001[Music] Everybody. [Music] Good evening everyone. We kindly ask that everyone take their seats so that we can begin this evening's program. Thank you. All right. Again, good evening and welcome. So, my name is Jenna Manley and I am the chief outreach officer for family and community engagement with the Allentown School District and I hope [Applause] And I had the great pleasure of introducing this evening one of five student representatives who are serving as our uh masters of ceremonies to launch us off this evening. So at this time I would like to invite to the stage Isaac Ramos representing South Mountain School. Good afternoon everybody. I would like to welcome you all to Cedar Press College. We are excited for you for you all to join us tonight for our official launch of the Allentown School
002District partnership with Digital Promise and Verizon Innovation Learning Schools. My name is Isaac Ramos and I am an eighth grade I'm an eighth grade student at South Mountain Middle School and a future husky. [Applause] We are excited for all of you to learn more about how the Verizon Innovation Learning Schools initiative will benefit my younger classmates at South Mountain Middle School, other middle other ASD middle schools and building 21 High [Applause] School along with the future bridge View Academy of Health Science Innovation. and technology. I would like you all to give a roaring round of applause for the Harrison Morton band under direction of Miss Ross and welcome you as it is my pleasure to introduce my other co-host for this evening. Please help me welcome Josh Cologne Hernandez from Ja from God Middle School.
003Emanuel Lama from Tre And last but not least from building 21 high school, Donaka. [Applause] Good afternoon everybody. Thank you all for being here. My name is Donica and I'm a rising senior at building 21 high school. Most of my friends call me DK and I hope that you all will have that same opportunity too as well. I served on the superintendent advisory council along with Isaac and Emanuel. [Applause] And as part of this group, we met frequently with Superintendent Burks and district leaderships to learn more about what is going on behind the scenes in ASD and how administration is working to make things better for students. It was my pleasure to greet guests from Verizon when they visited building 21 in the fall. My classmates and I were honored to give our guests the
004grand tour and answer the questions about ourselves and our programming. I'm proud that the time you spent with them helped