Freda Snell's Story

I am deeply honored and humbled to have been selected for this nomination, and I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Ms. Jobb and the nominating Committee. I would like to also thank one of my parents and fellow teacher, Mrs. Sevana Panosian, who believed in me and submitted my nomination.

I’m Liz and I would like to start off by saying, “Good Morning”, and thank all of you for coming today to celebrate with the class of 2017 as today marks a huge milestone in our lives. For me specifically, I’m going to start off by thanking my family, friends, coaches, the faculty, and mentors (especially Oba); for supporting and guiding me through the good and bad times. Without you all, I don’t think I could’ve made it this far in my life. Secondly, I’d like to thank Konawaena for allowing me to compete in unpopular sports, excel in my classes, and grow into the person I am today. If you knew me freshman year, you’d remember that I could barely look people in the eye and was too meek to speak. Now, I’m not crushed with shyness, put myself out there and actually developed bonds with people that I will cherish forever. This school allowed me to meet amazing people and have unforgettable memories. Konawaena will hold a special place in my heart as it gave me a second chance to be who I truly am.

It's Liran Pinchas. I would like to thank you very much for your generous sponsorship, and for making it possible for me to study and succeed. It is without a doubt that if it weren't for your help I would not have been able to advance in the studies and succeed as well as I am doing now.

As a classmate, I want to say thank you, for the example you and your family

As you may know me already, my name if Felipe Del Angel and I am from Penitas, TX. I am currently 18 years old of age and will be turning 19 on October 23. I recently attended Thelma R. Salinas STEM Early College High School. Many do not know this but I was actually in the first graduating class of this high school and I am honored to be apart of the first graduating class of Thelma R Salinas STEM ECHS. Throughout my high school years in this new school, there were unforgettable memories. Memories that can’t be forgotten. This was not the same as a regular high school. It felt like home, with only 120 students per grade level, the environment was so easily to adapt amongst each other. And that is what the real world is all about.

I am writing to commend Ms. Stony Shek for the excellent service that she has been providing to our school.

Good afternoon, fellow classmates, parents, and the staff of Lawson. Life is a highway requires me to make choices because if I don’t know where im going, how will I get there? To help you navigate, to middle school onto high school. The word Character has two C’s in it which one stands for Choice and the other for Consequences. Living a life of good leadership doesn’t happen by Chance, nor does it happen by Circumstance. It happens by Choice. This where I got the thought (Don’t stress you’re the best). I want to my mom for choosing Lawson my education so, thanks mom. I want thank my teachers for guiding us to the right track, inspiring us, and making us what we are today. I want to thank the whole staff of Lawson for making me happy everyday

The person that I am most grateful for is my beautiful mother, Yvette Visconte. She is very important to me and I love her with all my heart. I am going to show my mom my gratitude by reading her this letter.

Good morning, my name is Jacqueline Heitmann and I am currently a 8th grader at St. Rose of Lima. As of tonight, we will be graduating into high school, a new step in our journey. Before I begin, I'd like to give big "Thank You" on behalf of my class to all of our faculty, staff, parents, sponsors, and everyone who was involved in our St. Rose experience. You may not have known it, but each and everyone of you has played a huge part in our daily lives, and we want you all to know that.

You are without a doubt one of my heroes. I’m incredibly grateful for being able to know you. Since the day I was given the opportunity to come into the studio and talk with you about why I want to attend Acton I’ve looked up to you for all that you do. The main thing that stood out to me that day and that I still get reminded of every now and then is that you didn’t have to work another day in your life. You had built your success and could have retired. What I look up to most is your dedication to using that success to build something that will change the world. It started by giving Charlie and Sam a school to thrive in and has evolved into the best disruptive education school in the world.

This letter is written for you from your mammy and daddy. We wanted to let you know that we love you more than anything in this world. You should always remember that you are Braver than you Believe, STRONGER than you SEEM, SMARTER than you think and LOVED more than you know. We are very PROUD of your achievements and we will always SUPPORT you in attain your dreams. You are our sunshine STAR who can accomplish anything and be the BEST in school.

Today I intervened Makenzie Turley, she is very nice young lady. Makenzie was born and raised in Taylorville Illinois, she just graduates from the high school and this is her first year at Lincoln land community college, Makenzie love animals her family won a farm in Taylorville and that give her an opportunity to play with them, especially her baby got and that is how she spends her free time, that one of her interests and she also love to sing. Makenzie love to weak up early in the morning and help her parent in the farm ,and have her favorite breakfast (banana Bread), Makenzie taking classes at Lincoln land community college she did not diced yet which field she interested in ,put her life goal to finish her education and have a decent

I met you in high school. You were a sophomore, and I was a freshman. You were always by my side, and you treated me with respect. However, I never got the chance to thank you for helping me throughout high school. I am selfish because you deserve to have my gratitude. I am writing this letter to thank you for helping me throughout high school. You got me through high school because you played video games with me to help reduce my stress level. I want to thank you for helping me get a break from my stressful life. Furthermore, I want to thank you for giving me rides to school. You always made sure I got to school on time by waking up early in the morning. I appreciate the effort because I hate getting to school late. I want to thank you for your generosity. You used your money to buy me food and video games. The food

First of all I want to thank God for being my strength and my savior for whole my entire life and for blessing me and I want to thank also to my family for being here beside me to support me to fulfill my dreams.I am thankful to myself to for working so hard to fulfill my dreams and for focusing and concentrating to my study I really work so hard to fulfill my dream I’d do my best to fulfill my dream. I want also to thank my friend because there always here beside through my hard time and there always here to, to help if I have a question that I cannot answer and they help me to. After all that I thank you I want to help another person to become a better person or else I will go to hospital like North Hawaii Community

This experience connect to my belief because my sister had a choice between leaving me alone or helping me out, she chose to help me out. She stuck up for me she didn’t care if the guys were big 7th graders she just went in to help me. That experience really inspired to believe in this belief. Both Sarah and Abdullah have really inspired me to believe in this