[laughs]

And they were like, "Oh yeah, Mahmoud could do it." And so I like to say they were desperate, and I happened to be available.

[chuckles] And I started teaching an introductory data science course with R and Python.

And at that time, they were developing this model because their theory is we want all students across the campus to experience a taste of data science in a variety of ways in a project-based course.

And if they like it, then they can do more.

And if they don't like it, it was a fun experience for them, hopefully.

And the ADAPT model has three parts, and really the two most important to me are the project-based learning and the 10 common learning elements.

[laughs]