CorpusRecord 18012

Decision day

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Source
YouTube / EwingPublicSchools
Date
2022-05-20
Location
Mercer County, NJ
Material
Transcript
Extent
565 words · about 4 min
Collected
2026-06-06

Transcript

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001[Applause] mark has been passionate about about space since childhood which is why he'll be majoring in astrophysics he hopes to one day earn his phd [Applause] studying civil engineering at tcnj is andrew salmon jr [Applause] andrew has also received a presidential scholarship from tcnj [Applause] next is samaya sumiel [Applause] samaya originally wanted to attend rutgers university but she absolutely crushed her instrumental audition for tcnj she will major in music education and hopes to work as a professional musician and music teacher [Applause] next up for tcnj is luani thomas [Applause] although she has an undeclared major she is thinking about the nursing program she is also really excited for the opportunity to make new friends in college [Applause] last but certainly not least we have jack woolforth jack loves science and after helping volunteer at the

002middle school this previous summer summer to help teach he found his collet calling in biology all right one last round of applause for all the seniors who are attending four-year colleges in new jersey [Applause] all right before we wrap things up there are a few other people who would like to offer some parting words of wisdom and encouragement yes of course [Applause] thank you [Applause] so okay so we had a lovely video with all these nice clips from all the teachers saying wonderful things we will get that video in front of you at some point in time it will probably not be in the next minute or two so here's what we'd like to do all right we missed an opportunity earlier on to get some wonderful group shots so i'm going to ask really

003quickly when you do some categories if i call your category please come up and gather at the front of the stage we're going to get one quick group photo and then we're going to be heading to the cafeteria in about five minutes for some last round of activities so first group up can we please get all of our students who are attending community college next year please come up to the front we're going to take one group shot let's do this real quickly please community college students to the front please okay you can mr hop in yeah go for it okay some can sit on the stage if you need to double up after this group we will do all students attending four-year colleges will be next all [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the last person [Applause]

004okay after you take your group photo please head directly to the cafeteria for some lovely activities our next group up at the front right here is four year colleges four year colleges to the front please for the group photo hbcus come up too you'll stay after for a smaller group shot as well so all four-year colleges up at the front please all four-year colleges [Applause] get on in there act like you like each other [Applause] oh [Applause] if you're attending an hbcu please stay otherwise head to the cafeteria [Applause] [Music] after hbcu's military will be next military will be next again after your photo head to the cafeteria we got some activity since we got some more food for you excellent let's get our folks entering the military please join mr schmiel for the photo

005military next category afterwards we'll do workforce and vote school workforce and vocational technical schools will be last [Music] [Applause] got one more coming there you go [Music] thank you and last but not least all of our students entering the workforce all of our students attending trade technical vocational programs please join mr schmiel for the group photo all right and everyone else should be heading to the cafeteria grabbing some free food doing some fun activities till the end of block 2. [Music] we're going left i'm left i'm left thank you everybody congratulations head to the cafeteria for the final part of today's festivities i'm gonna turn off this that microphone really nice john you guys did a great job thank you mr green gotta get this in i miss

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