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So , Project Mercury is a 12 week

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curriculum and we really help you

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understand , it's kind of a graduate

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level . What is innovation ? How is it

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applied in case studies in business ?

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And then how do we translate those

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terminologies into the air forces of a

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works and spark cells and the

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innovation ecosystem ? That's been

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burgeoning since 2019 , 2018 in the Air

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Force . So that Mercury Innovation

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Workshop now um is what we're out here

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at Osan doing and we're hoping that

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that uh that's a slightly more

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approachable , right ? It's not 12

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weeks , it's two or three days . Um But

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we want to whet the appetite of folks

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we want , you know , I , I heard a ton

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this week like I wish I had discovered

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the innovation space sooner . I , you

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know , can't wait to come back and join

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this community again . Um So we're

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hoping that folks who attend workshops ,

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get interested in that longer

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certification program . And we're

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hoping that not just people go through

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and certify , but they come back to

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coach . Really , if anything , Mercury

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is also providing these cadence points

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of the democratization of innovation ,

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how do we take ideas at any level ,

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regardless of rank and get them

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evaluated for quality , for viability ,

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for feasibility for return on

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investment . Right . Unfortunately , a

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lot of those ideas die because they're

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not presented well . And so really ,

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hey , put you in a team , it's gonna

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increase the quality of the idea , the

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quality of the presentation . Maybe I

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find a person that's way better at

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presenting the idea than I would have

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been great . Right . It's , if I can

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get a collective effort around my idea ,

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it's gonna be more likely to succeed

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than if I try and do innovation heroics

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on my own .