Michelle: I know you do a lot of speaking at schools and different education sessions. I saw something you posted when you speak at schools, kids say kind of a lot of different things, like second, third graders. What's their impression of NDT? Are they excited by it or what's kind of reception you get?

Eddie: It's actually pretty interesting. I think that's probably my most memorable moments is when I talked to the second and third graders. They're just so wide-eyed about what's going on and they're kind of open to whatever it is that we're talking about.

So, I've had some of the most entertaining engagements with these students, even some of the most, some of the smartest questions, as a matter of fact. What comes to mind is a little young man when I was describing what ultrasonic testing was, I was kind of walking them through. So, what I do is I walk the students through a day in the life of an inspector and what they go through.

Well, when I got to the ultrasonic testing and explained what I was doing and I have the equipment up there and I'll show them what's going on. And this little young man raises his hand, says, so what happens if you're looking at something and it doesn't look right? What do you do? How did you, with your equipment, do you adjust it? And I said, you know, that's a good question. I said, we would go back and we would recalibrate and then inspect again, make sure we're seeing the right thing.

But that's a question I don't get from ninth and 10th graders or junior high students. But for second graders, third graders, I was just kind of floored by that question.

So anyway, like I said, I think they're very open to the conversation. And like I that's one of the most memorable questions I've had.

Michelle: Yeah, that's so great that a child is so engaged and curious and that does sound like a big picture question, like, well, if a part fails, there's a whole thing that goes after that. But that's smart.

And you wonder maybe a high schooler would have that question, but they don't want to ask in front of their friends or something. So that's interesting.

Eddie: Yeah, I think that's exactly what it is, right? They get a little intimidated, a little shy. When they're young, they don't care. They're just going to ask the question. And so that's kind of refreshing when you have that kind of just open energy to ask these questions. So, I certainly appreciate it and enjoyed it.

I look forward to those conversations.