001Okay, good evening everyone. Good evening. Hey, this is an exciting time. Let's do it again. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Wonderful. Wonderful. Well, welcome to the student success celebration committee. Tonight, we are here to shine spotlight on incredible talents, accomplishments, and bright futures of our Akran public schools students. Let's just give that a round of applause. We're here, we will hear tonight from student athletes, academic leaders, and introduce an exciting new grow your own pathway for future teachers. So, let's begin. with me today. Um I would like to I'm the facilitator um Summer Hall and with me today is my co-chair um Renee Moliner, president Carla Jackson, member Diana Autry. We also have um Angela Carter and we have Superintendent Mary Otley. And we also have a student board member here who is Jeff I'm
002sorry Jordan Leon STEM senior correct senior at STEM. All right. Okay. So let's go ahead and get started. Miss Carter. Thank you. We want to first begin tonight by celebrating student athletes from ECLC who are leaders both in the classroom and on the field. Please welcome Deno Buckley Knight, head football coach at ECLC. [Applause] Good evening. Uh, thanks for having me. I'm Deno Buckley Knight and I'm the officer coordinator at East High School. I'm the guy that get cussed out when we lose. Um, but with that being said, it's an honor to be here uh recognizing two of our student athletes. Uh, the first the first word being student and the second word being athlete. Both of them represent and exemplify exactly what that is. Uh the first one uh was an intern uh with
003the city of Akran for two years. Uh he served uh in the mayor's office and I was his supervisor. Uh I would like to introduce Anthony Felden the third. Hello, my name is Anthony Fielding and um I'm a two sport athlete that attends Akan East. Uh I play football and basketball and what motivated me most about football and like motivates me in the classroom is doubt cuz I've been like doubted always like my life because I'm undersized. So when I'm just undersized, I just know that I have to go out there and absolutely try my hardest in anything that I do. And I made sure I just go out there and try and leave it all to God. And and well, my favorite part about being an intern was about being around the Nico cuz
004I didn't know that his life honestly was that busy. And being around him, I just being all of the meetings. It was just honestly great cuz I could just like for peers I could like I was able to set up stuff this summer around my peers. [Applause] Uh the next student athlete I have the honor of introducing is Rashad Al Kadir Steel. He's a a senior at Akran STEM High School and he's also a football player at East. Come on up. Thank you. And um my name is Rashad Alcader Steel and I go to National Inventors Hall of Fame High School STEM and I play football, basketball, baseball at EC. And my favorite part about the internship was being around the water reclamation facility and going around talking to community partners all the time and
005basically planning for the city for events and that's about it. Thank you. [Music] Thank you Mr. Butley and thank you to our scholars who did their internships at the mayor's office. Um, next we recognize we're going to recognize student athletes from Akran Early College High School whose dedication and discipline shine through the running club. [Music] Please welcome Mr. Thomas O'Neal. So, so hello board members. Um, Miss Outlay Kelly, um, Dr. Lash, Miss Carter. I, uh, little background on this. Um, oh, fun fact, too. Uh, Mr. Deno Knight was my quarterback back in 1999. And sitting next to him to the right, Mr. Antoine Logan, followed his steps. So, I was able to coach both those young men at North High School many years ago. Awesome. So, uh, and they're both outstanding, outstanding young men. Proud
006proud to see them here. As Shaya Davis tells me, I know everybody. Quite a few. So, I I I'm trying not to be long-winded, but I there's a backstory on this. Um, so, uh, my brother, who who had the vision for this running club, uh, is not here. He's he's on his way back from the Chicago Marathon, uh, which he ran in yesterday. So, uh, as you know, Akano Early College High School cannot have a sports program. Maybe you didn't know that. Um, I've been there for 18 years and I've been trying to petition the state for 18 years to allow us have a sports program. And there's all kinds of Ohio High School Athletic Association loopholes why and reasons why we can't. I can't take the time to tell you all that, but it's
007very frustrating. Uh we're going to recognize over a hundred uh athletes in our program in our pep assembly next week. Uh that's one quarter of our students uh play sports at their schools which is challenging. Uh they are at our school all day. They have to travel across town to play at other programs. Uh sometimes where coaches don't understand the demands of our program. Uh the travel time to those practice sites and then the practices and then coming home and staying up late to study. It's it's taxing. So, I applaud we applaud all of our student athletes at Akan College High School. But my brother and I have been longtime track coaches and um he he wanted to start a running club at Akan Early. We kind of started last year with this. Um and
008you know, his vision was just, hey, let's get in a couple you know, we talked to Mr. Vaselotti. Uh let's let's compete as a club. We can get some in some invitationals. We can maybe even run in the city meet. Uh, of course we can't score because of Ohio high school athletic coaching rules, but we can at least our kids can compete. And so, uh, you know, when I submitted our, uh, submitted this uh, to Angela, I said uh, say a few things about your, you know, why why your program should be recognized. And I said, no stipen, no budget, just a vision. And it was my brother's vision. and he put together this uh young group of uh young ladies and men who went out and competed and competed hard in five invitationals. Uh
009put our school on the map. Uh we went down to Stark County up to Kaga County and Oliver Summit County representing a early college high school. Um we uh competed in last week's city meet. We had two uh you know the first place finisher among the boys is Leo Ward. He's here tonight. Uh he was a first place finisher in the city. Our runner up among the girls is here tonight as also Mel Morales. She was a second place. Um among all girls in the city series, they had an opportunity to run at their their neighborhood schools. They wanted to represent Aken Early College High School. Um and they decided to run as a club member and still represent our school. even though they cannot advance in the district meet next week, it meant that
010much of uh for them to stay and run, you know, in our program. So, it says a lot about their commitment to our school and how much they love our school. Um, so again, I I just want to give my brother a lot of credit because just if you you know, coming out and seeing our our our kids compete last week at at the city meet, um, you know, I I couldn't sleep that night. I was so just overwhelmed with pride in our school and pride in our students and my brother who put this all together. So, uh, they definitely deserve this recognition. Um, so I want to call them up one by one and then, uh, if a couple of our seniors want to say a few words, they're welcome to. Obviously, we have
011too many people to talk the whole night, but if a couple of our seniors want to say a few words, they're welcome to. Uh, Manuel Bby, [Applause] Lena Chow, [Applause] McKinley Crumb, Anthony Kakuza, He's here. There you go. Anthony, Robbie Cunningham, Chayia Davis, London Garden, Santana Golden Uh, Dominic Cwell, Donald Kennedy, [Applause] Marilia Morales, Assad Norn, [Applause] Oh, thank you. Oh, thank you Harlon Parsons. Iris Vaxf [Music] Rubina Ry John Sysler Shelby Summers Riley Wang, May I say a few words? Yeah, just stand up here. Right up here. Thank you. Leo Ward, Elaine Zoo, Jordan Blair, and I don't have a certificate, but I do want to um recognize Marcus Watley. Marcus uh runs for North High School, but he uh ran in every invitational with our Akan College team. Um North did not run
012many invitationals. He wanted the extra work and he came to all the workouts and ran uh with our team and he was kind of like an honorary um early college runner with our club. So, he did double time with us and North High School. Nice job, Marcus. I also want to mention that uh we uh had four relay teams in Akan Marathon and um our top team finished six among 600 relay teams in the city uh in the city relay which was a phenomenal accomplishment. Um so I do have one senior. Any other seniors want to come up? You're welcome to just seniors now. All right, come on up seniors. Okay. State your name, your birth date, and your occupation. I'm just kidding. Just hi everyone. Uh, my name is Riley Wang. I'm a senior
013at Agon Early College High School. Uh, so, um, the reason I want to come up here and and talk is, um, I'm really grateful for this opportunity to run for my school. Nothing makes me more proud than putting on A singlet because, um, my home high school is, um, Commentary High School. So when I came to Akan Early College, I was a little sad. I couldn't run uh run cross country or track for my home high school. And then Miss O'Neal, which we uh we call Big O, you know, he gave he gave us a chance to run cross country. And I'm super uh super grateful and u super um happy uh to have this opportunity. Thank you guys. Yes. [Applause] Good evening. When me and L M Mr. Larry O'Neal first talked about, excuse
014me, my name is Harlem Parsons. When Mr. O'Neal first gave us the opportunity to talk about how we feel about participating in any sports, it was at our inter murals club. He said that we all had a knack for being fast, for running, for throwing, for catching. So when given the opportunity to run for our cross country team, I couldn't help but say yes. And being a part of this team has been a blessing. Hi. Um my name is London. Hi, my name is London Garden. Um I'm a senior at Arenoi College and my home school is Firestone. I do have a track team to go to, but I don't really know anyone at Farsome who runs track. And so, and I'm a sprinter, so like this was a little different for me, but O'Neal
015um last I was in his running club my 10th grade year, which is part of a voice and choice we do every Thursday. And he convinced me to finally um sign up for that. And then he convinced me to do cross country. And it was like one of the best decisions I had because I would never have talked to some of the people on this team. I wouldn't have met a lot of the people. And um and it's Larry O'Neal. He he made us a team when he didn't have to because he doesn't get paid for this and but he bought us all shoes. He got us um to other meets and he believed in us which um other people don't. So thank you. [Applause] Hi, my name is Meli Morales. I'm a senior at
016Akenurly College and I've run cross country for the past three years at North High School. And this year, I decided to run cross country for my school at Akan Early College. And for the past two years, I've placed in cities. And this year, I chose to run for my school knowing that I would not receive an award. But I think it was better to run with a team with a stronger community and stronger relationships and a great coach who supports us on and off the field. And I don't regret my decision any day. And I'm thankful to have met all these people and my teammates. Thank you. Hello. Hello. My name is Marcus Wii. This a little bit impromptu so it's going to be a little bit short. Um, I'm a senior at North High
017School and I'm also an honorary honorary cross country runner with AC as well. Um, I decided to I decided to run cross country with AC because at the time like from last year AC North were a team at the time and and this year they weren't a team. So, we didn't have we didn't have any really too much runners on the north side. So, I decided to I decided to run with um Mr. O'Reill and all the other AC runners, join them on all the um 5ks as well as all the meets and I say it was the best experience I've ever had and and also I'm I'm very grateful for this opportunity. [Music] Hello everyone, my name is Shaya Davis. I'm a senior at Akan Early College and this was my first year running
018cross country. I don't know what made me want to do it besides my friends and the community and I'm so glad I did. I run track at Firestone and I'm a sprinter so I don't really know anybody on the cross country team there. I don't feel like I would have fit in the way I do at my own school and I'm just so grateful for the opportunity to be here and to have run for them. And I just love my school. That's all I have to say. So, thank you all so much and congratulations to you all. I usually don't wear hats, but I thought this hat was so fitting for today. Um, I attended an event last week and um, just understanding who we are and what we're doing. This hat represents so much
019more than just me wearing a hat today. It represents you all being successful, you all being victorious, you all winning. And my question, Mr. O'Neal, is I know that um running for Akan Early College is not a sport, but how can we get colleges to still come out and see our children? Um so that they're not missing a beat on any scholarships or anything like that. Do we have stats of our kids? Do we, you know, like put it online or anything like that where these students can get scholarships to college? running track. So, there's a platform for invitationals that even though we weren't um part of OSHA, our our scores are still in those those online platforms that that the uh basically log all those times that our students ran, etc. So, if if
020there's college recruits out there looking at those platforms, which they do, um our names their names will pop up. Okay. And some of our you know, we've got the best runner in the city right here, Leo Ward. He's a sophomore. Um, [Music] and uh, my brother has encouraged him to run for fire next year so he can go on in advance and run the district meet and so on and so on. And that'll be up to Leo and his parents. Um, you know, and I think Leo's probably going to do that and he probably should. Uh, my my I guess push is that if we could once again as a district maybe petition the state to take a second look at why schools like Acar College High School cannot have a sports program. um long
021term. Obviously, that won't be settled tomorrow or the next week or the next month. But I think again hearing from our student athletes here how much it means to put on the blue and gold and go out and represent your school. I've been a coach for 34 years and there's no other feeling like it to see um it brings the school together. It brings students together and it it allows them to to intersect with students that maybe they never would have before as you heard many of them say. So, there's so many advantages that come out of that. But, um yes, they will get recognized there. there's a way that uh college if they're good enough, college coaches will definitely um pick up on on their times and their abilities and my brother will help
022facilitate that as well. So, wonderful. Thank you so much. Are there any other comments from any other board members? Go ahead. All right. Thank you. Thank you. I'll just be brief and say congratulations to all of you. Congratulations to our student athletes, of course, but congratulations also to the parents and the teachers and other adults that helped our students get here. Um, early college I think is a really great example. Sometimes we think, oh, students go there and then what really happens there? Because it's a different kind of school and in every way it is a different kind of school. And this really demonstrates the amount of community that you're able to build in such a short time even with students who are taking classes all over campus. But they are a community. I see
023you nodding. I see you smiling. I see you caring about each other. And so congratulations to all of you. Thank you, Dr. Muller. Any other comments? I would just uh concur with Dr. Molinar and just to uh Mr. O'Neal as well as his brother, that's how excellence looks different because you can see when the students come up and they talk about their coaches that it was it's a trickle down effect, right? And when you talk about not nothing, no stifen, you know, no awards and um you said just this and I thought just grit, just grit, just intestinal fortitude and focus of wanting to be together and knew you were able to do something. And the students even shared that like it wasn't about the award. The one young lady who uh said she runs
024from North and you used to getting putting up numbers and getting trophies, but it was important to you. was the principle of it to run with your team and it was a sense of uh of camaraderie and I just say respect and kudos to you and thank you because educators like you impact eternity and this is what we this is what we need in this district educators that know that it's more just about the moments and you know checking off boxes or petitioning for this but really pouring into the life where the students are to center and I really got that from you when you were speaking. And I love how you recognize your brother who I would love to meet as well. And I would just love to support you in any type of
025way um just within my network and resources. I heard them when they said you bought them shoes and things like that. And we have networks that can help you because you are the real deal. And I thank God for you and congratulations to all of you. All right. Wonderful. So we'll end this portion. Um again, you all keep doing your best, keep striving for greatness, and don't let anyone tell you what you can't do because you're doing it. Okay, so we'll end this portion and um we'll bring the next group in. Thank you so very much for showing up and showing out. [Music] Let me know when we're ready. Oh, we are. Okay. I'll read my spill again. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Awesome. We're here for an exciting moment right now. Um so good
026evening everyone. My name is Summer Hall. I am the chair of this wonderful committee as well as my co-chair Dr. Moliner. Um we would love to we not we love welcome to the student success celebration committee. Um tonight we are here to shine the spotlight on incredible talents, accomplishments, and bright futures of Akran public school students. We will hear from um academic leaders and introduce the new exciting grow your own pathway for future teachers. So let's begin. With me today, we also have President Dr. Carla Jackson, member Diana Autry, Miss Angela Carter. Hello everybody, superintendent Mary Otley, and we also have our student board member Jordan Leon. Before we get started, I do want to give a special shout out to Angela Carter. She helps put this together. She reaches out. She works with um
027Eric Fletcher, Jasmine's Brit, Jasmine Britain, and Dr. Where is she at? Yavon Cover. She may be upstairs, but I just want to just give them a round of applause because they're the ones doing the all the work. Okay, so you want to go ahead and get started? We'll get started with what is it? Um, perfect OST scores. Yes, perfect OST scores. This is so excellent. I'm so excited that everyone showed up. We had to split the group in half. And so now we're going to celebrate our academic excellence and students who achieve perfect scores on the state assessment. Please welcome Dr. Wanda Lash, our assistant superintendent. Yeah. Good evening, Chair Hall and Monar and members of the board, our superintendent and Mrs. Carter. Uh, this is the moment where we honor absolute mastery and dedication.
028These scholars behind me did not just meet the bar, they redefined it. Um, achieving a perfect score on their state assessment. And so, um, it is my pleasure to call their names and recognize them, uh, and celebrate them and their their family, uh, that's with here with them tonight. And so, I'll start. Zed al- Yazi. Did I get it right? Okay. Okay. You can see what they got it on. Okay. All right. Um I was told I can say what they got it on. So Zed, yours, I believe, was American government. Congratulations. Quala Almi, who attained a perfect score on grade 8 ELA, English language arts. Jane Amanette, a perfect score on grade seven math. [Applause] Scarlet Anderson, a perfect score on algebra 1. Bealp Bassnet, perfect score on grade three math. Emanuel Bby, perfect
029score on Algebra 1. Olivia Bomba, perfect score on American government. Kevin Brewer, perfect score on grade four math. Norah Brown, perfect score on American Government. Ellie Bird, perfect score on grade five English language arts. Logan Cobb, grade four math. Nyriel Cole, perfect score, American government. Good. Good. Gavin Cole, perfect score, Grade Three Math. You're welcome. Elliot Curry, perfect score, American History. Megan Demouth, a perfect score on English language arts 2. Jaden Dent, perfect score on grade four math. Jaden Dent, I'll call his name again. Grade four, English language arts. Charles Divas, grade four, math. [Applause] Harmony Dowy, grade three, math. Serenity Ecman, grade seven, English language arts. Cameron Eiggonia, grade three math. Thank you. Welcome. Elijah Fischer, grade five math. McKenna Flanigan, grade three, English language arts. [Applause] Jasper Fry, grade five science. Jasper Fry,
030grade five English language arts. Truman Garo, grade A science. Jackson Gilmore, grade five math. Congratulations, Chay Hammad. Grade seven, English language arts. actually Chay Hammet, grade seven, English language arts. Thank you. Thank you. Stanley Heric, grade three, English language arts. You're welcome. Valerie Holdman, grade six math. [Applause] Cecilia Hudson, grade four, English language arts. Congratulations. [Laughter] Ali Husani, American government. Aiden Jackson, geometry. Christian Kakkesh, grade four math. Oh, they're upstairs. Oh, okay. Well, I was a math teacher, so I didn't stop at the alphabet. All right. So, that was the first half of the alphabet. Congratulations to these scholars. You want to say something? Dr. Mulliner. Thank you. I just want to say congratulations to everyone. Thank you to all the students. Thank you to all the parents. This is such a proud moment and
031I heard so many of our fifth graders, our fourth, fifth, sixth graders and I just want to remind everyone that our current fifth graders are our students who were online for kindergarten for CO. And so when we talk about the journey that we have been through as parents and families and the community to get us here, you started online for COVID at a time that none of us knew it was going on and you are now perfect scorers on the hardest test that anyone in the state took for the for your grade. So congratulations all of you. Again, congratulations to all. First, I would just like to thank the parents because you are the ones that stay up all night, all day, pressing, making sure that they're doing their homework, reading, studying. So, thank you
032parents for showing up and showing out for your children. And thank you. Well, that's a hand of applause for our parents and to the students. Keep on doing what you're doing. There's going to be challenges in life, but it's okay. You can accomplish this test. You can accomplish anything. So, I wear this hat today. I prevail because you're winning. You're achieving. You're great. You're victorious. So, keep on keep your head up and make sure that you conquer every task that you gets thrown in front of you. Okay? You are great. You have a comment now. Okay, Dr. Jackson, this is going to be very quick because I just want to say this on the mic. So, if any Chick-fil-A or Chipotle or Wing Stop, anyone that's looking cuz you know kids love those type of
033things and want to bless the district with some gift cards or something so that we can bless these students that will be excellent because this is excellent. So, anyone watching, if you want to bless these kids with something um so that they can, you know, be celebrated properly. I know kids love Chick-fil-A and and Chipotle. So, if we can get gift cards, that would be great. So, congratulations. I'm so proud of you all. This is excellent. All right. So, I will dismiss this group. We have another group coming in. Oh, one moment. Everyone, could you come up this way out this door? Um, as you exit out, come out this way. Thank you again everyone. You want to say thank you to say that. Okay. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Let's try this again. Come
034on. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Thank you so very much. My name is Summer Hall. I am the chair of this wonderful committee. So, welcome to the student success celebration committee. Tonight, we are here to shine spot a shine a spotlight on the accomplishments and the bright futures of our Akran public school students. We'll hear from academic leaders and introduce our new exciting grow your own pathway for future teachers as well as celebrate all of you amazing students. So let's begin. So with me to help facilitate I have my co-chair Dr. Renee Moliner. I have President Carla Jackson. I have member Diana Altry. I have executive director of school leadership Angela Carter. Superintendent Mary Otuley, Assistant Superintendent Wanda Lash, and most of all, we have our student board member Jordan Leon. So, let's go ahead
035and get started. Carter. All right, this is so exciting. We are ready to celebrate academic excellence and our students who achieve perfect scores on their state assessments. Please welcome Dr. Wanda Lash, our assistant superintendent. [Applause] Good evening. This is the moment that we recognize and honor complete mastery and dedication. Uh these scholars that will be recognized not only uh met the bar but they redefined it. They achieved perfect scores on their state assessments. And so yeah, [Music] I I am amazingly proud to recognize these scholars as I call their name and hand them their certificate of recognition. Um and also recognizing and thanking their families uh that have brought them here today and certainly um have something to do with this recognition as well. All right. So, this is the second half of the alphabet
036and I will start with Aiden Jackson for earning a perfect score in geometry. Christian Kakkesh, grade four math. Christian Kakish. [Music] Arthur Kerbali, grade five math. Okay, I'm you can correct me on your name. I give you permission. Parker Cole, algebra 1. Nolan Lamp, American Government. Lorenzo Leatherwood, American History. Liam Lindith, geometry. Nora Malor, grade three, English language arts. [Music] Amelia Miner, grade six, math. You're welcome. Austin Neveris, grade eight math. Annias Nichas, grade four math. Ka Pretty, grade four, English language arts. Thank you. Thank you. Nolan Pintol, grade three, math. Okay. Anish Ry, biology. [Applause] Thank you. Prenicia Rye, grade seven, English language arts. Okay. Alexander Rman, grade seven, English language arts. Aiden Rivera Artis, American government. Griffin. [Music] Oh, is that you? Come on. Aiden. Are you Are you Aiden? Yes. Oh, it's
037not American. You did not take government in high school. Okay. In elementary school. That's okay. All right. We will get this corrected for you for math. I thought he was our youngest government uh test taker. All right. Griffin Shepard, grade six, English language arts. Lauren Salsberg, grade four, English language arts. Oh, look. She knows. Lauren Salsberg, grade four math. Emily Chevetz, grade four, English language arts. Okay. Oh, she knows too. Give me my recognition. Emily Shvetsz, grade four math. Claudia Spratley, grade four math. Gabriel Thompson, grade four math. David Wagner, grade seven math. Congratulations. You're welcome. Tila Watson, English language arts 2. And Callen Yoast, grade four math. All right, let's give them all another round. I would just like to say congratulations. I would have stayed if we had three, four, five more rounds
038to celebrate our students. Thank you so much for just doing your best. That's all we can ask for as parents, educators, community, to the students, thank you for doing your best. To the parents, thank you for supporting your child. I know it's, you know, many nights. I also have a fifth sixth grader. Oh gosh. Oops. Hope she doesn't see this. But I I have a sixth grader, too. And I know how it is these long nights. Get your homework done. You know, they want to do something else. So, I just commend all of the parents and the grandparents for just being an example to your children. And I'll say again for the third time, I wear this hat today for many reasons, right? I prevail. I have my own reasons why wearing it, but I
039also have reasons for wearing it today for your students. You're successful. So, you prevail. You're successful. You're victorious. You can accomplish all things as long as you believe in yourself. So, just keep up the good work. And I'm proud of you. And I know APS is proud of you. You are most welcome. Any other members? Dr. Molina. Thank you. I want to echo what uh member Hall said and just say I am so pleased to see how wonderful all of you are. All of our students that are here with your perfect scores. Some of you have perfect scores on multiple tests and we have students in almost every grade level, almost every subject area and we see also how much support you have because we are all a community. I see parents. I see grandparents.
040I see coaches. I see neighbors. I see friends. And we all are proud of you. We're all hopeful that you see the the future that we see for you. We're proud of your achievement now. And also, we have student board members. Um and so you can um grow and continue to um be leaders here in our school. and thank you so much for everything that you have done. Thank you. Any other board members? Nothing. Okay, Dr. Jackson, congratulations. excellence does look different and it looks like you all. I'm so very proud of you as a member of your community just to know your um hard work. And so one thing that you can always rest assure on is that you have intestinal fortitude that you have grit because you did something that very few people
041do and you receive a perfect score. It does not get better than excellent. And so as you continue to metriculate, that means move on through school. No matter what you face, remember this is who you are and this is what you have the cap the capability to do. So again, I'm so proud of you all parents. Thank you. And this is a great achievement. This is more than just this moment. This is a big deal. And I sometimes things happen and people like, "Oh yeah, I did that." Like it's No, this is extraordinary. and and we're talking nationally extraordinary. Um that you got a hund perfect percent and some of you on multiple tests. I need for you to know how excellent that is. That's not just something that you do. This is saying that
042in the entire state of Ohio, every student within this state took this assessment and you are a group of students that got 100% and some of you that is extraordinary and I need you to embrace that moment and realize you are great and do not dim your light for any reason. Hold your head high and know you are brilliant and you are great and I am proud of you. and Chick-fil-A executives, you're watching, we need some gift cards. Chipotle, we need some gift cards for these kids because I know they like Chick-fil-A and Chipotle. So, someone share this. Make sure an executive gets it to donate us some gift cards so we can bless these students with it. Thank you again. This is such a wonderful, beautiful evening to celebrate our students. So, I just
043would like to again just reiterate congratulations to all of our students for your achievements and for just trying. Um, I would like to thank our staff, APS administration, our teachers. Thank you, families, parents, coaches, um, and community. Thank you to the community for supporting our children. So, as we move forward um with closing this out, um we will be sending out a Google form to the schools and posting links on our website so that family and staff can share stories about student achievements throughout the year. Um also would like to thank Elllet Hospitality for the cookies and the punch. Again, students providing this for us. Next, our next meeting will be held on what is it? November 10th. Thank you. November 10th. And we will be celebrating preschoolers. Preschoolers, you know. So, hey, they are
044our children of the future just like all of you. Um, again, thank you so much for being here and please make sure that you upload your pictures. Shout out Akan Public Schools because we're doing great things. So, in closing, thank you again and have a wonderful evening. You know what, Mr. Aiden? Is it Aiden Rivier Ortiz still here? Aiden, can you come up? Mr. Aiden, come on up. For earning a perfect score on the fourth grade mathematics Ohio State test. Congratulations. Here you go.