>> There are multiple paths to be able-- the entertainment industry,
one of the things that is great about it is it's pretty unbiased to accreditation and degrees.
It's really based upon performance.
When you have somebody that has a hunger for the technology, there's so much information that's
out there now that you have an opportunity to be able to build upon it.
Now, with that said educational institutions, there's a real power of interacting
with other people that have your similar mindset.
So, building that educational base, there's, in my opinion, no better place to do
that then the education institutions that exist now.
But it is certainly not the only path to getting to what I do.
The general statement is a hunger to learn and not having the fear to fail.
So, failure is a very real part of what we do every single day.
I fail, if not every other day, every 3 days.
And people that are able to grasp that and really appreciate it
and revel in it, they're successful.
Specific coursework in this day and age, having information technology, you know,
a base level knowledge of IP and networking, is extremely important.
Also, the tools that are required, so the fundamental building blocks, you know, calculus,
algebra, things of that nature, are important,
but they're extremely powerful tools that exist out there.
One example being, MATLAB or another example being SolidWorks,
which a parametric solid modeling program.
And for a student to dive in an truly understand the power of how to use a tool like that,
it's extremely useful because when you need to solve challenges like lifting up a speaker stack
that weighs over 1,000 pounds, having 1 person being able to do it and needing that piece,
that A-frame, to be able to be assembled quickly, be light and you know be strong
and safe at the same time, people that are able to solve those problems are extremely useful.