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Mr. Roth: Right. So NexTech provides STEM activities for kids in high <br /> school and middle school and actually grade school. So they have <br /> day camps where the kids are not charged anything to go out there. <br /> They learn about technology. We just had a three day camp where <br /> they do robotic stuff. We give them problems. We're teaching <br /> them problem solving methods. And I'll just share this cause it's a <br /> really kind of cool thing. They went up to the National Park. <br /> National Park gave them a problem. And the problem was little <br /> fire ants. And one of the problems in that was that some of the <br /> trees have fire ants but you can't get up to the trees and you can't <br /> bring a ladder and you can't... And so one of the teams of kids <br /> came up with a solution to create these little balls with a gel inside <br /> with the poison. Put them in at paintball gun and shot um up there. <br /> So I mean, that's the kind of cool stuff and the other thing we're <br /> doing now is... It's right now so it's a good time, people want to <br /> enter into our fish tank. It's a competition kind of named after the <br /> "Shark Tank". It's a competition for kids solving real world <br /> problems. And the kids will get funds, prizes and funds that can <br /> go to a charity of their choice or their schools or things like that. <br /> Mr. Heintz: Okay. You said that you were on the Board of NexTech, right? <br /> Mr. Roth: Yes. <br /> Mr. Heintz: Does NexTech take positions on public issues? <br /> Mr. Roth: No. <br /> Mr. Heintz: Now has the board ever taken a position, to your knowledge, on <br /> the TMT? <br /> Mr. Roth: No. <br /> Mr. Heintz: Have you ever voted on an issue...I mean...is it that kind of <br /> board? That it takes positions... <br /> Mr. Roth: No. You know the idea is we want to create opportunities for kids <br /> to succeed in life. We want to create opportunities for kids to <br /> make mentors here in the STEM industries. We want to make <br /> opportunities for those industries, the engineers and other <br /> industries...including...it could be, you know, the telescopes. To <br /> bring those kids back to Hawai`i rather than having our kids living <br /> on the mainland kinda like what's happening with my kids right <br /> now. <br /> 17 <br />