Executive Producer

Robert A. Compton

Directed by

Chad Heeter

Produced by

Adam Raney
Chad Heeter

Cast (in alphabetical order)

Students
Neil Ahrendt
Brittany Brechbuhl
Rohit Sridharan
Apoorva Uppala
Jin Ruizhang
Hu Xiaoyuan

Commentators
Tim Draper
Richard B. Freeman
Bart Gordon
Shirley Ann Jackson
Vivek Paul
Robert Reich
Vivien Stewart
Vivek Wadhwa

Co-Producers

David Kerr
Suresh Murthy
Emily Styron

Associate Producers

Patrick Farrell
Xiaoli Zhou
Nalini Rathnam

Cinematography by

Ferne Pearlstein
Patrick Farrell
Brent Huffman
Thomas Zimmerman
Chad Heeter

Original Music by

Eric Lindsay
Robert Ernest Hawes

Motion Graphics by

Jonah Tobias

Edited by

Chad Heeter

Additional Editing

Johanna Demetrakas

Written by

Adam Raney

Concept by

Robert A. Compton

Sound Recordists

John Blankenship
Neel Chattopadhya
Don Scales
JohnToffolo

Additional Camera, Interviews

Glen Kantziper
Dan Krauss
Jeremy Leach
Jerome Noonan
Nate Savidge
Roger Sorkin

Website designer

Eric Troyer

Researchers

Claire Miller
Rebecca Ruiz

Transcripts

Chloe Bystrom
Neel Chattopadhya
Datti Chattopadhya
Xiaoli Zhou
Xihua Tu

Story Consultants

Fernanda Rossi
Carrie Lozano
Kim Roberts
Shirley Thompson

Motion Graphics Interns

Skylar Anderson
Qing Zhao
Justin Evans

Special Thanks

Sanjay Menon
Jufei Wang
Nancy Grasmick
Rachel Raney
Jan Sutcliffe
Janice Compton
Neelam Chand
Elizabeth Heeter
Julie Kerr
Diana Ferrero
Jon Else
Sharon Tiller
Carmel High School Faculty, Staff and Students
St. Paul's English School Faculty, Staff and Students
Shanghai Nanyang Model High School Faculty, Staff and Students
John Williams
Dave Bardos
Lee Lonzo
Carolyn Raney
Milt Wallace
Jason Marsh
Sachi Cunningham
Dustin Sapp
The Ahrendt Family
The Brechbuhl Family
The Sridharan Family
The Uppala Family
The Jin Family
The Hu Family