June 9, 2025 • 50 mins
Westwood Youth Development is gearing up for their summer camp program with says Pastor Melvin D. Watkins Jr., Senior Pastor of Mt. Vernon Westwood with LoResa Robertson and Nina Shack of Aero Velocity on The Bev Johnson Show on WDIA Radio.
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I hope it is fabulous where you are here Memphis,
t We have cloud in Memphis, Tennessee. We have cloudy skies,
but us okay, we steal rocking and rolling. I am
just related to have our guest here in the studio
to tell us what's going on in Westwood. We hear
a lot of good things about Westwood that's going on.
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And let me enter you to my guests. We have
Reverend Melvin Watkins, Junior Senior Pastor, and I put that
put that handle on Mount Vernon, west Wood, Mount Vernon
Baptist Church. Is that it, brother, That's it. That's it
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in the house with us today. Also, we have Miss
Nina Shaq who is with Aero Velocity.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
We're gonna learn about that. And I just put her last.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I didn't put her last, But I just have to
tell you that back in the day, pastor, you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I don't know if you knew this. Probably don't know.
This sister used to do my hair.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Oh now, what what you say? All I know.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This sister used to do my hair. Was she could
do some hair? Wow, she could do some hair. I
don't know why she stopped. Well, yeah, I think I
know what she stopped doing. But my sister, Louisa Robert
Soutt is here.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
It's so good to see you, sister.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
How are you, ev Johnson?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
I am so excited to be here, and I thank
you for this opportunity.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
And you know Memphis is turned.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
On, turned on. Oh yes, Memphis is.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Turned on in Detroit for so long. Absolutely, I'm so
happy to be back here.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
This is coming back, coming back, coming back to Memphis
after how many years were you in Detroit?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Thirty two?
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (07:30):
I know, I know.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
And every time I would go up there, I would
miss re RecA.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You didn't call me.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, you know, I was an arb So I was
an an Ivory girl. So oh, well a pastor. I
grew up in ann Arborough, Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, and so I still have folks there.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
And Memphis all the way.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, I was born here.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I was born here, born here, but my folks left
and when I was in the second grade. Yeah, and
just last year, Pastor, I lost my last aunt, which
was my dad sister who lived in ann Aarbory. She wasnty,
but at least, you know, I would, you know, I
go visit family. I still have family, all my cousins
in there.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
But yeah, so you would go to ann Arbor and
will say from you right.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Here, from you, you need to come over to Detroit
because she always had some stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm gonna get you a massage.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yeah, yeah, that massages in Memphis. You know, you're right.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And we never connected, but we always stayed in touch.
We communicated. Yeah, and I loved her, still love her
sister and her mama.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
My mama is doing amazing, believe it or not. She's
in Detroit.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
What.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Yeah, and I'm back here switch places?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Good good?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You're born and raised in Detroit. No, okay, you're here.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
After you've been here for thirty plus years.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Memphis.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We well, I well, I say, Pastor Watkins, that that
I had the best of both worlds.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, Michigan, well Ann Arbor and and Memphis. And I
also say the best of both worlds.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Musically, I had Motown and I had Stacks, so I
would come here every summer and Christmas, and you know,
because my grandmother and they were still here and stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
So if both of them are homes, that's the best
of both worlds.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But musically, yeah, old Town and Stacks.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
You grew up with all that. Yes music and yes, sir. Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
As a matter of fact, my grandther they live right
around the corner from Stacks.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, yeah, right around the corner. And then my uncle
David Porter.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yeah he knew me. Pastor David Porter is your uncle? Well, well, yeah, uncle.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You know my god, because he knew me.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He knew me when I was in the third grade
from that neighborhood. So he loves me and he's been
loving me ever since, and I love him.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
So you see where I'm coming from.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
But now for that past and look at here y'all
doing some stuff in Westwood, and tell me what's going
on at Mount.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
At Mount Vernon, Yes, thank you so much. Well, we
have so much going on at Mount Vernon. And one
of the things that we're so excited about is our
summer camp. We have a summer camp that is called
Camp LIT this year and it is a camp that
is a program of Westwood Youth Development, which is our
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outreach arm and Uplift Westwood CDC. And we host the
camp on the campus of Mount Vernon Baptist Church. And
the Camp LITT stands for Leadership, Literacy, Inspiration and Transformation.
Our focus is to empower youth through mentorship, educational enrichment,
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character development, career exploration, team building and literacy improvement. And
I tell you we are cultivating young leaders who are
spiritually grounded, mentally equipped and socially responsible by providing summer experiences,
rooted and respectable values and real world skills. And we
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are so excited to host it again. We've been doing
this for over thirty years. And yeah, we've been hosting
the summer camp over thirty years. We used to do
it in the evening time from five pm to nine pm,
focused a lot on character development. We would have up
to two and three hundred kids there every night through
the summer for eight weeks Monday through Friday. But then
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when the pandemic hit we came back. We shifted a
little bit, and our focus continues to be character development,
but we want to give greater emphasis to technology and
stem and life skills and academic things and leadership. And specifically,
we are so excited. You said recy does it all,
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and she literally does it all, because this is our
second year of partnering with her where she has brought
in a drone prog and she teaches our young people
how to operate drones and how to get involved with
that as a career. And we're so excited that this
year she's coming back to our campus teaching our children
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how to operate drones and also explore those opportunities for
a career because my understanding there's quite a bit of
opportunity in the drone area where people can make a decent,
really good money, and so we're excited about that. And
thank you for giving us this opportunity. You are a
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legend in the city of Memphis and really around the world,
and I just considered an honor and a blessing to
be able to be on your show, Miss Johnson. I
thank you for allowing me to sit here in this anointed,
holy ghost room, and thank you for all that you
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do for our city and so again we're excited about
our camp this summer in Westwood.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You know, our pastor, you are, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But any time that when I hear about a program
involving young people that is positive, I want to get
the word out, yes, because we hear so much negativity.
Right in recent times, We've heard a lot of negative
stuff in Westwood, right, but we still know that Mount
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Vernon is there and that's positive.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
And then you all are working.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
To keep that area, keep it positive and especially for
our young people.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
That's right. And so we're excited about that because you're
exactly right. We hear a lot of negative news sometimes
about this and that, but for every piece of negative news,
we have so much more positive news going on. And
so many churches are working in Westwood. Mount Vernon, you
know we're working, but there are others Jerusalem Baptist Church
and Temple of Community, Temple Baptist Church, so many church,
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Testament of Hope, so many churches working in the three
one oh nine. So all together we're doing the great work.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Wanted to know. So Camp lit Lit it is open
now has it been running a win?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Today was the first day.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Today is the first day. It started today. But let
me ask this question because we know that parents and
grandparents and listening, and then they said, is it too
late to get a child a young person into Camp Lit.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
It's not too late, we said, we cut off our registration.
But you know, my team knows that's the Watkin's going
to let them in, Okay. And so if someone is
listening and you are interested in being part of Camp Lit,
it's for this year's for rising sixth graders to rising
ninth graders. And if you're interested in your child, your
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grandchild being part of our Camp Lit, I want to
give you a phone number and a website, please, and
their phone number is nine zero one seven eight five
one six one two. We run that by one more time,
nine zero one seven eight five one six one two.
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And here's the website www. M T that's m T,
Mike Tango, m T hyphen v E r n O
N that's Vernon dot org, m T hyphen vernon dot org.
You go to that website or call that number, and
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if you're interested in being part of the Camp Lit,
we will talk with you and look at bringing your
child in. But we started today and we're excited about
this was the first day and we're partnering with the
employee program this year.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Oh good.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
We have a lot of interns on our campus. We
have a food pantry, we have all kinds of stuff
going on. But the campus is bubbling over with a
lot of energy right now.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Good.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Yeah, good. And our director is a lady named Xandra
Hall and she's on an our standing job.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Fabulous, fabulous.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
If you are just tuning in this morning, we are
talking about Camp Litz. We're gonna give you some more
information on that in the studio with me this day.
We have the pastor of the Mount Vernon Baptist Church Westwood,
Pastor Melvin Watkins Junior is here. Also, we have Miss
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Reesi Robertson, Loriesa. Reese Robinson is here. Nina Shack. They're
gonna be telling you more. If you do have a
question or two for our guests, we do invite you
to call nine zero one five three five nine three
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Monday people.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Good morning and welcome to w d i A.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We are talking about camp Lit that is happening at
Mount Vernon Westwood and in the house with me Missina
Shack with Aero Velocity. We'll talk with her pastor, Melvin D.
Watkins Junior, who is the senior pastor of Mount Vernon,
and my sister friend LARSA. Robinson is here to tell
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us what theresa you doing with camp Lit.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
So Bell, I need to let you know first of
all that what Mount Vernon Baptist Church is the bomb
dot com.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
The reason I say that is.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Because of the quality programming that they provide for the community.
And drone technology is my space along with Nina Space.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
We are both Federal Aviation pilots. What, Yes, I didn't
know that about.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Yes, I just got my license congratulation two years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
That's fabulous.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Yes, and Nina is recently graduated from Middle Tennessee University
as an FAA pilot as well.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
And what we want to make sure that the community
knows is that drone technology is not only a STEM program,
but it also teaches individuals I call them scholars, that
drone technology.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Drones are not just a toy. They're not just something
you just play with.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I'm so glad you said that, because people think that's
a toy.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Oh my god, beib.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
The opportunities that exist within the drone space is tremendous.
For example, the drone industry is a thirty billion dollar
industry here in the States, seventy billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Globally, thirty billion in the state.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Would a b that's it? I heard you, yes, ma'am,
that's it. Okay, thirty billion dollars last year in the state.
And so many industries are adapting or incorporating drones into
their processes, for example, law enforcement.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Firefighters, farmers.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Of medical In terms of drone delivery, did you know
that Chick fil a is already delivering drone I mean
delivering food utilizing drone.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's so many. And medicine is being delivered
to hospitals utilizing drones. When the bad guy gets on
the loose, drones are being launched to track that situation.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
The opportunity, the career opportunity that.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Exists within the drone space is tremendous, and that's why
we're here, because we want to make sure that they
can connect with real people like Nina, you know that's
closer to their age, and even seniors like myself that
needs to know that this technology is here.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
It's not going anywhere, so you might as well will
embrace it.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
And I always say, you see that we have to
embrace the change.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
That's it, and it's good.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
It's good.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
I also want to say real quick before I get
Nina here, because she has a wealth of information. Okay,
so you can be as young as sixteen years old
and get your Federal Aviation Administration.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
License as a pilot sixteen sixteen. Yeah, we have many.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Individuals that you know, six started when they were sixteen
years old making six figures.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
You utilizing drum wow technology.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Yeah, realators are incorporating it into you know, landscaping their yeah,
mapping their properties. So yeah, it just goes on and on.
I'm just gonna start talking right now. Yeah, let Nina,
let her rip it out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Wow. Welcome Nina, Welcome, So congratulations you just graduated.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Yes, I just graduated from Middle Tennessee Middle Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
How was that?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Oh, it was great.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
During my time there, I was introduced to drones's photography,
thermal imaging warner, you name it, so that I got
a great exposure there.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So so so graduating in in your degree your so
your degree.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Is called what my degree is aerospace specific concentration is
unmanned aircraft systems.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
So drones right up my alley.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay, so you like the drone? So again and Luisa
was saying a pilot, so you like to fly.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I do have some manned piloting experience, but most of
my current experiences unmanned aircraft systems the drone.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Okay, so tell us about this drone thing. Yes, and
so is this one of the things that we're going
to be teaching over at Camp lit.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
So yes, I will be the instructor over there. I'm
the coach for the drone program at Camp lit. Nina
came in to support the participants so they can understand
that this is a real thing that can happen. Also,
I want to say that drones are as small as
you're an orange, and they can be as large as
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an airplane. Not only that the military has been using
drone technology for years and now it's becoming more mainstream
and I really like sharing this part right here, the
reality that drones can now fly through glass without breaking.
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There's a company. Yeah, and it's great for firefighters. For example,
instead of the firefighters going into burning buildings trying to
find the victims, they can actually shoot a drone into
a window and continue to search the property for victims
and be able to identify in real time to the
firefighters where that victim is located, so they can go
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straight there as opposed to looking all around.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Yes, thank you for it. Yeah, thank you for this opportunity.
When I tell you, drone technology is something.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You now, Louisa, I'm thinking and I don't know if
you passed off, because when we think about drones, we
see on TV that the little thing, you know, because
even in our business, iHeart, we've seen that. I just
saw it and I'm just thinking a little bit. You
said that it could be as large as an airplane.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Not only that now they're operating, we have through the
FAA where this considered beyond the line of sight. In
other words, you can be in California operating a drone
that's here in Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Wow, that's the technolo. That's where we are.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
That's where we are now, it's beyond the visual line
of sight. Yeah so yeah, so yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
That is amazing and so Nina, So so you can
learn about it in college in school now.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Yes, yeah, So that's lots of unmanned aircraft programs. But
I just believe I'm been a little biased.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
But I just tell you Middle Tennessee has a very
competitive one that prepares students for the workforce.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Your school, that's right, that's right, So tell us a
little bit, you know what can be happening.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
And as you will be talking to the young people.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Yes, so I'll be talking to the young kicks about
my company, air Velocity, and we're about that, yes, ma'am.
So what we're doing is we're reimaging property and land
management through advanced drone technology. So we provide high impact
services like drone cleaning. You can do tank inspections, three
D molody, three D modeling, thermal scans, and even what
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I've had the experience with is agriculture scanning.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
And we will provide that to our clients to help
protect their assets and make smarter decisions. As for examples farmers,
So we'll give them, like a point cloud sert source,
a three D model of their farms so they can see, Okay,
we're the highs and lows. How can I better irrigate?
How can I better plant crops? And things of that nature.
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So those are those are just some of the examples
that my company alone are doing. So you can't imagine
what other services are available everywhere.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You know, what's such a Nina that you've graduated, You've
already started working.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
I started applying to jobs before I even graduated college.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I started like a year ago.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Okay, oh yeah, that's good. Good.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
So you know, I'm so glad you all here because
I didn't know that all this information about drones was
out here. Because you know, we see the little drones
and little things, and we see what what what the
police are doing.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
With drones now, and and you know what the government
is doing.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But you when you you've got me talking about you
can be in California, see what's going here in Memphis pasting. Yes,
you remember back in the day when they said I
don't know, Nina was too young. But when they say
big brothers watching me.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I was watching now now, Yeah, they're watching. So this
is amazing, amazing, and you know what, you think about
five ten years from now, it's just going to keep
on progressing. Our kids have to get involved with it now.
That's why I'm so excited that they are getting exposed now,
because drone and technology is not going anywhere. It is
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going to continue to grow. And so having them to
come to our camp this summer and exposing our young people,
they are getting a head start so to speak. Yes, yeah, so, and.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
It's also pastor Nina. You just heard Nina, this is
an excellent way for you to have a career and
make some money.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
I even have some friends that are trying to start
up their own like retail, just just simple taking pictures
of houses, doing inspections. So it's it's money out there
definitely to be made. There's it's not just a toy,
it's it's technology as well. So it's a lot of
things you can cap have to make from a drone.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
What about Nina, Uh, you know you can have a drone,
but what about being in the business of making one?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Oh yeah, what tell me about that?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
I mean, yeah, yeah, so making a drone, there are
a lot of like drone manufacturing things of that nature.
But you can also make like a maybe like a
three D build of a drone, so just a very
inexpensive you can three D print something, put the wires
in there, very inexpensive.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
That's just one example of something you can do.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
So you mentioned when you mentioned real estate, So that's
one of the things.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I'm sure that realatures and the and the count and
the government, you know, because so when I go on
and look online, look about my property, So how did
they get this picture of my house? And and they
can tell you if you added on to your house
and you didn't do it legally. So that's the drones
looking at the.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Photos.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
And as recently as you said that with this technology,
police can get those criminals.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Now, yeah, not only can they get the criminals, but
they can also find the babies that may be lost
in the woods. With this infrared technology, night vision and
the technology that's available for that. It definitely saves a
lot of time going forward, you know. And it's just here,
and i'd like to talk about the career opportunities, particularly
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when it comes to manufacturing drones or parts of drones.
I mean, we may have a listener out there right
now that has a student or grandchild that is really
good with their hands, and they can create a way
to have the battery life extended because that's a deficiency
within the space drones. Generally, the batteries operate anywhere from
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fifteen to thirty minutes, and of course many pilots use
multiple batteries in order to get the work completed. But
someone can come up with a battery that lasts as
much as forty five minutes or an hour will be
game changing for their lives. So, yes, a lot of
goodness in this space. Yes, drones have been around for
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a while, but it's still very new.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
It's still very new. It's not too late.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So Larisa at Camp LID and you and Nina, So
you're going to start with the students kind of telling
them the basic of drones.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Yes, so tomorrow will be our first day out there,
and what we will be doing is we're going to
just introduce them to the space of aerrow technology because
this is a STEM program, so they get the benefit
of having that under their resume, if you will, you know,
a STEM program. But we're going to introduce them to
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not only the drones, but help them to understand the
end result that we're trying to get them to and
that is the career opportunity. But we're going to teach
them the parts of a drone, Howard flies, they will
learn about various clouds, They're gonna understand airspace. They actually
would be even creating a drone using art therapy and yes,
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art therapy and Mount Vernon has an incredible computer lab,
so they will have access to their own computer. They
have their own drones that they're working with. We're not
using images and books to teach them. They're actually hands
on experience, hands on absolutely wow, hands.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
On the pastor you're gonna sit in?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
No, I think I might sit in so I can
get FAA certified on drone.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You know what, because this sounds exciting. I'm really exciting that.
But let me ask this to you. Have you ever thought, Luisa.
I know you wanted young people, but what about older
people who may be interested in and people may be
looking for another career.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Where I'm here to tell you I'm leading by example. Okay,
so I just got my license up two years ago.
It was not my plan to do that, but you
know how God does things has put us in positions
where we need to be able to do his work
and I love working with children and.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
The rest is history.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Yeah, so I definitely encourage and I want to make
sure that people understand. Even if you say, oh, I
got a drone, I fly drone, do know the federal
government mandates drone. They mandate the airspace. So you can't
just fly your drone because you want to fly your drone.
As an FAA pilot, we get to fly in restricted
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areas along with unrestricted airspaces. So if you have a
drone and you know how to fly your drone, and
even if you start charging making money and you don't
have your license, that's illegal. You can actually get jail
time and find for that.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
Yeah, and being in the airspace and then there's only
you know, you get to learn how high up you
can go and the different air spaces and yeah, it's
an exciting something very new. I like new and fresh
all the time. So yeah, drone is really keeping me
moving forward.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
We are talking this day, we are talking about the
Westwood Youth Development but Camp Lit that is happening now
starting today at Mount Vernon Baptist Church. My guest pastor
Melvin D. Watkins Junior is here. Larsa Robertson is here,
Miss Nina Shack. If you have a question or two
or more about the camp, get in where you fit
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Speaker 2 (33:56):
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Speaker 10 (34:19):
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Speaker 9 (34:36):
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Speaker 5 (34:39):
Nom your mind.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
To be read.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I'm telling you to just keep the.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
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Speaker 1 (34:53):
Enough the josing So the girl got here, welcome back.
I am talking this day with Pastor Melvin. Do you
walkome to Junior the pastor Senior Pastor of Mount Vernon
Baptist Church, Westwood.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
LARSA.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Robinson is here. We're talking drone technology, Miss Nina Shack.
We're talking about Camp lit that is going on starting
today at Mount Vernon. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to
our phone lines to talk with Nancy. Hi.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Nancy, Hi, how you are doing doing well? Nancy?
Speaker 5 (35:31):
How are you?
Speaker 10 (35:32):
I'm good?
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Thanks for asking.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I was charling.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
I got in kind of at the end of it.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
And what is the age limit to go to the
program that you have for the drones?
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Thank you miss Nancy for that question. Our ages are
eleven through fifteen or rising sixth graders through rising ninth graders.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
And what time of the day The time back in.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
The morning, yes, ma'am. From nine am to two pm
Monday through Thursday.
Speaker 10 (36:02):
Okay, it's it too late to register, No, ma'am, it's
not too late.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
What I would like for you to do if you
have access to the internet and can go on our website.
If you can do that, I can give you the
website right now and for those who might be listening
with the same question, and that is www mt dash
vernon V E R N O N dot org. And
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then you just go to camp camp lit camp Registration
and you click that and you can register and then
that will alert us to contact you, or you can
call directly at nine oh one seven eighty five one
six one two and we'll take it from there. Okay.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
And what is the I know you said it's from
nine am to two pm?
Speaker 10 (36:55):
Is lunch?
Speaker 7 (36:56):
Do you all serve them lunch or they have to
bring their lunch?
Speaker 5 (36:59):
We serve them lunch. We serve them lunch every day.
There is no charge to attend the camp. They will
only have to pay for our field trips. We go
on the field trip every Thursday, but we have breakfasts,
we have lunch, and everything that we provide is no charge.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
And is it that your church, Mount Vernon.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Yes, ma'am, it said Mount Vernon, and Mount Vernon is
located at six twenty Park Roads Road in the heart
of Westwood, Tennessee.
Speaker 9 (37:30):
Okay, thank you, I appreciate you for that.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Thank you, Thank you Nancy for listening. Oh that's good,
You're welcome. Oh I love that, Pastor.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
They get lunch, yep, get a little breakfast and then
you all do field trip.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Field trips every Thursday. And this Thursday they're going to
the Escape Room. So that's they love that escape.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
What is the escape?
Speaker 5 (37:51):
So the escape room is you go into these different
rooms and you have to try to get out of
the room. You're locked in the room and you and
your team have to figure out out how to get
out different puzzles and mind teasers, brain teasers, stuff and
get out.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Okay, So that is at a particular place.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
I think this year they're going to the Memphis. I
think it's a Memphis escape room.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Okay, okay, okay, but they.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Have several escape rooms here in the city and I'm
not sure.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
But every Thursday you all take them on to some
kind of field.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
They learned something that this year that we're going out
of town, going to farm and you know, they're doing
a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Okay, oh that's good. Yeah, okay, man, I like that.
Keep them involved, keep.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Them involved, keep them busy, out and out of trouble.
And it's safe.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
It's safe.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
Yes, yes, I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
And so when we're talking and I want to get
back over to Nina, so talking with the drone that
you're all going to be teaching and everything, and you're
going to be telling them more about that and about
your company.
Speaker 8 (38:57):
Yes, So I'm going to be UHC is going to
be doing the intrus. I'm just gonna be uh kind
of really just introducing them bo my personal experience and
things of that nature.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Good and probably gonna put it in when they think
they're thinking about college.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Exactly, just put a little bug in their air.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah, that's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
And I'm so glad to see one of the things pastes.
You know young black women in this field? Oh my goodness, yes, yeah, yeah,
are a lot of women going into this field.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
So uh, not particularly that I saw in college. There
was one other woman, but she was not a woman
of color. But I'm seeing more than what I was
seeing a couple of years ago. So there's definitely more
women in general. I'm not seeing a lot of me,
but it's it's we're there, we're there.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
But but but it is something to think about and
that thing that you can make money with. Yes, oh
good well, congratulations you you yeah, you and I hope
you you know big and better things. I know because this,
like you said, this is technology. I was thinking, past
I was laughing at you. You say, we're just thinking
the next two or three years. But uh, I'm probably
(40:10):
a little a little older than you passed. You're probably
under me.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
You're p y t. But I laugh and I think
about because I don't know Nina might now know this.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
When we were growing up, remember recently, when we would
look at the cartoon the Jetsons, and we saw all
that stuff that's.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Here, that's here, now, oh, that's there, the root that's here.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
Yeah, for real, for real, for real, for real.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yes, and you don't know anything about Jesson, do you
need to see?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
It was a It was a cartoon, but it was
a cartoon about they lived the space and they had
the rockets and they had the robots and everything was.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Yeah, I don't know, maybe old school.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
I'm old school, but Recie, I think about that.
Speaker 7 (41:01):
And that's here now, Yes it is, and I can
even I'm because I'm a serial entrepreneur.
Speaker 6 (41:08):
I'm always thinking about what's next.
Speaker 7 (41:10):
So in this drone space, yes, meeting that people think
about being able to take pictures and video, you know,
creating reels, utilizing drones. But I like to think about
the other side of that, what else can happen. Can
we build a company that's delivering Walmart items to the store.
(41:32):
Can we be in competition with door dash, you know,
utilizing drones. What about helping the hospitals out delivering medication
or even food for Chick fil A? So beyond the
sky is the limit with this piece, And I just
like to really reiterate that because it's important that people
think outside of a concentrated minute space and just go
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for the biggest piece. And if you go for the
biggest piece, you're gonna land somewhere were in between.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you y all before you
get out here. You see, so you all will be
teaching this. Will you all be doing this every day
or the whole through the camp.
Speaker 7 (42:11):
Or so that's a great question. We will be there
on Tuesdays from ten to twelve. As for the program,
Nina is not an instructor. I'm the coach the for
the program. I'm also a STEM master STEM instructor. So
we get a chance to be there. And Nina's coming
back for the finale, which is going to be July
(42:32):
to seventeenth, just to see what the babies have done,
because she has a passion for children and she wants
to make sure that she's there on the first day,
which is why Nina will be there tomorrow. We're gonna
actually do a demonstration with our drones. We're gonna use
what we call enterprise drone. I have a drone that's
about thirty five hundred dollars, but we're gonna bring that
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into the school tomorrow so they can see drones range
from they cost that much. Well, you can get a
very basic one just for the purpose of having a
drone for as little as fifty dollars, but they go
up into millions of dollars. Yeah. The drone that Nina's
company was that work used when they're doing their work,
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costs two hundred thousand dollars and they have several of them.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (43:19):
Yeah, so it's a big liability with the drone piece,
so they range.
Speaker 5 (43:25):
Wow, that's good. Let me also save. Our camp runs
for six weeks from June to ninth through July the seventeenth.
I didn't indicate that at first, but it is a
six week program, okay, And the drone program, in addition
to other programs, will be weekly.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (43:42):
We have financial literacy, and we have other things conflict resolutions.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
And they are also learning how to do sheet rock
and paint and all right. Then they're going out into
the community of plant flowers and clean up in the neighborhood.
There's a lot of things, but the drone is our starship.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (44:02):
The drone is a shining star of what we're doing,
and that's happening weekly. But all these other classes are
happening weekly as well, from June and ninth through July
to seventeenth.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 7 (44:13):
And when I talk about quality programming, Mount Vernon definitely
has that in place along with all those other programs
that he just mentioned.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
I mean sheep rocking.
Speaker 7 (44:22):
Come on, now, where are you going to go in
the summer program and learn how to do some sheet
rock exactly? And when I talk about discipline and on
time and on focus, on task and on focus, I
experienced that just last year because we had a program
with fifty students receiving the drone as a part of
the camp last year.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
So fabulous.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
Yeah, he's doing good stuff.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
As we get ready to wrap up our pull the
mic over to Nina and Nina last word you like
to say?
Speaker 3 (44:48):
And again tell us again about your company.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
Yes, I worked for air Velocity.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
But one thing I just want to say, if there's
like any kids out there that are interested in the
drone space, stick with it. Just do some research, see
what top of opportunities there are with you connect with people,
and then if you want, you can look me up,
Nina Shak you can reach out to me, all right?
Speaker 3 (45:11):
How can they look you up? You're on social media?
Speaker 4 (45:13):
Yes you can. My professional platform I have LinkedIn. That'd
be my method.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Okay, all right, good my girl, my sister fred missus,
Loresa Robertson.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
I've learned a lot about you today. You have you
have really grown. Yes, I'm just getting started. Ball Yeah,
last words you'd like to say, Loresa.
Speaker 7 (45:35):
So I just want to encourage everybody to allow God
to lead your heart. And if you have purchased a
drone in the past and that drone got caught in
a tree and that just discouraged you and you just
put that drone away or never could get it out
the tree, go and buy another drone. Reach out to
Mount Vernon and see if there's something you can do
to help volunteer take participate in the class, and go
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into your community.
Speaker 6 (46:00):
If you're not in Westwood, go into your community and.
Speaker 7 (46:04):
Ask your leaders if they can bring some drone technology
into your space and they can pattern, you know, model
Mount Vernon's lit Camp program. Yes, thank you again, Beth
Johnson for allowing us to share with your listening audience
about the importance of the work that's being done through
Mount Vernon and how important it is to consider drone
(46:26):
technology as a career.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
And as we last, but not least, the illustrious.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
I want you to.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
I want you to introduce me, Yes, the illustrious senior
pasture about Vernon Baptist Church, Wood Pastep Melby Deep Wockett.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
Well, thank you, And as has already been stated, we
have a wonderful camp this summer and you have an
open imitation to come and take advantage of it, whether
you live in Westwood or beyond Westwood, if you want
to make your way down to the three A one
oh nine, Mount Vernon's doors are open. Mount Vernon is
a place where Jesus is Lord, everyone is loved, and
(47:12):
no one stands alone. And at this camp Lip camp Let,
we most certainly try to embody that and show our
young people that they are loved, welcome, wanted, appreciate it,
and their futures are bright and we want to help
them to obtain everything God has in store for them.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
I love it. I have to ask you this question. Yeah,
it is my mayor still your still one of your members?
Speaker 5 (47:36):
Yes, you know, and we love him.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
Yes, that's my mayor all time.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
Mine too, he's still there, Superintendent Mayor. Yeah, what hey,
And I'm telling you something. I'm glad you brought that up. Okay,
I was talking to a lot of our young people.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (47:56):
You talked about how we have the discipline and everything
with some of the ones who, in turn, we spend
a week or two getting them ready and talking to
them about this and that. And a lot of the kids,
we talked to them. We have a space in our church,
legacy wall, Legacy Hall, and doctor Harrington's pictures there. Okay,
and we said, do y'all know who that is? Six seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth,
(48:20):
greatest twelfth graders. I said, no, what, And so that
means that we have young people. Said you don't when
were you born two thousand and seven, twenty ten? I said,
you don't know our first African American mayor hurt the name,
But I really don't know. So we have some work
to do.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
We had a whole lot of work to.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
Teach our young people their history. Yes, so some of
them are right here in Memphis and they don't know
their own history. These are some of the things that
are driving us to do what we do. Wow.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
Yeah, I'm glad you shared that because that lets us know.
Speaker 5 (48:59):
They don't No, they don't know, they don't know, and
this is recent history exactly.
Speaker 3 (49:05):
We're not talking about about the fifties, forties.
Speaker 5 (49:07):
And recent history. Yeah yeah, wow. You see, some of
them have never they have never known Memphis to have
a mayor other than a mayor of color. They've never
seen that. Wow, when they were born a mayor, whether
it was in Harton or otherwise, they don't know about
(49:30):
anything prior to that. Gotcha, And so we have to
help them understand our own history.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
We'll keep on helping them.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Yeah yeah, I think you all gonna do a wonderful
I love the drone ideas we said, y'all keep doing well,
that's fabulous.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
I might have to give you and you and over
to my church and help these young poots.
Speaker 7 (49:47):
Oh yeah, Ball, we're gonna get you certified as a pilot.
Yeah yeah, you can show them Ball that it's real.
Speaker 6 (49:55):
It's for everybody. Okay, nobody's exempt.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
Thank y'all for being here. You have and fabulous gifts,
good information. I appreciate it. Can y'all be safe out there.
Speaker 5 (50:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
When we come back.
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twenty twenty five.
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That name sounds to me, well, that's the son of
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Happy birthday, Jesse. From your mom, your sister, your niece,
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I hope it is fabulous where you are here Memphis,
t We have cloud in Memphis, Tennessee. We have cloudy skies,
but us okay, we steal rocking and rolling. I am
just related to have our guest here in the studio
to tell us what's going on in Westwood. We hear
a lot of good things about Westwood that's going on.
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And let me enter you to my guests. We have
Reverend Melvin Watkins, Junior Senior Pastor, and I put that
put that handle on Mount Vernon, west Wood, Mount Vernon
Baptist Church. Is that it, brother, That's it. That's it
(06:22):
in the house with us today. Also, we have Miss
Nina Shaq who is with Aero Velocity.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
We're gonna learn about that. And I just put her last.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
I didn't put her last, But I just have to
tell you that back in the day, pastor, you didn't know.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I don't know if you knew this. Probably don't know.
This sister used to do my hair.
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Oh now, what what you say? All I know.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
This sister used to do my hair. Was she could
do some hair? Wow, she could do some hair. I
don't know why she stopped. Well, yeah, I think I
know what she stopped doing. But my sister, Louisa Robert
Soutt is here.
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It's so good to see you, sister.
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How are you, ev Johnson?
Speaker 7 (07:10):
I am so excited to be here, and I thank
you for this opportunity.
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And you know Memphis is turned.
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On, turned on. Oh yes, Memphis is.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Turned on in Detroit for so long. Absolutely, I'm so
happy to be back here.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
This is coming back, coming back, coming back to Memphis
after how many years were you in Detroit?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Thirty two?
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Wow?
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I know, I know.
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And every time I would go up there, I would
miss re RecA.
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You didn't call me.
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Well, you know, I was an arb So I was
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grew up in ann Arborough, Okay.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Yeah, and so I still have folks there.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
And Memphis all the way.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
No, I was born here.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I was born here, born here, but my folks left
and when I was in the second grade. Yeah, and
just last year, Pastor, I lost my last aunt, which
was my dad sister who lived in ann Aarbory. She wasnty,
but at least, you know, I would, you know, I
go visit family. I still have family, all my cousins
in there.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
But yeah, so you would go to ann Arbor and
will say from you right.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Here, from you, you need to come over to Detroit
because she always had some stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm gonna get you a massage.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Yeah, yeah, that massages in Memphis. You know, you're right.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
And we never connected, but we always stayed in touch.
We communicated. Yeah, and I loved her, still love her
sister and her mama.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
My mama is doing amazing, believe it or not. She's
in Detroit.
Speaker 8 (08:37):
What.
Speaker 7 (08:38):
Yeah, and I'm back here switch places?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Good good?
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You're born and raised in Detroit. No, okay, you're here.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
After you've been here for thirty plus years.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Memphis.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We well, I well, I say, Pastor Watkins, that that
I had the best of both worlds.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah, Michigan, well Ann Arbor and and Memphis. And I
also say the best of both worlds.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Musically, I had Motown and I had Stacks, so I
would come here every summer and Christmas, and you know,
because my grandmother and they were still here and stuff.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
So if both of them are homes, that's the best
of both worlds.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
But musically, yeah, old Town and Stacks.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
You grew up with all that. Yes music and yes, sir. Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
As a matter of fact, my grandther they live right
around the corner from Stacks.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Yeah, yeah, right around the corner. And then my uncle
David Porter.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yeah he knew me. Pastor David Porter is your uncle? Well, well, yeah, uncle.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
You know my god, because he knew me.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
He knew me when I was in the third grade
from that neighborhood. So he loves me and he's been
loving me ever since, and I love him.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
So you see where I'm coming from.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
But now for that past and look at here y'all
doing some stuff in Westwood, and tell me what's going
on at Mount.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
At Mount Vernon, Yes, thank you so much. Well, we
have so much going on at Mount Vernon. And one
of the things that we're so excited about is our
summer camp. We have a summer camp that is called
Camp LIT this year and it is a camp that
is a program of Westwood Youth Development, which is our
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outreach arm and Uplift Westwood CDC. And we host the
camp on the campus of Mount Vernon Baptist Church. And
the Camp LITT stands for Leadership, Literacy, Inspiration and Transformation.
Our focus is to empower youth through mentorship, educational enrichment,
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character development, career exploration, team building and literacy improvement. And
I tell you we are cultivating young leaders who are
spiritually grounded, mentally equipped and socially responsible by providing summer experiences,
rooted and respectable values and real world skills. And we
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are so excited to host it again. We've been doing
this for over thirty years. And yeah, we've been hosting
the summer camp over thirty years. We used to do
it in the evening time from five pm to nine pm,
focused a lot on character development. We would have up
to two and three hundred kids there every night through
the summer for eight weeks Monday through Friday. But then
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when the pandemic hit we came back. We shifted a
little bit, and our focus continues to be character development,
but we want to give greater emphasis to technology and
stem and life skills and academic things and leadership. And specifically,
we are so excited. You said recy does it all,
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and she literally does it all, because this is our
second year of partnering with her where she has brought
in a drone prog and she teaches our young people
how to operate drones and how to get involved with
that as a career. And we're so excited that this
year she's coming back to our campus teaching our children
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how to operate drones and also explore those opportunities for
a career because my understanding there's quite a bit of
opportunity in the drone area where people can make a decent,
really good money, and so we're excited about that. And
thank you for giving us this opportunity. You are a
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legend in the city of Memphis and really around the world,
and I just considered an honor and a blessing to
be able to be on your show, Miss Johnson. I
thank you for allowing me to sit here in this anointed,
holy ghost room, and thank you for all that you
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do for our city and so again we're excited about
our camp this summer in Westwood.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
You know, our pastor, you are, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
But any time that when I hear about a program
involving young people that is positive, I want to get
the word out, yes, because we hear so much negativity.
Right in recent times, We've heard a lot of negative
stuff in Westwood, right, but we still know that Mount
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Vernon is there and that's positive.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
And then you all are working.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
To keep that area, keep it positive and especially for
our young people.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
That's right. And so we're excited about that because you're
exactly right. We hear a lot of negative news sometimes
about this and that, but for every piece of negative news,
we have so much more positive news going on. And
so many churches are working in Westwood. Mount Vernon, you
know we're working, but there are others Jerusalem Baptist Church
and Temple of Community, Temple Baptist Church, so many church,
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Testament of Hope, so many churches working in the three
one oh nine. So all together we're doing the great work.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Wanted to know. So Camp lit Lit it is open
now has it been running a win?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Today was the first day.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Today is the first day. It started today. But let
me ask this question because we know that parents and
grandparents and listening, and then they said, is it too
late to get a child a young person into Camp Lit.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
It's not too late, we said, we cut off our registration.
But you know, my team knows that's the Watkin's going
to let them in, Okay. And so if someone is
listening and you are interested in being part of Camp Lit,
it's for this year's for rising sixth graders to rising
ninth graders. And if you're interested in your child, your
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grandchild being part of our Camp Lit, I want to
give you a phone number and a website, please, and
their phone number is nine zero one seven eight five
one six one two. We run that by one more time,
nine zero one seven eight five one six one two.
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And here's the website www. M T that's m T,
Mike Tango, m T hyphen v E r n O
N that's Vernon dot org, m T hyphen vernon dot org.
You go to that website or call that number, and
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if you're interested in being part of the Camp Lit,
we will talk with you and look at bringing your
child in. But we started today and we're excited about
this was the first day and we're partnering with the
employee program this year.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
Oh good.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
We have a lot of interns on our campus. We
have a food pantry, we have all kinds of stuff
going on. But the campus is bubbling over with a
lot of energy right now.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Good.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
Yeah, good. And our director is a lady named Xandra
Hall and she's on an our standing job.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Fabulous, fabulous.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
If you are just tuning in this morning, we are
talking about Camp Litz. We're gonna give you some more
information on that in the studio with me this day.
We have the pastor of the Mount Vernon Baptist Church Westwood,
Pastor Melvin Watkins Junior is here. Also, we have Miss
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Reesi Robertson, Loriesa. Reese Robinson is here. Nina Shack. They're
gonna be telling you more. If you do have a
question or two for our guests, we do invite you
to call nine zero one five three five nine three
four two nine zero one five three five nine three
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four two eight hundred five zero three nine three four
two eight three three five three five nine three four two.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Will get you in to us.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You're listening to do w d I A the bed
just show.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
You need know over the town working hard to bring
you outa days now selling Forday.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Every dys off the.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Monday people.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Good morning and welcome to w d i A.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
We are talking about camp Lit that is happening at
Mount Vernon Westwood and in the house with me Missina
Shack with Aero Velocity. We'll talk with her pastor, Melvin D.
Watkins Junior, who is the senior pastor of Mount Vernon,
and my sister friend LARSA. Robinson is here to tell
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us what theresa you doing with camp Lit.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
So Bell, I need to let you know first of
all that what Mount Vernon Baptist Church is the bomb
dot com.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
The reason I say that is.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Because of the quality programming that they provide for the community.
And drone technology is my space along with Nina Space.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
We are both Federal Aviation pilots. What, Yes, I didn't
know that about.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
Yes, I just got my license congratulation two years ago.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
That's fabulous.
Speaker 7 (19:02):
Yes, and Nina is recently graduated from Middle Tennessee University
as an FAA pilot as well.
Speaker 9 (19:09):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
And what we want to make sure that the community
knows is that drone technology is not only a STEM program,
but it also teaches individuals I call them scholars, that
drone technology.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Drones are not just a toy. They're not just something
you just play with.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
I'm so glad you said that, because people think that's
a toy.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Oh my god, beib.
Speaker 7 (19:33):
The opportunities that exist within the drone space is tremendous.
For example, the drone industry is a thirty billion dollar
industry here in the States, seventy billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Globally, thirty billion in the state.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
Would a b that's it? I heard you, yes, ma'am,
that's it. Okay, thirty billion dollars last year in the state.
And so many industries are adapting or incorporating drones into
their processes, for example, law enforcement.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
Firefighters, farmers.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Of medical In terms of drone delivery, did you know
that Chick fil a is already delivering drone I mean
delivering food utilizing drone.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 7 (20:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's so many. And medicine is being delivered
to hospitals utilizing drones. When the bad guy gets on
the loose, drones are being launched to track that situation.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
The opportunity, the career opportunity that.
Speaker 7 (20:37):
Exists within the drone space is tremendous, and that's why
we're here, because we want to make sure that they
can connect with real people like Nina, you know that's
closer to their age, and even seniors like myself that
needs to know that this technology is here.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
It's not going anywhere, so you might as well will
embrace it.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
And I always say, you see that we have to
embrace the change.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
That's it, and it's good.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
It's good.
Speaker 7 (21:09):
I also want to say real quick before I get
Nina here, because she has a wealth of information. Okay,
so you can be as young as sixteen years old
and get your Federal Aviation Administration.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
License as a pilot sixteen sixteen. Yeah, we have many.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
Individuals that you know, six started when they were sixteen
years old making six figures.
Speaker 6 (21:35):
You utilizing drum wow technology.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Yeah, realators are incorporating it into you know, landscaping their yeah,
mapping their properties. So yeah, it just goes on and on.
I'm just gonna start talking right now. Yeah, let Nina,
let her rip it out a little bit.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Wow. Welcome Nina, Welcome, So congratulations you just graduated.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
Yes, I just graduated from Middle Tennessee Middle Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
How was that?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Oh, it was great.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
During my time there, I was introduced to drones's photography,
thermal imaging warner, you name it, so that I got
a great exposure there.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So so so graduating in in your degree your so
your degree.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Is called what my degree is aerospace specific concentration is
unmanned aircraft systems.
Speaker 4 (22:25):
So drones right up my alley.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay, so you like the drone? So again and Luisa
was saying a pilot, so you like to fly.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
I do have some manned piloting experience, but most of
my current experiences unmanned aircraft systems the drone.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Okay, so tell us about this drone thing. Yes, and
so is this one of the things that we're going
to be teaching over at Camp lit.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
So yes, I will be the instructor over there. I'm
the coach for the drone program at Camp lit. Nina
came in to support the participants so they can understand
that this is a real thing that can happen. Also,
I want to say that drones are as small as
you're an orange, and they can be as large as
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an airplane. Not only that the military has been using
drone technology for years and now it's becoming more mainstream
and I really like sharing this part right here, the
reality that drones can now fly through glass without breaking.
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There's a company. Yeah, and it's great for firefighters. For example,
instead of the firefighters going into burning buildings trying to
find the victims, they can actually shoot a drone into
a window and continue to search the property for victims
and be able to identify in real time to the
firefighters where that victim is located, so they can go
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straight there as opposed to looking all around.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
Yes, thank you for it. Yeah, thank you for this opportunity.
When I tell you, drone technology is something.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You now, Louisa, I'm thinking and I don't know if
you passed off, because when we think about drones, we
see on TV that the little thing, you know, because
even in our business, iHeart, we've seen that. I just
saw it and I'm just thinking a little bit. You
said that it could be as large as an airplane.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
Speaker 7 (24:22):
Not only that now they're operating, we have through the
FAA where this considered beyond the line of sight. In
other words, you can be in California operating a drone
that's here in Tennessee.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Wow, that's the technolo. That's where we are.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
That's where we are now, it's beyond the visual line
of sight. Yeah so yeah, so yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
That is amazing and so Nina, So so you can
learn about it in college in school now.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Yes, yeah, So that's lots of unmanned aircraft programs. But
I just believe I'm been a little biased.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
But I just tell you Middle Tennessee has a very
competitive one that prepares students for the workforce.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Your school, that's right, that's right, So tell us a
little bit, you know what can be happening.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
And as you will be talking to the young people.
Speaker 8 (25:18):
Yes, so I'll be talking to the young kicks about
my company, air Velocity, and we're about that, yes, ma'am.
So what we're doing is we're reimaging property and land
management through advanced drone technology. So we provide high impact
services like drone cleaning. You can do tank inspections, three
D molody, three D modeling, thermal scans, and even what
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I've had the experience with is agriculture scanning.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
And we will provide that to our clients to help
protect their assets and make smarter decisions. As for examples farmers,
So we'll give them, like a point cloud sert source,
a three D model of their farms so they can see, Okay,
we're the highs and lows. How can I better irrigate?
How can I better plant crops? And things of that nature.
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So those are those are just some of the examples
that my company alone are doing. So you can't imagine
what other services are available everywhere.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You know, what's such a Nina that you've graduated, You've
already started working.
Speaker 8 (26:19):
I started applying to jobs before I even graduated college.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
I started like a year ago.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Okay, oh yeah, that's good. Good.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
So you know, I'm so glad you all here because
I didn't know that all this information about drones was
out here. Because you know, we see the little drones
and little things, and we see what what what the
police are doing.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
With drones now, and and you know what the government
is doing.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
But you when you you've got me talking about you
can be in California, see what's going here in Memphis pasting. Yes,
you remember back in the day when they said I
don't know, Nina was too young. But when they say
big brothers watching me.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
I was watching now now, Yeah, they're watching. So this
is amazing, amazing, and you know what, you think about
five ten years from now, it's just going to keep
on progressing. Our kids have to get involved with it now.
That's why I'm so excited that they are getting exposed now,
because drone and technology is not going anywhere. It is
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going to continue to grow. And so having them to
come to our camp this summer and exposing our young people,
they are getting a head start so to speak. Yes, yeah, so, and.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
It's also pastor Nina. You just heard Nina, this is
an excellent way for you to have a career and
make some money.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Absolutely.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
I even have some friends that are trying to start
up their own like retail, just just simple taking pictures
of houses, doing inspections. So it's it's money out there
definitely to be made. There's it's not just a toy,
it's it's technology as well. So it's a lot of
things you can cap have to make from a drone.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
What about Nina, Uh, you know you can have a drone,
but what about being in the business of making one?
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Oh yeah, what tell me about that?
Speaker 8 (28:10):
I mean, yeah, yeah, so making a drone, there are
a lot of like drone manufacturing things of that nature.
But you can also make like a maybe like a
three D build of a drone, so just a very
inexpensive you can three D print something, put the wires
in there, very inexpensive.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
That's just one example of something you can do.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
So you mentioned when you mentioned real estate, So that's
one of the things.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I'm sure that realatures and the and the count and
the government, you know, because so when I go on
and look online, look about my property, So how did
they get this picture of my house? And and they
can tell you if you added on to your house
and you didn't do it legally. So that's the drones
looking at the.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Photos.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
And as recently as you said that with this technology,
police can get those criminals.
Speaker 7 (29:04):
Now, yeah, not only can they get the criminals, but
they can also find the babies that may be lost
in the woods. With this infrared technology, night vision and
the technology that's available for that. It definitely saves a
lot of time going forward, you know. And it's just here,
and i'd like to talk about the career opportunities, particularly
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when it comes to manufacturing drones or parts of drones.
I mean, we may have a listener out there right
now that has a student or grandchild that is really
good with their hands, and they can create a way
to have the battery life extended because that's a deficiency
within the space drones. Generally, the batteries operate anywhere from
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fifteen to thirty minutes, and of course many pilots use
multiple batteries in order to get the work completed. But
someone can come up with a battery that lasts as
much as forty five minutes or an hour will be
game changing for their lives. So, yes, a lot of
goodness in this space. Yes, drones have been around for
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a while, but it's still very new.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
It's still very new. It's not too late.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
So Larisa at Camp LID and you and Nina, So
you're going to start with the students kind of telling
them the basic of drones.
Speaker 7 (30:27):
Yes, so tomorrow will be our first day out there,
and what we will be doing is we're going to
just introduce them to the space of aerrow technology because
this is a STEM program, so they get the benefit
of having that under their resume, if you will, you know,
a STEM program. But we're going to introduce them to
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not only the drones, but help them to understand the
end result that we're trying to get them to and
that is the career opportunity. But we're going to teach
them the parts of a drone, Howard flies, they will
learn about various clouds, They're gonna understand airspace. They actually
would be even creating a drone using art therapy and yes,
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art therapy and Mount Vernon has an incredible computer lab,
so they will have access to their own computer. They
have their own drones that they're working with. We're not
using images and books to teach them. They're actually hands
on experience, hands on absolutely wow, hands.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
On the pastor you're gonna sit in?
Speaker 5 (31:38):
No, I think I might sit in so I can
get FAA certified on drone.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
You know what, because this sounds exciting. I'm really exciting that.
But let me ask this to you. Have you ever thought, Luisa.
I know you wanted young people, but what about older
people who may be interested in and people may be
looking for another career.
Speaker 7 (32:00):
Where I'm here to tell you I'm leading by example. Okay,
so I just got my license up two years ago.
It was not my plan to do that, but you
know how God does things has put us in positions
where we need to be able to do his work
and I love working with children and.
Speaker 6 (32:18):
The rest is history.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
Yeah, so I definitely encourage and I want to make
sure that people understand. Even if you say, oh, I
got a drone, I fly drone, do know the federal
government mandates drone. They mandate the airspace. So you can't
just fly your drone because you want to fly your drone.
As an FAA pilot, we get to fly in restricted
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areas along with unrestricted airspaces. So if you have a
drone and you know how to fly your drone, and
even if you start charging making money and you don't
have your license, that's illegal. You can actually get jail
time and find for that.
Speaker 3 (32:58):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (32:58):
Yeah, and being in the airspace and then there's only
you know, you get to learn how high up you
can go and the different air spaces and yeah, it's
an exciting something very new. I like new and fresh
all the time. So yeah, drone is really keeping me
moving forward.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
We are talking this day, we are talking about the
Westwood Youth Development but Camp Lit that is happening now
starting today at Mount Vernon Baptist Church. My guest pastor
Melvin D. Watkins Junior is here. Larsa Robertson is here,
Miss Nina Shack. If you have a question or two
or more about the camp, get in where you fit
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in before they get out of here. Five three, five,
nine three four two is our number. Eight hundred and
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Speaker 9 (34:36):
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Speaker 5 (34:39):
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Speaker 3 (34:42):
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Speaker 1 (34:45):
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Speaker 2 (34:48):
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Speaker 1 (34:53):
Enough the josing So the girl got here, welcome back.
I am talking this day with Pastor Melvin. Do you
walkome to Junior the pastor Senior Pastor of Mount Vernon
Baptist Church, Westwood.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
LARSA.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Robinson is here. We're talking drone technology, Miss Nina Shack.
We're talking about Camp lit that is going on starting
today at Mount Vernon. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to
our phone lines to talk with Nancy. Hi.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Nancy, Hi, how you are doing doing well? Nancy?
Speaker 5 (35:31):
How are you?
Speaker 10 (35:32):
I'm good?
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Thanks for asking.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
I was charling.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
I got in kind of at the end of it.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
And what is the age limit to go to the
program that you have for the drones?
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Thank you miss Nancy for that question. Our ages are
eleven through fifteen or rising sixth graders through rising ninth graders.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
And what time of the day The time back in.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
The morning, yes, ma'am. From nine am to two pm
Monday through Thursday.
Speaker 10 (36:02):
Okay, it's it too late to register, No, ma'am, it's
not too late.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
What I would like for you to do if you
have access to the internet and can go on our website.
If you can do that, I can give you the
website right now and for those who might be listening
with the same question, and that is www mt dash
vernon V E R N O N dot org. And
(36:26):
then you just go to camp camp lit camp Registration
and you click that and you can register and then
that will alert us to contact you, or you can
call directly at nine oh one seven eighty five one
six one two and we'll take it from there. Okay.
Speaker 7 (36:49):
And what is the I know you said it's from
nine am to two pm?
Speaker 10 (36:55):
Is lunch?
Speaker 7 (36:56):
Do you all serve them lunch or they have to
bring their lunch?
Speaker 5 (36:59):
We serve them lunch. We serve them lunch every day.
There is no charge to attend the camp. They will
only have to pay for our field trips. We go
on the field trip every Thursday, but we have breakfasts,
we have lunch, and everything that we provide is no charge.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (37:18):
And is it that your church, Mount Vernon.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
Yes, ma'am, it said Mount Vernon, and Mount Vernon is
located at six twenty Park Roads Road in the heart
of Westwood, Tennessee.
Speaker 9 (37:30):
Okay, thank you, I appreciate you for that.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Thank you, Thank you Nancy for listening. Oh that's good,
You're welcome. Oh I love that, Pastor.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
They get lunch, yep, get a little breakfast and then
you all do field trip.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Field trips every Thursday. And this Thursday they're going to
the Escape Room. So that's they love that escape.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
What is the escape?
Speaker 5 (37:51):
So the escape room is you go into these different
rooms and you have to try to get out of
the room. You're locked in the room and you and
your team have to figure out out how to get
out different puzzles and mind teasers, brain teasers, stuff and
get out.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Okay, So that is at a particular place.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
I think this year they're going to the Memphis. I
think it's a Memphis escape room.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Okay, okay, okay, but they.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Have several escape rooms here in the city and I'm
not sure.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
But every Thursday you all take them on to some
kind of field.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
They learned something that this year that we're going out
of town, going to farm and you know, they're doing
a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Okay, oh that's good. Yeah, okay, man, I like that.
Keep them involved, keep.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Them involved, keep them busy, out and out of trouble.
And it's safe.
Speaker 3 (38:40):
It's safe.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
Yes, yes, I love that. I love that.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
And so when we're talking and I want to get
back over to Nina, so talking with the drone that
you're all going to be teaching and everything, and you're
going to be telling them more about that and about
your company.
Speaker 8 (38:57):
Yes, So I'm going to be UHC is going to
be doing the intrus. I'm just gonna be uh kind
of really just introducing them bo my personal experience and
things of that nature.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Good and probably gonna put it in when they think
they're thinking about college.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Exactly, just put a little bug in their air.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
Yeah, that's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
And I'm so glad to see one of the things pastes.
You know young black women in this field? Oh my goodness, yes, yeah, yeah,
are a lot of women going into this field.
Speaker 8 (39:29):
So uh, not particularly that I saw in college. There
was one other woman, but she was not a woman
of color. But I'm seeing more than what I was
seeing a couple of years ago. So there's definitely more
women in general. I'm not seeing a lot of me,
but it's it's we're there, we're there.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
But but but it is something to think about and
that thing that you can make money with. Yes, oh
good well, congratulations you you yeah, you and I hope
you you know big and better things. I know because this,
like you said, this is technology. I was thinking, past
I was laughing at you. You say, we're just thinking
the next two or three years. But uh, I'm probably
(40:10):
a little a little older than you passed. You're probably
under me.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
You're p y t. But I laugh and I think
about because I don't know Nina might now know this.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
When we were growing up, remember recently, when we would
look at the cartoon the Jetsons, and we saw all
that stuff that's.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
Here, that's here, now, oh, that's there, the root that's here.
Speaker 6 (40:34):
Yeah, for real, for real, for real, for real.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Yes, and you don't know anything about Jesson, do you
need to see?
Speaker 1 (40:43):
It was a It was a cartoon, but it was
a cartoon about they lived the space and they had
the rockets and they had the robots and everything was.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
Yeah, I don't know, maybe old school.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
I'm old school, but Recie, I think about that.
Speaker 7 (41:01):
And that's here now, Yes it is, and I can
even I'm because I'm a serial entrepreneur.
Speaker 6 (41:08):
I'm always thinking about what's next.
Speaker 7 (41:10):
So in this drone space, yes, meeting that people think
about being able to take pictures and video, you know,
creating reels, utilizing drones. But I like to think about
the other side of that, what else can happen. Can
we build a company that's delivering Walmart items to the store.
(41:32):
Can we be in competition with door dash, you know,
utilizing drones. What about helping the hospitals out delivering medication
or even food for Chick fil A? So beyond the
sky is the limit with this piece, And I just
like to really reiterate that because it's important that people
think outside of a concentrated minute space and just go
(41:55):
for the biggest piece. And if you go for the
biggest piece, you're gonna land somewhere were in between.
Speaker 1 (42:00):
Yeah, I was gonna ask you y all before you
get out here. You see, so you all will be
teaching this. Will you all be doing this every day
or the whole through the camp.
Speaker 7 (42:11):
Or so that's a great question. We will be there
on Tuesdays from ten to twelve. As for the program,
Nina is not an instructor. I'm the coach the for
the program. I'm also a STEM master STEM instructor. So
we get a chance to be there. And Nina's coming
back for the finale, which is going to be July
(42:32):
to seventeenth, just to see what the babies have done,
because she has a passion for children and she wants
to make sure that she's there on the first day,
which is why Nina will be there tomorrow. We're gonna
actually do a demonstration with our drones. We're gonna use
what we call enterprise drone. I have a drone that's
about thirty five hundred dollars, but we're gonna bring that
(42:53):
into the school tomorrow so they can see drones range
from they cost that much. Well, you can get a
very basic one just for the purpose of having a
drone for as little as fifty dollars, but they go
up into millions of dollars. Yeah. The drone that Nina's
company was that work used when they're doing their work,
(43:15):
costs two hundred thousand dollars and they have several of them.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (43:19):
Yeah, so it's a big liability with the drone piece,
so they range.
Speaker 5 (43:25):
Wow, that's good. Let me also save. Our camp runs
for six weeks from June to ninth through July the seventeenth.
I didn't indicate that at first, but it is a
six week program, okay, And the drone program, in addition
to other programs, will be weekly.
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (43:42):
We have financial literacy, and we have other things conflict resolutions.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
Oh, I love that.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
And they are also learning how to do sheet rock
and paint and all right. Then they're going out into
the community of plant flowers and clean up in the neighborhood.
There's a lot of things, but the drone is our starship.
Speaker 3 (44:01):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (44:02):
The drone is a shining star of what we're doing,
and that's happening weekly. But all these other classes are
happening weekly as well, from June and ninth through July
to seventeenth.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 7 (44:13):
And when I talk about quality programming, Mount Vernon definitely
has that in place along with all those other programs
that he just mentioned.
Speaker 6 (44:20):
I mean sheep rocking.
Speaker 7 (44:22):
Come on, now, where are you going to go in
the summer program and learn how to do some sheet
rock exactly? And when I talk about discipline and on
time and on focus, on task and on focus, I
experienced that just last year because we had a program
with fifty students receiving the drone as a part of
the camp last year.
Speaker 3 (44:40):
So fabulous.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
Yeah, he's doing good stuff.
Speaker 1 (44:43):
As we get ready to wrap up our pull the
mic over to Nina and Nina last word you like
to say?
Speaker 3 (44:48):
And again tell us again about your company.
Speaker 4 (44:51):
Yes, I worked for air Velocity.
Speaker 8 (44:53):
But one thing I just want to say, if there's
like any kids out there that are interested in the
drone space, stick with it. Just do some research, see
what top of opportunities there are with you connect with people,
and then if you want, you can look me up,
Nina Shak you can reach out to me, all right?
Speaker 3 (45:11):
How can they look you up? You're on social media?
Speaker 4 (45:13):
Yes you can. My professional platform I have LinkedIn. That'd
be my method.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Okay, all right, good my girl, my sister fred missus,
Loresa Robertson.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
I've learned a lot about you today. You have you
have really grown. Yes, I'm just getting started. Ball Yeah,
last words you'd like to say, Loresa.
Speaker 7 (45:35):
So I just want to encourage everybody to allow God
to lead your heart. And if you have purchased a
drone in the past and that drone got caught in
a tree and that just discouraged you and you just
put that drone away or never could get it out
the tree, go and buy another drone. Reach out to
Mount Vernon and see if there's something you can do
to help volunteer take participate in the class, and go
(45:59):
into your community.
Speaker 6 (46:00):
If you're not in Westwood, go into your community and.
Speaker 7 (46:04):
Ask your leaders if they can bring some drone technology
into your space and they can pattern, you know, model
Mount Vernon's lit Camp program. Yes, thank you again, Beth
Johnson for allowing us to share with your listening audience
about the importance of the work that's being done through
Mount Vernon and how important it is to consider drone
(46:26):
technology as a career.
Speaker 3 (46:28):
I love it.
Speaker 5 (46:28):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
And as we last, but not least, the illustrious.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
I want you to.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
I want you to introduce me, Yes, the illustrious senior
pasture about Vernon Baptist Church, Wood Pastep Melby Deep Wockett.
Speaker 5 (46:50):
Well, thank you, And as has already been stated, we
have a wonderful camp this summer and you have an
open imitation to come and take advantage of it, whether
you live in Westwood or beyond Westwood, if you want
to make your way down to the three A one
oh nine, Mount Vernon's doors are open. Mount Vernon is
a place where Jesus is Lord, everyone is loved, and
(47:12):
no one stands alone. And at this camp Lip camp Let,
we most certainly try to embody that and show our
young people that they are loved, welcome, wanted, appreciate it,
and their futures are bright and we want to help
them to obtain everything God has in store for them.
Speaker 3 (47:30):
I love it. I have to ask you this question. Yeah,
it is my mayor still your still one of your members?
Speaker 5 (47:36):
Yes, you know, and we love him.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
Yes, that's my mayor all time.
Speaker 5 (47:46):
Mine too, he's still there, Superintendent Mayor. Yeah, what hey,
And I'm telling you something. I'm glad you brought that up. Okay,
I was talking to a lot of our young people.
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (47:56):
You talked about how we have the discipline and everything
with some of the ones who, in turn, we spend
a week or two getting them ready and talking to
them about this and that. And a lot of the kids,
we talked to them. We have a space in our church,
legacy wall, Legacy Hall, and doctor Harrington's pictures there. Okay,
and we said, do y'all know who that is? Six seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth,
(48:20):
greatest twelfth graders. I said, no, what, And so that
means that we have young people. Said you don't when
were you born two thousand and seven, twenty ten? I said,
you don't know our first African American mayor hurt the name,
But I really don't know. So we have some work
to do.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
We had a whole lot of work to.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
Teach our young people their history. Yes, so some of
them are right here in Memphis and they don't know
their own history. These are some of the things that
are driving us to do what we do. Wow.
Speaker 3 (48:55):
Yeah, I'm glad you shared that because that lets us know.
Speaker 5 (48:59):
They don't No, they don't know, they don't know, and
this is recent history exactly.
Speaker 3 (49:05):
We're not talking about about the fifties, forties.
Speaker 5 (49:07):
And recent history. Yeah yeah, wow. You see, some of
them have never they have never known Memphis to have
a mayor other than a mayor of color. They've never
seen that. Wow, when they were born a mayor, whether
it was in Harton or otherwise, they don't know about
(49:30):
anything prior to that. Gotcha, And so we have to
help them understand our own history.
Speaker 3 (49:35):
We'll keep on helping them.
Speaker 1 (49:36):
Yeah yeah, I think you all gonna do a wonderful
I love the drone ideas we said, y'all keep doing well,
that's fabulous.
Speaker 3 (49:42):
I might have to give you and you and over
to my church and help these young poots.
Speaker 7 (49:47):
Oh yeah, Ball, we're gonna get you certified as a pilot.
Yeah yeah, you can show them Ball that it's real.
Speaker 6 (49:55):
It's for everybody. Okay, nobody's exempt.
Speaker 1 (49:58):
Thank y'all for being here. You have and fabulous gifts,
good information. I appreciate it. Can y'all be safe out there.
Speaker 5 (50:05):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (50:07):
When we come back.
Speaker 1 (50:08):
More a chit chat as we go to the other
side of the BEV Johnson Show right here on dou
W d IA.
Speaker 10 (50:18):
Whether you're in Arkansas, Tennessee, or Mississippi on Facebook, Twitter,
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