001for e for for for for for just [Music] it looks like we're going to have pretty hot weather today and I know that we need to set up shade to make sure that everyone remains cool so we're going to ask that you be bear with us while always set that up because we want you to enjoy the ceremonies today so we want to make sure that everything works out today we do have water to your right then we have other things set up to your left and we want to have a special celebration for our seniors today so first I'd like to introduce and welcome onto the stage our MC's we have Gabriel Bib and Savon ikada I take her all right this is the Baton I'm not sure where you would like me to
002set it all right perfect thank you hello everyone Hi everyone welcome to the class of 2024 graduation scholarship ceremony yes my going to introduce SNA ikada and this is Gabriella Bib and what do we do we are the class of 2025 we're going to have an open uh ceremony here before the afternoon ceremony but we're going to have some welcome address first by our first deaf superintendent and that would be Amy nney can we get you up on stage please first of all I would like to say I am so excited and so proud to be here at the scholarship ceremony today to be with you and all the seniors today we would like to thank everyone is the sound not working okay I guess they're working on the system is everybody able to hear
003it now I know that they cranked up the volume so hopefully you'll all be able to hear it okay thumbs up if you can if you can hear it thumbs up well then I'm going to proceed let me rewind and start again first of all we want to say how excited we are and how proud We Are to be able to celebrate our seniors at the scholarship ceremony [Music] we're going to continue with the ceremony but first we want to show our gratitude to the scholarship donors these are funds that are going to help you seniors they want to support you for what comes next in your life The Next Step you're going to make maybe some of you will go immediately to work some of you may go to college you'll just be on
004your own journey and the scholarship is here to support you in the next chapter of your life I have the honor of receiving over 20 scholarships including a new one this year so we're hoping that that becomes a annual tradition and we keep increasing increasing the amount of scholarships we have 32,000 over $32,000 that we've given we've been receiving and we're going to give out today the scholarship award uh individual are here today and you know not only for those who are receiving scholarships will be excited but we want you all to be inspired by what we've seen and contributions that have come from the communities and we want to be able to declare what all you have done in your life here at CSD so congratulations and enjoy the scholarship ceremony [Music] we're presenting
005the class of 2024 scholarship Awards so now the first award is the National Technical National Technical Institute for the deaf and Rochester Institute of Technology and that is presented by Miss Sarah sanislo please come on and welcome her to the stage hi [Music] hello everyone I'm really excited to be here today and I'm sure many of you are saying finally my name is uh Sarah Stannis slow and I teach in the kindergarten ECE building and I would say I am the 13th family member to be an alumni of RIT so I am very fortunate and excited to give this scholarship award you need to have good academic scholarship good grade point average be involved in clubs and sports and just be an overall good student we actually have five students and we have some I
006know that you're going to have the best time of your life when you're at RIT because I did and there's so many opportunities you can take advantage of and CSD is going to support you you know we're always here but let's see who are the five [Music] don't forget the orange and black even though you've got the colors of ND and Rit don't forget our orange and black [Music] G the gadet university presenter is Miss Pamela cigar and she is the director of galet regional Regional Center for the West [Music] hello I'll repeat my name for you Pamela star I'm at the gader gadet University Regional Center West in the Fremont area up the road at aloney College I I have the pleasure I have the opportunity of presenting to the students and welcoming them
007to your life After High School we hope that you cherish what you have here and you use it in your future to create a strong vibrant deaf Community gadet is giving a scholarship of Merit it includes the GPA the ACT score activities outside of the classroom activities inside the classroom we have three students to honor with this award today [Music] welcome to the gadet family [Music] and now we have the presenter for the Golden Eagle scholarship is Miss Ruth lumer please welcome to the stage yeah hello I am here to represent the foothill Athletic Association one of the oldest clubs in the nation and I am very pleased to recognize and to award the scholarship which was already announced at award night but we want these two recipients to have a $250 scholarship each so
008please recognize outstanding athletes who they've been outstanding for all four years two as lower division two as upper division uh sometimes we have more recipients during the years this year we just have two their names and their pictures will be up on the slide congratulations thank you for being so involved so active participating playing as a team and your team dinner being so involved and we have the Fighting song for the class song that you performed thank you for doing all of that congratulations and we'll be able to get those to you after to the ceremony closer and the next scholarship is the McDonald Family Foundation scholarship and the presenter will be Mr Alan Davy please come on up to the stage hello everyone I'm Alan Davy and I'm one of the High School principles
009the McDonald Family Foundation focuses on students who really have a passion to learn and they are constantly studying I don't mean briefly I mean very thorough studying and I am proud to recognize the two students who met this criteria they are always asking the teacher questions they make appointments to sit down with the teacher ask questions maybe they have a makeup exam they have to take and make sure they complete all their assignments so after having a conversation with the teachers we've agreed on these two candidates and the recipients are congratulations Melina Molina sorry Your Name Escapes me tell me your name right cavon Medina and congratulations you do such outstanding work and you should be recognized for that let's take a picture look this way [Music] the association of families teachers and counselors is
010the next scholarship and the presenters for that are Mr Stuart AA and Mr Michael sedensky and he is the vice president of Faculty please come on up to the stage [Music] thank you welcome everyone what an accomplishment and congratulations class of 2024 yes I do represent aftc which is the association of family teachers and counselors and what have we done for you all these years well we like to recognize students what about the students who've been here starting at kindergarten all the way up till today we have helped students at all grades all ages we want to Ure that we students get the money they need like with the international students to be able to fly to Japan for example and other kinds of events aftc is always here to support the students to watch
011them Thrive and uh this is our opportunity to say goodbye and congratulations to you all introduce yourself yes my name is Michael sedensky I represent CTE that department and I want to show our gratitude to aftc because of all of the outstanding work that is happening in the classroom using all different kinds of Technology CTE says that all of our students are extra ordinary they've been wonderful in terms of a uh academics and you name it they did it wonderfully we have our four recipients we have Kevin Medina Elida Yasmin Irving Walter James and rashab Singh the next one is the guy who can here I'll introduce him go on stage yeah all right we will be sending you check uh after the ceremony is over right now we'll take your [Music] picture congratulations again
012the Dom Breakers Lions Club of Fremont and the presenter of this scholarship is Mr Rudy Kelly former president former superintendent president just a minute just a minute good morning my name is Rudy Kelly I am a retired educator and past president of the Dawn Breakers Lions Club the international Lions Club is the largest Service Association in the world that that started in 1917 we have over 1.4 million members worldwide in over 49,000 clubs at the 1925 Lions Club Convention Helen kellerer was the guest speaker and she challenged the Lions Clubs to be Knights for the Blind and the deaf da Breakers is the only Lions Club in Fremont and this year we celebrated our 50th Anniversary as a club the motto of the Lions Club is we serve over the years we have provided scholarships
013to deserving students at the California school for the de it is my honor to present the following students our da Breakers club's scholarship okay Zoe mobel and zorena Zoe presento fi Kappa Zeta is the next scholarship and the presenter for that award is Miss Susanna aosta good morning [Music] everyone hello and congratulations I'm the representative for fi capaz I'm the organizer for Northern California I will be presenting the scholarship award but let me give you a little history of hi capaz before I do in the early years the first chapter was at galet and we often were given resistance by the fraternities and we felt all these men are getting together for their own fraternity for their own fraternities where's a place for the women to get together and discuss different issues and we didn't
014want to be alongside them so there were 13 women who got together and decided they would form their own the owls later became f capaa f capaa has been in action contributing to the deaf community and here in Fremont the CSD chapter we're going to give a scholarship award to the students here who have demonstrated outstanding leadership success here at CSD Fremont different accomplishments they plan to continue their education maybe not as gadet but maybe other universities and institutions we're now Proud To Pro to present the recipients zarena zo and Jace Robert you will receive your scholarship check a little bit later but it will be soon CSD kitchen to Career presenter for this scholarship is Mr James O'Brien and he is a culinary arts Professor teacher oh he could be a flip good morning
015staff family class of 2024 I am so proud We have established the first annual scholarship for the kitchen to Career this scholarship is for the outstanding students who have a passion for cooking and they enjoy working in class they've demonstrated leadership abilities they have a very strong work ethic very positive attitude and commitment to giving back to the community this award is to help these students succeed regardless of what field of cooking or working in the kitchen they choose and in life this hopefully will have them transition to something that they can seed in in the future we had a very creative team working together to determine the recipients and the criteria for the scholarship and the winners are Dave Robert Irving Walter James Rave Singh the eagle Cafe is our next scholarship and the
016presenter is Miss Michelle aguar who's the eagle Cafe teacher thank you thank you so much and congratulations class of 2024 amazing this is your last school day and now you're at the point where you're going to transition to who knows where it's a an important milestone in your life and I am so proud of you let me tell you a little bit about the eagle Cafe scholarship let me explain just briefly I started teaching five years ago here at the Eagle Cafe with con with customer service program we worked with various students from the start and it was a lot of work but they made a lot of progress there was a lot of planning involved we try to connect them with situations that would help in the real world through Instagram Twitter door Dash
017door Dash Uber some didn't get it but some did so remember these students had to go out shopping for the eagle Cafe they had to make sure the fruit and vegetables were fresh they had to be sure that they brought uh the food correctly to Door Dash and they picked it up on time so much occurred behind the scenes I am so proud of them and I think they are now understanding from the very beginning what a full system it is from the washing and the dishes and setting the tables preparing the food the food delivery all of that out in the community they did such a wonderful job and I am so proud of them the money that we earned was for them to be able to go to the American studies in Washington
018DC and they had such a wonderful time and they had fun and it's a great memory for them and we will do it again next year with the new upcoming students at the beginning when I started teaching I was thinking about who are the students that should deserve this scholarship well let me show show you who they [Music] were all right all of you come up to the [Music] stage uring Melissa Angelica Vin analie Valerie Max Perez Angela can't see Alfredo L Louis suai Su congratulations I'll get together for a group picture [Music] congratulations again the Nicholas TG Foundation is the next scholarship and the presenter is Mr Clark Brook and as our high school ad admin principal congratulations Nicholas TJ this Foundation is from the family Caitlyn uh was a student here and felt
019that he contributed so much to his daughter's growth unfortunately he passed and the family set this foundation in his memory to recognize those students who continue to grow such as his daughter did and the scholarship award goes to those who are an outstanding student OB obviously we want outstanding students 2.5 and above contributes to both the school and the community and the community of the school goes out into the area giving back to their local residential area and we've identified three students who fulfill these criteria we've got zo Mall Meen Pou and rashab Singh [Music] congratulations and we you will receive the scholarship after graduation [Music] congratulations once again Theophilus de estraya allaround student scholarship presenter is Miss Melissa Ariano please welcome her to the stage thank you and good morning look at you you
020are ready to graduate you will become alumni and alumni thank you for bearing with us this morning these scholarship recipients have to fulfill the following criteria one you have to graduate sort of a given 2.5 GPA invest in your community meaning your CSD Community various clubs and events be a participant and those who have achieved all of these are the [Music] following CH congratulations to the two of you all right let's congratulate them razza de sortex scholarship award is presented by Miss Crystal dwas and she is the the Raza sponsor the Raza SP the Raza desort sponsor hello everyone I am Crystal d one of the Raza dorex sponsors I want to congratulate you the class of 2024 the scholarship is given every year to those students who have done the following they have been
021part of the latinx heritage they have a GPA of 3.0 and above their educational goal is planning to go either to a community college or foryear university get into a vocational trade school get into a certificate program and last that they have a positive attitude they contribute back to CSD and the latinx community our recipients are zorina Marissa Patricia and Jace the Asian Pacific Islander Club scholarship is presented by Mr wonha Park the apic president thank you hello everyone I am Mona Pak I am one of the sponsors for the Asian Pacific Island Club and I am from the Bay Area Asian DEA Association I want to congratulate all of you you are done well actually no you're not you still have a lot in front of you you have many new things new faces
022new jobs being involved in all sorts of organiz ations many new things are in front of you and there may be changes in your lives too but don't be afraid change can happen remember you are teachers that took care of you in school you're not going to have anyone take care of you now but do not be afraid you can remember when you face frustrations what do you do you climb to the peak of the highest mountain you create that goal for yourself even if the stones come tumbling down or an avalanche faces you work your way through it and you say I can make it it's important that you have that mindset of patience because remember you have skills and you can and you can be confident Bay Area Asian Dev Association thinks about
023the people who would like to join our Asian organization and so we will give back to you so you can become a member for free when you graduate if you're interested in becoming a member of baada you come to us and we will have membership for free to you baa da is Asian but not only just China or Japan it also stands for Southeast Asia South and East India Palestine Taipei India India I believe we have 48 to maybe 55 Asian countries that we represent so you can be involved here and I am here to Res represent this organization with the scholarship and a lot of it may be in involving people that are students here and these are our recipients charel [Music] Hana congratulations and congratulations you know in the future don't forget you
024can you have self-confidence and Trust remember you can right well congratulations and remember if you wish to join your membership is free I am lean Tang and we would like to congratulate the recipient shabel Hana and we look forward to seeing you continue to grow and Achieve congratulations and good luck the next scholarship is the SAR award and that is presented by Miss Bonnie Joe Morrison as our school social worker please come on up to the stage I've been gazing at all your faces and I remember seeing you when you were Tiny Tots in Elementary kindergarten and all the way to high school I'm so proud to give the recipients all four of them the scholarship and I'll tell tell you more about the individuals this first one started in 2010 almost 14 years as
025a CSD student starting in ECE this student I have to say has grown so much and especially so in the last few years and they are known for being very caring about others to become very responsible about others and the future goal is to be an ASL teacher the second student came to CSD in 2019 has been here 5 years and this student is known as being supportive of all the friends advising them giving them all kinds of support it's a really good communicator interacts with a faculty and if the faculty need anyone to do something that's the one who goes and they do it right away they're very independent they like to be around friends and their plan is to go to galet university the third person came to CSD in 2018 has been
026here six years and has really grown a lot matured constantly year after year very good at listening to others has a lot of empathy the ILS student Independent Living skills have has been involved 100% very easygoing thank goodness has a really good sense of humor and actually wants to start working right away the last person came to CSD in 2018 another only six years but has worked very hard is known for being a hard worker they worked with f FAA and very involved and they have a very big and good heart they love interacting with their friends when they show up to class they are ready they are prepared and waiting they've been very serious about their academics they always want to improve and do better and the fourth person will start working and and
027it will be the first moment of that next chapter in their life and who are the four recipients Sida Bella Maria berlinski we have Gilberto ernandez Julio Robinson and Sumi Yang congratulations to each of you and good luck the Frank R Turk Junior National Association of the deaf scolarship is presented by Benjamin Olivas Herrera and Josie Malena please welcome to the stage hello everyone my name is Benjamin Guerrero and this is Josie molena we are presenters for the Frank urk Junior naad award the criteria is scholarship being a good leader community service and this person has met all three of these criteria they demonstrated a lot of activity in school they were on the honor roll all throughout High School of a 3.73 GPA they've worked very hard on their scholarship and they are also
028the valedictorian for the class of 2024 for leadership they are involved in activities special events including international studies the students for diversity the school play athletic itics student body government Junior NAD and all of these they've been a member of June ad Junior NAD for 3 years while they've been here they've been involved in rid they were at CSD Riverside what else was it they volunteered for many different events and kept note of all of that to put on their resume they've been involved with all kinds of activities and they are they've been they have shown a lot of appreciation and this award goes to Jace Robert T the San Francisco de Club youth achievement scholarship is presented by Miss Brenda and Nathan Dingle and they are membership coordinators please welcome them to the stage
029hello everyone and good morning and congratulations you've made it all the way through I'm Nathan gingle the president president and I am Natalie Williams the administrator of membership I'm a graduate up here I won't tell you how many years ago actually was 1992 so I understand what you all are going through I understand that feeling the anxiety of getting out into the big world but remember you grew up here you kind of we in a bubble at that time are you ready to pop that bubble and send you out into the world a new world for you are you ready all right you say you are I've been looking at the audience here and I've known so many of them since prek congratulations to all of you and Nathan is right you are ready for
030the next chapter the next Journey the next part of your life so the San Francisco de Club has a goal to encourage the community because it's important to feel that you belong that you are in the deaf community so we on the board of f sfdc have hosted a number of events because there's that collaboration and networking which is so important we have graduates we know who have stayed and have gone to different events locally maybe you'd like to go somewhere and buy a ticket well San Francisco Club is also receiving funds and we are able to give those funds to students with a 3.0 grad grade point average that are tending to go to college plan to go to work so we're giving you a little bit of money to help you take that
031first step forward into your next chapter and we have four recipients congratulation to the four of you Serena Zoe breno Patricia btia Petron Kon rashab Singh Jace Robert tilletson the next and congratulations to you all stay here for a picture [Music] the next scholarship is the robin Dr Robin Zayn leadership and that is presented by Mr Greg hetar and Dr Nancy Zayn Greg is her husband and Greg is her husband and let's welcome them both to the [Laughter] stage are you speak but are you what she's speaking thank you good morning I'm Nancy Zayn and I'm with my brother-in-law Greg hler hetler who's a past science teacher here for you thought he was signing for your part sorry uh and we're delighted to be here again and we join with others in saying congratulations to
032the class of 2024 Robin my late sister and Greg's late wife was a lifelong learner deeply passionate about making a difference in the educational communities that she loved and believed in both here at CSD and also at the Diagnostic Center Robin was a smart educator who strived to be inclusive and to nurture and develop others to step into their passions in hearing about the achievements of the two students who are receiving Robin's award she would have been delighted by their academic and Vocational strengths as well as their Ambitions to continue their learning and turn it off okay then that got your attention for example one of the students receiving Robin's award today has been a role model for his energetic pursuit of meeting with recruiters representing technical schools at the career center he made sure
033he was positioned to take the next steps in his academic and professional life and he'll be moving across the country to attend NTI in Rochester in the fall the other student being honored today will also be traveling to the east coast he'll be tra will be attending galet to pursue his academic career and as part of his legacy here he's been deeply engaged as a yearbook editor and chief he's worked hard to ensure that his fellow students have the best visual and written memories of their and your many high school experiences marking a critical time in your lives together congratulations to you both Robin would have been proud of who you are already and we have great faith in who you will become and I'm going to turn to you Greg before we announce who
034those two students are although I suspect you know who they are already all right I I wanted to know whether I should be listening looking at faces who are you oh I recognize you yeah you I'm looking at you yeah look at me I'm looking at you hi remember me no okay oh well I'm a retired teacher from here at CSD and the science department at high school my wife was a principal here before and she did pass several years ago she loved this school she loved being a principal she cared about all of you and all of your lives so I am grateful for these two who are going to be the recipients of the scholarship and to support you in your future and the recipients are congratulations the the Adelaide borne Memorial go
035ahead is presented by our superintendent Miss Amy novotney well we still have more scholarships to give I know you're saying oh still more but we have an important scholarship and this is for an individual a student that's exemplary outstanding in academics and leadership in school and is active representing the CSD Spirit and the Wom of this scholarship [Music] is charbel Hana alaj congratulations the Clayton G and Edna B Blake Memorial Scholarship is presented by Miss Amy nney our school's superintendent please come on up on stage thank you this next scholarship is very similar it recognized the students with academic skills and abilities focuses on the future and is prepared for it demonstrates leadership ship School skills and is very active in school as well and this recipient is Jace Robert tilletson [Music] congratulations the CSD
036paroi Spirit scholarship is presented by miss an Lyn Parker please come on up to the stage thank you hello everyone and congratulations class of 2024 on behalf of the Paro Foundation this charitable scholarship was decided on by the board including myself Frank Lester the superintendent Amy nney Clark Brook and Amy June Rowley also Kevin Bella who all came together and we represent the paroi scholarship me the team and this is in memory of Donald Peri we established this Foundation this charitable group be because he was a student at the Berkeley school and he loved going behind the scenes being involved in everything he loved cleaning many of the school administrators actually many of the teachers recognized how industrious Donald was how involved Donald was when he passed he he endowed the school with a Foundation
037that would recognize those students who were active as he was involved in the school as he was cared for the school as much as he did and all of those other attributes so we are pleased to recognize the Donald pero Scholarship Foundation recipient and it is ulisa Luc jasa Isabella Mario Jaden and the others got to move over a little bit more scoot over a little bit more congratulations the next scholarship is the VAP scholarship and that is presented by rette presented by the representative thank you welcome to the stage hold on just one second name my dear friends on behalf of voice of specially abled people my wife FY and and myself Rajesh Laria are very excited to meet four amazing students who are recipients of voice up specially able people scholarship 2024 congratulations
038to all recipients I'm sure you will keep us all inspiring with your achievements in college and Beyond we look forward to learn from you from our generous donor Mr rajana has not only funded this scholarship but he has been ENT supporter and volunteer to hard handpick each recipients like you from different special need schools in last seven years we have enable over 25,000 people our founder pral Desai he is polio Survivor and he has inspired 12,000 plus volunteers to create individual world sorry missing my glassy [Music] say uh once again very nice to meet you all and if you like download our WhatsApp mobile app and join us with our mass movement thank you our recipients are Patricia is receiving $4,000 Zin receiving $33,000 Jay receiving $2,000 and Char Bell receiving $2,000 thank you you're
039it where you come now we want to thank everyone all the individuals and all the organizations who presented scholarships to our all of our seniors our graduates and contributing to their Futures thank you so much and now as we close we would like to call Daniel Gerard Daniel Gerard onto the stage you stay where you are and you come over here how about giving some Applause to our MC's they did a wonderful job seniors congratulations look at all the contributors to the scholarships that you received we need to be grateful and recognize them this is the end of the scholarship program and I want to give a thanks to the scholarship committee it all turned out be beautifully we also have our interpreters here and seniors this actually ends at 11:45 lunch will be extended
040until 1:15 so go to high school go to the activity center sign up Nicholas and H stay on campus 11:55 or go off campus with your families till 1:15 if you want to go High School activity center you'll be there and we'll meet from there to have you process into graduation If you're receiving a scholarship please see the secretary all right graduates please stand sorry and the next next row e