So, what a great honor for these two. We wanted to recognize their achievements. Congratulations. Am I done now for real? Okay. Yes, you're done. All right, next we have scholarships and we'll begin with scholarships on who is getting these awards for different various reasons. All right, we have Gallaudet Alumni Association Valley of the Sun Chapter. We have Bonnell Amon. Hi. Hello. I'm Bonnell Amon and I am a board member of the Gallaudet University Alumni Association for the Valley of the Sun Chapter that's here in Phoenix. And if you can believe it, I graduated from Gallaudet in 1970, which is how many years ago? 54 years ago. And many of you are going to Gallaudet this fall, which makes me so excited. I am here to present a scholarship to a student who really deserves it. This scholarship will help them with finances and expenses for Gallaudet in the fall.
So, Michelle said keep it short, so I'm going to try. Um this person I just I wish we had money for every single one of you nine who applied, but I have to pick one unfortunately. But this one I don't know, maybe later we'll have money, but this one student who was the winner is Ducati. Ducati, please come. You seniors should congratulate him. And please, I want to see you next year too at graduation. Congratulations. Make us all proud. We'll do. Oh wait, we need a picture. Take a picture of me. Mary Ann, I don't know your password. Hang on. All right, thank you, tech guru. Thank you, thank you. All right, next we'll have the Delta Zeta Phoenix alumni. And we have Natalie Scha- Shade and Lorna Green. Hi. I'm Natalie with Delta Zeta Alumni Group here in Phoenix. And we've been giving scholarships to Phoenix School for the Deaf um since you all started doing that in the '80s.
Um we had so many applicants this year. We were so excited. We're able to award five scholarships this year. So, they're $1,000 each and be able to use those at the university you're attending, a trade school, any type of further education. Um and the money's we raise come from our alumni group and they come from our college campus here at ASU with a Delta Zeta there. They raise money for us to um give to speech and hearing, which is our philanthropy. So, um it's my honor to present the scholarships and I'll call your names out. Silva. I don't know how to say your last name. The second one goes to Pearl Williams. The third one goes to Sarah Duncan. Our fourth scholarship goes to Arhelia Rojas. And the final one goes to Sophia Twanken. CONGRATULATIONS AND THERE'S instructions in the envelope on how to redeem your scholarships.
So. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. I'm going to take a picture. Can we get a picture? Okay. Get up a little bit. All right. Congrat- I'm so proud I'm so proud. Yes. Absolutely proud of all of them. All right, next we have Phoenix Deaf Women Organization, Kathy Say. Before I speak, I do want to say congratulations to all of our seniors. It's such an exciting time. You're starting your new journeys. I'm here representing Phoenix Deaf Women's Organization. My name is Kathy Say. I am the chair of that organization. We call it PDWO. We've been in established for 32 years, so that's a long time. PDWO focuses on supporting women in their education, in having fun. We host workshops and lots of activities and games. As a board, we discussed and it was a tough decision because we had so many awesome applicants this year. We have chosen five for this year and after much deliberation, we picked two winners.
Um and again, all five applicants, congratulations. You guys were so amazing, but we could only pick two. First is Sophia Tonkin. Second is Pearl Williams. Your certificates are right there. Ladies, we will I will do want a picture with you, but also here are your envelopes. Keep that. Congratulations to both of you. Thank you. Thank you. After we're done, I'll reach out to you and we'll follow up, okay? We'll chat, but first picture. Wait, wait, wait. Can we do one more? We want to do one more. Never mind, never mind, never mind. Too late. The moment's over. There she went. All right. I know um the Optimist Club just finished and we know who won. It was Sandrine, but she's not here today, but I did wanted to show you how proud we are of her with this beautiful plaque that we had gifted her.
Yeah, and $2,500. Yep, a $2,500 scholarship to apply that will apply to Gallaudet. Wow. Wow, that was a lot of hard work. Every year we have Optimist Club competitions. Please, if you haven't done it come What are you waiting for? Come on. Yes, we will gift it Indio to bring home. I'll wait for Yeah, if you can give that to Indio if Oh, or Natalie, if you can pick that up, please. All right, now let's do the special applaud. Are you guys ready? Ready? Clap, clap, clap. Okay. Now we'll have Matt with John. I'm looking up and I see how far the top of the mountain is. Oh, those three students, who are they? I don't know. These students started here and they've reached and they climbed to the top of this mountain for math, this math mountain. Who are those three students that got the math um accolades and survived that mountain climbing all the way up.
And those three students as they journeyed up, it's not easy. It was a challenge. They struggled. A lot of patience and perseverance. And it's not only with academics. There's other barriers as well with social and in their life that came at them. The snow, just trekking through that those challenges and as they're carefully going up to the top. Reaching that top mountain, these three students are They've worked really well in math class. So, they've done well in gaining their skills with uh assessments and showing their work. Those accomplishments are for these three students. Ada Marice Leslie and Arhelia. Are you guys ready? Thank you guys so much. You may be seated. All right. We will have Caleb and Trish next for English. So this student is just an expert author. Every single day this student impressed me with their word choices, with their knowledge of vocabulary, and also with their love for editing their writing.
So I decided to award Miracle. Congratulations. Oh, you're going to stay? Okay. This is my first time, guys. I've never seen this before. Okay. This next student impressed me when I would assign them a creative writing task. I require three paragraphs, but this student would write this intense story every time. I loved the characters they wrote, and not only fictional stories, but also non-fiction, too. This student is Genesis. That's our future author award. This next student every day asked me such good questions and is just a curious person. Wants to know everything about the world. When I assigned short stories, this student wanted to do more reading about that topic. So, I'm awarding them the wonder award. And that is Francesco Yousef. Congratulations. Let's do our chant. Get back up. Get back up. We all need a picture. For your dad. He wants to see it.
Okay. Hi, this is my first Oh, my first award is for the student that is excellent when they come in. They get to work. They meet my expectation. And this first award is for most excellent in English. It is Phoenix. Next, we have one student who is very very focused and determined to learn. They practice at home, they work really hard, and they're always they're just always working hard. This person is Sarah. The last award I have is for this senior that is very very kind. Always is sweet, supportive of other people. He's willing to do anything. This student is Max. Wait. Are you ready? I have it ready. Oop, our chant. Don't forget our chant. Next we have Mary Ann. Hello everyone. Oh my gosh, I wish I could give an award to everyone. All of you have worked so hard and are so very deserving.
But I could only pick, well, one per award. I have three awards, though. Um this one is one who is always so impressive. This student was not always happy in my class, was overwhelmed because it was hard, and would sometimes go to the principal and say, "I need tutoring. Maybe I need to withdraw from Mary Ann's financial literacy class. It's too much." But that student and I worked together, and finally can you believe it? That student has an A in class and is my overachiever award, and wants more work, and is not satisfied with the work I'm giving her in class. This student is phenomenal, and I am so proud of Angel Ye. Angel, where is is Angel? Oh. Okay, I'll make sure she gets that, yeah. For you. I'm so happy you stayed in my class. This award is for our self-starter. And that But I want it to be next to Angel so she can see me.
See, okay. So, this is a self-starter award. This person is really amazing. They show up to class. They know as a senior what they want to do as far as applying for colleges. She's the first person who started the application process for college and only need a little bit of my help and really threw me for a loop than all the other students saw, "Oh my gosh, she's already applied for it." And then she started the domino effect. And that is Sarah Duncan. Okay. This next award goes to my most outstanding student. This student was phenomenal. Would get to class and start working right away and was focused on completing all of her work. Doesn't like to miss any deadlines. And if they thought they might miss a deadline, I would ask, "Can I do this at home?" And I would say, "Of course, sure." Was always happy in my class and we saw so much growth this year for communication.
Before it was hard and now we have this two-way communication that's so impressive. And that is Leslie. Leslie Aguilar. Congratulations. Come stand here for a photo. Okay, we're going to take a picture. Look over here. Thank you. Next we'll have Emma. Come on up, Emma. Okay. This year my theme was important for people to be in history {slash} world history. One of my English classes, one is for social studies. So, first do you guys know who Pete Conrad is? Do you know Pete Conrad? He is the astronaut from the Apollo 12. He was the captain. This man took it very seriously. He was a comedian He was a comedian. He would always joke a lot. And people would look at him and say, "You're in an You're you're You're in a rocket. You're you're an astronaut. Take it serious." So, he has a high award.
He was a high-rank in the Navy. He had many many awards. Um with NASA, he developed a lot of different programs. And people would same hesitant because he was very loud and very social. However, he really made an impact. And the same thing with this student on the senior club for the senior class. Now, I want to recognize Louise. Okay, this next award is for another comedian. Do you guys know who Harpo Marx is? He's an old guy. I know. I get it. You probably never seen it cuz he's old. It's black and white films. But, movie with his brother, they would It was silent film. There was no talking. He would be the only one that didn't speak. He would do gestures. He would have different costumes and different jackets. He was super funny, but he you can depend on him. In a situation, there was a meet a moment where they needed something and he always was prepared.
He would make people feel included, make people happy. He was a good person and it made things interesting. Make people pay attention more and laugh, which is most important. And this is another senior. I'm sorry, my freshman, junior, and senior or sophomores, but it is Travis. And if you haven't watched the movie, that is your homework to go and watch this Harpo Marx movie. All right, this is for my English class and I'm sorry to the interpreters. I do not know how to pronounce this name. It's very hard, but it is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Do you guys know who that is? It's a really good author. Their work is amazing. The themes with feminism, with different cultures, supporting each other, supporting other people. This person, wow, they really made an impact on their community. Um it was a big part of their country to become very famous.
And this person is on the top of the game. It's another senior and this is for Pearl. It's uh you should watch her TED Talk. That is your homework as well to watch this her TED Talk. To watch her TED Talk and see this amazing person. I wish I could give out more, but that is all the awards I have to give today. Congratulations. Now, our Ed Options Facilitators. No awards, but I did want to make a comment. This was my first time facilitating our online classes, and math is not my strong suit. I'll tell you that. But, I kept a positive attitude and kept going, and I'm so impressed with all of you who took online offerings. It's not easy. There's a lot of research, a lot of background knowledge, and so I wanted to applaud those of you who kept going and persevered.
I'm really proud of you. I just wanted to say that. Right. It was wonderful to have a team for Ed Options, right? But, first we have to thank our teachers and those who are not teaching the class that they want to, but are willing to work with us online, and those who helped last semester. You started this to grow, and then this semester we were able to just enjoy working with all of you. And I'm sure that you all have decided to climb the mountain, too, right? I can't make you climb. You have to decide to set the goal of finishing your courses and getting your credits, and doing everything that you need to do in order to meet those requirements for graduation in a single semester. I have to applaud you. Those of you who took Ed Options online classes, you should put pat yourselves on the back, not me.
Congratulations and thank you. All right, Jessica. Hi everyone, I'm Jessica. I teach DVE DVE and digital journalism. First, I want to focus on these two students for the yearbook. This first student I saw their work and their progress with photos. And wow, I wish I could start earlier with them, but it's never too late and you can continue next year and you can ask me to use the camera. And that person is Giselle. Giselle. I wish I could give more awards to all of my students, but again, this was a small group this year for the yearbook. This next student, wow, all year they were creative from beginning until now. And this is called the layout design award. This one this student did a different a creative designs for the yearbook. And this award goes to Genesis. All right. Now, this was for digital video editing and now we're going to digital editing.
editing. So, we have a small a small group of students that joined us and now I was able to pick this one particular student that helped me with a project called plumbing video. And as we were hurrying to rushing to get this edited, this person persevered. This goes to Giselle. All right, you ready? Oh, we're going to take a picture. All right, let's do our chant. Ready? Come on. Bye. All right, next up is our PE. We've got Scott and Michael. Hi, my name's Scott and I'm a PE teacher. Mike's not here, he had to teach class, but he asked me if I would present everything and I said, "Okay." So, we had to filter out everyone cuz PE is tough. It's tough to pick awards for PE, but I picked five. The first PE award is for the physical education award. Um someone who knows all of the terminology, can take a test, and usually I give out tests and they're like, wait, what?
But really study and they know and they memorize all of the important words, right? We know that physical education is important. Without this knowledge, how would you apply it to the real world? So anyways, this award goes to Joseph Trent. Okay. This next award is called the best all around PE award. Best all around means that they have great behavior. They're committed. They work hard. There's no challenges. They are happy to work and they do what they need to do to learn and listen and make good progress. This requires a lot of that person. This person, when I call everyone, let's get ready to go, they're the first one there and ready to learn. I never have to ask this person to focus. That person's always on time. And that is Genesis. See how she ran? She's so fast, you guys. This next award is another all around in phys ed for a boy.
This person is so high achieving. He's got the most energy. He reminds me of me when I was a boy. And as I've grown up, I have less energy, but being around him, I have more energy thanks to him. He loves PE. He's excited. He always brings his uniform. He works hard. He's committed. This is I mean one time during PE he fell and broke his face and even with blood on his face was like I'm still going to play and we were so impressed with that person and that's Koutou. We've got three awards. We've got two left. These two are the refuse to give up in PE. That means that this person wasn't crazy about PE. Wasn't really their thing. I don't know maybe but seemed like it. This but this person refused to give up and made it work. And me and Michael taught those movement skills and we learned how to move around and that person is Leslie Aguilar.