001so [Music] do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] well welcome everybody at hey we'll take an applause right away that's great at this time could you please rise face our flag and join me in welcoming graduating eighth grader leah woodworth as she sings our national anthem [Music] okay i start now okay oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming who's brought stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight or the ramparts we watched were so gallantly [Music] gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that star
002spangled then are you with the lent [Music] [Applause] that's so great job leah good morning thank you i'm chris barassi principal of wilson sea riley's middle school welcome wilson sea riles middle school families invited guests faculty and staff and the riles middle school class of 2022 to our promotion ceremony [Applause] i'd also like to welcome those students and family members who are joining us from home from our classrooms our staff out there via our live stream on our youtube channel made possible by miss lauren kane i do have a couple of requests to ensure a successful promotion ceremony families please remain in your seats in the designated areas please give everyone the opportunity to view all of the students during the ceremony students and families if you would please make sure you remain for the
003entire program all students are to remain in their seats until the closing announcements and the processional after the ceremony concludes eighth grade graduates you may head to home with your families after you sign out with us now i would like to introduce some people who have joined us today cj usd board president mr steven bruno board clerk mrs delray pope ford member miss dancy anderson our superintendent mr scott lair and he's not on stage i think he's out there taking pictures our director of personnel and student services mr david grimes [Applause] i'd like to uh recognize our absolutely hard-working amazing pta board members pta president miss latoya jenkins pta vice president mrs monica roberts you have to wave monica pta treasure mrs kylie more purdy [Applause] and our pta secretary mrs jennifer laraboo brancho behind
004the stage controlling the sound for today mr michael johnson our music director and on stage with me our counselor mrs kylie anderson academic coordinator mrs jennifer slay academic coordinator mrs allison kent [Applause] assistant principal mr brandon gianna keaney and last but definitely not least our wonderful rile staff who are able to join us here today [Applause] [Music] i'd like to now take the time to honor some of our students if you look at your programs students it's time for you to do that following the list of student names you will find a key for some recognitions i would like all of our ets scholar students if you've got a little square next to your name to please stand up give them a round of applause [Applause] and have a seat the next group of students
005please stand up if you were one of our two-year avid students with a little diamond next to your name [Applause] congratulations a little smiley face means you were one of our eighth grade award recipients please stand up and show off your medals one star means you made the year-long honor roll would you please stand up [Applause] [Music] and please remain standing if you have two stars next to your name these are our year-long principles honor roll 4.0 students [Applause] congratulations to you all all right so 8th graders after today i'm pretty sure you can confidently say that you've had the most unique middle middle school experience of any other 8th grade graduating class in human history i want to say congratulations for making it here today to celebrate your achievements and your futures with us
006as i think back on this year i can't help but think about our school motto which is every student matters every moment counts my hope is that even though these last few years may have been strange each one of you has left with some moments that you can look back on and say hey my time at wilson searles wasn't so bad after all i wanted to take a little time today to share some of my favorite moments from this year that helped me get through the year and to this point today so obviously the first day of school if we can remember way back in august where we completely confused all of you by making you go to all nine classes a completely different lunch and then sometime in the middle of that found time
007to shove you in the gym for your school pictures one of my favorite moments and i know your favorite moments our first round of school-wide eye-ready testing and then our second round and then our third round [Music] wait so if you don't leave with your parents they actually i need you to stay and check into the library we'll give you a fourth round of irony testing today that's the first time i've ever been booed okay our first social event since the pandemic are november dance and the moment when it was all over and chris niecy looked at me and said mr barassi that was lit i was especially flattered by that comment since if you guys remember it was really foggy and dark and mr knight mr g and i worked tirelessly tirelessly to make
008sure the black top was well illuminated for you so i thought it was lit i want to tell you about all my opportunities to get interviewed by our advanced broadcasting class who worked every day to provide us with riles tv and a special thank you to shauna singh for making me answer all those corny dad jokes thank you shauna in the spring it was a special moment when we invited the sixth graders over to get them excited to come to riles next year we had some of you sitting out there give speeches about elective classes you were in most of you were super nervous which meant you went too fast or you were really quiet but not ariah sanders gary ariah it was awesome to see how amazing your public speaking skills commanded the crowd
009and made our sixth graders excited to be taking our last year thank you ariah for that moment and most recently a new moment the first annual lego derby give yourselves a hand if you participated in our lego derby that gave some of you the opportunity to show off your engineering skills and your creativity by building brick cars and racing them for trophies so students if you ask any staff member what they enjoy most about their jobs i think they will also say it's these types of moments i know that's true for me on behalf of the entire rile staff i want to say thank you for allowing us to create and share these moments and memories with you all right and now it's time to hear from the stars of today's show our students student
010speakers if you would please come up stage left to our stairs [Applause] our first speaker is our student body president diana romanski surprisingly i don't need a step stool all right first off i want to congratulate all our 8th graders we made it and many of you thought we wouldn't survive this year my name is diana romanski and if you don't already know i'm the president of wilson c riles it's been my honor to serve with my vice president kerry beasley and my secretary [Applause] and my secretary matthew zelalem one particular question that students asked me throughout the whole school year was what have i done for this school that question took a lot of thought into it i mean i couldn't change the amount of homework that was given i couldn't change what they
011served at lunch i couldn't stop the fire alarm from ruining our first rally we were all new lost and a little confused that made me feel helpless but i knew it was my responsibility to do something different i knew that our students here needed to feel welcome and comfortable the most important thing that i could do was be optimistic and spit a little bit more positivity whether it was offering a compliment or giving out a hug planning an event or filling in as a photographer my plan was to spread positivity wherever i went so my advice to our almost 9th graders spread positivity it doesn't matter how big or small our journey ends here thank you and i'd like to welcome the first of our valedictorians mr charles cortwright [Applause] well i charlie courtright have
012learned advanced grown and still came out of this pandemic relatively intact as i hope many of you in the audience today have also found ways to cope for me personally the two years of covid were extremely boring and i'm glad to have a routine now even if that routine is sitting in a chair six hours a day five days a week and i know that many others had a very difficult time during distance learning because while switching to a whole new form of learning while trying to switch to a whole new form of learning in eighth grade and middle school in general came became very difficult for many people though even though school may feel sometimes may sometimes feel extrinsic there are many good things about it it has paved the way of academic success
013for me and a multitude of my colleagues and i've met new people this has allowed me to find more reasons to self-reflect and develop my understanding of this world for we are not immutable or unchangeable we as people can change and are not cemented as who we are now our lens through which we view this world may be forever tinted but we can try to see clearly and as unbiased as we can i would like to thank all of you in the audience today for staying with me through this reminiscent philosophical speech because i trust that all of you were paying attention and can remember what i've just said but even if you forget the speech remember what gabrielle giffords said in address to bard college graduates be bold be courageous be your best thank
014you [Applause] [Music] our next speaker is joaquin di mayuga [Applause] first off i would like to say that i'm forever grateful for the opportunity to give a speech on this very special day our final day at wilson t riles if you don't know who i am my name is joaquin demiuka our journey throughout these two years has been quite bizarre for fifty percent of the time we were on campus because of the pandemic all the advice we learned from our older siblings or former teachers about riles was completely useless during distance learning i can almost guarantee that everyone here was brought out of their minds in seventh grade during distance learning there really wasn't much to do because we were all at home during this seventh grade was about 633 hours or 26 days of
015much of staring at a chromebook instead of learning inside a classroom yes i did the math of course when it came to eighth grade when we were actually on campus it was a lot more interesting funnily enough the advice that was given to me by my prehistoric older siblings was still useless they did not prepare me for the stressful tests tedious projects and false fire alarms seriously an unbelievable amount of false fire alarms there's one today on the contrary well cynthia ryles has given us much enjoyment spirit days fun electives and of course the amazing staff middle school has been a roller coaster of emotions and today the ride has ended i will never forget the amazing classmates teachers and staff that rarel has offered to end off the speech i'd like to say a
016poem that i've had prepared for the longest time wilson c riles never gave us up never let us down the school never let us run around or desert us taught us how to try but now it's time to say goodbye and leave for center high inspired by the famous port from the 90s rick astley thank you for listening in case you missed that he just rick rolled you our next speaker is emilio giles [Applause] good morning in case you don't know me my name is emilio giles and i'm one of the valedictorians which means i have the opportunity to give a speech which unfortunately is just another homework assignment so this was last minute middle school is the beginning of your teenage years or at least that's how i see it though seventh grade wasn't
017what everyone thought it would be it was an experience nonetheless one of my first memories as an eighth grader was when a seventh grader asked me where one of their classes were because i was an eighth grader i didn't know where it was i was new here too this was a special experience i don't think previous 8th graders had except us since we returned to school in the middle of a pandemic this year has been a lot better though as far as school goes for starters it was in person rather than online and we had events like basketball games and dances i really enjoyed this year and i hope you all did too i've made many unforgettable memories and wouldn't change a thing about this year even though there were a lot of tests and
018a lot of homework and a lot of reading it wasn't that bad i actually had a lot of fun this school year and i hope you all did too i'm almost out of ideas so time to move on now i know my speech may not have been the best but at least it's over now now to finish off this speech i just want to say thank you to all my family and friends for helping me get through this year and finally thank you all for listening to me rambling about this school [Applause] i'd like to welcome dominic dixon [Music] [Applause] hello teachers parents families and students i want to start off by saying i'm not much of a talker so this will be relatively short it is an honor to be given the title of
019valedictorian and be given the speech right here right now the journey to this day was not an easy one though everyone here has worked very hard to get where we are right now tireless nights motivationless days and days that are jam-packed with work for most it is hard to stay positive throughout the year and actually look forward to the next school day i always hear parents and guardians talking about how we grow up so fast however to us students the years months weeks and days are much longer than they are made out to be by others my advice to anyone going to middle school next year or entering 8th grade is to stay positive and have good time management skills being positive will allow you to stay optimistic about the future and good time management
020can help you study do homework and make time for other hobbies families and friends although work is very important personal time and friends with and time with friends and family is just as important as school work personal time can prevent you from basically losing your sanity from all the schoolwork and stress that is projected onto you constantly it was hard to achieve but once you get the happy medium between friends schoolwork family and most importantly you the school year will seem easier and you will be in a better mood for school i want to end this speech by thanking my parents siblings and my close friends without all of you i would not be standing here where i am today thank you next up is aiden jennings all right hello everyone my name is aiden
021jennings i am very honored to be one of the seven people that get to speak at this event today i feel like i am able to tell you about all the things that are important to me but before we start i would like to thank a few people thank you mom for always being there when my light was low you sacrificed some of your light to keep mine going thank you dad for always listening to me when i needed to get something on my chest thanks heidi and john for always being there and giving me a happy and healthy place to stay and finally thank you morgan for always being there as my friend you have stuck by my side no matter what happened might have been a rumor or a title you didn't care
022you knew who i was and i'm thankful to have you in my life all these people in my life the good and the bad have let me see that there is meaning to life and that there is truly something special about human interaction when i was in seventh grade it was all online my parents were always working and i couldn't really see people which dueled my feelings i practically became a robot but that year even though it didn't matter i portrayed a's and i thought to myself that i can do this i am so much better than how i act and that is when i started trying there was a downside to this newfound power and it caused me to be more stressed and then i started watching anime and listening to music and i
023loved it that is when i decided that i have to balance life with working and relaxing so i set a schedule which helped me become a better person all around even with all the school stuff set up there were people that helped me know that in the future i want to be someone that people look up to i want people to think hey it's aiden and i want people to start smiling when i'm around all i want in this world is for people to realize it's their life and they should take control of it if you don't like something then change it to make it how you want it to be it's your life so take the wheel and make the car go where you want it to this person i strive to be is
024a person that pushes through pushes through even during the darkest times a person that shows the bright side of things someone that is always there to help people get out of that dark situation so all i can do now is work hard and push through whatever i have to if it's school or work or even the loss of a close one nothing will ever dampen my will of fire [Applause] thank you aiden and our final speaker of the day is emma nguyen [Applause] good morning everyone first off i'd like to let our families friends teachers and staff members know how much we value your love and support thank you all so much for everything you have done for us these two years now i'd like to address the students here my classmates my peers i
025know that it has been a difficult couple of years as of this day we have survived middle school we have survived distance learning i look back at elementary school and laughed myself when i recall my sixth grade teacher trying to prepare us for middle school as if they ever could have prepared us for a pandemic we have survived english essays math quizzes science lessons social studies notes and pe miles all the tests told us you shall not pass but it will be worth it everything we have learned here all that we've been taught will be worth of it in the long run so do not give up it was brian herbert who said the capacity to learn is a gift the ability to learn is a skill the willingness to learn is a choice on
026the first day of high school i want you to remember what saint ignatius of loyola once said go forth and set the world on fire thank you everyone and may the force be with you thank you emma and please one more big round of applause for all of our student speakers today all right it is now that time for the wilson sea rouse middle school class of to receive your promotion certificates [Applause] [Music] again this year we're not going to be shaking hands as we cross the stage but you're going to get your certificate and feel free to walk across wave to your family and exit stage right first row if you could please rise and come to the stage hutcherson [Applause] christian salinas [Applause] terry abram [Music] sophia aguayo [Applause] [Music] gabriella alvarez francisco
027alvarez [Applause] leah angel ariana armienta [Music] thomas avalos alexandra avila ryan ayala [Applause] kaiori beasley [Applause] rebecca bell [Music] oliver bello paige benson adelaide bird tail laylarae blake [Applause] keaney blakeney [Applause] delon bless it [Applause] christopher bourgeois christopher bray shane brown [Music] [Applause] [Music] caleb brown anthony caballero [Music] vincent celaya [Applause] suwanna chand gavin chaney arthur chavez melody chavez [Applause] vernon compton yahir landon cook [Applause] [Music] charles courtright [Applause] [Music] [Applause] casey crow [Applause] jasmine davis brayden brayden dejong yaroslav jennings jonathan degrange are you jose or john i'm jose diaz thank you jose diaz [Music] gino di mateo say your last name one more time joaquin dominic dixon timothy dominguez matthew dykstra gabriel eskendon janina may escarton manuel esparza [Music] ariana espinoza [Applause] antoine eczevelle [Applause] andrew farinsky vladislav fedchick leilani felix no emmanuel fernandez
028[Music] [Applause] mckenzie fountain [Applause] luis fuentes emily fuentes galvez solika banu gaffarova janet garcia [Applause] jasmine garcia isabella garcia artem garcia smile josh [Music] joshua garnica isaiah garrett [Applause] amanda gaska catherine gavrilook natalia gaiduck abigail gibson emilio giles eric gomez [Applause] maximus gamillion anthony gonzalez espejo kayla gramajo romero lyanna grischenko [Applause] jasmine gaboglobe [Music] isabella guerrero chuck jazlyn gutierrez emma hagley seth haygood jada hall [Applause] joshua hang on jalen hansen alison harvill riley haskin sophia hernandez giselle hernandez anthony hernandez jazlyn hernandez aikens [Music] juliet hogue smith [Applause] landon hoke quentin holder caden howerton abernathy [Applause] abraham hunter [Applause] yosef hussein abrielle isbell nevaya jenkins aidan jennings [Applause] damian jessen [Applause] casey johnson [Applause] matthew johnson jayden johnston nims [Applause] anthony jones michael michael yeah michael jones [Music] malik jones [Applause] [Music] elijah jones morgan kelly
029[Music] jonas kidder michael are you michael say your last name anthony anthony capisco [Music] garrett kozell ryder craft [Applause] max kushner elijah lay charlotte lamb maria lange henry lazzo [Applause] ethan lee olivia leon guerrero [Music] evan levier melanie lewis [Music] josmani lopez michelle lucan nash mandala luis manzo martinez [Applause] noah martinez [Music] emma martinoff my shawn matthews miceli sheila mottos haley mcarver [Music] mary rose mccoy [Applause] liliana mcdaniel [Applause] alyssa mcnichol colby meager summer medrano taylor mileage logan mendonza aaliyah mendoza [Applause] miley myer [Applause] skyler miles [Applause] jonah jonah mills [Applause] athena muah eris monyer amelia morillo barrosio natalie nguyen sheila wynn [Applause] emma nguyen anna nichols christopher nisi [Applause] angelica novick christopher o'suguera martin ochoa [Applause] kallian osaguera [Applause] noah oxen rider [Applause] stephanie padilla gonzalez arthur panetta [Applause] [Music] alex plato [Applause] leoni
030excuse me lyanna pokey duke [Music] nicholas piara [Music] natalia ramirez [Applause] jeremiah reynolds [Applause] allison rhodes valeria rivas rodriguez leia roberts [Applause] bailey rolling [Applause] [Music] [Applause] christian rowell [Applause] brian rule [Applause] isabella sabrin yuki seifong [Applause] miley celcetto ariah sanders gary [Applause] [Music] diego sandoval [Applause] christopher sandoval cecina [Applause] jordan sandridge [Applause] [Music] kevin santos daniel soares [Applause] canessa sells ahmad shahab [Applause] valeria sherbach maria silvestre [Applause] ishan deep singh tanit singh [Applause] daniel solorio [Applause] rosalia sorozano anaya stamps [Applause] jonathan stanton nakai starks [Music] jackie [Applause] [Music] harman singh [Applause] jaylene turn [Music] brandon thomas [Applause] jacob thompson [Applause] erica to koch [Applause] jordan urban [Applause] you are dominant dominic velasquez alexandra velasquez emmanuel vello [Music] [Applause] diego villa gomez [Music] max berbiev dylan wagner [Applause] charlotte wallace [Music] nicholas williams christopher willis
031[Music] [Applause] matthews olam [Applause] all right so thank you all so much for coming students we wish you all the best in the future i know you will continue to make yourselves your families our district and our school proud of our huskies congratulations let's hear it one more time for the riles middle school class of 2022 [Applause] have a great summer [Applause] you