GLOBAL-E -
EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
As
most people can attest, if you have a dream or desire to change
something for the better, let’s say the world, the passion you posses is
not necessarily infectious. You will more than likely find it rather
difficult to quickly find followers; they need to be motivated and
taught to see your vision. They need to be nurtured until they come into
a full understanding of the same frame of reference that you have for
the project. This sociological norm holds true whether we are talking
about educating our children, teaching at a University, desiring to fly
across the Atlantic for the first time, building a hyper-mileage car or
trying to help someone understand God. It takes time and wisdom in
teaching to get the prospective student to eventually become the
teacher, the master. So, do you want to proceed through life constantly
being the student or would you rather take some of those years of
education, those years of hands-on experience and put them to use
training the next generation. When life is over can you say that you
gave it your-all and assisted others to see and understand the same
wonderful things that you have been allowed to see?
Well,
we at Global-E intend to educate as we proceed. We are focused on our
design, we are focused on our business and we are focused on winning the
competition but we are simultaneously going to touch and change lives as
we proceed bringing these vehicles to production. This parallel focus
will require changing the world’s view of energy usage, of environmental
conservancy, and how these considerations need to be designed into the
product from the start. This will therefore require the changing of the
world one mind, ten minds, and 100 minds at a time. Surely we are
determined, goal oriented, task driven and moving towards those other
things, but if by the end of this competition we are only able to
design, build and bring to production a 95 mpg vehicle with only an
initially production rate of nine thousand vehicles a year, at least we
will also be able to say that we have changed the perspectives of
several hundred students, several thousand businessmen and investors,
and several hundred thousand drivers who are then going to venture forth
into the rapidly expanding world and teach everyone else. They will be
armed with a different view of what their life-long goals should be.
Part
of the way in which we are achieving these goals is through
partnerships, the synergistic leveraging of support for the University
of New Orleans, the New Orleans inner-city school Delgado Community
College, the University of Florida and a still to be disclosed
University. While we are investing funds, they are returning with
research and data. While we are investing labor in teaching and
mentoring, they are investing the energy spent uploading that knowledge
into their brains, the portable computers they will use designing the
technologies of the future.
We are
advertising two other notable organizations on our web site that deserve
more attention than they are currently receiving. Mentor Net and Global
E3 two groups that are devoted to supporting the world’s
populace. If you would like to make the difference in the world but are
not sure of how to directly support a Grammar school, High school, or
College/University then please support these institutions with your
funds through us. You can make a world of a difference and we can be the
hands of implementation.
