Danny Combs

Yeah.

So we found Belmont University has decided to be the first partner university for our workshops.

We shared it at Vanderbilt.

Belmont's come on board as far as hosting some of the classes.

And we're having these workshop opportunities for children, young adults, and grown adults to kind of come in and get the opportunity to try and kind of explore, discover, create, see if it's something that they're interested in doing.

And so like we're doing like a ukulele making class, for example, for coming and build ukuleles and actually give it a shot.

And the idea is that we're going to be empowering these individuals to try and see if it's something they like.

And then we're also then building up, you know, the students that might be interested for when we get this going full time.

When do you think that will be?

Hopefully it's this fall.

That's our goal.

By the time we acquire the facility, get it renovated and then start going.

That's our plan.

The main focus at first is to find a couple trades that people seem interested in.

And we've got, thankfully, a lot of

really big corporation partners that love the work that we've done kind of the proof of concept with tact that have come on board so for example in auto mechanics subaru is a really great partner they've agreed that you know they will come to those dealerships that are selling those products on our behalf and say hey there's this training program you should hire their graduates and it comes from them rather than us just knocking on the door more credibility behind that

What we're hoping to do is to start kind of shifting that paradigm of workforce and saying, hey, everybody's looking for workers, specifically among the autism community being the highest unemployed demographic in the country.

We have got this opportunity to have real meaningful careers.

Why don't you come through our program and let us support that effort and that life change for you?

And so we're hoping that the folks in Tennessee, it seems like they're already getting very excited about it.