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DREAM BIG

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BECHTEL DEDICATION

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A three-year-old African American girl works on an iPad, moving objects around to solve a problem. Her eyes are wide and engaged.

NARRATOR Children learn by doing, by building, by creating.

Dissolve to two five-year-old Caucasian kids, a girl and a boy, who are building a skyscraper with large block-like Legos. They are proud of their accomplishment.

Dissolve to a 13-year-old Asian girl and a 12-year-old African American boy who are building a small Ferris wheel.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Those of us who dream big can carry that joy of creativity

all through our lives.

Dissolve to an aerial of the beautiful Ivanpah Solar Array. The Bechtel logo superimposes over this aerial.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Bechtel is proud to present Dream Big .

LOGO: Bechtel

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TITLE CARD: A MacGillivray Freeman Film

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TITLE CARD: NARRATOR - JEFF BRIDGES

INT. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - DAY

CG - We find ourselves inside the International Space Station, looking at a closed window.

It's nearly dark. Slivers of sunlight sneak in around the edges of the hinged window. Then, as we hear a small motor start, the window slowly opens, revealing a solar panel extending out into the light of the sun, and finally behind it, the gleaming blue planet of Earth.(This is a composite shot made up of real photographs taken from space.)

NARRATOR We never really saw our world, until they showed it to us.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Through the power of imagination, they astonish us.

They're called engineers.

The CG perspective glides forward, to reveal the International Space Station, as it orbits the Earth.

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The beautiful gleaming blue planet appears gigantic.

The I.S.S looks small compared to Earth.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) With each life-changing creation, like the International

Space Station, engineers enhance the human experience.

Scene of ancient ruins of Sounion, Greece.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) They build civilizations.

Aerial over the East River, in New York.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Every bridge, every building grows from an engineer's

imagination.

A montage of impressively engineered structures.

From high atop a bridge tower, we look straight down on the stream of thousands of marathon runners.

An aerial of Hoover Dam and Pat Tilman Bridge.

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High above San Francisco, two engineers look out from the upper floor of a skyscraper under construction.

An engineer walks down the massive cable of Golden Gate Bridge.

Fast Paced Images

Loud Noises A time lapse shot of Shanghai at night, pulsing with colorful light, as boats zip around the river.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) There are now seven billion of us. And by 2045 there will be two billion more. Where will we all live? Will we have

enough clean energy?

NARRATOR (CONT'D) The boldest solutions ... start with the biggest dreams!

Loud Train Sounds As the camera remains fixed on the approaching train track, we find ourselves on a rapidly accelerating metro rail ride.

MAIN TITLE: DREAM BIG, ENGINEERING OUR WORLD.

In Dubai, the Burj Khalifa is radiant.

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Fun, Loud Music Pictures of MENZER PEHLIVAN as a young girl. Title card reads: MENZER PEHLIVAN

NARRATOR (CONT'D) MENZER PEHLIVAN grew up in Turkey. (PELL-i-vahn)

MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) I was a girly girl. I was a lead in schools plays, I actually

wanted to be an actress. Until I was thirteen, when everything changed.

Sad

Loud Noises Sounds of an earthquake, we see photos of devastation beneath a newspaper headline: Earthquake in Turkey, 45,000 Dead

MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) We lived in a high-rise building. I remember my mother

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down. I remember watching the people suffering. From that moment on I knew what I wanted to do.

Archival footage of severe earthquake damage.

Archival footage of even more severe earthquake damage.

Happy

Ext. Seattle, WASHINGTON

Aerial of Seattle.

MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) Today I'm a professional engineer in Seattle, hoping to

make structures safer during earthquakes.

As the aerial shot continues, a panel appears in the center, where Menzer works on a computer.

MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) I love my job and I want kids to be excited about

engineering as much as I am.

Int. Classroom - SEATTLE - DAY

Menzer sits surrounded by a group of smiling and laughing children.

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On a testing shake table, two plates are loaded with jello to simulate earthquakes.

MENZER PEHLIVAN Are you ready for an earthquake?

Kids Yea!!!

MENZER PEHLIVAN Yeah?!! Three.. Two.. One... Let's start slow.

Happy

When the jello shakes a lot, the kids laugh.

Two girls watch as their "skyscraper" made of marshmallows and toothpicks, wobbles on a small shake table.

EXT. SAN DIEGO - SHAKE TABLE FACILITY - DAY

Loud Noises Earthquake testing. A two-story structure is violently shaken jolted and bounced on the huge shake table in San Diego.

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MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) To design safer buildings we study how soil moves during

an earthquake.

NARRATOR The engineers test building prototypes on the big shake

table.

EXT. NEPAL - DAY

Tilt down from Himalaya Mountains to a Sherpa village.

NARRATOR To learn more, Menzer studied countries like Nepal, where

earthquakes can be severe.

MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) Nepal is a very poor country, where most of the houses

were built without any engineering design.

In Kathmandu, a cow stands nonchalantly in the middle of the street cars and trucks swarm past on both sides.

In the Khumbu region, local people walk along pathway and step into a stone house.

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MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) Stone houses, they're an accident waiting to happen.

A temple in Kathmandu.

NARRATOR In 2015 a massive earthquake struck Nepal.

Earthquake Footage

Loud Noises Video of the earthquake happening in Kathmandu.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) 8,000 lost their lives.

A photo montage of the Nepal earthquake aftermath.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) But some survived, including the miracle baby -- buried in

the rubble for twenty-two hours.

Wide shot of engineers on a footbridge, crossing a river.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) To do her part, Menzer took time off from work and flew

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MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) We collect data on ground failures before the evidence

washes away. We need to work fast!

Menzer and her guide greet villagers.

MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) Different types of soils act differently. Some soils act like a

jello. Others act like a liquid and lose all their strength.

With a tape measure, Menzer measures a crack in the ground.

Nepal villagers are digging and plowing a field. As the shot continues, superimposed over it is a panel shot of carrots scattered across the dirt.

MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) Farmers led us to a field where carrots were popped out of the ground -- a clue that this soil acted like a liquid during

the earthquake. That's what we call liquefaction.

Nepalese kids run up a hill.

MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) I remember when I was 13. I know what these kids are

going through.

Menzer outside a hut with villagers. They greet her warmly and thank her. They hug.

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MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) The emotional aftershock of an earthquake can last for

years... This is why I became an engineer.

NARRATOR After leaving Nepal, Menzer went to San Francisco.

EXT SAN FRANCISCO - DAY

An aerial shot over the Bay Bridge.

NARRATOR Here, engineers had a unique challenge -- designing the

city's tallest skyscraper at a site prone to liquefaction. The engineers solved it ... from the ground up.

Fast Paced Footage

A time lapse shot of Salesforce Tower going up.

A construction site. Menzer and two engineers, Andrew and Edujie Imoisili-Anjorin, who are wearing hard hats, stand on an upper floor of Salesforce Tower with the Bay Bridge behind them.

NARRATOR (CONT'D)

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Menzer's team tours the site, where engineers sunk massive concrete columns all the way down to bedrock --

to resist earthquakes.

Time-lapse shot of the Bay Bridge begins in full daylight.

As the time lapse shot continues, it turns from day to night.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Keeping people safe has always been the heart and soul of

engineering.

A thousand soldiers line the steps of a historic Chinese temple, circa 1000 B.C.E. In the foreground, drummers pound out a mighty rhythm.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) The first emperor of China faced a problem: Mongol

warriors were invading from the North. So the emperor's engineers began building something that would preserve

their civilization for almost two thousand years.

Ext. Great Wall of China - China - day

A wide view of the Great Wall, panning slowly across it, accompanied by a stirring musical cue.

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NARRATOR The Great Wall grew to be thirteen thousand miles long -- the largest structure ever built by humans. After centuries

of erosion and earthquakes, much of the Wall survives.

Another angle of the Great Wall. STEVE BURROWS comes into view as he rounds a corner and climbs some steps.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Steve Burrows, an engineer from England, has come to

investigate.

Closer shot on STEVE BURROWS walking along the Great Wall, inspecting it carefully.

STEVE BURROWS (V.O.) It's really tough to study the wall when it stands there right

on a knife edge on the top of a mountain -- but we have our ways.

A drone -- carrying a Lidar imaging device -- pops up over a knoll and flies along the Great Wall.

STEVE BURROWS (V.O.) This is Lidar -- a laser-imaging device.

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A closer shot on the drone as it flies next to the Great Wall.

STEVE BURROWS (V.O.) The Lidar showed that the most precisely built parts are

standing well today. However, miles away badly built sections of the wall, are also still standing. Why?

Panning shot across a hilly section of the Great Wall.

STEVE BURROWS (V.O.) Five hundred years ago, builders added a "secret

ingredient" to their mortar. Sticky rice.

A tight shot of an archway in the Great Wall.

A close-up shot, dollying across some steps, held together by white mortar.

STEVE BURROWS (V.O.) Adding sticky rice and lime to the mortar, makes the mortar more elastic. It allows the wall to stretch and

contract depending on the temperature.

From inside the helicopter, we look over Steve Burrows's shoulder as he flies over a knife-edge section of the Wall.

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STEVE BURROWS (V.O.) Sometimes the best solution is the simplest. The one

staring up at you from your dinner plate.

EXT. rural China - a bridge construction site - day

A massive bridge being built in the Chinese countryside.

NARRATOR In western China, across the highest bridges on Earth,

people are moving from farms to cities.

A montage: massive bridge parts being assembled like giant Legos.

EXT. SHANGHAI - Montage- night

From high above Shanghai's tall buildings at night, the city explodes with color and activity.

NARRATOR Shanghai is now the most populous city in the world -- 24

million people.

Surprised

Loud Noises Fireworks explode as people watch from along the river.

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NARRATOR (CONT'D) But there's a problem. No more space to build. Where can

they all live?

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Engineers squeezed an entire urban district into one city

block... by going vertical.

The first shot of the CG sequence shows the central core of Shanghai Tower rising like jack-in-the-beanstalk.

After it reaches full height, the triangular shape descends around the core as a wire frame that includes the steel structure.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) They envisioned China's tallest building: the Shanghai Tower, rising 128 floors high, with space for sixteen

thousand people!

NARRATOR (CONT'D) But the taller the structure the more it flirts with mother

nature.

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Loud Noises Archival footage - TYPHOON in Shanghai

Archival footage of a typhoon in action. A time lapse wide shot of a storm sweeping across a city skyline. A closer shot of a man on the sidewalk, clinging to a tree to keep from being blown away by the powerful typhoon winds.

CG sequence shows the first building design -- the triangular shape with no twist -- being subjected to increasing winds. The building sways precariously.

Two wind engineers, Peter Irwin and Derek Kelly, execute a wind test using a smoke wand on an early model of Shanghai Tower.

NARRATOR Each summer typhoons blast the city. The Shanghai Tower

would soon become a huge target.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) But the engineers had some tricks up their sleeve.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) By twisting the outer skin one-hundred-twenty degrees,

the wind safely glides around the tower.

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Then -- as the music signals a change -- the "virtual wind" continues and we see the triangular floor plan being twisted 120 degrees into the final shape -- a spiraling triangular floor plan with rounded corners. As the building twists, the chaotic turbulence of the wind quickly subsides, as the wind starts to glide around the building, unobstructed.

An aerial shot of the tower, focusing on its signature twist.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Here, the problem of population density has been met. All

thanks to the ingenuity of a twist.

A low angle live action shot of the Shanghai Tower, focusing on its signature twist.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Wind is an intriguing challenge for engineers of all ages.

Menzer makes a game of it.

INT. CLASSROOM - DAY

From the back of the classroom, a wide shot of Menzer standing at the front of the classroom, addressing a class of kids as they prepare to build paper skyscrapers.

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MENZER PEHLIVAN (SYNC) Okay, this competition will count as 10 points! And the tallest skyscraper that resists the wind will get 5 extra!

Yay! Excited? All right!

MENZER PEHLIVAN (CONT'D) Now remember, planning is important -- so before cutting,

make sure what you're building.

Menzer Pehlivan's POV of a group of ten year-olds. They are serious as they construct their models, and also confer with each other.

Happy

Low angle close shot on a small paper model of a skyscraper. When an electric fan makes it scoot across the floor and does not topple over.

Menzer stands her group's paper construction in front of a room fan and turns on the wind. The paper building - just a foot tall - resists the wind at first, until it topples over. The class groans but then applauds.

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MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) Building these paper skyscrapers teach kids the most

important thing. Engineering is fun.

ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE - TACOMA NARROWS - WASHINGTON - DAY

Whimsical

Loud Music Still photos of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge under construction.

Archival footage of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge fluttering wildly in the wind.

NARRATOR In 1940, the newly opened Tacoma Narrows Bridge, near

Seattle, earned the nickname "Galloping Gertie." Surprise

Archival footage of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsing.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) A moderate wind gusting to 40 miles-per-hour made the bridge bounce, resulting in collapse. Fortunately, no one

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Aerial shot of the two newer bridges that have replaced the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Engineers learn from catastrophes. New insights about the

impact of wind on suspension bridges have led to better designs. Near Menzer's home in Seattle, two safer bridges

have replaced Galloping Gertie. Menzer and Roshellia Goines, a Bechtel Engineer, share a moment on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge bike path.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) A large bridge can connect people and so can a small one.

EXT - HAITI - DAY

An aerial shot flying over a muddy river in a deep tropical gorge.

As the aerial shot continues, superimpose still photos of Avery Bang working with people in Third World settings.

NARRATOR

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After graduating from college, a young bridge engineer had a choice to make -- accept a high-paying job or follow

her heart. {pause} Today, Avery Bang leads a team of passionate engineers, building footbridges in poor

countries.

A moody shot of a sparkling, wide river.

Five schoolgirls walk down a steep bank to a wide river.

Sad

AVERY BANG (V.O.) In Haiti, I worked with kids whose village was isolated. Just

across the river was the only school. They could see it, it was right there, but they just couldn't get to it.

Four men carry a sick person on a stretcher across the river.

NARRATOR Over the past decade 50 people have drowned trying to

cross this river.

A close shot of Fritz Touissand chatting with Tyler Welsh.

NARRATOR (CONT'D)

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A man who grew up by the river, Fritz Touissand, offered to help. He had a very personal stake in this bridge.

(Too-we-SOHN)

DISSOLVE TO:

Flashback: a ghostly slow motion shot of Mathidle, walking with three young children.

FRITZNER TOUISSAND (V.O.) Three years ago, when our youngest girl needed medicine,

Mathilde, my wife, headed off to the clinic, across the river.

Wide shot of the river.

Still photo of a grieving young child, next to a casket.

FRITZNER TOUISSAND (V.O.) The river was very high that day.

EXT. CHAMEAU BRIDGE SITE - DAY

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Present day: Under an ominously cloudy sky, five young children hold hands while crossing the swiftly flowing river.

FRITZNER TOUISSAND (V.O.) Now, I have eight children to raise, on my own. To get to school, my kids cross the river, right where their mother

drowned. Mathilde was everything to them.

NARRATOR They needed a bridge.

On a sunny riverbank, Avery stands with Tyler and Caroline, as Tyler looks through the surveyor's scop. Caroline talks to a local man who walks up leading a horse.

AVERY BANG (CONT'D) It's going to be a really big bridge.

TYLER WELSH This is a big boy! Alright!

AVERY BANG (V.O.) Our mantra is "keep it simple."

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Closer shot of Avery sketching the pin hinge design for them.

NARRATOR With this new hinge design Avery came up with, the crew

can raise tall towers, using nothing but ropes.

Happy

Close shot of Avery Bang smiling.

Close-up of the notepad as Avery sketches her new design.

AVERY BANG Rotating around the base will allow us to go taller with the towers. It will allow us to do a longer span and at the same time allow those towers to be erected from horizontal to

vertical.

Avery confers with Tyler and Caroline on her new design.

TYLER WELSH Alright, ok. That makes sense.

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A shot of Junior Pierre Louis, in his hard hat, walking alongside several schoolgirls, all dressed in matching pink school uniforms.

NARRATOR A young Haitian engineer named Junior Pierre Louis has

joined the team.

Loud Music A montage of shots featuring Junior. The local construction crew sets in place all the pulleys and winches to be used to raise the first tower. Tyler and Junior work side by side.

AVERY BANG (V.O.) Working with local engineers like Junior has a ripple effect.

Today, we're building one bridge. Tomorrow, they may build ten more on their own.

EXT. CHAMEAU BRIDGE SITE - MUSICAL MONTAGE - DAY

Once the winches and pulleys are in place, and everything is set to go, a sense of momentum takes over; the music kicks in, and the bridge comes together before our very eyes in a musical sequence that is as much a celebration of community and teamwork as it is an ode to engineering.

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High angle drone shot of local team carrying heavy cable across the river. A flat raft with a sheep glides under the cable. Boys splash under the cable, distracting the workers. A worker climbs a bridge tower. The local team begins to assemble the deck. Kids run towards the bridge. Some people walk across the finished bridge for the very first time, while others celebrate with music, as two toddlers dance. A few people from the community, including two schoolgirls, join Avery and Tyler and give them both a hug. There are more than enough smiles to go around. You can feel the joy.

At sunset, an atmosphere of calm returns. Four people walk across the bridge, silhouetted against a golden sky.

CGI. - An animated map of the world

CG - A map of the world. Many dots pop on, each one representing a bridge built by Avery's organization, B2P, or by one of the other similar organizations building bridges.

NARRATOR Avery's decision to follow her heart has had a huge impact. Her team of engineers has volunteered to build nearly two

hundred bridges where they're needed most -- similar engineering groups have built thousands more, worldwide.

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Every waterway challenges engineers.

EXT. ARCHED BRIDGE IN SCOTLAND - DAY

A steam train crosses the bridge

Whimsical

NARRATOR For centuries, trains could climb Scotland's rugged hills -

but boats??!!??

EXT. Falkirk Scotland - Day

A beautiful point of view shot from a boat, as it glides under the arches, on the upper tray of the Falkirk Wheel.

NARRATOR It once took an entire day for a boat to be raised here, using eleven cumbersome "locks." But then a team of visionary engineers reinvented the wheel -- the Falkirk

Wheel. {FALL-kirk}

NARRATOR (CONT'D) The arm with the heavier boat carries less water, so the wheel always remains perfectly balanced. {pause} It uses

just a wee bit of electricity.

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EXT. SKY - DAY

Filmed with a telephoto lens, a huge sun burns bright.

NARRATOR Falkirk is frugal with electricity, but renewable energy

holds an even brighter future.

EXT. HIGH SCHOOL - MISSISSIPPI - DAY

Happy

Loud Music Students pose with a banner: Houston Solar Race Team.

Loud and clear, we hear the din of teenagers excited about the trip of a lifetime. With the yellow school buses standing by, tearful parents hug their hyperactive adolescents, and offer bits of parting wisdom.

NARRATOR From their small town in Mississippi, these high school

students will take the solar car they built themselves and compete in the Solar Challenge .

NARRATOR (CONT'D)

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Some of the kids have never been to the next county, much less Australia.

The yellow school bus, loaded with students, pulls out and drives away, heading for the airport.

CG Map of the globe. An animated plane flies from Houston, Mississippi to Darwin, Australia.

Over the map, a panel appears with Ajay Patel, a young student speaking to camera.

PATEO (SYNC) My name's Ajay Patel -- I'm in the 10th grade and this is

my second year on the solar car team. I like the hands on part where you can actually like drill and use your brains

more and solve problems.

Wide shot of the race grounds in Australia, where many sleek cars are lined up side by side.

NARRATOR In the Solar Challenge, the world's top university teams

will race 1600 miles, on solar power alone.

A male and female student from Mississippi check out the competition, walking alongside sleek cars from other schools.

A dolly shot follows a streamlined car shaped like a sting ray.

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A MUSICAL SEQUENCE

Loud Music A montage of high-tech solar cars. Some make their way around the oval track.

HUNTER (V.O.) All the cars are kinda strange, elegant, they are really

extreme and expensive.

Wobbling its way down the oval racetrack is a very rickety, primitive vehicle. Covered with a clutter of decals and logos, it's little more than a crude rectilinear box, rolling along on skinny bicycle wheels.

HUNTER (V.O.) All of them except for one.

The young students from Houston lift their car high before setting it down on the paved tarmac.

A large, earnest student struggles to squeeze his ample frame into the driver's seat of the cramped solar car.

Kids from Mississippi thump the rail and cheer on their car as it rounds the track. This kicks off a musical sequence. The song lyrics help convey the underlying message: Don't give up.

A close-up of a young driver inside the cramped car.

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NARRATOR It's seriously hot inside the car, it's like 120 degrees

Fahrenheit.

Aerial shots and ground shots show the car inching its way across the stark outback, as a curious kangaroo looks on.

HUNTER (V.O.) Our new lithium batteries are not holding a charge.

Students push the car up a bank, tilting it towards the sun.

HUNTER (V.O.) By tilting the solar panels toward the sun, we were able to

squeeze just a bit more power out of the batteries...

Huddled under the car, students measure the slowly increasing charge of the battery.

Recharged, the solar car rolls back out onto the highway.

HUNTER (v.O.) ... just enough to keep going.

CG Map of Australia. The route of the race is animated on, from Darwin to Adelaide.

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In the city of Adelaide, the Mississippi students push their car across the finish line, bedraggled but unbroken.

HUNTER (V.O.) And we were proud to cross the finish line. Even if we

were the last ones.

Ext. Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System - DAY

Aerial shot above the California desert. We slowly fly over the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System -- engineered by Bechtel -- which glistens in the sun.

NARRATOR Solar energy can power a single car -- or an entire city.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) The world's largest solar facility, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, reduces CO2 emissions by over one

thousand tons every day. {EYE-vun-paw}

An aerial shot zeroes in on the boiler, atop the tower.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Hundreds of thousands of mirrors slowly pivot, to keep the

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turns to steam and drives turbines, which produce electricity for our cities, like Phoenix, Arizona…

EXT. PHOENIX, ARIZONA - DAY

Aerial shot over Phoenix's metrolink.

NARRATOR ...where ANGELICA HERNANDEZ is an engineer working on

renewable energy.

Dressed for a business setting, carrying a briefcase, Angelica walks toward a commuter train and climbs aboard.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (V.O.) I feel like I've really got it all... you know, I have an amazing

husband, I have a super cute baby, and a job as an engineer -- which is one of my dreams. But you know, I

didn't start out that way.

An aerial shot over a modest residential neighborhood in Phoenix.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (V.O.) I grew up on the poor side of town. My mom worked

really, really hard, just to get by.

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As the aerial shot continues, a panel appears, with a still photo of Angelica as a young girl with her mother and sister. Another still photo shows the sign: Carl Hayden High School.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ Then, I went to Carl Hayden High School, where I met an

amazing and inspiring teacher who changed my life: FREDI LAJVARDI.

(Lah-VAR-dee)

INT. CARL HAYDEN HIGH SCHOOL - DAY

Angelica and Fredi at the white board, in robotics class, working together to solve an engineering problem.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (V.O.) I joined his after school robotics class and the problems

weren't easy to solve, but Fredi always knew how to make it fun.

Happy

EXT. CARL HAYDEN HIGH SCHOOL - DAY

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On a sidewalk at the campus, Angelica works alongside several of the other club members, including Lorenzo Santillan, Cristian Arcega, Oscar Vasquez, and LUIS ARANDA.

They put their land robot through its paces.

FREDI LAJVARDI (SYNC) You're doing a good job.

FREDI LAJVARDI (V.O.) The kids were just having so much fun. They were learning so much they didn't even realize that they were learning,

and that was the best part.

The land rover launches a ball, which one student catches.

FREDI LAJVARDI (SYNC) Good catch! Awesome!

NARRATOR They heard about a national underwater robotics

competition in Santa Barbara, California, and on a whim, ... decided to enter.

INT. CARL HAYDEN HIGH SCHOOL – ROBOTICS LAB - DAY DREAM BIG

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Along with several boys and one girl, Angelica (a 15 year-old sophomore) helps build a strange PVC pipe contraption.

STUDENT (SYNC) Heads up!

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (V.O.) We didn't have much funding, but if you can't be

expensive - be clever! So we used cheap landscaping pipe.

Start to dolly forward following the student carrying a long length of PVC pipe.

Continue to dolly forward, to feature Angelica, as she and another student construct the robot with PVC glue.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (V.O.) But in robotics club Fredi taught us a system: define the problem, come up with different solutions, and pick the

best one.

Angelica and her classmate try not to let the odor of the pipe glue keep them from their work.

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ANGELICA HERNANDEZ {But} the one problem we couldn't solve was the smell of

the pipe glue. It just stunk. {pause} So we named our robot, "Stinky."

Inside the high school shop, the team members are working on the robot.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (CONT'D) It's working! Ya! Oh turn it off.

Close shot on the inner workings of Stinky.

STUDENT #1 (V.O.) Stinky was a bunch of pipe with a little bit of CPU and a

whole lot of cables. Surprise

Angelica at a grinding wheel, shaping a part, as sparks fly.

A high angle shot. As other students continue working, Angelica closes the lid on Stink's plastic case.

EXT. CARL HAYDEN HIGH SCHOOL - PARKING LOT - DAY

In a deserted parking lot, Coach Fredi looks on as the five students start to load the robot into the back of an old

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van. Angelica (in her ROTC uniform) helps guide the robot gently into the van.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (V.O.) Six months and 800 dollars later - Stinky was ready to go!

NARRATOR Sadly, Angelica had {work} commitments, and had to miss

the trip.

FREDI LAJVARDI Nice and Easy.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (V.O.) I was really disappointed, but you know I said my good

byes, and off they went.

EXT. - ABOVE ARIZONA DESERT - DAY

Musical travel montage.

Loud Music Aerial shot of the old van as it rolls down the desert highway, past tall cactus and taller mountains.

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NARRATOR The team arrived in Santa Barbara the day before the

competition.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) Some of the best engineering programs in the country compete -- like MIT, the champs from the year before.

The musical montage of aerial travelling shots continues, across an arched bridge.

STUDENT #1 (V.O.) We were going with the mind-set that we were going

mainly as observers.

STUDENT #2 (V.O.) And if we beat just one college, that would be

phenomenal.

Aerial shots above the UCSB campus, alongside the Pacific Ocean.

EXT. U.C. SANTA BARBARA - POOL - DAY

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Dollying through the dark corridor beneath the grandstand, we follow the Carl Hayden team as they roll Stinky out into the sunlight, as the chaotic preparations swirl around them.

The Olympic-size swimming pool at UCSB has been set up for the robotics competition.

The four students from Carl Hayden Community High School slink into the arena, as if trying to be invisible. Even the coach looks nonplussed by the technological extravaganza.

FREDI LAJVARDI (V.O.) When we arrived there, I mean we looked like the carnival

had arrived. Just a raggedy robot that looked like it was pieced together with everything from a junk yard.

A Dolly shot tracking along the competitors' robots reveals the gleaming polish of their intricate sophistication.

STUDENT #2 (V.O.) The other robots, were like pieces of underwater jewelry.

STUDENT #1 (V.O.) They were chrome. There was stainless steel. There was

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Teams of students in matching uniforms flock around their prized robot, as a panel of distinguished judges looks on from behind a long table.

As a lively crowd looks on at the grandstand of the UCSB pool, the Carl Hayden students prepare to conduct a practice run with Stinky.

NARRATOR These high school kids wanted to quickly test Stinky before

anyone noticed them.

EXT. POOL UNDERWATER - DAY

An underwater shot; the students lower Stinky into the water.

A medium shot of Stinky malfunctioning; the robot bobs and weaves randomly.

FREDI LAJVARDI (V.O.) The robot was going left, when they wanted it to go right.

It wouldn't go up when we wanted it to go up.

LUIS ARANDA (V.O.) We had to figure out what was going on.

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NARRATOR Fredi has always told his students: when you get in a jam,

start asking smart questions.

The four students haul the recalcitrant robot out of the pool and gather around Stinky, trying to solve the leaks.

STUDENT #2 (V.O.) We had a small leak... but no clue where it was.

A wide high angle shot. The Carl Hayden team works on Stinky, while other teams continue to prepare their own robots.

LORENZO SANTILLAN Hey guys, there's some water in here.

CRISTIAN ARCEGA I don't see anything. Try this.

LORENZO SANTILLAN Nothing.

STUDENT #1 (V.O.) If we can't find the leak... what can we do?

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FREDI (V.O.) And then Lorenzo asked everybody: "Aren't tampons really

absorbent?"

EXT. PHARMACY - PARKING LOT - NIGHT

Shot of Lorenzo exiting the pharmacy store.

LORENZO SANTILLAN(V.O.) This was a do or die kind of situation.

LORENZO SANTILLAN I got em!!!!

TEAMMATES Yes!!!!

Deserted swimming pool at night, the calm before the storm.

LORENZO (V.O.) It wasn't about building a robot. It was about being able to

learn for yourself.

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DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. U.C. SANTA BARBARA - POOL - DAY

A wide shot of the swimming pool competitor's area, which is very crowded with busy robotics teams. The team from Carl Hayden carries Stinky back into the arena, like gladiators at the Roman Colosseum, proudly steeling themselves against inevitable defeat.

NARRATOR The boys arrived at the competition exhausted -- without a

chance to test Stinky.

ANNOUNCER (O.S.) Carl Hayden High School, you have one minute.

FREDI LAJVARDI (O.S.) Let's go guys! You can do it! You can do it!

EXT. POOL UNDERWATER - DAY

Stinky is dropped in the water.

STUDENT #1 (V.O.)

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We had no idea if the solution would work.

After a shaky moment, Stinky starts functioning well, humming along like the proverbial top.

NARRATOR Thanks to a wild idea, Stinky was working again. The boys

had thirty minutes to complete ten tasks.

A montage of underwater shots of the competition in progress. Stinky measures distance with a tape measure.

NARRATOR (CONT'D) The college teams had a laser to measure distances. Carl Hayden couldn't afford one. They used a tape measure

instead. {HAY - den}

A series on underwater shots show Stinky successfully sampling a fluid from the tank.

STUDENT #2 (V.O.) The hardest task was to sample a fluid from a barrel -- with

a tube.

STUDENT #2 (V.O.)

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Most of the teams didn't even attempt it.

LORENZO (V.O.) When we went straight to it -- it just fell into it like it was

meant to be.

A low angle underwater shot shows Stinky's steady path across the pool, silhouetted by the sun, as if bound for glory.

INT. U.C. SANTA BARBARA - AUDITORIUM - EVENING

The University Auditorium has been festively decorated. The awards ceremony is already in progress. Round tables with white tablecloths are scattered around the room, each table seating one of the robotics teams. On the auditorium stage is a lectern, behind which the emcee is holding court. A hush falls over the room, as the emcee announces second place.

NARRATOR At the awards banquet, they heard something that surprised everyone.

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ANNOUNCER 2nd place goes to ... Massachusetts Institute of

Technology!

The contingent from MIT is decidedly muted, as if second place was perhaps not their goal, but they rise graciously to accept the award.

NARRATOR MIT got 2nd place.

FREDI LAJVARDI (V.O.) I was thinking: "Who's first? Oh man, who beat out MIT?

This is going to be awesome."

A wider shot of the room as the emcee announces the first place team.

ANNOUNCER First place goes to... Carl Hayden Community High School

from Phoenix, Arizona!!

Loud Noises Cheering. It's pandemonium. Everyone in the room rises to their feet, cheering wildly, cheering not just for the students and their victory, perhaps, but cheering also for the victory of raw ingenuity over

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sophistication -- cheering for all those who refuse to give up in the face of very long odds.

Confetti falls from the ceiling, giving this moment almost a surreal feeling. When they walk to the stage, the shocked Carl Hayden students hardly know what to do.

STUDENT #1 (V.O.) It was almost disbelief.

STUDENT #2 (V.O.) Is this a dream? Or is this for real?

A slow motion shot - the four students walk to the stage to accept the award with a mixture of dignity, stunned disbelief, and wild enthusiasm.

OSCAR VASQUEZ(V.O.) I don't remember walking to the stage because, you know,

I was just floating, I think.

A closer shot of the Carl Hayden team, and coach Fredi. Luis raises the trophy high above his head. Freeze frame on their victorious moment.

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NARRATOR What started out as a crazy idea turned into something so

much more.

INT. FLAGSTAFF AUDITORIUM - DAY

Panel shot of a robotics competition in progress.

NARRATOR Today that high-school robotics club has grown

exponentially. Largely, thanks to Fredi.

Panel shot of Fredi working with a student.

Panel of Angelica's interview, speaking from the heart

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (SYNC) Knowing that somebody believes in you, even though you don't believe in yourself, even though you doubt that you could do something ... I think, you know, if you could find

that in somebody, it's just -- it's a blessing.

Closer shot of Angelica and Fredi side by side.

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NARRATOR It was because of him that Angelica went to Stanford.

Sunset shot as Angelica and Juan lift their daughter at a fountain in Phoenix.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (V.O.) Now my husband Juan and I are both engineers in

Phoenix, and you never know maybe my daughter will be one, too.

INT. CLASSROOM – PHEONIX - DAY

Angelica holds a moveable rectangle, while Fredi holds a solid triangle. They're teaching young students about the advantages of triangles in building bridges.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (V.O.) And any chance I get, I like to help my favorite teacher

inspire future engineers.

FREDI LAJVARDI (SYNC) Can you move it? You notice what it's doing? Ok, now

watch when I try to do the same thing with this one, it's not doing it because it's a triangle. It's very solid. It doesn't

change shape.

Students working and analyzing bridges.

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ANGELICA HERNANDEZ So now we want you to come up with different ways to

make the bridge stronger.

Closer shots showing the image of a truck on the computer screens at each desk.

ANGELICA HERNANDEZ (CONT'D) So you see the truck in front of you? So it can make it

across the bridge. You guys want to try that?

KIDS YA!!!

FREDI LAJVARDI (SYNC) Let's do it!

Panel shots of kids conferring with each other as they try to brainstorm the bridge design.

GIRL #1 Well I think they need to try to have more triangles.

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GIRL # 2 There's barely any support. It's going along the bottom.

When the bridge collapses, the truck falls into the river.

GIRL # 4 Yeah, I think they should put a sign and say: NO TRUCKS

ALLOWED!

GIRL #1 The screws are not stable period because it fell apart -- the

whole bridge.

BOY # 1 (O.S.) It's not stable at all.

BOY # 1 (CONT'D) Budget versus cost.

BOY # 2 Yea, but how about we cross that bridge when we come to

it? I think the problem is...

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EXT. FRANCE - DAY

An aerial of Millau Bridge.

NARRATOR Young minds find new paths. It was not physics alone that

led to the Millau Bridge in France. It was art. {Mee-oh}

Time lapse shot of Paris turning from dusk to night.

MONTAGE: ENGINEERS OF THE FUTURE

A wide shot of Menzer and four kids looking at a roller coaster which is supported by steel supports in triangular configurations. The cars on the roller coaster do loop-de-loops.

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NARRATOR Young minds will shape our future.

Loud Noises Closeup of Menzer and a young companion enjoying the thrill of riding a high-speed roller coaster.

The sound of the full-scale roller coaster shake the theater.

Menzer and young companion ride the roller coaster, smiling and laughing.

An exciting POV shot of roller coaster plunging, swerving, zooming over sudden drops, before speeding into a blackout tunnel. As we emerge from the tunnel we are surprised to find ourselves ...

EXT. HYPERLOOP TEST TRACK – N LAS VEGAS - DAY

Loud Noises Mounted on a Hyperloop test sled, hurtling full speed ahead down a test track.

The live-action speed trial test accelerates until the sled comes to a stop, in a cloud of sand and dust.

As the live-action shot ends, we cut to a perfectly aligned CG image of the tube. Backing away from this CG tube we widen out and circle around to see the CG pod form before our eyes.

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CGI. HYPERLOOP

A CG wire frame sequence shows the pod and the seats in which Hyperloop will transport passengers. After flying around the pod and pivoting to keep it in center of the frame, our "CG camera" comes to rest behind the pod which -- with its nose at the entrance to the long tube - seems like an arrow poised for "flight".

With that, the CG Pod blasts off down the CG tube like a rocket, and out of sight.

NARRATOR Some young engineers have a bold dream to revolutionize

transportation. It's called... Hyperloop.

CG shot - the side angle view of the see-through tube as the pod rockets past us, with a very LOUD whoosh. After it passes by, we dissolve to:

NARRATOR (CONT'D) If they succeed, they'll allow us to travel 700

miles-per-hour. That's from LA to San Francisco in 30 minutes.

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EXT. SAN FRANCISCO - DAY

Aerial shot. We fly over the clouds to reveal San Francisco.

Loud Noises Another aerial over the Bay Bridge and along a busy freeway.

A time lapse shot of San Francisco Bay, where boats and airplanes cavort.

NARRATOR By the end of the century ninety percent of us will live in

cities. An exciting challenge for engineers.

EXT. TRANSBAY CONSTRUCTION SITE - SAN FRANCISCO - DAY

A high angle drone shot of the busy construction site.

Menzer, Steve Burrows and other engineers study the construction of the Transbay Transit Center.

NARRATOR The bigger cities get, the smarter they'll need to become.

Another angle of Transbay. It is a high angle boom shot looking down on Menzer and a colleague as they walk to the edge of the top floor on this construction site. The

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street far below induces vertigo. We boom out as they walk to reveal the empty concrete roof of Transbay, directly below us.

MENZER PEHLIVAN (V.O.) This new transportation hub in San Francisco will feature a

network of wireless sensors. This will make it safer ... more energy-efficient ... and smarter. The more urban we become the more we need trees, gardens, and places to

play.

LIVE ACTION combined with CGI - As the shot continues, looking down at the concrete rooftop, a little CG magic shows a fanciful garden of green rolling out, offering us a glimpse of the future rooftop park.

Aerial of the Manhattan skyline.

STEVE BURROWS (V.O.) The word engineer means ingenious. I love being an

engineer -- I create things from nothing. From blank sheets of paper I can change cities, I can change the future.

A futuristic museum in Germany pulses with life and energy.

A toddler cavorts in the spray of a futuristic fountain.

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EXT. THE BURJ KHALIFA, DUBAI - DAY

Loud Music Time-lapse of Burj Khalifa.

NARRATOR The joy of engineering the future belongs to the young.

What better time to start dreaming BIG!

The Burj Khalifa looms above the desert, like a shimmering rocket on a futuristic launchpad.

Cut to a rocket on a launchpad. With flashes of light and billowing clouds of smoke, it lifts off into the night sky.

We can feel that the film has come full circle, back to the opening shot from space, as if to say that all engineering is, at its core, part of one great river of innovation.

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