I'm 16 years old I live in Brooklyn New
York and I'm a senior at PETA my name is
Rashid furrow at Davis I am the founding
principal of pathways and technology
Early College High School p-tech for
short
P Tech is a public-private partnership
that includes in New York City
Department of Education the City
University of New York New York City
College of Technology specifically and
IBM all working collaboratively to give
students a pathway from high school
through college to industry while you're
in high school you'll also take college
classes and ultimately end up graduating
with your high school diploma
and a two-year associate's degree
examine williams and i'm going on to my
sophomore year when I heard about pizza
my mom walked in and she said the
president went to the school in Brooklyn
so I have to go there she kind of made
the choice for me we do see lots of
students who are interested in science
technology engineering and math but then
you also get some students to say well
you know what I'm not really interested
in technology but I know I want to
attend college I didn't know anything
about coding before Pizza now I'm taking
a class and I'm just like oh I can read
that I know what it says it's so cool
well I heard you'd be able to make games
or applications to help you out so what
I thought is maybe I could do that the
way I dress makes me feel more positive
gives me confidence about myself my app
will give you ideas from your style that
you have or the saw that you would like
to have innovation really happens when
you get access and are
to those who have not generally had it
in industry serves as a motivation to
push the envelope we give an immediate
context for students with a mentor from
grade 9 we do get a lot of stuff put on
our plate but it's never hard for you to
get help I was assigned a mentor
whenever I talk to him I feel that we're
like family
who became close and I feel like I have
someone to always rely on so we're
telling students yes it will be
academically rigorous but we are
expecting them to still be connected
with other activities that will help
them socially and emotionally develop as
teenagers after school and I am on the
track team so I go to track practice I
also as part of the Robotics Club soccer
to me is fun I have to learn how to be
patient and take time to watch the
person before I make mom I have a lot to
learn and I like the process we've seen
students because of having the
opportunity to take technology classes
to have the industry mentor to go to
work site visits to really rethink
possibilities for their future my
internship at IBM was the research
department the one thing I wasn't
expecting was actually wanting to stay
past the time that we were allotted I
was like he just gave us more work huger
overtime or something every single day
that I leave
we'll go home I see the sense of urgency
of why Paycheck patterns Hawaii must
move faster to redefine what success
looks like in student communities a good
idea and support really has great
potential to change generations
if the BTech I hoped among business
after pizza I'm just really excited to
continue going into the computer science
field I'm just really happy to know that
I have a great opportunity in front of
me and so many rules that can take the
head