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DREAM BIG
Sensory-Friendly Companion Script
This film contains real earthquake footage from 7:40 -
8:20. Footage includes loud rumbling noises and shaky images as
ancient buildings collapse around an open square.
Please return to an Omnitheater Associate after the show.
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The Omnitheater has a rotating Dome Screen. It begins above the
audience. Four minutes before the show starts, it will begin
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will hear a few LOUD BANGS as it rotates. The movie will projected
onto the Dome Screen after it has finished rotating. This film has
a trailer for the upcoming film Living in the Age of Airplanes. It
is 1:47 long. It is about airplanes and how they have affected our
civilization.
Please note that the time codes listed on the left margin do not
include the trailer’s length of 1:47.
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FADE IN:
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
FADE OUT.
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FADE IN:
TITLE CARD: A MacGillivray Freeman Film
FADE IN:
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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FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
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
to Nepal to join a team of fact-finding engineers. DREAM
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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.
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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.
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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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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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