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I want to welcome you all to the 2025

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STEAM Symposium. This is where you get

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to discover what is possible and you see

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where connection and education and

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learning and careers all come together.

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You are proof that opportunity changes

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lives and together you are building a

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connected future The opportunity to go

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to college and be the first one in my

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family to do it is unreal. It's amazing.

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Being the first to attend college and my

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family, it's something really special

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and important to me. It means

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everything to me really. I'm making my

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parents proud because personally they

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did not graduate. I'm glad that I get

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to pursue my dreams and do things that

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my mom or my father couldn't do.

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It can be changed by you.

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You all get the new generation wand.

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All 300 of you or so will receive a free

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laptop, a free Google Pixel, one year

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of X-Meni Mobile free. I think we'll

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give it to all of

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you. Tickets to the watch wicked for

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good.

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Many of them cried when they received

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their laptops, because they honestly

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don't have them And technology in their

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school is limited. We got a Google

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Pixel and a nice laptop with good

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storage on them. So just the fact that

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we're able to go to college and not have

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to worry about those expenses is really

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awesome. When you go home and open that

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laptop or pick up that phone, please

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always remember X-Meni always has your

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back.