five hundred million dollars that's a
lot of money if someone just handed you
five hundred million dollars and said
here go do something good for society
what would you do I don't know if you
know it but society is kind of divided
right now it's like we're on different
teams and when we're on teams we tend to
play games right I don't like to even
touch politics because of this division
this polarization but just as a thought
experiment look at this graph there's
two teams there's the blue team and the
red team where would you put yourself on
this graph you might find yourself over
here on the left or maybe over here on
the right or somewhere in between
whatever you're into that's cool but I
kind of look at it a little bit
differently I'm not really on the graph
I don't really care what team gets the
credit and I don't even really want to
play the game I want to be a part of
those things that are just in arguably
good when I was at university for
mechanical engineering it was pretty
much understood that if you were to
graduate you would have a job because
there was a deficit of engineers to fill
engineering jobs eight years later my
sister went through university and she
read the market forces differently she
chose computer science I thought it
would be interesting to get her
perspective on what it's like to be a
female computer scientist hey guys
Destin asked me to make a quick clip
about women in computer science but the
thing is I'm actually really busy
computer science thing as we speak I
really need to format this aggregation
right now I can't make a video clip so
that's all she gave me she kind of
messed my script up so here's how this
works
she's too busy working she is a senior
software engineer her opening salary was
a hundred and fifty percent what mine
was when I graduated adjusted for
inflation and everything if you want a
job when you graduate computer science
is the ticket
Google invited me via email to this
event industry leaders from all
different types of companies and
government leaders were coming together
to ball up 500 million stinking dollars
and allocate it to get coding into
schools this is a big deal because in
the current loaded political tribalism
environment this this email invite I got
look like a breath of fresh air it
looked like people working together so
yeah I'll put on a suit and go to
Detroit and listen to
people working together for something I
agree with so this is what that looks
like hey it's me Destin welcome back to
smarter every day I'm in Detroit today I
have been asked to come to an event
about computer science for children it's
put on by code.org the internet
Association a lot of a lot of groups
have come together it's a big deal
so there's 500 million dollars that's
being given specifically to focus on
computer science literacy for minorities
young girls and rural students so I'm in
Detroit Ivanka Trump's gonna be here in
a second we're gonna talk about what all
is going on and I'm gonna watch this
event first and then we'll all talk
about it
this guy is Michael Beckerman he's the
president and CEO of something called
the internet Association the internet
Association is responsible for getting
all these industry partners together to
donate all this money this is how we
kick things off a new initiative
creating a large funding for computer
science and stem programming and that
would have been possible without the
leadership and vision of the banca Trump
is with us today so I just wanted to
thank Ivanka as well thank you for
you've done after this the panelists
came up and I'll summarize exactly what
went down Google Amazon Microsoft
Facebook in Salesforce dot org
each gave 50 million bucks Lockheed
Martin gave 25 million Accenture gave
over 10 million and General Motors and
plural sites are given 10 million there
were a lot of things said on this stage
but the one thing that was very clear is
everyone was unified on this one
particular topic
pathways for a job for all Americans
even those who walked out of a four-year
college model for my money Hadi partovi
from code.org seemed to sum it up the
best this guy's been beating this drum
for years and you could tell this was a
really big moment for him listen the way
he had to say Americans expect the tech
industry to address some of these things
and today they're putting their money
where their mouth is to do that and on
top of that the administration is coming
together in a really unique
public-private partnership that we don't
really see in our country very often you
know our country lives we're living in
divided times everybody knows that but
everybody agrees on the idea that every
American should have the opportunity as
a student to have a great career in
front of them and the school they go to
should prepare them for that place where
no matter where they want to get into so
I I wanted to thank Ivanka personally
for championing this and being for such
a champion particularly of diversity for
girls for African Americans for Hispanic
Americans who have the least access to
this opportunity today I want to point
out something right now
somehow I don't know how this happened
but in society right now we have come to
believe that if you agree with a person
on a topic somehow you're signaling to
the rest of the world that you agree
with everything that person thinks on
every topic that's simply not true it's
okay to say that something that's good
is good I'll give you an example this
makes me look bad so maybe you'll
believe it more on this channel in
particular I've done a video in the past
saying that one particular practice that
Facebook was doing was inequitable and I
disagreed with it it was a very strong
video but here Facebook has given 50
million dollars for computer science
education that is a good thing and
people might say whatever it's a PR
stunt I don't care what people think
you've given 50 million dollars to
computer science education and that is a
good thing no matter what anybody says
by the way all these companies that
don't traditionally agree with some of
the policies of the current
administration are sitting down with
Ivanka Trump everybody's on stage doing
a good thing this is exactly what I want
the future to look like they're all
listening to each other
and speaking of that we should I
actually got to go meet some of these
people 101 and listen to them this is
really fun I like this I came to this
country as an as an immigrant from Iran
and my family is leaving during a time
of war I came here as a 12 year old with
my twin brother and we had nothing to
our name but I other than my ability to
code and thirty years later I've made
more money than I need and I've started
companies that employ thousands of
Americans all because I learned voting
in computer science and the person who
taught me was my dad and the reason I
started code org is most Americans
aren't going to learn coding and
computer science from their dad if
computer science is taught in schools
not only will every American have the
opportunity we can also address the
diversity issues about who goes into the
field okay I'm here with Mary from
Microsoft and you had some good one
liners there during the panel one of
them you said is like a goal without a
plan is just a wish right right and I
will say I will say it now that I took
that from Melinda French Gates who also
has been just such a strong leader for
women and driving diversity in the
workplace too but nonetheless it's
really true once we set a goal we need
to really have indicators to ensure that
we're going to meet those goals and my
goal is that in five years there's
computer science in every single high
school and that we have teachers who are
also representative that we have women
teachers and that we have young people
of color teaching computer science okay
regardless of political background we
can all agree that smart kids is
something that we all want it so I'm
here with Michael from the internet
Association and Ivanka Trump but you
guys government and industry just came
together we're talking 500 million
dollars to teach young girls and
minorities and rural areas have a code
right yeah absolutely well
seneschal memorandum a minimum of two
hundred million dollars annually and the
private sector also announced an
enormous contribution today towards
computer science education we're super
passionate about coding we think that
the jobs of the future will require this
technical skill set and I'm also really
excited that the presidential memorandum
requires that the Department of
Education considers inclusion in the
design of these programs because we need
to encourage gender and racial diversity
in a scale of which unfortunately
women's participation has been moving in
the wrong direction in recent years and
we only represent a little over 22% of
the computer science field so hopefully
this will take a big step in changing
that dynamic these are these are jobs
for everybody as Ivanka pointed out and
her leadership has been absolutely
incredible there are four are from sight
they're 500,000 open computer science
jobs across the country and that's in
agriculture and banking sectors outside
of technology yet we're only graduating
50 thousand students a year less than
half of the schools or teaching computer
science but all the parents 90 percent
of parents want their kids to learn this
and so this is important for kids every
kid across the country you're here in
Detroit in every community regardless
you want to go into tech or not and the
leadership that Ivanka administration
has shown has been absolutely incredible
and it's it's just great to be here
representing the private sector no
matching this commitment as well and
working together that's awesome that's
that's what I'm really excited about
everybody working together regardless of
political differences to do the right
thing which is educate the future it's
really good and I'm a father as well
we've got four kids and so I can relate
to all the stuff you guys have going on
it's a big deal my sister's a computer
science yeah I'm really excited about it
so I really appreciate your time thank
you very much
thank you very much appreciate it one
final thought here do you remember that
political graph I feel like I have a
really unique perspective right now
because recently I've done something
interesting on both sides of that graph
last year for example I met with
President Barack Obama and like anyone
in life I had things that I agreed with
him on and things that had disagreed
with him on but I chose to focus on the
good things and we made progress
together I had
the exact same experience with Ivanka
Trump she is a sharp competent woman who
just used her position of leadership to
accomplish some great things on a topic
I care about computer science my point
is this if we focus on our disagreements
there will be no progress but if we
actually take the time and listen to
each other then we can work together
with the things that we do agree on only
then are we really gonna make the future
smarter every day and I think we can all
agree that that is in arguably good you
probably thinking what's the deal Destin
did you just make this video to virtue
signal and feel better about yourself no
no but did not were you not listening
there's 500 freakin million dollars that
you didn't know existed a few minutes
ago and we can funnel that into your
local school they kind of like spend it
right so they're trying to figure out
how they're gonna allocate this money so
I'm gonna leave links in the video
description student be smart about this
mom dad teacher administrator don't wait
on anybody else to do this go to the
link enter your school tell them
everything they need to know let's
figure out how to get a coding
curriculum in your local school you
don't even have to have kids or even be
connected to the school put the stuff in
there let's figure out how to get coding
into schools when we go to Mars there's
gonna be millions of lines of code on
that vehicle and it's gonna be done by
this generation so use the leaks get the
money and learn to code the future is
yours you can do it I promise
anyway I'm Destin you're getting smarter
every day have a good one and everybody
just be nice to each other look at what
we're doing when we're nice to each
other it's awesome anyway