001So, thank you for joining me today. Uh, we got a little got some great information for you today and to uh so good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. All right. So, we got a brief agenda, but uh we will have uh NASA from Tech Rise talk today, celebrate 250. And then I do have a few uh legislative and uh state plan updates for you. Not say plan, but rule text uh updates for you this morning. But as you know, what how are we doing this morning? Hopefully, everyone is well. Hopefully, y'all are doing okay. school has started out well for you because I know for some of you I've gotten a few emails, texts or questions from your your friends and families uh in your districts. And so hopefully
002it's going well. Uh good to see you. School is rolling. School is rolling. And then I know for my football fans, I know that you have already had your ups and downs, your screams, your hollers, because you know if you watch that Cowboys game, it was like you you you held out to the end. You had to. And you know, as for some of you that know, my nephew is a football player and he they they they had a good game, but they didn't make it. So the Dolphins are still working. Still working. So all right, so hopefully we are doing well today and we are going to get rolling. So, as you know, I always start out with our state definition. And so, we are looking for those gifted and talented students that show
003potential or have the potential to who are performing at or shows the potential for performing at a remarkably high level of accomplishment when compared to others of the same age, experience or environment. So, they exhibit those uh capabilities in the intellectual, creative or artistic way. uh and then also they have an unusual capacity for leadership and then they are also excelling in the academic specific academic fields. And so we got a lot of kids out there that meet these qualifications. How are we finding them? How are we getting them involved in our programs and looking at them cuz that's it's that season. And so but once we get them there, how are they demonstrating our goal of performance? What are they doing? Are they demonstrating those skills of self, self-directed learning, thinking, research and communication?
004Are they developing those innovative products and perform and having those great performances? What are they doing? Does how are we seeing their individuality, their creativity? And is it once again advanced in relation to those same students of the same age, experience or environment? And what are our high school graduates doing? How are they, you know, as they get ready to roll out of our programs of service and go into either college, career or military, how are they doing? Are they producing those professional products and performances as a part of your programs of service? So really thinking, remember my key things are always know how do you define your program of service? How does it look? How can you explain it? Does everyone understand what it looks like? All right. And I know my friend and
005my uh one of my co-workers here in the work of gifted ed was is on this morning. I think it's Kristen. I don't remember. See if I saw Paulina uh join on, but I know Kristen Graham is here this morning. Kristen, >> thank you so much. Monica Paulina couldn't hop on this morning, but you got me. Um welcome. I was happy to have you. Yeah. Yeah. Um, welcome everyone to a new um, you know, new school year, new year of GT Tuesdays. Um, as Monica said, I'm Kristen Graham. I'm the deputy director of TAGT, which is the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented. Um, so we are your professional home. We um, are the place you can join to connect with others um, across the state. We've got some folks also from out of
006state, occasionally some folks from even out of the country uh, that join the conversation. Um, I once was in your shoes. I once was a um an educator, a GT coordinator. Um, I was listening in on these GT Tuesdays trying to, you know, do better at my job, right? Like we're all trying to do and, um, do better, uh, for our GT kids. Um, and I came on staff with TAGT about three years ago. Um, TGT, um, we have lots of offerings, lots of things going on this fall. Um, I prepared things in the chat. I'm going to go ahead and just share all that in the chat. I'm not going to go over every single little thing, but some things to spark your curiosity. Um, so biggest thing I want to talk about and
007um lead with is our annual conference that's coming up uh in December, the week after Thanksgiving. Uh we will be in the DFW area this year. We'll be in Grapevine at the Gaylord Texan. Super excited. You can click on that link uh there in the chat to learn more. I do want to highlight um if you're someone whether you've been to Gifted or haven't been to Gifted um one of the highlights of the event happens uh usually on Thursday afternoon around 4:00 4:30 um led by Brian Hen he leads this amazing session called speed geeking and what that is is presenters have five minutes each they have one big idea it's super high energy um super fun um some of you on this call may have participated in in presenting speed geeking before. Um, those
008proposals for speed geeking are open. Our our normal breakout sessions are all filled and scheduled and all that and you'll be getting more information soon. Um, but our speed geeking proposals are open. So, if you go to to the link there, um maybe you maybe someone you know that's coming to Gift Ed, uh maybe you're bringing a teacher, uh someone else on your team wants to share a resource, a tip, a strategy, um literally anything that can be shared about in 5 minutes or less and taken back to be implemented um you know, back in your school district uh the following Monday. That's what speed geeking is all about. There's a little video on the speed geeking page from Brian himself uh telling you more. It's a quick form to fill out. Um I I
009just wanted to let you all know about that and especially be thinking about who you might be bringing with you. Um our early bird deadline uh for registration for gifted is coming up uh September 26th. It's a Friday um a couple weeks from now. Um so be getting your group together, be thinking about it, get your stuff organized, get your registrations in. Um we're we're super excited about Gift Dad. Uh as always, um Monica will be there. Monica will have a couple of sessions at Gift Dad. Uh you get to see her uh live and in person. Um uh along with lots of other great speakers, you can start to click around on the website and see some more uh information. You might check out the summit that's happening on Tuesday afternoon. So um you
010know, especially if you're one that's maybe driving in from out of the DFW area. Uh Andy McNair is doing a great summit. You can go to the summit web page on our on the website there. Uh she's also got a little video there talking about what that's going to be about. Super exciting. Also, she has a whole new like little haircut and color going on, but you can only see it if you watch the video, so you might go check it out. Uh anyway, um so that's Gift Ed in a nutshell. Um uh so be sure to check that out. Be making your plans, getting your team together, figuring out who all is going to come. Um, I also did want to mention that today at one o'clock, um, we're going to be recording this,
011but there's a free webinar about changes that you need to know about the ACT. I know it's kind of GT adjacent there. Um, Sheila Griffith is going to be leading that. So, if you want to register for that Zoom, it's completely free. Um, really open to to anyone. Um, feel free to click that link there in the chat. Um, and join there. will post the recording, but um if you want to join uh live today or send that to someone else in your district uh to learn about um what you need to know about any updates to the ACT, you can uh join there. Um it's kind of a last call. We have a book study this fall with Dr. Matt Zakreski. He's um uh a great friend of TAGT, but also um a great
012thought leader um an expert in um neurodeiversity and uh gifted gifted students. He'll also be at GIFED. Um, but he's the author of the book, The Neurodeiversity Playbook. And we have a a book study that's being led by him. It's virtual. The sessions will also be recorded. So, if you want to engage live or anytime, um, you can consider registering for uh, that book study series if you're looking to learn more about TUI and neurodeiverse uh, students and how to serve them well. Uh, I really recommend this especially for teachers, those working with um students in the classroom or uh if you wanted to think about joining yourself and maybe do uh kind of a uh train some others in your district on what you learned or share out. Um, another free opportunity is uh
013next week, a week from today on September 23rd, Dr. Matt, Dr. Matt Sakresky uh is also going to be leading our free parent webinar. um you can click that link to learn more about it, but he's talking about uh when you've got a household, when you've got one gifted kid and one kid maybe that didn't qualify for gifted services. Um what do you do in a household when you've got kids of all different ability levels and what do you do with them? Uh so this is a great opportunity for you to host an event maybe at your campus. Maybe you're like, "Well, Kristen, a week's notice is a little late to for me to organize something." No worries. We record this. You can actually go to that website. We've got like I don't know like
01415 parent webinar recordings at this point. So if you wanted to plan um a community night uh you know on your campus or district somewhere, all you have to do is you don't even have to log into anything. You just click the link and hit play and you've got high quality uh learning available for you and your parents and community members. And there's even discussion guides uh available with those. So, you've got real like on a silver platter opportunity to host a great night to engage with uh parents and community members uh and talk about the needs of gifted kids. So, if if uh next week's webinar isn't uh one that that uh you can make happen, you can also just look at that whole bank uh and plan something uh for later on anytime.
015They're just there living for you, free to access. Um and then I do last plug I want to make uh is for um our new coordinator boot camp. Um, this was a live event that happened on August 1st. But we do have the recordings available. So, if you're interested in that, if you're sitting on this call and you're like, "All this is new to me. I just happened to stumble upon this link uh and made it here today and you're still trying to find your true north and figure out um, you know, which way is up and down." I I personally I I was that person um, in 2017 when I um, first started uh, my first GT coordinator position and you know, the person before me um, left like quick, fast, in a hurry.
016and I was at this point in the year still trying to sort through file folders trying to figure out who were the GT kids. So, um I don't know if that's your story or if that's where you sit. Hopefully, you're in better shape than I was. Um but um this is a really great uh opportunity to find out like okay what is truly most important that I need to know right now uh to help me in getting through my first year, second year, third year, you know, whatever wherever you are in trying to calibrate yourself uh to to get off on the right foot and make sure that you're you're doing the right things. Um that's a great uh opportunity there. Um so that's some of the stuff we've got going on. Um you might
017notice we have a new website. um when you go to uh log in to register for things, you might have to reset your password. Um sorry for that, but otherwise it should be a fairly easy login experience. If you're not if you're having any troubles at all, just call us, email us, reach out to us. We'll we'll get back to you really quickly um and get any uh issues resolved. But so far, it's been a pretty uh good experience for uh most people. Um, but we hope to see you whether it's on a webinar at Gift Ed book study, whatever the case may be. We hope to see you around this fall and um and I'll be here checking in every couple weeks. Um, if Monica will still have us. So, um, thank you, Monica,
018for giving me a little time and space here. >> Oh, you're welcome. And yes, you are welcome back. Uh, and you're a designated part of our sessions and everything. So, yes. Yes, I do have two workshops. I'm at the end of the day, y'all. I'm at the end of the day. So, you got to come. I actually I think I'm at the end of the day Thursday and Friday maybe. Uh not Friday, but Wednesday, Thursday. Uh so, I'm at the end of the day. 4:00 sessions. Come see me. All right. So, I would I have the uh honor of introducing Dr. Marissa Clay uh Clayborn Clayhorn um and with NASA Tech Rise and they are here to give us some info some free info for our students that they can take a opportunity to be
019a part of and so hopefully hopefully you will uh reach out because y'all did it before with other programs you will this is another great opportunity for our kids. Dr. Clayborn. Clayorn. I don't know. I want to call you boy >> because it's a long name. It works. It works. Yes. Well, thank you, Monica, so much for having me. I'm really happy to be here to be able to share with your community a little more about the um NASA Techrise Student Challenge. So, um what I can do is um if you want to stop screen sharing, I can start screen sharing and I'll just pull up some slides here. Um let's see if I make sure I find the right slides for you guys. Okay, here we are. All right, can everybody see that? Great.
020Perfect. All right, so um this um is the NASA Techrise Student Challenge. And Monica, you can see the slides, correct? Those are coming through. >> Yes, I can see them. >> Okay, great. Perfect. All right, so yeah, so once again, thank you so much for having me. Um we are now just launching our fifth year of the NASA Techrise Student Challenge. And this is a challenge that is a NASA challenge administered by future engineers. Um, so I just dropped in the chat the um website for the student challenge for the year. So you can kind of poke around that as I'm talking to you guys a little bit here as well. But basically the NASA techrise student challenge what we do is um each year as we open a new challenge we invite students in
0216th through 12th grade under the guidance of an educator to um submit proposal ideas for a suborbital flight. Um and so each year of the challenge those suborbital flight vehicles are different. Um and this year we have two very exciting um uh suborbital vehicles. We have the suborbital spaceship which is a subor orbital vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic and that vehicle is going to offer approximately 3 minutes of microgravity. And then we also have a high altitude balloon vehicle which offers approximately four to five hours of float time and perspective views from 70 to 70 95,000 ft in the atmosphere um of Earth. So basically what the challenge is doing is it's literally saying teachers um get a team of students together in 6th through 12th grade. Teams have to be four or more students.
022come up with experiment ideas that could fly potentially on one of these flight vehicles and then um if you are selected as a winner um we are going to fund you um getting to build that experiment. But the first part of the challenge is really just about coming up with the experiment ideas and then submitting them as a proposal. But like I said, if selected as a winner, you're going to receive all kinds of great things. 60 winning teams from across the nation are selected um to actually build their proposed experiment. And each winning team is going to be awarded $1,500 dollars to build their experiment, a starter kit including a flight box in which to build their experiment, an assigned spot for that experiment to fly and be tested on the NASA sponsored vehicle
023they proposed to, and then last but not least is technical support during the entire experiment build phase from future engineers. So we'll our team from future engineers will actually help the students learn everything that they need to know to turn their experiment from an idea into a reality. So all you educators out there know that is a big deal because it's one thing to have an idea on paper, it's a whole another thing to get it off the page and uh bring it into reality. So, I'm going to show you guys just this little video here to kind of overview about the challenge and then I'm going to talk to you about more details about how all of this works. >> This box is going on a test flight and NASA wants to send your
024idea in it. NASA's Techrise Student Challenge invites 6th to 12th grade teams to submit an experiment idea that could soar into the stratosphere or beyond. Think of it as your lab above the clouds where you can investigate almost anything in your flight box. From air quality testing to space technology research or something allgether new. You don't need to be a tech expert to participate. You just need an idea. If selected, your team will get $1,500, 4 months to build, and access to our expert team of engineers who will teach you everything you need to know for your journey. Once it's ready, your experiment will launch on a NASA sponsored test flight. It will collect data on its journey to report back to Earth. Imagine what you could discover. And it all starts right here. What's
025your idea to join the NASA Techrise Student Challenge? >> Perfect. So, it's kind of a flashier version of everything that I just told you, but in the imagery there for the video, um, you saw a couple of things. one you saw some of the different flight vehicles that we've worked with in the past you know so those are the vehicles that the experiments that when are are built to fly on you also saw this white flight box that the students were holding that's actually what the experiment gets built within um when the students uh are are taking that idea from page into reality now I want to talk to you a little bit about the timeline for the challenge um because there are really two opportunities here by particip participating in the NASA techrise student
026challenge. One is this fall opportunity which is really the research and pro propose an experiment phase and then if selected as a winner there is the spring summer opportunity which is when you would get to build your experiment and then have that experiment launched on the flight vehicle. So we just opened the challenge back here on September 4th. So, you're still getting this kind of hot off the press as being open with all of the resources that are on the challenge website that I popped into the chat. And between now and November 3rd is when students and teachers use all of the resources on the website to learn about the different flight vehicles, research the flight vehicles, and think about how they could come up with an idea for an experiment that could fly on
027one of them. and then to actually write up their proposal. Um, and those proposals just have to be submitted through the website um, before November 3rd or by November 3rd. That's the final deadline. Now, between now and then, we also have a really exciting event coming up on September 25th. This is a student virtual field trip um that you can RSVP for. It's uh the RSVP is on the website. It is completely free virtual field trip. uh you can either broadcast it to your students, you know, if you just want to RSVP as the educator or you can have your students um also log in and RSVP individually. Um, at that time, the virtual field trip is from a student perspective, going to tell the students a bit more about how to get involved in
028the challenge. But we also have a very exciting guest speaker, Rob Furl, who was the first NASA funded researcher to fly with his payload on a suborbital flight. Uh so he's going to be talking a little bit about his experience as a researcher and what it's like to um you know get involved um in in this kind of exciting work where you're coming up with interesting things to study but then actually putting them out in the world and putting them up on these suborbital flight vehicles and all the things that you can learn through uh small uh payload testing. Uh so that's very exciting. So this fall opportunity, regardless of becoming a winner, what we are hearing from teachers that have participated in the challenge in the past is a really phenomenal learning experience for
029their students because regardless of winning, the students learn about the flight vehicles. They learn um you know about the research process, proposal writing process, right? So you're engaging a lot of academic skills there. They're also because they're working in teams, they are having to collaborate with one another, share ideas, you know, and get those ideas onto the page um for that proposal. And then of course, if they become a winner, then there is the benefit of really that hands-on learning piece. And so that's really here on this slide, I just talk a bit more about benefits of participating is really that it is a multi-step program, right? It's a multi-step challenge. Whether you're a winner or not, there's a lot to learn. And like I said, some of these teachers that we're hearing back from,
030not only are they saying it's a great experience, but what they are doing is annually they're starting to build the challenge into their fall curriculum. So, they know that they're going to do this as a classroom activity or um with their gifted and talented students um or even some teachers that work in, you know, as STEM coordinators, they might do it with multiple classrooms. They'll have them all research um the flight vehicles, all write proposals, and they will submit proposals for absolutely every one of those teams. And then of course, if they become a winner, there is the really hands-on experiential part of this because as they become a winner, they're getting that funding so that they can buy all of the components that they need to actually build their experiment and bring it to
031fruition. um they are working in a bit of a open-ended experiment idea. This is not something that we have given to them and said you know build this. This is an idea that they have proposed. It will be an idea that would have been judged and selected as a winner, right? And then now they would have the technical guidance to guide that design, perfect that design, and help them learn all of the technical skills that they need to be able to actually put that into existence on a commercially operated flight. So they have to meet the same technical specifications as any researcher flying on a commercially operated flight. And that's why we provide all that support and guidance for them. And so of course there's a lot of room for creativity for that um flexing
032their critical thinking skills and the unique opportunity as a student to have their um their experiment idea actually flown on a commercially operated flight vehicle which is something quite often you don't get until you are actually at uh you know the college level or even a professional researcher. Right. So, some of the pictures you see here on the slide are some of the students, you know, working with those hands-on components um that they'd be learning um to uh build with, wire with, code with um if they are selected as a winner. Um and then also too, I'll just give you a little bit of a sneak peek into launch day. So, those winners, once again, once they complete their builds in the spring, we take those builds back. We make sure they're checked out for
033flight and we work with the flight provider to get them integrated on the vehicle. So you'll see here on the slide in the upper left hand corner um there are all these white boxes kind of in a circular ring. This is actually an example of uh 60 different experiments. Each one of these experiments is uh each one of those flight box is an individual team experiment. And this is a balloon gondola. So they've been integrated into the high altitude balloon gondola. That's what's going to carry those experiments when it launches up, you know, 70 plus thousand feet into the stratosphere. Um, obviously if it's a rocker rocket, they have different kinds of payloaders, but we we get all that sorted for them. And then we also provide a virtual viewing opportunity. So the students get
034to see their payloads launch and go up. And then when they are retrieved postflight, we send the payloads or experiments, I'm using that word interchangeably, the payloads, experiments back to the team. So then they can analyze their data. So if selected as a winner from start to end, they go through a full cycle of proposing, actually getting their proposal funded, working with technical engineering mentors to learn all the technical skills they need to build it, and then they also have that opportunity to see it launched, get it back, and analyze their data and think about what they would do next. And that's one of the things that's really exciting to me is that think about what they would do next because now that we're in our fifth year of the challenge, we're actually seeing students
035that, you know, they they did this whole cycle with Techrise and then they decided, hey, I want to take some of what I'm studying into college. Um, or hey, I want to I'm doing an AP course this next year and I want to continue my research. So, there's a lot of ownership that the students take from proposing these ideas. Now, another important element of this is obviously the support provided by to teachers because we always say you need no experience as a student to participate in this. All you have to do is write that proposal. We're going to teach you everything you need if you get selected as a winner. But that kind of goes for the teachers as well. And I'm just going to take a moment here to share a video with you
036that is a teacher testimonial for some of the teachers that we have worked with in the past. TechRise has been an unbelievable experience for for all of my students who have participated in it. One of the things that surprised me about the TechRise program was just how well organized it is. It really makes the job of the teacher mentor a lot easier. >> The depth of the support was really astonishing. I was very nervous when they first got it because of my background not having that much strength in engineering, but everything was already produced. like they had support structures for them along every part of the way. >> The Techrise project models a real life project in that it has finite deadlines and the students are required to stay on track. >> I've been able
037to be fairly hands-off of almost everything. >> The program is very well thought out, very well organized, very well designed. >> They must have had some teachers helping with those lesson plans cuz the fingerprints of like a really experienced educator were all over it. You don't have to be a science teacher to be an effective mentor because of the support you receive. The Techrise engineer mentor helps the kids with all of the technical issues that they are encountering. >> I felt very supported in doing this for my kids. I wasn't out there on a limb. I wasn't trying something for the first time that I was having to develop and worrying that my kids weren't supported. >> The mentors don't need to understand 3D design or how to do CAD or how to do soldering.
038That all is part of the program. They have the the equipment that's been sent to them. That giant prize box had so many fun toys in it. I mean, there's not a lot of times that you really get to hand a kid a project that is more than you could do yourself and say, "Yeah, you'll be fine. I'll see you on the other side." NASA really does have our back on this project. >> I would definitely encourage other teachers to apply to TechRise and get involved. >> I've already told a bunch of people that they should have their kids apply. It's great. It's um it's really rewarding. If their students win, it's an unbeatable experience for the for the students to be able to work on an experiment and see it see it go up
039into the atmosphere. >> I just I promise we didn't tell those teachers what to say. Those were just interviews. It's completely unscripted. And I just like to share it because we really do um want to encourage you to understand that whether this is something you would be sharing with a specific group of students or sharing out with other educators in your community to get their kids involved with, it's very important to us to reduce barriers to entry. And so really we want people to know this beginning phase is really about using the resources on the website to um get that proposal written. Um and then if selected as a winner, we are going to take you through the rest of the journey. And on the same front is that if you happen to have students
040or educators that do have experience with some of the technical skills they would need to do this program eventually, that's great as well. Like we we look at where you're at and we take you to the next level um with that learning curve um for building that payload. I'm going to take just about two more minutes or so here, Monica, to go through how people get started um with this. Um so, basically what you would want to do to get involved is go to that website I put in the chat, futureengineers.orgnascrise. Um at the top of that website, there is a button to um sign up as an educator. That'll gives you access to the dashboard, which is where you would submit student proposals. Um, when you're ready, then basically what you're going to do
041is you're just going to follow along that website and that website outlines some key information. It reminds everybody that you need to form a team. That team has to have at least one educator and four or more students all from the same school. Um, it does not have to be one team. You can form as many teams as you want and you can submit as many proposals as you want. Um, you can also submit proposals for multiple flight vehicles, but only one proposal from the school can be selected as a winner. Um, then you're going to want to review the proposal example and template. So, we give you a specific template that you use with your students for them to write the proposal. It asks some very basic questions, the how, what, and why of
042what they want to do. And really important to know is in that how section of how their experiment would work, we provide examples of different kinds of components that they would use that they can write about in their proposal. They do not actually need to know how to use those components at this phase in the program. They just need to write about it conceptually. So for instance, I'd use a microcontroller as the brains of my experiment and I might use a camera to you know view what's going on and a you know atmospheric uh you know sensor to uh collect x y and z kind of data right so they're just writing about that theoretically. Then once they do that they're going to go through step three on the website which is where they look
043at all the challenge resources to learn about the flight vehicles. And in step four, we give them more resources to actually guide their planning of that experiment. Then they finalize it and then you just submit that proposal for them um no later than November 3rd of this year. Um and I will just throw out this is a national competition um but um it is actually judged at a per state level. So you are only competing against other proposals submitted in the state of Texas. Um, and so there's a really great chance for you to win and we just really want to encourage everyone to get involved with this. It is once again a free opportunity. There's absolutely nothing um that you can lose by getting involved and so much to be gained. We've just seen
044phenomenal outcomes from the student impact and shifts in their mindset about their capabilities and um their ability to problem solve, think critically, and um to innovate and create in this world. So, I will pause here and turn it back over to you, Monica. And I'm obviously happy to answer any questions. >> All right. Thank you very much, Dr. Kle Horn. Uh are there any questions out there? Uh I there's none in the chat at this moment. So well once again thank you. She'll be here for a few more minutes. If you have questions, drop them in the chat. Uh otherwise we got the link and feel free because it'll be an interesting thing to see how many uh Texas schools out there, student groups or make who makes this top 60 out there and get
045to see their um their experiments go off into air. Absolutely. Yeah. And if you guys come up with questions later on, don't hesitate to reach out to us via email. We're we're people behind our support email. You can just email support futureeng engineers.org. And I'll also put that in the chat for you guys. Thank you again so much for your time and having really appreciate you. >> All right. All right. So, we're going from the new atmosphere, the new world of our space and you know what's happening out there to back to celebrating America 250 years. Uh so, we have Carla Chesire with us today. Uh she's going to talk about America 250. Uh you heard a little bit about it before and she will be join she is here now. So, uh Carla, do
046you have a presentation to share? I do have a presentation. >> All right. So, I will stop sharing and you can share. >> All right. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Two. Okay. Can you see it, Monica? >> Yes, I can see it. >> Perfect. Hello, everyone. Um, thank you Monica for having me back again. I know that there are several of you. I recognize your faces and names from last spring whenever Pat Hardy and I joined to share information about Texas America 250. And so I appreciate the opportunity to share again and also to share with the new ones that are here today. Many of you know that next July 4th, our nation will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of our Declaration of Independence. The time between now and this historic milestone
047is an opportunity to reflect on our nation's past, honor the contributions of all Americans, and look ahead toward the future. This is an a national celebration, but they um the national organization America 250 asked each individual state to come up with their own celebrations in their communities and cities. And so, Governor Abbott created a committee to promote the celebration in Texas. And this committee will provide support to organizers of the events. Pat Hardy is one of the committee members. she couldn't be with us today. However, her contact information can be found on a slide within the presentation. And Monica, did you pop that in there? This the bit.ly for the presentation is on every slide that is in the presentation. So, you'll have it. It's bit.lyward slash250 lowercase TX. So, if you have any questions,
048you can uh feel free to contact her with any any of your questions. She'll be glad to help you. Let's I have a video that we're going to watch to give you a little bit more information about it. After 247 years, you could say I've seen some things. [Music] Building a democracy from scratch, it isn't easy. Or being home to hundreds of millions from everywhere on Earth. Fact is, there have been challenges since the very beginning. uphill battles, setbacks, and injustices. But you know, Americans, we got grit. We fight for what we need and what's right. What we want for the next generation. We take care of each other when it gets rough. We inspire each other, innovate together, get the job done, and create so much opportunity. Heck, it's probably why folks have been
049inspired to come here for so long. And now we've got a pretty big anniversary coming up, the big 25. So in honor of that, we're launching America's Invitation, a chance to share your thoughts on our past, the heroes you love, and your dreams for the road ahead. Because your dreams will be our future. Your story is American story. [Music] So that gives you a little bit of information about what the national goal is. And our goal in Texas, the Texas 250 goal is to encourage all Texans to engage and unite and to strengthen our love for our state and country through programs and events that will engage and educate us as a nation. If your school or town has already planned an event, would you pop that in the chat so that we can all
050see what you have planned already? If your school or town has not planned an event or an activity, I want you to encourage I want to encourage you to think about how you might initiate something. These are the key goals. This is the advisory panel. I'm not going to take time to go through each one of these because you have the link to the presentation. And in respect for our time, what um I want you to do is to um look at some of these ideas and then I want to go over some GT ways that we can connect this to our GT programs this year. Um so what are the um what can you do? You know, first of all, you can gather leadership. I think this is a great opportunity for our GT
051students to take on the leadership role and in their communities and design or organize some of these events. There are already lots of events planned and if you'll see on each slide, there are links and websites that show you that can take you to um different events that are happening. There's a main website on uh Texas America 250 and then there's um also a link on the America 250 that takes you to events on I've put some of the events up here for you just to make it easy for you to see. This one is happening in Austin at the Neil Cochran House. There's several different dates. There's different topics on each date. For this one, it is an in-person and there is a fee, but if you live in the Austin area, you might
052be interested in going to that one. The next one is Texas America 250 commission meetings. Those are in Zoom and in person. And remember the committee that I told you that Governor Abbott organized or created. You are welcome to attend these meetings. They're held I think on Thursdays. I think all of them are on Thursdays. The next one is October 9th. And you can get more information if you attend those meetings about America 250, Texas America 250. They um usually um start at 11:00 and last about an hour. The Bulock Museum in Austin is the host. That's where they do it. And then the virtual meeting length is in this presentation, but it's also on the if you click on the date, you'll also have that information as well. Another event is in Tar County
053on Veterans Day. This is going to be a parade. If you live in the Metroplex, you might want to attend that. There's also the American Revolution on the Texas PBS, which is going to be broadcast, and it's a six-part series, 12-hour documentary that begins um November the 16th and runs through Friday the 21st. and you can watch that. And so that's online and available. There's other events. There's an event in Dallas if you live in the Metroplex. This one's expensive. It's a fundraiser, but there's one of those. But opportunities for kids. These are things that you can take back to your school and actually do in your school. One is America's field trip. And this is a contest that invites students from across the country in grades 3 through 12 to be a part by
054sharing their perspectives on what America means to them. They had this contest last year, it started last year and now they're having it again this year. They don't have as of yesterday. I'll say that things can change in a moment of time, but as of yesterday, they didn't have the information up for the 2025 2026 um contest. But this is where students enter and you see the again I'm not going to click on these links. You have them there so you can research and look. I'll give you a brief overview but in respect for time I'm not going to click. There's resources to give uh students ideas for starters and then the website that has the information. We had, and I hope that it was because of some of you that entered the contest last
055year because you heard it here, that we had several Texas students that were able to uh awarded a film a field trip this past summer, and they were able to go with their, of course, a a chafferon, their guardian or parents that were able to go with them. They said at the last commission meeting, the Texas 250 commission meeting, that they were going to publish their names online. And again, as of yesterday, I haven't seen it. Another uh competition that is available is to nominate America's unsung heroes or unsung champions. And so what the what you would do, and this is for adults, this one is for adults or students. you nominate anyone, a friend, a family member, a neighbor, a community member to tell their story and um let everyone know how they have
056been an unsung champion in America. So, those are a couple of things that you could take back to your school for your students to participate in. Another opportunity is Texas law related education. And I'm not sure if you have ever um uh looked at the Texas law related education or attended one of their workshops, but they have a wealth of information and lesson plans for students in uh civics and history and social studies. Just great great information. And they are supposed to put up some lesson plans related to the Texas America 250 celebration. I haven't seen that yet either. As of yesterday, they may have it up, but as of yesterday, um, they haven't gotten it up. They had said last year it was going to be available mid August, but just keep that in
057mind. Then the next one is some things that you might do, and these are just ideas. Uh, these are not set in stone. These are just things that you might want to do. I can remember back whenever I was a little girl back in in the 70s, our town painted the fire hydrants for the celebration of the sesqua centennial. And so you might bring that to your community. You know, your GTU students, those that are really art, you know, that are gifted in the arts, that would be something they would love. However, I want to tell you, please don't go out and just start painting the fire hydrants. Your city may not appreciate that. So, talk check with your city mayor or your city manager before you go out and paint the the fire hydrants.
058Then there's some other things there. These are just ideas. Some of them you'll recognize from that video that we just saw, but just ideas to get you started. And if you take this to your students, they will have their own ideas and can come up with things that are even better. So, what can you do? How can we celebrate America Texas 250? So whenever Pat shared this information with me, I I told her, I said, you know, this absolutely lends itself to the way that we service our GT students and the way that the Texas State Plan ask us to service our students. So, she had asked me to get together some slides and um share that with you so that you know you might see how this fits in with your curriculum, you know,
059so that you won't have to reinvent the wheel. Um Monica shared this with us earlier that our GT goal is that students participate in self-directed thinking sorry self-directed thinking research and communication as evidenced by the development of innovative products and performances. Okay. And then she also mentioned that graduates what are they supposed to do? This is a requirement. It's our state goal. High school students are to have produced products and performances of professional quality. And these two things um can be accomplished by doing the America 250. I went through and I looked at our GT standards that are in the uh curriculum and instruction section of the Texas state plan. And these are some areas that I felt like and you may see others but these are some areas that I felt like um met
060this goal and helped us u connect make those connections to the America Texas America 250. They are to pursue areas of interest in selected disciplines through guided and independent research. Well, that's what we're doing with Texas America 250. In 4.3, they are to create advanced level products and performances such as those provided through the Texas Performance Standards Project. And I'm going to be talking more about that in just a minute. Um, but notice that it is part of the Texas um code, administrative code 89.3. That's our law. You know, this is a requirement that districts try to the best of their abil, not to the best of their ability, but that they look at and incorporate the TPS projects into our um curriculum. 4.4 participate in the Texas performance standards project or other experiences that
061result in the development of sophisticated products and performances. Well, these advanced level products and the sophisticated products you can be met with doing some of the Texas America 250. Another is family and community involvement. And if you most of you I know are very familiar with our Texas state plan. You know there's the accountability standards which all districts must do in order to be in compliance. And then there's the exemplary standards. Well, under family and community involvement, I found an accountability that I felt like would match this. And again, these are just my thoughts. You can you may come up with other ideas as you look through the Texas state plan to see how to make those connections with Texas America 250. But 6.6 under family community involvement, accountability, products, performances, and achievements are shared
062with the community. And I think some of there was a thing in the chat that you u was asking about showcasing. Well, this is one of the areas where you know when I was teaching in the classroom in my district, we this is what we used. We used our showcases to justify this. Well, if you're working on Texas America 250, could those products and projects be displayed and shared with the community during a showcase? Exemplary. These are things remember the the exemplary standards are for districts who are striving to achieve a more robust program for their GT kids and these were the ones that I felt like met that. I'm not going to read through these since these are not required but they are there for you to look look at. What I would like
063to go forth with is the Texas Performance Standards Projects. And if you're not familiar with this, I encourage you to look at these standards. They're called lessons. I'm sorry. Look at these lessons. They're called task. They're not really called lesson plans, but they're written out like in the 5e and the 7E lesson plan. The TPS is referenced seven times in the Texas state plan, and it includes instructional materials and assessments. It is endorsed by our commissioner of education Mike Morath and he has a letter of endorsement in the forward of the Texas state plan and also the TPS has been established by Texas Education Code 39.236 um it was added by House Bill 3 as the primary tool for assessing the effectiveness of gifted services. So again, if you're not using these task, the TPSP,
064I encourage you to see how you can fit it in into your lessons. This first one, all I came up with a few one maybe one example for each grade level is what I tried to do as I searched through. As you research and look at them, you may find different ones, better ones than than I did to make those connections with Texas America 250. One of them is pursuit of passion and that is available in um for K through 12. It's in on every grade level and this is takes you through the research process. The students choose their passion and they pursue it. It's basically what it says. So they research one of their passions and then they they work through and create a a project, a product, an end product. Remember those products
065of professional quality. Um, and then you can see all of these. They're in, some are in English and Spanish, not all of them, but these happen to be in English and Spanish. For grade two, who's who, a study of biography, that's ELA and reading, but it goes along with studying our the characters from the past. Grade four, we are Texans. Um, this year, for this year, we will be still studying Texas history in grade four. I'm not sure, you know, next year. We'll still be studying Texas history in grade four, but you may um want to do this in grade three or grade five next year. The TPS task are all aligned with our standards with the TEICSS. And as you know, the TEACS are vertically aligned and they build on each other. So, if
066you want to do we are Texans or Culture Shock or a study biography and it's not your grade level, well, you know that you can look in your grade level standards and find those that will match up and align with these um specific tasks. There's one for culture shock for grade six. In the description, it says country, but it could be adapted to say state, you know, your county or even your city. You know, this is for grade seven through high school. Um, looking at the past with eyes on the future, time travel, sudden impact. This is analyzing the history of an influential contributor or group. Um, and then local history alive. seventh and eighth grade. These two tasks are not in Spanish. Um, but for high school local history alive, this one is in
067English and in Spanish. So, there's a link there you can click on um or you can scan the QR code that will take you to the Texas Performance Standards Project page. And I hope that you will take some time to look at it. And I also hope that you will take some time to figure out how can your GT students meet the state goal by taking on the leadership role in their district or in their town, in their community with the support of our schools to come up with a project or an event to celebrate Texas America 250. And also, if you do um come up with an event, please make sure you post it on the website. There's a link and I have it in this presentation where you can um post it on
068the website. Here's final the links for both the Texas America 250 as well as the America 250. And then finally, here's Pat Hardy's contact information. I'm going to give you my contact information as well. Contact information. Uh there's my email address and my phone number in the chat. Also, I want you to know this. Your region education service centers can support you with either one of these. Contact your GT specialist at those service centers to help you with TPSP. If you want more information, contact your social studies if you want more information about Texas America 250. I have been receiving information from different service centers that have already started presenting this um these in workshops. So, reach out to them if you need help. But you can also reach out to Pat Hardy and uh
069again I said you can reach out to me too. I'm fine to visit with you about it. So um I don't know are there any questions? Has anybody um posted in the chat? >> Uh no questions at this time. >> Did anybody post events? I'm looking to see. Blake, thank you for posting all of that there for us. Uh >> no. >> And Audrey, yes. LRE is a great resource. Yes. >> Excellent resource. Okay. >> All right. >> Well, you have the link, so I'll look forward to, you know, you using it. >> All right. Thank you so much, Carla. Uh, great wealth of information. And let me get my next >> Thank you, Monica, for the opportunity. >> You're welcome. All right. All right. So, uh, right before Carla got on, there was a
070question in the chat. So, while she was speaking, had me a moment. And I want to say thank you. If you're new here for the first time, can you I get a uh reaction button something so we can know who's here for the first time cuz if not, I know it's all my old my returning vets who like, "All right, I see some thumbs up. Monica Hayes, welcome. Welcome." All right, so hopefully you see that this is a an environment and a community for you to get all that support. uh people will answer your questions and this is where we are in a safe place to learn about and support our roles and gifted at. So the GTO showcase the question was um let me go back up to the I can specifically ask stated.
071So they wanted to know if a showcase is required. Is it required uh showcase one GT showcase or semester or is it accurate uh is that accurate or is it only one required per school year? So it varies in the beautiful state of Texas um depending on how you do your programs and your services. There are some that do do uh one one per semester. It's just because of the nature of how they do their projects. But then there are those who who are working to do one well done product project and they have one showcase at the end of the year or somewhere March April before school is out. Um both are fine. And then there are some who are depending on how they're doing their projects cuz I'm just going to be totally
072honest. I've heard a little bit of everything. There are some who do TPS projects once or six weeks. as a person who's done TPS, who has done projects in the school system with middle schoolers, once six weeks would have probably killed me. Uh, I did one that was ongoing throughout the year. I did many things, but then I did one big thing with my students where we were all doing research and coming up to those throughout the year because I needed to break it up with other projects because it was an elective for me. So, that's how I did it. uh but there are uh so as you see and people have put it in the chat or have talked about it. So these are the uh two standards that kind of reflects that that's
073why most will have a showcase to meet the requirements of these two standards of having is presented to an outside audience or is shown to an outside audience and then it is shared with the community. So that's why you will see that. So if somewhere you've read where it's required, it's probably in your own local guidelines. Uh and that's part of those program designs. It's part of that program manual that we ask people to really think about how do you do things. So and then I just put down some options. I know I've heard some do a GT showcase where they show it. Uh and then others they just have judges of by mentors or others coming in to see what the students are doing and having those one-on-one conversations. So really it's it's a
074smaller thing but they're bringing the community in still to see or some other educators. Then there are those who have what they call a museum or an exhibit show where people kids actually their classmates walk through the sea have those conversations and really look at it. Then it's Some are connected with their district competition. So it might be sometime they're doing science fair competition. They're going to be doing their showcase as a part, you know, in conjunction with that. Then others use it as parent night where this is why we're going to have parents come in and really go out there into that. Um uh so when was the last time the TPS was updated? Oh, that was Oh, I want to probably say the last time we really pulled out some uh new TPS
075tax was probably maybe. Um, and probably 2016 when we really had a big influx of tasks written 2015, 2016. Um, and so I'm going to put it out there. So we could be talking about some more tasks. I'mma ask you to do it do it this way. I see. Thank you, Carla. Cuz she was probably one of those that wrote, "If you have an idea or a topic for a new TPS task, drop it in the chat. Drop it in the chat. This is a prime time to uh talk about that. Uh, start thinking about that. Um, drop them in the chat. Throw us some links out there. If you would like to be a writer of a TPS task, uh, drop that in there. We are, um, we always are really thinking about our
076next step and where we're going. So, yes, 2016, it's a good time. So, all right. I hope that answered the question about the showcase. Uh, so it's part of it. So, some kind of way. It might not be a showcase, but you are sharing with the community. You're sharing with the student bodies, but you're allowing the kids uh the students to really to uh talk about their, you know, to perform, to talk about their products or showcase their products in some kind of way. All right. So, as you know, always a new year things happen. So, I have changed the visions. I am now a part of the office of school programs. are not a part of the office of uh student supports and uh st special pro special populations and student support. I am
077now a part of the office of school programs under the division of curriculum and instruction under open education resources department of instructional strategy and I am with the emergent bilingual and gtt. So uh this is my new role. uh so part of that uh I will be doing some of the same things I have been doing always and then there will be some other things. So if you know if you know about o open education resources that is our curriculum arm that is where we're writing and we're pro making sure that our products are out there for you. So that you know what that means there's going to be some GT influx into the new into this realm. So uh I will be writing be working on those pieces and helping with that. So just
078just FYI. Uh so legislative updates and let me drop these in the chat for you. Um so as you know Senate Bill uh 12 give a lot of information for parent rights. TA has been putting out those documents in the last couple of weeks uh as school went in and that one line about gifted talented is already there. Um and I want to be very clear a lot of you had questions about the screening portion of it. Screening was not necessarily related to how we screen students. So our screening is a little bit different. So those guidelines do not affect gifted ed. Okay. So as you do your process to look at students to identify that is already there. So your district probably has already developed a general universal catch all kind of statement using
079these documents here. So uh don't stress what is out there. Okay. Next thing on chapter uh 89 of the administrative code student identification uh if you have been following the state board of education um this is a rule update uh so that we can um be in align with federal and other state laws and guidelines. So a new additional is number four which will prohibit a scoring value based on race, ethnicity, sex, social economic status or disability if the selection process utilizes a matrix or threshold system. As you know, there are a few there were a few districts out there that actually gave a numeric uh uh incentive I will put it that way for being uh you know male female being uh low SCES or being you know sped or being um bilingual. So
080those things cannot be a part you cannot give a scoring value anymore. You can still consider those as part of your consideration as you talk about students as you think about students but you cannot assign a score as a part of your matrix as a part of your th uh thought uh your system to review them. So when you're talking so it remember it's opening the the level for a fair uh fair game. All right. The other part that we uh are looking at for the final selection of our students is number five. Uh well, the new to five was the old four is that it is make comp your selection committee is composed of at least three district educators and they also have training not just in nature and needs but also nature needs
081and gifted and uh and identification. So they need so we just update that little statement to make sure that those selection committees or uh putting it more you know sometimes you move things up out of your standards into your rules so it's really going to go up in there. No it does not. Uh so question is and I saw the other question does this state statute impact pass identification? No. This is uh it goes in it will go into effect uh 20 days after November. I want to say the this will be in November at the November meeting they will uh do the final vote on this. So, November 10th. Well, no, not the 10th. Uh, November, the November meeting. Can't think about the date at the moment, but the open this will go open
082in public comment on October 10th and it will close for public comment on November 10th. Uh, I think uh the state board meeting is like the 18th or something like that. So it'll be after state board that Friday 20 days after that before it will go into effect. So pretty much around Christmas time um before so basically your January process. So you have until December uh if this goes into uh knowing uh our state board is moving uh forward. Um so you have to December to update your matrices and your process so that you can be in the uh be ready for January. Okay. No, there will be there. Uh so I'm reading chat and I'm seeing that. So the question the last question will there be any changes to the state plan uh 2.25
08325 uh that your program is closely reflective of the population of the total district in our campus. No, there will be no changes to that language. Uh that one is there. It will say the same. Um does this require? No, actually it does not change your requirement for your administrators over the program because it uh most of them I think we already do have nature and needs. We do have an identification and basically this affects your committees for your selection committee. Now, your training for identific identification, you would hopefully I hopefully would hope that you would uh if you're not doing the full six hours of identification or nature needs or you got a six hour some kind of way of that at least some kind of way you're talking about the measures and the
084tools that you're using in your district as a part of their knowledge base so that they can make best decisions or cuz otherwise you're just saying here's some numbers in front of you, sign off. And hopefully we're not saying here's some numbers in front of you, sign off. Okay, just just just my hope. And then I saw the question, will there be an update to the JT Equity website or replacement? Um there will be a uh we are reviewing that doc that website and yes we will be uh actually filtering some of that information over to the Texas implementation resource uh program resource website as we update and uh actually they'll be replacing to a newer a better platform. So, as we redo that, we're going to take things from the GT equity website and
085move it to that website uh as we uh redo, rethink uh and on certain occasions rephrase text uh statements that are in that document. There are some great things there uh as we go forward. So, I see your question, Hannah. That's a good question. We can update that. We can uh and I'm also going to say be very cognizant of of that. Yeah, we can put that out there. Uh, I don't Well, Jennifer, we're looking at all student populations and we're looking to see if how close we are reflective. We're not asking you to make any special changes cuz for some districts, we're not even being reflective of some of our of all student bodies. So, we're looking at how are you identify? Are you looking at your whole student body population? So, if you're
086a 1% of your Anglo students or your Caucasian students and you're at 40% of your So, I'll have to I'll send that over to see if that's a fair question, but we'll check. Oh, let me uh so Josie, let me look on that one to get a further clarifying question. So, I will look on that question to see. Um, okay. Uh, I I got your question. I'll check on that. Yeah. Okay, just making sure. Okay, I think I got everything uh of the questions. Uh well, yeah, we'll have a conversation about that. We'll bring that out. Okay. So, as you know, we were planning a um parent conference and as you know, things happen and worlds change and really thinking of um of our students and people's workload. So, we're pivoting our parent conference to
087a parent toolkit and then possibly another conference uh in conjunction with some other things later on. So September 30th, we will not be having a parent conference. So if you haven't, don't feel bad like I haven't heard anything. There is nothing to announce at this moment other than we're pivoting to a parent toolkit. I know I did announce it. So I just wanted to make sure that everyone was aware uh and so that as we move forward um you won't be thinking, oh, I missed something. So we are pivoting. So any other questions uh out there? So, I know we're a little over. All right. Okay. Any shout outs? Anything y'all want to announce? Okay. No shout outs. Uh, so remember the gifted education resources page is out there. I did update it with the
088new link for those who need to share with others. Also, if you uh are looking for some of the videos from last year, the powerpoints are not there yet, but the videos are linked there. So, all of the videos from last year are linked there. Also, you can always find them on the tea uh GT playlist on YouTube. So, you can find them there. Uh if I have not put out, so don't feel uh like I miss you. uh the GT uh the GT newsletter yet. That will be forthcoming. But if you have not signed up for uh any of the announcements from TEA, I do highly recommend that you go out there uh to sign up and to make sure that you are getting the latest information. one GT one advanced academics and always
089to the administrator address so that you get anything that out there uh as a possible part of the communication for those who need to reach out to me uh directly here's my contact information feel free to reach out to plan a meeting we're we're always here for you and I want to for those who need to drop our next meeting is October 7 at 2 PM. Uh, okay. So, thank you Blake for dropping this one. All right. For clarification, is it enough to offer opportunities for students to participate as part of services? I think I need a clarification along. >> Sorry, Monica. That was from a while back. We were talking about showcases. Is it enough just to offer the opportunity to participate in a showcase or do we have to make it part of
090our service model? like that they have to it. >> So are and I'm really Okay, so I'm going go two ways on this. Are we talking at the campus level or we talking at the district level? So what are you expecting your students to do at the end? How are they you know cuz you got to remember we got products and performances. So the way my district did it and you know some districts do a little bit different. There was a showcase, a product or a review at the campus level. Then there was one at the and then those campus people either went to, you know, depending on the size of your district, you went to uh your district, your little clusters, however they want to call them, or they went to the district level
091for that kind of level of competition. So, and we ended the lab the end of the year last year also with Midway. They had a short tank where they had select groups who made it up the ranking to it. So I think you really got to think about how are you showcasing. So we want our kids work showcased and remember these showcase. Well, let me take that back. I won't say a showcase. You want our student works shared with the community and shared with your with their with their parents. You are also taking this as an opportunity to sell your program to say this is why gifted ed is important. This is what they're doing. This is how they're excelling and exceeding. And so you got to think about what is the best way. It
092might not be a showcase. It might be something else. But you also got to think what are you doing? How are you doing it? Um and then what are those opportunities? They may vary. It might be different. uh I know some uh offer very limited opportunities where others offer there's various opportunities that students can participate in but are but if they're not what are we doing and then what does that look like and if those opportunities are not under your guise or I'm go going on the guise of UIL or some of those other things are they really open to the community for your students to show or is it really that part of your work So, good questions. Uh, so you have your showcase, but then you can also do other things. So, I
093think also you got to think about what what are those other things, how they align with your program of service, what are they doing, and then how are you meeting the state goal. roll it back to those items in the state plan because we do allow for competitions and other things but how does it meet the state goal how are they performing so because I could see mentoring as a performance for some might say it or it's part of their product how is that being how is that exceeding showing either is that showing leadership there you know their advanced skills what is it doing how does it align back so really think about what are when you start rolling out these are my other opport opportunities. How does it roll back into meet these standards,
094meet the goal? How does it fit into this? I hope that made sense. >> It does. Thanks, Monica. I think we're on the same page. I think just the verbiage in the state plan, it involves the word opportunities a lot. So, we do provide a lot of opportunities, but we don't ever make it like you have to do this thing or this other thing. Well, that's part of that beautiful thing of Texas local control. >> All right, everyone. So, I want to say thank you for joining me today. Uh hopefully you have a great rest of your week. I will see you on October 7th. And uh for my ESC people, I will see you tomorrow. Yes, I will see you tomorrow. And then my uh yeah, I will see some of you tomorrow actually.
095So, have a great day. Thank you and have a good one.