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Roadtrip Nation- Santa Ana WORK Center Roadtrip Nation Background: Roadtrip Nation is an independent organization that empowers students to define their own roads in life through resources such as its annual PBS television series, live campus events, nationally- publicized books, multi-media online content and an innovative educational curriculum. Its roots go back to 2001 when recent grads Mike Marriner, Brian McAllister and Nathan Gebhard decided to take a roadtrip in hopes of discovering their place in the world. The idea for the roadtrip was simple: if you don't know what to do with your life, go out and talk to people who are doing what they love and ask them how they got there. The trio hit the road in a mechanically unsound green RV, and three months and 17,000 miles later had interviewed an eclectic group of 85 individuals including the chairman of Starbucks, the scientist who decoded the human genome, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a lobsterman from Maine, the director of Saturday Night Live, activists, photographers, mechanics and over 77 others who connected their passions with their work to live out meaningful lives. Their trip was chronicled in Forbes Magazine, which resulted in a book deal with Random House and eventual coverage through NBC's Today Show, CBS's Early Show, Carson Daily Show, CNN News, BBC News, Newsweek, Esquire and several other national media outlets that launched Roadtrip Nation on an international scale. During the publicity campaign and public speaking engagements surrounding the book launch, it became clear that rather than simply reading their book, students across the country wanted to hit the road, meet with their own list of leaders and explore the world for themselves. To meet this need, in 2003 Marriiner, McAllister, and Gebhard created Roadtrip Nation, an organization dedicated to helping students build this experience first hand and put the spirit of exploration back into the educational process. Through its "Behind the Wheel" program and its Indie-Roadtrip network, Roadtrip Nation offers financial and logistical support to enable students to hit the road and interview their own list of leaders from across the country. Roadtrip Nation has empowered more than 50,000 students to build their own roadtrip experiences, and has then shared those learnings with millions of others through multimedia content productions and events including: * Annual PBS series, broadcasted in over 80,000,000 homes (in its 9th season) * 3 nationally-released books * 100 live campus events each year * Online video content (MSN, PBS.org, Current TV, www.roadtripnation.com) * The Roadtrip Nation Experience educational curriculum Roadtrip Nation's recent extension into academia, a non-profit educational organization called RoadtripNation.org, develops curriculum and resources to help at-risk high school students in disadvantaged communities gain access and exposure to life pathways that they may have otherwise not known existed. The Roadtrip Nation Experience connects those students to the vast Roadtrip Nation Interview Archive, which has been built over the last seven years by students EXHIBIT A svI-115212 2 to