when we talk about a little bit about our building connections, what I wanted to do today was just tell you a little bit of the highlights that we've done. Like I said, we've only really been in name for about three years. We've been in full force action, I would say, for this past year. So we're a new institute, and we're growing, and there are so many options and opportunities out there, but we've not had necessarily the bandwidth to and increase our access to partnering, but that is one of our biggest goals this year and the next coming year. So I'm really excited to be here, and I'm taking copious notes about all the great things everybody's doing. And I'll make sure I get my email in the messages too when I'm done here, because I think there's some wonderful opportunities for collaboration. One of the big things we do is with the Arizona Department of Education and our partners in societal impact, we run a program called natives who code. And this is really increasing computer science for Native American students across the state. So that's we have a lot of educators that come in, and we teach them different ways to engage with predominantly when they're teaching predominantly Native American students within their schools how to increase the access to computer science, programming, how to make it very engaging, but really also those ideas of how those students can take all that information back to better their tribal nations. We work with some national agencies. We've started building out partnerships with those. And really that's looking at some of the intersections between right now we're working on agricultural. Agriculture and renewable energy. We have some other partnerships we're looking at with DOE that are interested in some of the work that our faculty are doing. So we want to create partnerships out that benefits the United States as a whole, and just advancing research in that way as well. In some of that, we also do a lot of conference connections. So we've got larger grants. We've gone for some of the larger Nair grants, working towards the AI federal grants. That's, you know, obviously a little bit on pause, and we've got a lot of stuff in the cooker that we're waiting to have reviewed. But again, as stuff changes and new opportunities come up, whether it's local or national, we want to be able to start partnering with some of the organizations across the state. One of the things that we also do is we do a lot of programming across the state, and I'll go more in depth on that, but one of the things we've done are the county and Tucson connections that we've made. And in this we'd go out and we do a lot of workshops, seminars, we do trainings, and it's really in supporting the AI development, it can be cybersecurity development or just data information, so people can start thinking about their organizations and assessing what they have as data. One of the great programs that are, I think, are very cool, that our students led, and these are predominantly undergraduate students, is they've built out virtual XR and digital twin mappings of the county. So it's creating a County Tourism engagement for AI, and then having some interaction in there. And then they did a digital twin of klossal Cave. We've worked with city and Tucson on talking with them about how to build in AI and doing some more of the machine learning mapping that over into some automation for them. And then we've gone in to do consulting with local businesses, and then some of our schools as well. And so one of the big things that we are looking to grow this next three years as part of our agenda is really to help Arizonans access to advanced cyber infrastructure. And again, we talk about this really, largely because there are so many components to it, and recognizing that we have a lot of researchers on campus, a lot of wonderful students on campus that can help fill in gaps, step in and help with opportunities, on grants, programming. And so our current focus that we are currently working on right now is we have a southern Arizona Education Data Commons, and we are also working on a statewide, excuse me, with the tri University effort for Arizona Health Data Commons. These really came out of the last administration's office of science, technology and policy, where we recognized the leadership then, at that time, recognized during COVID that there was a lot of mismatch and connection between data and communities, counties, states, and there was a lot of missed opportunities for advancing health care options there. So with that, the initiative out of the OSTP office and their data science focus, we're interested in how we can encourage states to create these data commons of shared health data, and how do we deal with the security, the privacy and the responsibility with that? So those are one. Those are two groups that we've been working with here in Arizona right now to start building these out. It's a it's a longish process. It is not going to happen overnight, but we've got great stakeholders at the table, and we're working on those strategies. One of the ways that we are able to do that is through cybers. And so I really encourage folks to check out cybers.org They're through our colleague team, the Data Science Institute, and it is really an opportunity for access to high performance computing, various ways of really responsible data storage and management. So we think about fair and care principles in this area, there are different security measures that go around that. So we're working really closely with Tyson swetnam, our director. He is one of the CO PIs on this. So we work on building this platform, which is a former NSF funded program, to become now a big statewide opportunity for us to start working to have responsible data usage and how we share that out. So our future focus, like I said, is really broad. It's this idea of this economic growth. So we've got a lot of things to think about, what that means for different regions, for different communities, and how we can support them. In some of that, we are working on some advancing of agriculture and mining technologies through our partnerships. And then the other big one is getting that connectivity across the state through our science drivers. So we previously know that there's a lot of opportunity federally, if we can demonstrate out science drivers for some of our rural schools and we can get some of that connectivity. And so some of the work we're doing is starting that as that pilot opportunity for connectivity, and then going through and looking for. Or donations, foundations and other opportunities to create that sustainability. So we do work on K 12 and increasing that pathway to our emerging technology. And we use emerging technology as this broad term, because there are just so many components when you say stem even or just technology or computation or data. So we've been we've been lumping everything together in this emerging technology, because what we all know is that there's just this continuous growth that is happening. We're all seeing it in the news. We're feeling it. So we are really looking at all the elements that are important to support the continued growth and innovation there. And one of those was bringing in our colleague, Paul Wagner to do the science cyber Science Academy. And Paul, I'll do a brag about you here. Paul is just a innovative thinker. Moves forward, rapid fire, bringing this information to our schools and communities. So I highly recommend you go to our website. He's got some really great programming going on. It's bringing that awareness to students, but then also taking that out again to the educators, so they can start building that into some of the language they're doing with their curriculum. Besides the fact of looking at building out a big opportunity for the entire state for that security operations center, so we can get people focused in on workforce opportunities internships, but also then supporting our businesses, local or public institutions as well across the state. We also partner with sarsaf, and in that we are working on a lot of teacher professional development. So about every other month we're hosting out an artificial intelligence in education professional development. And really the focus there is how to help educators know how to use AI, especially just generative AI, when we think about chat, GPT, or any of the other tools on helping them with making their curriculum stronger, or making, you know, using as a tool and a resource so they can get back some of their time. We also support out the ACES camp, and that's our middle school girls from underrepresented populations. And we are bringing out all kinds of fun career in education, in STEM this year we're supporting out hardware chip design, so chip manufacturing, thinking and engineering. We're bringing out with that group as well web design so that the students can work collaboratively. And they start going in these multiple components. And then they work as one kind of inter science, or interdependent, interdependent kind of group. And then they create these really great websites where they can start showcasing out the way they have their robots moving, or the lights that they're turning on. The Summer STEM is also going to be just a little bit more of a replication for that. It goes up a little bit to, I believe, the high school students. And there's another program that's coming out of that too, that's for our Native American students. So we have some really great curriculum. We've been working with colleagues across the state, our own directors, and then some of the educators, obviously, within the U of A to build these out. Some of the other stuff that we do here as well. Well, you know, I'll put that onto the other one. But this is also the other thing where we're going in and trying to work with Arizona Department of Education when we think about how to think about data and getting our students ready. What does Arizona need to start thinking about for the standards for the community college entrance into the state or into one of our state universities in those sort of pathways.