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To capture the spirit of Benetech and their powerful message, using technology to change the world, required an enigmatic and inspiring spokesperson. Luckily, their founder and CEO Jim Fruchterman was available. We recorded Jim speaking to students at his Alma Mater Stanford and created a video spanning the breadth of achievement a single idea can have to change the world.

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This national project-based science competition transformed the lives of hundreds of middle school students and their teachers.

And we didn’t just capture the story of the students. We interviewed leaders in the fields of science and entertainment to expose students to a swath of game-changing career opportunities.

We also witnessed the incredible journey of some very determined sea turtles after the Gulf oil spill.

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Iron Way Films traveled to Bangkok and Bali in 2012 to document the hand crafted artisanry ingrained within the culture and art of Southeast Asia for John Hardy.

Working with John Hardy and their Angela by John Hardy line was a perfect pairing for Iron Way – as their business values are deeply rooted within their commitment to sustainability. The John Hardy company is an inspiring fixture within their Balinese community and it was an honor to experience their attention to detail not only in the beautiful hand-crafted jewelry they make, but also in their business.

Iron Way developed over five videos for the John Hardy brand, some of which appeared as promotional pieces on QVC.

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If the world were fair, engineers would be held up in as high esteem as doctors and designers and architects and athletes and all those other “sexy” professions. But the world isn’t fair, and so these noble designers of our entire technological world are shrugged off as geeks carrying graphic calculators, toiling away on the back ends of the world’s systems.

You might not think of engineers when you think of so many conveniences that we take for granted in modern life — the electric grid, air travel, safe food and water supplies or the internet — but you certainly should. Without engineers, we’d be stuck (quite literally) in the Stone Ages. Next time you flip on your light or start your car or swipe your credit card at the supermarket or post a picture to Facebook, thank an engineer. In reality, engineers aren’t “just” number crunching, systems-balancing dorks, they’re the true explorers and artists, inventors and changemakers of the 21st nCentury. Explorers like Graham Hawke, badass who has designed and built a new generation of underwater vessels that have absolutely changed the way that man experiences the deep seas (None other than James Cameron tapped Hawke to help with his 3-D Imax film, “Aliens of the Deep.”) Artists like Ed Catmull, who founded a fun little movie company you may have heard of — Pixar. Inventors and changemakers like Frances Arnold, who has figured out how to control evolution to create advanced biological systems that can be used for all kinds of good things, like sustainable carbon-free transportation fuels.

There’s a bigger problem plaguing engineering than just bad branding. America isn’t producing nearly enough of these crucial engines of societal progress.

Let’s travel back for a moment to 1957. If America had responded to the Soviet launch of Sputnik with the science and engineering ambivalence that we have today, we would not only have lost the space race, but also would’ve lagged behind in all the technologies and industries that fueled the past half century of economic growth.

The National Academy of Engineering just launched a program that will hopefully give give American engineering a much-needed shot in the arm. The Grand Challenges for Engineering is a group of 14 big challenges that need to be solved to ensure a safe, secure, prosperous future.

• Make solar energy economical
• Provide energy from fusion
• Develop carbon sequestration methods
• Manage the nitrogen cycle
• Provide access to clean water
• Restore and improve urban infrastructure
• Advance health informatics
• Engineer better medicines
• Reverse-engineer the brain
• Prevent nuclear terror
• Secure cyberspace
• Enhance virtual reality
• Advance personalized learning
• Engineer the tools of scientific discovery

Wow. I’m not sure “Grand” is strong enough a term. Solve any of these, and the world is a heck of a better place. Solve them all, and we’re halfway to Utopia.

In the meantime, engineers are just going to have to accept that the American public isn’t going to fetishize them like, say, the Tom Bradys and Kayne Wests and Kim Kardashians of the world. Until America gets its priorities straight, I guess they’ll have to content themselves with secure, in demand, high paying jobs that fundamentally change our reality and improve our world every day.

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Sadly, much of our raw footage has since been lost. But some bits still remain. Featuring Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Modest Mouse, Scissors for Lefty, Saul Williams, ?uestlove and many many more!

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