if you go to the last page, if you get your copy we'll. Definitely have everything in the show notes about the two books so you can get those. I appreciate that. But yeah, last page of them, you
can actually scan AQR code. This is just an example of one thing, but you can scan AQR code which will actually take you to a STEM music playlist that I was able to generate using AI, right? So it's 7 songs that are all related to stem concepts and different types of like music genres. So you get, you get like an Afrobeat style. There's one that's like all in Spanish. So it's a different variation. But also how we can leverage the technology for good essentially.
And being able to present something to our youth and say, hey, check this out, meet you where you are right? Engage, intrigue, and then really the, at the core of it, it's, it's all basically, you know, pretty much interest driven, which is what I'm really all about when it comes to learning. Yeah, and you so writing two books, I know it doesn't matter what type it takes a while. So that was that was time for you.
And it's, I love the perspective that you're bringing in so that people, I think so often, like, I think one of the reasons we connected as we were talking about like the Ed Hustle, when you were supporting teachers that were there, you're supporting teachers that do career transitions. But now you're, you're giving younger children the opportunity to kind of think about what their path is going to be.
And I love it now. Well, love, hate that education can be very personalized for people. I wish when we were in school that it was like that. I feel like I had to pick something that really wasn't interested me. Like I was in a four year cluster situation, like cluster going to a college and things and I didn't really get to find an interest for me. Like it's just like this is what you're in, this is the courses you have to take. And then college was kind of
like that too. But it seems to there's more becoming more flexibility now in the space that you can actually focus in on like STEM and stuff like that. Is that how you see? Is that how you see it or is that you do have a different perspective? Yeah. No, it's I, I see it that way. And I think I can, I guess I can say I'm lucky in that because that was kind of always my, my shaping and framing of it. Right. I love that I did not have that.
I'm jealous. Even as a even as a math teacher, and I think this this might be there might be something to be said about people who kind of move into education from a different industry, especially if your teaching or your focus of education or instruction is aligned to that thing. So me being a science person, scientist, and then also just really enjoying like creativity, artistry, like you can see, like even just you know, the stuff I didn't. I.
Love it right? Like, I mean, I created this T-shirt that had like, so it's, there's more to it. But whenever you have that and you step into a space where traditionally things are a little bit more, for lack of a better phrase, confined and, you know, in terms of a classroom and then you go in and kind of just shake it up. It's, it's a little bit different, right? There's a there, the outcomes are going to be a little
different. And I, I say, I can say that by a couple of different just, I guess experiences based on my teaching, you know, my background there when I began actually in math in 3rd grade, the approach to it was all inquiry based. Like my favorite phrase to my students in, in my third grade math class was I don't know. And I would just walk away right. Like, Hey, what do you think about this?
I don't know. And then it would, it got, it's funny, I tell people all the time, it got to a point where, you know, even, you know, within that school we would have, you know, transfers come in mid year. That's a whole nother conversation. But we'd have, you know, students come in to the classroom, you know, from whatever other school moving or whatever, and they would ask me the questions, hey, can you tell
me if this is right? And the students who had been there with me that the, you know, since the beginning of the year, they'd be like, I don't know why you're asking him. He's going to tell you. He has to know. Yeah. Talk to them, right? Just avoid that. Yeah, situation as well. I love that though, because then you're, you're requiring them, you know, you've heard things like 3 before me.
And even in like a, a professional setting, I use that because everybody just wants the answer right away. I'm like, well, why don't you explore it a little bit for yourself first? Yeah. So one of the things that, you know, AI, like you have all all these different things. It won't replace teachers necessarily, but like, what does it like to you? What does the classroom that's powered by like AI and human connection look like, like in in real life?
Like what is, what is that? How does do all those synergies come together? That's probably a loaded question. It is. Well, you know, it's interesting because the answers to some of these same questions now we're probably a little bit different a month, two months, three months, like is it all move so fast? Because you do have implementation and some of the expansion of leveraging and using AI in schools, different changes in policies and things like that. And actually just did a, a, a
presentation last week. Well, we're currently in what June, the month, the week of June 16th. I don't know when this is going to be, but last week early, early in June for national Black AI literacy week. And my presentation was talking about AI education and the future of work. And part of that was really considering, well, what's happening right now, right? Where are we? We do see, you know, Khan Academy's con migo and you know that being used as a a teaching
assistant slash tutor. We do see a lot of Ed tech companies or folks creating. I always use the airport solutions that, you know, apply an employee using AI where I see this potentially ultimately being I think what we'll begin to kind of see more of is definitely more, you know, I think what I would hope more opportunity for educators, teachers in the space to be more directly connected with students right and meaning. Where they're at like.
Yeah. You know, like the the resistors, I just have to mention those people that have just like New York, I'm starting to interrupt. But this is like something that like really stuck with me when AI first came out. Is New York City completely banned ChatGPT within days of it being released?
Like nobody's allowed to use it. Well, here's here's why I say for for folks in education especially, I think part of our positioning, right and emphasis should be right, not tell anybody what they what, what what to do, but should be as objective as possible. That's my aim, right? Because we do have, and I'm not saying that anybody's wrong because I get the understanding of it from from all the sides, right. If we're looking at we got over on here, we got the doom and gloom Terminator.
The robots are coming to take over fit. Like like Will Smith and I Robot. I'm not stalking at those people because I've I've seen some interest. I've I've personally ridden in a way MO driverless taxi. So this is a real and I also know people who are look who would look at me and say I would never do that. That's crazy, right? So there's that fair other side. Oh, let's just leverage and get rich and become billionaires. Fair, right.
Like, because this is all like we're talking about potential impossibility in the middle is essentially where I try to ground myself, which for me just means that I need to be as well informed as possible to tell people on either side of the fence. This is what really is right. Like you, you see it that way, That's fine. But here's the truth, right? Here's what we know.
And then building on that, being in a classroom where we can see this, of course, teachers engaging with students more so on a personal relationship based level. Also being able to leverage and use, you know, some of the AI tools for more personalization, more customization, meeting the needs of the student, which is great because I've even done this with homeschool families, you know, create a create us a plan for my child whose interest is in dinosaurs so that they
don't have summer slide, right? We can, we can create that type of stuff and then put it in place. But it's it's going to be really interesting to see, I think just how, just how really, because the implementation of everything always falls on teachers, right it. Absolutely. Does in education like to?
Test it out. I mean, so it's like we can we can push all this stuff and and put these initiatives in place and the district can have this whole trickle down effect, but it's really going to fall on the shoulders of teachers to say, OK, well, this is how we're going to put it in place, right? So what does that mean for younger learners? Maybe that's, you know, AI driven centers, like where we're already kind of seeing that where there's usually a
technology center. If you're looking at especially like K through 2K through three, I mean, they're engaging with some type of technology, a tablet, a laptop or whatever they log into whatever program, math, etcetera. Maybe there's something that's AI driven there. But we're also seeing in just some of the research that I've recently done is that a lot of teachers are more so making use of it for some of the personalization, but also in support was like some of the planning, right?
And taking, yeah, saving time, right? Those are still like the key kind of pillars that people are leaning on. But ultimately it's it's going to be more of like, well, what's what's pushed, what's encouraged and what's enforced so that the teachers are going to have to basically get to a point where the, you know, realization is the district wants me to do this. I have to do it in this way. So it's it's still very, very loose to the point where that nobody can really say exactly
what it looks like, but. Right. We can't predict the future. We didn't, certainly didn't think AI was going to be this sophisticated at this point, did we? I don't know. But I mean, the main thing is how do we step in to inform people, to educate people, right? Because again, going back to my equation, exposure plus experience equals education, exposing to this right, to the resource, to the tool, to this whole world, right?
Showcasing it. Because there's a lot of people who are talking about things and they'll tell you, you know, what to do, why you should do it and when you should do it. But a lot, there's not a lot of the how, which is what I found just with education in general, when you talk about professional development, professional learning, whenever you're able to have more of a hand holding experience, right?
Where my, for example, my goal leading any PLC, any professional development session, anything like that ever is always for everybody in the space to be able to take at least one thing away and play the next day. Like, I don't need you to be able to use this next week or next year. I need you to use it tomorrow, right? So what, how are we doing that
implementation, right? If we're, if we're saying, oh, we need to use AI, let's implement it, Let's put it in place, OK, but make it so that it's applicable now, because again, if you put this on a teacher's desk and say you have to do this and it's only out of compliance, are we really going to get the full benefit of it? And ultimately will the students get the full benefit of it? If, if that's where we're
focused, right? Or is it just like, oh, it's another box to check, Don't do that, right? Be mindful about it. Otherwise we, we might need to think about how we're approaching right. What's the, what's the reasoning?
What's the point behind this? Because if it's not for the benefit of we'll say the teachers, but also definitely the students and looking into the future, which is where I'm kind of positioned more so then we got to start asking ourselves questions like, well, why is this happening? What's the point? That's great advice and great perspective on how to how to deal with that.
You know, I think a lot about the diffusion of innovation theory where there's like the Luddites at the end and the people like us who just automatically latch on. And then in the middle, that's kind of where we try to find, we find that happy medium for people are kind of like apprehensive, but people that they really do want to explore it and figuring out where we can support them and implementation.
Not just like you're saying, not just telling them what to do, give them the space for trial and error 'cause that's what this is, that sort of situation. So we're coming up on the end of the episode here, but I definitely wanna. You're a transition teacher. You have quite the following now on LinkedIn. You're an influencer by all those standards. Yes, I know, Cedric, people say the same thing to me. And I'm like, no, that's not me. I'm just out here trying to help save the world.
So what is some advice if you know as a transition teacher that you can maybe maybe 3 actionable items that if you're they're thinking about transitioning out, what could they do? You know, as we continue to expand like in the world of AI and having all these different things available, the support that you offer and making sure everybody's representative, what can teachers do to transition out? You know what is the advice you would give all? Right here we go.
OK, because I I do I do have this so. I know I asked you a lot of interesting questions. You did great. No, no, no, you're ready. So the first thing I've recommended and and walk people through and actually have videos on and stuff like that is basically taking really practical hands on. Take a sheet of paper, fold it in half on one side of the paper at the top right, we're making AT chart right strengths. On the other side of the paper, write interest.
We're going to take a survey because what happens, especially with a lot of recommendation and advice on, on LinkedIn I've seen, you know, primarily is if people say, oh, you got to narrow it down. You got to find your niche. You got to like target your focus. Here's how you do it on the strength side. You list all the things that you are amazing at that you can prove. It's very important that you can prove based on your actual experience, right?
So list those things. For me, it's things like, I don't know, math, I'm good with leading professional development, so on so forth, right. You can list those things out STEM on the other side is your interests. And some of these are going to have overlap, which is the point, right? On the other side, you list your interests. What are what are the things that you actually can see yourself really doing? What are you, what do you, what do you enjoy? Right?
List those things out. If that's writing, if that's presentations, whatever, then cross reference those columns. And then from there you can actually start to, if you want matter of fact, since we have AI now this, I wasn't using it at the time when I did this, but you can go into a ChatGPT or a cloud or whatever it is that you're using and say what job titles align to these cross points, right? Math and curriculum, math and presentations.
And then you can from there, you can begin to generate essentially job titles and areas of focus that are also grounded in your success. And when I say success, things that you can point to on like we'll say your resume that you have been amazing at, right? Don't necessarily think so much about ultimately, like I get that people have like large dreams and goals and they think that they want to go in One Direction and and try this thing out.
But the first thing would be narrow down to like where you're amazing at, right? I read this book. Where are you going? Exactly. I'm sure you've talked to transitioning teachers. And I'm like, I want to be an instructional designer. And I'm like yes, and what part? Yeah. And also like, what about your background and experience speaks directly to you being successful as an instructional designer?
And like where and what you've done says I have already done this thing successfully because at that point, you're then stepping out and, and saying, well, just give, just give me a chance. And you're competing against people who have already been successful in that world. And in our, you know, let's say I have three years of instructional design design experience and a transitioning teacher who albeit might have 20 years experience teaching.
If you don't have instructional design experience specifically, then that might not look great in comparison. So real quick, there's a book that I read. It's more so about marketing business, but it helps with this. It's called Brands Don't Win. And essentially what the the idea of brands don't win is, is that you want to be able to position this.
Yeah, it's awesome. You want to be able to position yourself in a way that you're playing the game that only you can win or the game that you have the best chance at winning, right? The the, the subheading of of that book or the subtitle of that book is how transcenders change the game, change the game. Don't play the game at everybody else's. I'm not going to jump into the pool of professionals that are looking for a role in English language arts and my background
is in is in math and science. I lose every time, right? I'm jumping into the pond where I'm the big fish because I was a chemist, instructional coach, blah blah blah blah blah, right? Did curriculum. I look great over here, not over here. So positioning is number one. Second thing, highly recommend. Even in the midst of you working full time. This is not, I'm not saying this is easy, but I highly recommend getting into contract work if
feasible. If you can land a contract, especially doing something that you think you want to do and getting a little bit of experience there. Oh I want to go into curriculum writing. My backgrounds in math teaching. See where you can fit and find a role short term. Something like that. Contract based. Doing some math curriculum development. You might find that you actually hate doing that. Yeah, that does happen. But there's also it's also aligned right in terms of the
experience overall outside but. On your resume. Exactly, Yeah, right. And I mean, you make money, right. Great. But at the same time, you can still be doing what you're doing full time, keep your health benefits, all that cool stuff, but but get that experience, right. So that's the next phase. Next phase of it is kind of building those things out. The third one, I mean, if I can throw out 1/3, yeah, in terms of alignment would then really be, I mean networking is a contact sport.
I'll be just be completely. I love it that you said that because it's so true. Even even on even virtually on LinkedIn, like, yeah, what I'll say is, is, is kind of thinking about things from the there's well, stark difference between education system and education industry. Sorry, that was a kind of another tip.
But know the difference between there right where you're pivoting now into an industry world where things are a little bit more focused on aspects like revenue and money and, and growth and, and. Pipelines and sales and APIs and all the things. Yeah. So I mean, the verbiage is going to shift and things like that. But what really helps more than anything when people say, hey, you know what the secret is to, to getting a job in Ed tech or to get a job in education industry.
I'm going to be honest with you. The the secret is that there is no secret unless, unless you have somebody that is already in that space who can lift up the curtain and say, hey, come on, come underneath. That's the secret. And how do you get to that point? By connecting directly with folks, having conversations, rubbing elbows with people, joining in conversations, you know, on other, you know, platforms, whether that's group forums, engaging in different events, stuff like that.
To the point where whenever a role comes out, because a lot of times, you know, with companies, for example, a lot of the roles, the aim is to backfill them internally, right? So who do we have here already? Because we trust everybody here, right? They weren't. The. System exactly. How it? Works. And if we can't feel from within, then OK, the next phase of that is who do we know here that knows somebody that can be
brought in? And at that point, oh, I talked to Holly at this event or I saw her this presentation or I checked out her podcast. I think she'd be amazing for this. Hey, Holly, this role just came out. What do you think about this right now? What happens? You talk, you talk to me inside track. I can talk to the manager, right? Or, or you can put me list me as a reference, you know what I mean? Or whatever you on that, that application, you get filtered to the top.
Now you just increase the chance there. So that would be the last thing, which is just target specifically after you've already outlined direction that you should go based on your experience, right? You started to look at all right, Well, this makes sense. I'm going to go in this direction. What organizations, what companies, what people align with the solutions, the things that you care about that you're
amazing at, connect with them. LinkedIn, if you go to the the company's page, they have a little people tab. Right. Go to those people. Oh, I saw that this is, you know, that you work here. I saw that this is, you know, open or available. I want to connect, have some conversations that might lead to something that's a little more inside track, in which case you again, how transcenders change the game.
And you know, we're, we're talking about kind of separating yourself a little bit from the pack. Absolute great pieces of advice and very structured like how to actually how to do it. So re listen to that last few minutes people and take that advice. Cedric, I can't thank you enough for coming on the show and sharing all the different things that you're doing. You're you're so inspirational. And I'm not just saying that I'm
a follower. I see all the things that you're doing and I really appreciate, you know, all the resources and the information and the things that you put out there to make all everybody successful and feel like they're, you know, they're a part of your community. You have a vast community. So where can everybody find you? We're going to have this on the show notes and you're going to have you're going to fill out your little guest form.
But where can people find you? What do you want want them to know about you? You know, final thoughts as we wrap up the I wrap up this episode. Well, first, thank you for inviting me on again. Yeah, really appreciate it and enjoyed having this, you know, this sit down with you. But yeah, you can find me primarily I would say go to LinkedIn, Cedric Scott, Cedric Scott Junior with my little, you know, Masters of Education credential at the end. Yeah, I love it too.
I should be writing. That too. I got it there, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Check me out there. Connect with me, send me a message. I do respond just just so people know. And then where my my primary push again is STEM 1000. I am the the founder of Black AI Media as well at blackaimedia.com, which focuses on really uplifting and empowering the Black global community when it comes to AI and technology. So learning more about folks across the globe. You have to do another whole episode.
Of that and stuff, but you're. Coming back on. But yeah, really just, you know, STEM 1000 because I think the urgency of thinking about the future of work, career development for our youth and really equipping them right now is of the utmost importance. That's kind of just where I'm really targeted. So you can go to stem1000.com. You can check out the the kind of the the main books, which are
again, algorithms of success. A is for algorithm and there's some also some other resources and cool stuff there too. But those are the main things. Just trying to get the information into the hands of our youth and be able to support schools, families, everybody right when it comes. To that, I love it so much. I love it so much.
Thank you so much, Cedric again, we're definitely I'm definitely we're going to have to have a follow up so for some of the other initiatives as well and talking about, you know, the black AI media, all those different things. So but thank you for what you do and thank you for being a great part of this community and a contributor and an influencer. I have absolute the utmost respect for you and thanks for coming on the show. Thank you so much.
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