So like you know uh you know coronary disease you know high blood pressure uh things like diabetes those are all disease aging. So if you keep a person young they won't won't achieve you know they won't get those problems. Uh certainly for younger patients I guess it depends on on their issues. Certainly cancers yeah we can treat cancers in younger patients. Uh but you know I think the the real key is that you know when we're younger we have less problems. And so if we can make the person younger which we can then that is the solution. Um what is the role of artificial intelligence in cancer treatment going forward? Uh to get your 12 drugs presumably AI can identify the drugs and their interactions with each other and any uh contraindications that might be anticipated. That's correct. So, so the way things are going with this is that you would have the patient's the the AI would have all the data of the patient.
Uh he had an unbelievable ability to uplift the kids around him. Uh his ability to make kids feel bigger than they are is such an attribute to his ability to lead. Uh so there's no question uh this year's recipient is going to go on to do amazing things. And to steal his word, he's a dog. Jake Miller. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations. You're excused. Hello again. Um, I'm back to present the Heather A. Quinn Memorial Scholarship. Um, Heather was a beloved special education teacher here in the district. Um, I regard her as truly a pioneer and sadly she left us way too soon. But the award is uh intended to be given to a student who has expressed an interest in uh working with children with special needs and special education. And I know how happy Heather would be tonight as I present this award to Audrey Dan.
But the goal was when Lori and I, Lori, Mr. Lam and I sat down, we said, "We want to make sure that we start this work that we do good things, but that it doesn't end whenever Miss Lama leaves or whenever I leave or whenever Sherry leaves or Andy leaves." And the goal is to build structures that maintain this beyond the personalities, right? And one thing we are asking of the board is that for next year we're going to formally request Mr. Paris a board representative to our district collaborative team which would almost be like a a committee report where that board member would give a report at the following board meeting about what they saw at the district collaborative. The only requirement would be that these these meetings are during the day. There's only four a year. So we would need somebody that um has a flexible enough schedule that they would be able to attend four meetings during the year.
It would have their tumor DNA, their RNA, the proteins, everything that you know about the patient. You would know about the patient's gut microbiome, all that. And then the AI would analyze and then give you a recommendation of what drugs you would use in that situation. We're actually working on developing this type of thing. And then and then we're going to even take a step further where that AI analyzes the images of the patients and then and in the future we'll attach to robotics where the robotic system will then target the tumor and treat it. So then you would have a robotic system that's loaded up like an inkjet printer with all different drug options and the AI would tell it what drugs you're going to inject into the tumor. You you see the you see the difficulty with that is is our current regulatory system would require the person getting the 12 drugs for us to do literally hundreds of those patients which is impossible.
[Applause] Good evening everyone. Um, Mr. Rich Fero does send his uh regrets for not making it. um and yet again asked me again to uh do this. Maybe he'll show up next year. We'll see. Um the first award that I'm going to be giving is the Knights of Columbus uh number scholarship. Um it is honored to provide scholarships to deserving students. This student has demonstrated high school achievement, participated in co-curricular activities, and exemplified community service. This year there are two recipients. Ashley Beak and Jillian Stevens. [Applause] the grill scholarships. This year they um were able to up to four recipients. uh Tess Denalt, Grace Howard, Gabriella Illingsworth, and Jacob Miller. Good evening. I am so happy to be here to give this award tonight. Unfortunately, Tony Marcowski couldn't join me, but I'm thrilled to be able to do this on both of our behalfs. The Marowski Book Award goes to a high school senior who has participated in a minimum of 50 hours of diverse community service through St.
And I think that, you know, since Mr. Llama's decided to retire on us already and um, you know, and who knows, you know, I I was out for three months with uh with the medical issue this year. We want to make sure that this sustains beyond us and one way we do that is is getting the board involved. So, thank you guys. Really, very, very Thank you so much. [Applause] Thank you so much for that very enlightening presentation. Okay, we're going to move on to our next presentation of the night which is uh by Mr. Shahada. It's our an update to the budget presentation. Alex, I don't mind waiting. The student representative is here. Oh, is he here? Oh, okay. Mark, we'd like to invite you up. We We uh started without you before. Where is he? Oh, come on up. Good evening all. Thank you.
Now you have with the and the only way you're going to be able to do 12 drugs is with AI. Let me pick up on something Guwellyn was asking a few minutes ago which is that cancer is viewed by so many with great fear and one reason is it's associated with u surgery with uh uh very uncomfortable uh inconvenient and painful remedies. But one phrase again that's been associated with your your treatment is minimally invasive. Is that correct? Yeah, that's correct. I mean, so you know there's a few things. One, obviously we we go in with needles into the tumor. So just like you're getting a biopsy, you're but then you're injecting the medications. Uh but but clearly the the big thing is this is that we also have ways to prevent people from getting cancer because we can use some of these same medications which will actually boost the immune response and lower your risk of cancer.
Michael's Parish youth programs. And I'm so happy and honored to award the following students tonight. John Burns, Cassandra Callahan, Michaela Delorio, Ava Guile, and Delilah Martin. Congratulations [Applause] You're welcome. Good evening. My name is Celeste O'Brien and I'm with the East Long Meadow Scholarship Foundation. We uh are offering us some scholarships in the memory of Howard Moffett. I will name the names and then they can come. Michaela Delorio, Gabriella Illingsworth, Kennedy Marino, Michael Mandrella, Natalie Merrick, Jacob Miller, Dominic Saraphino, and Jillian Stevens. [Applause] Thank you. Maria Meta, a longtime resident of East Lang Meadow, passed away unexpectedly this past January. She was a very kind, generous, and giving person. She was known by many in town as the go-to seamstress who could fix anything. She always wanted to help people any way that she could. She has three children who graduated from East Long Meadow High School.
Um, as I told Mr. Jingerro in the walkway, I do not have uh anything to report. I believe Mr. Olive was here about a week ago. uh that kind of nothing has happened nothing has changed since then that's noteworthy uh Mr. Mr. Hamda personally asked me to come just so that I could potentially give my input or uh see how the budget and the proposal new proposals to the budget can and will affect the students. So he just wants to get a student's eye view uh regarding that. That is why I'm here tonight. So I appreciate it but there is nothing uh of importance to say. Thank you. Okay. Thank you Mark. Mark, can I ask you a question before you leave? We only have a couple more meetings left before you graduate high school and just like to know if you could share with us if you have made plans what and what your plans are after high school.
And so uh we we actually have study that we're doing with with Harvard where we're using some of these medications and we we we give them to the mice it makes them younger and then we try to give them cancer and they you can't give them cancer they fight it off. So this is actually like a cancer preventative. So, so in the future we want to keep people from getting cancer. But the other thing would be, you know, early detection, you know, picking up cancers by MRI, by blood test, and then treating them, right? Right. Then don't don't biopsy and then wait and then, you know, schedule patient for surgery, chemo, all that. No, you at the time of biopsy, you start the treatment then. And that's that's that's the key of a real success. Um when you uh approach a patient, you say you want to start the treatment at the time of biopsy.
It only seems fit in her in her honor to an a to award an East Long Meadow High School senior a scholarship in her memory. This individual demonstrated outstanding merit and set themselves apart from a highly competitive group of candidates. Presenting this award is Maria Meta's daughter, Lisa Nolan. This year's recipient is John Vian Idstein. [Applause] And now for the department awards. The first one is the business department award is given to a student who has excelled in the business coursework is a self-starter and has shown a strong aptitude for the various areas of the East Lime Metal High School business curriculum. This year's winner, Saram Khan. [Applause] And for the technology engineering department awards given to two students of the technology engineering department who are self-starters and consistently demonstrate a commitment to excellence and achievement in technology engineering courses. The two recipients Jenna Holly and Daniel Kersner.
Uh yes, of course. It's a great question, Mr. Roberts. So, uh Dr. Robert, rather, please. Um yes. So, uh some of you uh may already know, but I don't believe I've told the board specifically. I'm personally going to Rice University in uh Houston, Texas to study business. Um, I did receive a full scholarship for uh four years through QuestBridge. Uh, which by the way uh if anyone in this room is a parent with a student going to college in the near future uh and is low to medium income, QuestBridge is a great um scholarship that you can apply to. It's a full ride scholarship. So, I I completely strongly recommend uh anyone and everyone that is eligible to apply to that. Um, and I will likely be staying down in Houston um, after uh, I graduate. There's a lot of great opportunities there. There's a lot of energy companies.
U how you going to do that? You haven't yet got the result of the biopsy. Yeah. So well, one thing is I'll tell you that when we're biopsying, generally we know that we're biopsying something that's cancer. We can determine that by imaging. It's very rare that we would biopsy something that's not uh but but we do actually have a technology that's a cancer detecting needle. Uh so you can actually put in there will tell you it's cancer and then the other thing is that you can also biopsy at the at the time let the pathologist look at it at that moment and say okay yeah this is definitely cancer and go ahead and treat. That's there's several options on that. Uh tell us something if you would Jason about your institute. uh and how it operates, how big is it, how can people get in touch with it, and if you're diagnosed with cancer, what should you do?
[Applause] Good evening. On behalf of the English department, I'd like to present uh the English department awards. They're awarded to students who exhibit outstanding achievement in all aspects of English, including literary interpretation, writing skills, discussion, leadership, project originality, and oral presentation facility. The Junior Book Award goes to Kendall Allen. [Applause] At the beginning of last year, I was told that uh the same person would be getting this award as last year. The senior book award goes to Fumi Coats.
I've heard there's great pipelines. Um, and other than that, you know, I haven't really made any other plans, but I haven't gotten too deep into it. But that's that's about as far as it goes. That's great news, Mark. Congratulations on a full scholarship. And I I know that no university is cheap, but I think Rice University is on the more expensive side. So to get a full ride is outstanding and just an example of the kind of education that you can earn at Lynen High School when you work hard. So congratulations, Mark. Thank you so much, Mark, for all your time this year and all your input this year and all the best for your future future at uh at Rice. Thank you very much. Uh it's been a pleasure to work with you guys. I know I still have one more meeting, but it's been an absolute pleasure.
Not everybody can be treated by you. That's correct. And so, you know, one of the things that we we try to get information out trying to get other doctors doing this. We want other people doing it. We don't want be the only one. You know, I I wrote wrote a book trying to get, you know, educate patients, the immunotherapy revolution. Um and and then we're you know we put out lots of videos and try to get other doctors to to know and understand and do and educate the patients as well so they can talk to their doctors. But yeah, we we have office in in Beverly Hills. We have office in Miami. Uh we also work in in Cabo St. Lucas, Mexico. Uh we're we're expanding we have uh we work simultaneously. We have a biotech that's called Sinkermune. Uh we have clinical trials in the United States.
All right, good evening everyone. I have the honor to announce the family and consumer science awards along with Chris Nordon. So the first award we have the culinary arts recipient and that goes to Jacob Fakosi. So, next up we have the child nursery management recipients. We have two winners this year. First, Michaela Delorio and Anna Kulan. And finally, we have the Cameron Godet Memorial Award for Culinary Arts. Cameron was a graduate of the class of 2020 who passed away unexpectedly. Cameron showed an interest in cooking and actively participated in the course during his senior year. This award is given in honor of Cameron and his love for cooking. The recipient is Caleb Jagger. [Applause] [Music] Good evening. Um, I wanted to just quickly share a favorite quote of mine, um, by JFK, who was a well-known supporter of the arts. Um, and he states that the life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction in the life of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization.
Uh and I'm very proud to represent Clifton. Very proud to uh be a Clifton High School alum. So, thank you very much, Mr. Paris. Apparently, I said Lynden High School. I don't I'm going to go back and look at the the the uh the the tape. Obviously, um that's my hometown where I grew up and graduated from, but um I meant Clifton High School. Yeah. Thank you, Mark. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, now I believe we can move to Mr. Shahada and his update to the budget presentation. Thank you, Mr. Paris. Welcome. Thank you. Won't be my day. [Music] Good evening, commissioners. As we gather tonight for the final budget presentation, I want to begin by expressing my sincere appreciation for your partnership, your trust, and your shared dedication to the mission we serve. Budget season is never easy, and this year brought more than its fair share of challenges.
So well United States and Mexico both. But uh they can find us like on clinical trials.gov. Uh but Synchroimmune is the is the company that handles that and uh yeah and then we you know Williams Cancer Institute we see patients uh as well. Patients can contact us and send us their their information and we review it and determine uh try the best way we can help the patients. Uh we try to help as many as we can but obviously yeah we're you know we're we're one entity. We have several we have many doctors so we we can we can take on some people but uh certainly if we can't take them on we try to guide them the best way we can. I'd like to ask a question about peer review. Uh is that in fact constructive or does it often lead to siloing and to repetitive actions and uh ideas?
I've been thinking a lot about that statement and how it's been exemplified uh here within our fine arts department on many levels uh with two new music teachers. Our students performed in a winter concert, participated in music competitions and festivals, and will be hosting a spring concert, which you're all invited to um May 7th at 7:00 p.m. Um also on May 22nd from 6:00 to 7:00, you can attend our annual art show. Um, so, uh, I'm clearly not above shameless plugs, but, um, I promise you, you will not be disappointed. Uh, and it will be time well spent. Uh, we are so proud of the consistent and incredible work our students have put into this year. And it is with great pride. I present the following two art awards to Chalet Mitchell and Caroline Peteros. [Applause] Good [Music] job. Our vocal recipient goes to Natalie Merrick.