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This film in partnership with his site The Music Origins Project (MusicOrigins.org), a project he created as part of his Masters Thesis at Columbia (TC), will teach young people digital storytelling and other STEM skills.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">David most recently was Executive Producer at Yellowbrick (Yellowbrick.co). Yellowbrick connects the world’s leading universities with brands like Billboard Magazine, Complex Magazine, and Rolling Stone to develop learning experiences that help tomorrow&#8217;s leaders discover careers by following their passion. Ultimately, he specializes in utilizing cutting edge technology to create interactive multimedia websites, apps, games and VR projects to make learning fun.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #222222; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>The Team</b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Producer:</b> Andre Holmes</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Writers:<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="https://musicorigins.org/author/dgrandisonjr/">David Grandison Jr</a>.,</span> </b><a href="https://musicorigins.org/author/kimberley/">Kimberly Scribe</a>,<b> </b></span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gloria Colon, Andre Holmes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Student Contributors:</b> Elena Takmakova, Romain Nicoletti, Erin Blankstein, Samantha Ann</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Special thanks to </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Google</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>YouVisit</b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and <a href="http://yellowbrick.co/music"><b>Yellowbrick.co/Music</b></a> for their support of the project.</span></p>					</div>
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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.