001[Music] welcome everyone in the admitted or 2-liter going to be starting our eighth-grade slideshow before they get going we just askin anybody be respectful and try to keep their blue collars inside until the end of the slideshow presentation to show respect for all of our students one announcement to make things run smoothly as your eighth graders are coming down the aisles we ask that you stand so your students can see us so they can identify you quickly as they have a gift so if you're a skater I apparently stand once this blackness student [Music] music ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh please it [Music] [Applause] you see this man again Oh Horace pretty good right face Oh [Music] the morning any last night so he boarded welcome families
002how many board members yes thank you for joining us at the 2019 you would now like to call to the stage our superintendent miss Marcia Mariko [Music] good morning evening everyone riches be all over you and all of you who looks go nice one handsome again I miss Rico I'm the very proud superintendent of Continental innings super excited to be here with everyone to date I would like for you to help me extend a warm welcome to our amazing and supportive they're working board members we have with us is Bennett our president it be to our parents who helped parents all of you who helped decorate appreciation to Nichols and mr. Nathan for all of their hard work throughout the year as well I feel amazing eighth grade cold it has been an honor and
003a privilege to have worked with you the last few years I am especially grateful to have experienced Washington DC with most of you and getting to know you all a little better I would like to share a quote from an American author and poet mark mint he's strong enough to stand alone smart enough to know when you need help and brave enough to ask for it I know you are ready for high school and will do great things take advantage of all the opportunities that will come your way and like I always be good and be smart good luck and take and now I will turn it over to our first student speakers thank you we would like to introduce our fellow classmates artisanally and it is obviously difficult for me to put my experience
004at Continental in two words I spent the last two months they came out really hot now so I can go to bigger and better things it's hard to believe that we're almost there of course everybody here isn't perfect I wouldn't want you to spend the last night here somewhere else the scores time with so many life lessons to is giving you so much to appreciate I will always be grateful for the friendships and memories constable after nine long years of being here I feel like I've truly seen it all I remember the mr. software would play turnover infection with us because someone did their suicides are in elementary where the price box was the ultimate reward and I was always terrified at my car for children we would be so excited to see the next
005episode of Liberty kids or Jamo to the men who go to America in shock we're the only school that noticed the lie against a cotton eyed Joe or the right way to do the chicken dance I'll never forget the time are you trying to go back with the new middle mile in the world or endless dinosaur Majesties with Sophie I never would've thought we'd go to new stuff leave where the teachers told us not to eat Thai pods but that actually happened for the singing at the top of our lungs on the way to volleyball games TV news immorality with a bag over her head if I was laughing in our class with Carson or bridge managing two very different indeed no matter there we were always very beautiful that I have all these memories
006with all of my favorite people and it would have been possible I'm confident that we move today they work hard for every types of teachers Thank You parents for the m11 support the genesis panelists mr. Boies for preparedness for the future and always watching out for us we appreciate all the mr. Hansen telling this you speaking naturebox very much you can approaching the strippers for making the days a little easier I only think you get everyone have made today possible we really appreciate if you like we've been waiting forever for this diva comments until its final year I guess our parents were right when they said they would go by fast because our tiny hair spiked up I hope you Church these moments and memories use this chapter or like boy but what might seem
007like the weekend that I think is really just difficult I know you all have great futures over farm life I'm so proud to be standing in a class of 2019 and as we know the boys how lucky I am to have something that makes me the buster so class of 2019 is going to the next chapter of your life [Music] my [Music] support everyone here is even smarter all of our up to nouns I'm proud to be a part of this part of my mission but now it's time to head to the beach Thank You continental given us [Music] from our music department are de Barra Jonah's forehead and Tommy Duncan will not perform can a man like Billy Joel [Music] our final speech we'd like to introduce in a Johnson I found a quote
008of the city inspector Raymond Chandler who is a British American novelist and screenwriter said was to take a bow at this time but today we do not say goodbye today will be closed one chapter and embark on new paths new roads to navigate some of our paths they connect in a while longer while others will branch off some house will be bumpy and others will twist and turn these new paths will shape our future and hopefully those possible comes again those of this chapter I would like to recognize the people who have shaped their house up to this point I would like to start off by thanking our parents and families our first would like to I want to thank all of my coaches mrs. the boys for charm you are very much goes mr.
009Kratz are forever flying are starting to big minds mrs. Williams for introducing us to new sports mrs. Friedlander for getting me involved with volleyball and making history one of my favorite subjects is making that fun and without music it has been the most [Music] excited for words in my conditions we'd like to call this case thank you very much we're delighted to be here to honor students ownership we've speeded excellence in six different categories we would have to give them a certificate and a fifty dollar scholarship yes when I call your names I appreciate if you come forward and then remain standing in a row we're going to take your picture so we can feed you error in our Elks newsletter I have some remarks from the teachers the teachers in the various areas of
010awards the first version I'm going to call is Denis Lawson Dennis we've seen this once in citizenship Denis was nominated for the Citizenship Award because he is respectful of others their property and school property Denis follow school rules and consistently demonstrates good character by being honest and able and helpful congratulations for the category of overall excellence Ian wasn't absolute delight to have a countenance well this year he new to our district she fit in immediately with her kindness thoughtfulness and all-around sincerity towards your fellow classmates she is well respected by her peers and the staff of his school she is diligent in her studies and was an excellent role model for others in the classroom throughout the entire year congratulations category of most interesting Riley Riley has had a great eat great year yes work
011so hard he's being responsible for his grades he participated in eighth grade civics Club and went to Washington DC this year congratulations Johnny for excellence in social studies he is such a conscientious young man he participates in class discussions and pays great attention to detail his work in social studies he is hardworking and comes prepared not only with his work but ready to learn about the history of our nation congratulations for excellence in mathematics we honor absent a gorilla gratulations after having active for a short period of time instead of grade we were thrilled to have her for the entire school year in eighth grade she excelled in algebra and showed perseverance and persistence in tackling tough problems afton demonstrated higher proficiency in class participation on homeworks quizzes and tests on air and law congratulations
012and lastly but certainly not least for excellence in writing and you said Glee [Applause] Missy is a very talented and conscientious writer she has a strong voice and produces writing that is persuasive memorable and beautiful so congratulations to all of you so unless we need to put your certificates in so they don't go blowing in the wind [Music] nice to meet you good morning everyone it is my pleasure to recognize Tommy Duncan Tommy was awarded at beginning of May his certificate and a hundred dollar check from the green valleys Rita Chamber of Commerce for all of his excellence in academics athletics and as we could see today music his teachers commenting on how compassionate behaves how he's always bringing out the best in himself and others and through it all he's very humble and that
013is like when they test his parents as well so congratulations Tommy imaginations last 15,000 night [Applause] [Music] ask me of the Year award welcome friends and families at this time it's my honor is a pleasure to announce that athlete of the year for both boys and girls throwing everything off the podium I'd like to start with our female athlete of the year for my notes here this athlete has been extremely hard-working and this was written by mrs. Freeman one of her coaches she goes the extra mile at practice she is helpful and very humble his fastball of all season she played many times on the B team they kept working trying to be on the 18th the team was in in the tournament and she was asked us and she asked to stay on to
014be a manager to help us an eight-bit she not only was willing to shag balls but also scrimmage with us to help us prepare for the tournament it ended up that two of the players did not play for us for the third-place game between 3rd and 4th so Camilla filled in and served us some of our points to win she has the drive in heart to be our female athlete of the year and at this time I'd like to congratulate congratulate the Lesotho [Applause] I'd like to add on to that she also was a for sport athlete for us and so that's extremely difficult for our students to keep their grades up and participate all for it and so big round of applause for [Applause] the way we want to our athlete at least I'd
015like to announce nano athlete of the year this athlete I actually have the honour of Kochi their sixth grade year as a football coach and I've got to watch this athlete grow not only as an athlete but as a student this athlete participates in many many different avenues of our school from builder's club to the music program and has become quite a leader at our school I had the honor of attending several of the wrestling tournaments this year and this eighth grader decided an eighth-grade year to wrestle for the first time ever which is very a challenge and we were at Vincent and a tournament where they went out on the back and got eat and came off the mat and instead of hanging his head looked at his coaches and said I don't like
016to lose teach me how to win before my next match this Leslie went out on the next match and won for the first time wrestling at a tournament and you are clinging the second match and continued on wrestling for us and did a fantastic job about halfway through the season this student had some medical issues that he was dealing with and was unable to finish the season continued he come to practices and just support the team every single day we travel on the bus hours and hours to go with the team what that at the various notches and just be there good morning ladies and gentlemen this year's e3 continental art award goes to two students with shown both creativity and initiative in their art work these two students stood out because of their sheer
017determination talent and energy in their art work so without further ado is my pleasure to announce that this year's excellence in art award goes to miss Cecilia robust inaudible [Music] - Club the Green Valley - international as we are serving the children of the world that's a worldwide project but also on a local level for this school we have been here for 40 years for those builder's club I'm proud of builder's club is up here already today the microphone and also with the school as we have participated various projects during the year beyond builder's club including the food drives the pennies for patients that heavenly hats the talent show as well as other items along the way and the final edict ratified the one other area that these young people were involved with was the
018choices instructional solution final Cooter's here that would remember how we finished the sentence [Music] look this woman's got the mole sense I'll give you again right now the one thing we said is there's no debate about finishing the next four years of school but the key to success is oh boy I think that's on the teachers the coladas features the key to success is what smell physically okay nope with that we're really empowered to be here once again this year as we recognize two of the eighth graders on this time of their promotion and I would call or word first of all for this award of recognition and these awards have to be with the person themselves the personal character they have to do a scholarship they have to do with leadership and they have
019to do with service I would call first of all and I wonder what he is absolutely [Applause] [Music] mr. mo she's asked me to come to him to say a few words about the student that was selected for this year's optimist I had the pleasure of working with this student a lot over the past couple of years this students primary continent-continent goal has not always been a smooth one but it's been a great process for all of us involved this bigger world a letter to the governing board as well as myself this is Nick Nichols he's going to relays this to Darrell oh dear continental school board members and administration I will be an eighth grader and if they will have to attend continental elementary school I will follow these improvements to my behavior I
020will not have an attitude towards any and all teachers and staff members I will obey any and all directions given to me by all teachers and staff I will take responsibility for any and every wrong decision I made and will not chew gum on school campus that was the anisa spending and will not argue in front of the class with another teacher or staff member this is the voice I think that was you and will not disrupt the class where the teacher is teaching a door taco these are the improvements that I will make in my behavior thank you for your consideration I would like to follow that up with least lions from the optimist Creed to forgive the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievement of the teacher to wear
021a cheerful countenance content countenance at all times [Music] that should be my class this we're really Science Award recipient this year I saw many potential candidates however no single person stood out about the rest of my mind as they considered all the students on my short list that realized I have someone we have a stealth scientist this individual is an independent learner as a model citizen and she makes beautiful complications everywhere she goes and I know she'll be successful in the science she is attendant to detail she's driven the room and MIT the team is here state civilian Science Award recipient [Music] okay this guy's petition is authorship program begin by mrs. John Romney who was a former Continental governing board member and she developed the idea for the program based on a similar model
022at Pima College her vision dedicated to youth and commitment to education inspired the development of the high expectation scholarship program so this student that we chose is someone who is well-rounded hard-working who has the potential to persevere as all of you do this person has was pretty shy and from what I understand has really come out of her shell in middle school is a kind dedicated hardworking person and this the warrant will allow her to receive two years of a scholarship to a university or college in Arizona after she graduates from high school so we are very very proud and pleased to announce a list of donado [Applause] so I will need the parents to come see me after the ceremony so you can sign a contract parents signed a contract that they contact the
023school after completing high school so we are super proud of you now had the continental teachers away so the content all teachers award is recognition of to eighth grade and that the teachers feel truly embody in his student I'm so the teachers hard on this every morning these kids after the Pledge of Allegiance here this is Nicholas and mr. Linden constantly remind them that they're to be kind safe and responsible when we determine who receives these awards of course we're looking for academic excellence but also throwing around words like integrity character honesty botanist courteousness leadership and so these two individuals are Marsh Street leads deserving of these awards and personally in memory kid was like this could probably teach another 27 years it is with great honor and then our gentleman is everyone I get
024the pleasure of representing deshaun clovers family for this award DeSean was a student at Continental school that tragically was killed between the 2nd and 3rd grade Dierks 2nd and 3rd grade of school here at Continental his family wanted us to give this award to students that are kind and caring and loving to their fellow students and so I have two awards here one per young lady that everyday comes into my classroom and all of her classrooms and says a big hello to everybody she complements us stately and is very concerned for her fellow student and that goes to Viviana my second student is a young man that I've had in either enrichment class or social studies these last three years and he is just a really nice congenial young man and I know at times
025I put him on the spot especially this year but it is always willing to help those sixth graders that have a hard time in my enrichment class and his fellow peers just always have a smile and he has a smile for them and it's just a really nice man and that's Michael Landon [Applause] continental Educational Foundation Malloy is Bonnie car and this is jewelry but this is actually a charity so the educational foundation for awards all for these words are certificate and $50 so the first one is inspiration award inspires their fellow teachers staff and community and that award goes to Natalie the second orders for the outside outstanding student and this recognition of their excellent GPA and participation in extracurricular activities and this goes to Soraka and the third award is for outstanding service
026and this goes has participated in a lot of community service and is very involved in extracurricular activities and this goes to Lilly mama and here to present our hold the ward is this is the basic tailor shiny money award and on this is Mason's mancha Noah and Mason was tragically killed in it and a bicycle accident approximately a year ago and it's a it's a great privilege to give this award and here's a spot to present was kind of inspired by the guitar that was made put together by the Continental foundation this year and one of the observations of all of these little messages that came from friends and fellow students from at 8:30 2017 class was that there was a lot of was very tiny was very helpful and so that's kind of where
027this training like award came from and I'm actually very happy to give this award to this person I think our own individual lights are kind of our personal superpowers and we all have them and then once you find it it's a pretty cool thing to kind of ride with that share it before you know it you're becoming a leader amongst your people and you're helping others out and that feels good all around a job in this is McKibben and mrs. Horton I Oh Mason Taylor his musician award mr. Joe fries mr. summers and mrs. Noah Taylor we're gonna invite the Taylor family up here to help us with this so earlier this year I was approached by the builder's club because they wanted they wanted to do something in honor of Mason and Mason for
028those of you who don't know this it was was quite involved with the visa program here he got started a little bit late but he was he was always playing around on the piano always hanging around my room sometimes I have to chase even if he was hiding so this what we came up with was a perpetual plaque that was a stay on campus with Mason's name on it and we're calling the award the Mason Taylor musician of the Year award and I've asked I've asked the Taylor's up here to here just a little bit of of what the what music meant to Mesa while he was here [Music] actually this is kind of a cool award to be part of so thank you very much for letting us be a part of it because
029music the kids have all grown up with music it's not playing in the background it's piano being pounded on pounded on a strictly strum on a guitar and when mr. Ferguson came into our world Mason's music potential just skyrocketed my mother-in-law always says there's no excuse you can cook you can read you can cook same thing applies for music with me since he knew that he could read it he was all over the place very excited and wanted all of us to be excited about every Adele song he was learning and playing every day and then he went on to be jazz with mr. Finkelstein mr. Ferguson and he's got a very carefree attitude you know it's very much like yeah sure yeah no big deal and when he was in jazz though there was
030something about a confidence that came about him and so he said you know I'm on a hot roll Eminem I'm going to try it out for high school did you jazz in high school on the tryout for the piano mom Wow okay cool and I probably won't get it competition is pretty great but you never know unless you try and I was like yeah that's true you never know unless you try good good good every once in a while you kids remind us some of those little important things although we have a lot more to teach you you still teach us and so they did and he auditioned met a couple of friends there everyone was very welcoming well those friends became really good friends and turns out we did not get piano and he
031was okay with that but what that teacher had said later was you know if he's got a determination he's got a passion for it and he's got a drive and I think with that combination he could become our guitar player and we kind of looked at each other and while we don't play the guitar so I guess you learn and that's what he did spent the summer learning guitar and strumming it around and I guess the moral of that story is just you may not always get the seat you're looking for you may not get the instrument you're trying out for and that really kind of applies everywhere but you just might find yourself in a position to learn something new and find something great about yourself so be courageous in taking those chances then
032share free to just go for it because you never know unless you try one thing that mrs. Tina didn't mention is that after after Mason graduated from a I'll be a short-lived percussion ensemble after school and it was interesting seeing his leadership skills how they developed in one year of high school it's nice adding them back so every year this is this is a challenge for mr. Mercer and myself when we look at students we look for students who are who have been involved for several years who are in multiple ensembles students who who work very hard to improve their craft this year was particularly hard because we have a lot of musicians in this 8th grade class and if you're if you are in either orchestra or band can you stand up [Applause] so
033is quite it was quite a challenge this year but mr. Emerson and myself had to pick one so here's a little bit about our our nominee over the past four years the student has shown a determination to improve his skills as a musician that is rarely found in students of his age he is not only exceeded expectations with his helps set the bar higher for himself his peers in the program he's a party he is shown exceptional leadership qualities and has proactively sought out materials to improve himself his craft and those around him he's shown a level of integrity and this strength of character is contagious this is the class of 2019 Miss Mary McNichols miss Roxanna Rico and this was even [Applause] [Music] okay we're to that tire [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
034may I present to you the pudding class of 2019 as our students can make the final announcements I am they know to mention the saguaros structure that you saw on the internet and has the names of all of our wonderful sponsors and supporters who have supported Continental throughout the years it is fostered by our continental foundation we will be getting Mormon information out to all of you in terms of purchasing hummingbirds or additional pieces - do I not do the Saguaro so stay tuned because we know we have a lot of companies and donors than just a baby grateful people to support my mental and our wonderful amazing so thank you again and congratulations and you'll be happy interception with cookies in the Elimination room 171 no spoilers we would also appreciate putting away -
035Cheers thank you all for coming today to help us celebrate you know equip nation agent class teachers we live in DC teachers for all of their help [Music]