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KYLE KEANE: So my rant--

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not rant.

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I keep using the
word rant today.

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My pitch about that is that
some people view creativity

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as everything they do
has to be totally unique

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and they need to think
of it all on their own.

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Otherwise, it's not that
cool and they shouldn't

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be proud of what they did.

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And a lot of creativity
happens by taking something

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that somebody else has done,
following what they've done,

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and then making a
small adjustment,

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and then making another
small adjustment.

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And then suddenly,
you have something

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that does something
different, that

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is unique, that
you made yourself.

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And that is creative.

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There's nothing wrong with
taking something, learning

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how somebody else did
it, modifying it to suit

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your needs.

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That is part of the
creative process.

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And a lot of times,
it's the biggest part

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of the creative process for a
lot of different disciplines.

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It's like science
is built on that.

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You have to do a bunch
of stuff, and then

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make a small modification,
because that's

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what you're able to do.

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And then you publish that and
somebody else does everything,

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does what you did,
and then makes

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another small modification.

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We have a tendency
to hold up heroes,

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like Tesla or Einstein
or great inventors, who

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did these amazing things,
despite no one else

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ever having had that thought.

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And that's just never the case.

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There's always a
history of scientists

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or a history of
artists or history

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of people who laid a foundation
that these people were trained

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and learned how to do
what other people had done

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and then they make
small modifications.

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So these first two
days are that process.

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We have taken the
Roll-a-Ball ball tutorial

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and we've just followed along
and we've talked to our friends

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about it.

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And we asked each other
to do small modifications,

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like add new balls.

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What does that mean?

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Can you please help
me do this thing?

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And today, we're
going to take it

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and we're going to modify it.

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And somebody did a really
cool thing-- or started to--

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yesterday.

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So they tried to take the
ball and turn it into an egg.

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And I think that's
the perfect example

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of taking something that's
built and being like, what can I

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do to tweak this to make it
kind of fun and different?

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And so turning the ball
into an egg is a great one.

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When I first did
this, I took the ball

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and I turned it into 25 small
balls that were all talking

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to each other via gravity.

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So instead of just having one
ball roll around the rink,

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I had 25 small balls that were
all attracted to each other

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by gravity, and so
they would roll around

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and when they would hit the wall
they would go [SOUND EFFECT],,

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and they would
kind of spread out

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and then come back
together and clump up,

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because they wanted
to be near each other.

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So that's some small
modification of Roll-a-Ball.

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And the reason you do
small modifications

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is to make sure
that you understand

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all the fundamental pieces of
what's happening, because unity

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is this system that has objects
and has a file hierarchy

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and that has the
methods that you put on

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to things, like scripts
that you attach to objects,

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and then you can apply coloring
and textures to the objects.

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And there's all these
parts moving around.

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And by making small
modifications,

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you actually understand
if you understand.

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If you can't modify
something, then there's

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some fundamental
internal representation

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of what's happening that needs
to be worked out a little bit

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more, probably by
talking to some friends

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while you're sitting
inside of a room like this.

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This is a great place to learn.

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So that's my pitch as to why we
have structured the first two

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days in this way.

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And then tomorrow,
you'll be kind of left

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to come up with your own
idea and try to do a two day,

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I've come up with
my own idea and I've

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tried to get some people to work
on it with me type of thing.

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And we'll do a small version of
that type of creativity, which

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is I'm drawing inspiration
not from a tutorial,

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but from out in
the world, and I'm

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trying to combine
it with the stuff

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that I learned
from the tutorial.

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So there's this whole--

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I kind of sat and thought about
how to structure this thing,

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and I want to share that.

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Because I believe kind
of knowing an approach

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to education often
empowers people

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to use it more effectively.