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Here’s a project that has me hooked for some time now. Adam Ybarra the Chaplain of Oakland Raiders approached us to make a product out of a motivational curriculum that he taught to a varied audience.

We were then a primarily animation production company and he was wondering if we could do something within our domain. I browsed through the workbook he used and found the vaguest of descriptions and exercises. I am a visual person but just couldn’t see what or how he was going about doing his thing. So I asked if I could watch him perform before an audience and see what he did with the curriculum. What I saw simply amazed me. Leaving the workbook pretty much aside, he connected with his audience – this time a high school football team – in such a way that had me spellbound. These were students who …

What is Mendel’s law of segregation?
A 12 cm by 18 cm picture is enlarged to 4 times its area. What are the new dimensions?
State how prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells differ …..

How many times have I stared at my test paper stumped by the very first question? Stumped is an understatement. Trembling, sweating, unblinking tormented soul reduced to a pathetic nonentity of dust particle is more like it. Writing and erasing an answer so many number of times… fidget… scratch head… what the heck… hmm this will do… drat! I erased a hole in my answer sheet!

For those of you who have those superb science/math oriented grey cells, get this – you’ll never ever begin to understand the trauma and bewilderment a pure arts brain goes through when it sees a science/math paper. When the paper asks me to solve a sum using …