 There's a lot of sunshine in here. Your energy is just amazing, and I'm just with goosebumps on how much I feel about what you're doing across in-year schools, parents, volunteers. This program is 15 years old, and it has been a peer-to-peer program, a business program, and now a school program, where it's sort of granted, and we looked at the numbers a few years ago and found something very interesting happening. The school numbers outpaced businesses, and it's just ready to make the kind of regional planning commission with funders. They actually said, let's take a look at this more closely. Let's make this more schools across the line. And that's what we did a couple of years ago. And it's just really been wonderful to watch, wonderful to see. The numbers are amazing. 76 schools signed up, and we had a 200% increase this year of participation. 200%. So you can work with all your log and that's what's made a difference. But what also, moving away, re-trips in program over the course of the last year, so $39,000. You're not going to pay for this. You're just doing it, and you're making a difference. So we have to move beyond the power. This is a really serious term that we're in, and the second, because we're a promise to the future. But it's very serious, and we really need to address single power trips. And that's the 31,000 trips of green trips actually offset or replaced those same trips. So you are essential, and you are the energy, and thank you for being here. So that, I'm going to turn it over to Karen to do some things. Yes. Hi. So I think you all know that a locomotion is one of the partners in this. I'm the executive director there. We're an advocate for biking and walking across the state. And I gotta say, we could not be more proud of this program and really more proud of all of you, the people who are at the program. This is where change happens. I mean, actually. So change happens here. Right. But this is where change happens. This is where change happens. The students in the room, right? And thank you all for taking the time to be here. But you're going to make a difference for others, because what you do is going to be what you do in the future. So if you're using a bike or walking or taking transportation that is not a single-opincy car to get where you need to get, you're going to continue to be that as you get older. And your peers are going to be that. And you're going to teach others to be that. So I'm really proud of that in games for long. Here's the people who dress up like bananas. This is the man in having this happen. David Spiehl and Cameron Savage, behind me, have all over the place. They were part of the creative team. They were the project lead on this project. So they did a lot of the logistics and keeping us kind of in the right place at the right time and doing the right things. They were also, I think, just having someone create a room and make a difference. And it shows up in how the website looks in my hand. Really, that's a mental test. Brian Davis, who's a senior transportation plan with CCLPC. That's our first one. They're part of this program. But this is how it's going to be. I think it's so fascinating. The two of them have their good day jobs, which is what they do when they have to fund this. But the other things I've been at the table and especially as we were planning this year, they're creative doors, too. So we know that they're not at every meeting. They have been there when we need to really think about what we're doing and something that they need to do. And my team that's here, Micra, who's someone back there. She oversees our little streets program. She does a lot of her work in the communities. Mary-Catherine, you all know. We've got this Dev said, she's a chief cheerleader for this. The passion for this program, I think she gets up every morning to talk to students in schools. Not just in this program, but in all of our programs. And which is great. And Jonathan, who's up there, gets some of the prizes and some of the incentives to the schools. He's a really awesome, very passionate part of it. Cara, Rocha, who's an education partner who we call M.D., she's been instrumentalist in the technical aspect of it. And also, her capability, and also like everyone, from funders to you all through our terms, part of the creative forces of this. There's a lot of ways that we can do that. And it's going to be a lot of work. And then last but not least, I'm going to say, Deb Sacks, who we do all know as well. I've known her for quite a long time. We've both heard her plans as they've been working in this state. She normally does strategic design work and fundraising. And some of the communications she acts as a sponsor to some degree and a partner for people all in investment engagement. I think you all know and should know that this was her baby in a lot of ways. So back in the day, she talked about the history of the school, but this is a passion for her. And I think it probably makes her feel good to see where we've come with this. It's become an incredible program, an incredible number of citizens of the whole season. It's not just one of that. And we are the future of this program. So, anyway, cut. There's a lot of knowledge that we couldn't think of without our generous sponsors. We've all worked for Google's handkerchief store and won the school and city market here to bring them on the department of stocks. Here they just represented the perfect content. He is chair of our transportation and we do right here at the state house and he's the kindest image for the very hard to process. All of that. And so one of the great speech from the public when he was here to represent him at different times, in the 80s and 90s about what he was doing. So I think our segue for something I wanted to say would be, is this the place, I'm not going to challenge the notion that this is the place where change happens. This is the place where when people want to change a few years after that. This place, to make policies, to make those things happen, but when it's not going to happen, it really got us up from you guys. Sort of like a thing, but sort of like it's in the city after something has happened and years after it's happened. So that's why it's so important that the young people are, you may think it's a small thing but it really isn't to you when I really think before you give me the words. It's a good idea how physical things are and we have a history. I'm going to give you a name for how to be me. Where you go, so even as a connoisseur, and this is just a volunteer, we always assign you the box of stuff. You know, you voluntarily join us and you don't assign anything to us about it. And actually, you know, you're getting it down and you can say a lot every five months in our box. Yes, so it's a question of what happens. It's very good. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. There are no cards, but you can ask us. And yeah, that's a plan. It's a lot. It really is. The federal government got a series number four. Now a lot of the fuels. And of course, as soon as the process gets dropped a little bit, it'll be your favorite. They drop it. And then they sell it in that seat over there and it's one of 25 board against you in the city. So that's one of the stars. 100. So it's a good thing for the world of 65. And now it goes to 75 and 80. And again, major anti-savings and life-saving measures. And it's a nice way to live in North Alabama. Some people remember going 55 years old as a Mexican on all the way, or even if you're not powerful, or as comfortable as you can be. So that was, now I wasn't voting that. Criticized, oh, that's too much. And frankly, the legislators like to vote for us. And they didn't want to make that little bit of a change, all the life choices, instead of a flying number of people in the United States of America. Too much of a change. So how are we supposed to change things when legislators won't change the state of America? Unsafe, very fast, get to a certain high security level. Whenever it's okay about the public transit, I would get people to view the public transit. And then I would have to sit there and listen to one day, and they don't think it was too slow. So we went and followed my generation and my family, and of course, any generation that she did. My generation had a ball of enormous power, a big thing, and they didn't try to get them to view it. That's new programming. We invented this idea of driving a piece of school. I remember the first time I asked my mother to ride out to school. She thought I was kidding. And then she just said, I'm trying to drive out of school. Thank you, boss. I used to school bus. Then you take, I think this is going to be all right. So we have better way to school buses. If you missed that, you took a city bus, which meant you got to school, right? Because of course I was going right to the school. And, but she just doesn't believe I'd be asking for a ride to school. And I mean, I've got her. She was staying at home all the time. She stayed at home all the time. She didn't stay at home, but the point is, then though she was driving to her son's school was a certain machine. Couple of good stories. I think that kind of thing happened when I was in Scotland. My sister, who was in Western Massachusetts, when her son was 20, when he was in, I think, junior high school, or middle school. She came from a band and then out to school on time. So she's finding, and she knows the key and you seem to think of it as a consequence. And she asked her, aren't you getting any talky stories? I mean, how come I haven't gotten to go for a tour? And so she thought that this was all spoke to. I spoke to her this morning, and I forgot to make sure I wasn't exactly going to start. She spoke to a swimming club with a lot of friends of hers. And she asked, I know that my son was like a team member. Is there anything happening to this point in my life? And the principal said, no, because frankly, we are finding that it's usually not the kids fault they're late, it's their mother or their father who want to be a trans man. So, this is kind of a very common, another one is that story from our friend, Lars, who's got a sister, this is just a team member. And her, and we started having a little discussion last night, so I'm updating this and making sure that they're, the sister's school, her sister's children's school, notified the parents that walking to the school was not all about it. Yeah. I guess because the road is in the city. And what makes you more than a city? People speak? So, I think it's really great for you guys to see and understand the absurdity of the capital that takes place in front of every American city, these days. That's a relatively new thing. So, I've been in my country for a couple of months. So, with that, I want to thank you again and I guess we'll have more to do. Yes, we'll have some more to do. Thank you very much. Here in the back, we now have the floor. This is the ground floor of our floor. So, we're going to ask you to come up and accept your award and you're going to enter very well done school board for both being the most improvements for the day and then we'll just find things that happen that they just need to be done. The next award goes to the highest percentage of students, staff, and teachers walking, rolling, and biking. That goes to, what's beautiful about this program is that it's both rural and urban schools achieved high grade of performance. And that goes to Albert Bridge School, the ground floor, and they're not here here, unfortunately. No. But again, they had amazing participation. They also had a bunch of letters from there. They were able to participate by getting to their curriculum because it was one point ago and they all had comments to give out to students in the name, which went with the high number of students that had these variations. So, would you accept your award? This is one of my favorites and it's not done all day and it's, they're hardly really very much in work. Back in my day, we broke the box. And this achievement goes to the Champlain Valley and the Christ School. And it's Nina's favorite to accept that award. She did a presentation. Can you tell us the title of what I'm about to do? So, I'm going to have a few of their pack cards have taken. And so, I do a ton of change and I know the issue is and you researched it and what do you think you can do? And I, our school has senior law, the junior law and a church law for kids to drive to school and park their cars. And I was like, that's crazy. There's so many kids that are just driving themselves and all this, the car isn't even a minute. And so, I decided that what if I find out why kids aren't driving? Do you think the school doesn't want you're driving? And so, I created the survey and I worked with Katie Antos-Ketchum, who is the advisor for our Environmental Act Club. And we put together a survey. I was like, if they took the bus, how long the bus already was, what we're gonna have them taking the bus and how if we improved the bus system in a certain way it would influence them to take the bus. And so, together we're gonna continue to work with that information now and present it to administration and trying to get the bus systems to be more reliable to kids. That's the number of points. We're leading to the top here. And actually there was a lot of schools that maybe had a real difficult time. And so, we're really pleased to announce that Mary Hogan Middle School won the first theater. And I need to slow down, I don't want to slow down. That's like, there's two heckling effects that are so distracting. And that's one of the benefits to this challenge is to remind us that we get this set of it. We get more connected with one another when we walk and roll to school. And we do recognize students that use their buses as well as those that use their bus. So that's why we call it Walk and Roll to School Day. And we celebrate the first Wednesday of every month and I guess it's a banana to mark that it's the day and today was the day. And I think it's our last day of the school year and they were really thrilled and excited. We had 20 bikes on the racks and lots of walkers. And more importantly, what we're seeing is that it is trickling up to our middle school and our high school where they obviously, those racks are full. We've got a bike parking problem because we don't have enough racks which is a bad problem. That's exactly what we want to see. We want to see it trickling up. So we know that a lot of military and Vermont families are becoming one-car families and really wanting to shed a car. And that's why we're excited about the eBike program now as well as the bike's smarter trailer, which gets people to experience the joy of shedding a car and having these healthier alternatives. So we're really appreciative of the challenge and the gift, you know, we're excited to receive this power flower. And it was that as the important teaching tool it is to start out with the important work, just the joy. Starting this, celebrate the shift from how America seems to be focused on sometimes like the individual culture in the elected life. First of all, it's been a really beautiful village where it's three quarters by three quarters of a mile where through safe access flows of operations and through teaching kids to bike, you start to see a shift of people opening their doors up and knowing their neighbors and trusting and believing in really what community can mean. And so I think that this challenge really helps us have that higher tension of believing that it's possible to start depending on our communities for safety and hope with people. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. See our efforts at the next Vermont Walk Lighting Summit, which Bill Berry will be hosting in May 2020, just before our closure due to a massive rail bridge construction projects. We are so important, trying to get that transportation transformation going there, that will vary. So if you want to be a witness to that and to bring your stories together, it's time to see you definitely in 2020. And it's gonna be another great way to go. A few words to say. Each time at Safe Roots to School, we were one of the three pilot schools that started Safe Roots to School, with John Kaplan and Amy, all those great folks that really pushed us to get out of the cars and walk and bike. So lots of connections I'm hearing going on our racks are chock-full. We're walking, we have walking Wednesdays, every week limited sometimes to the winter time, but we have lots of biking field trips now. When we started in 2005, there was a big fear about sending kids off, walking to school. And I didn't quite understand that. Growing up in the Northeast Kingdom, I took the yellow box, I took the big mud to get to school when we missed the box. And so lots of reasons. And so now when I walked up to the staircase I remember that was this picture. He was one of my guest walkers that very first year that he started. And when he started, you know, he invited all these popular things for a lot of people and really opened the doors, as this woman just said, opened the doors, people got safer without sending their kids off, walking first. And then we started biking. And now we're taking biking field trips, our different classes of biking, and road trips. Field trips now, we have to use the International Walk to School Day, the Way to Go Challenge. We do an intergenerational walk, which is a walk, we have lots of retirement homes and build up residents in our neighborhood. So we go and we walk with the older folks. And that was actually something that our patrons started from a lot of physical education, recreation, dance. So we do a lot of great stuff for the community. And these kids are out there every single day. This is Hannah, and this is Alex, two representatives from our school, four graders. Thank you, thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. And now we're all going in here and one off the board, we're going out to the top school. The top point, by the way, we're earned in a really hard way over the course of the whole school a year, because it's turned into numbers of 107,000 special events at schools. So they over and over again walk Wednesdays and this goes to Windsor School tonight. This is an education teacher at our school of Windsor and it did not last year, so I think it was more like the case of six, really trying to build it up there. And we do a lot of walking by the days. We do it all winter long, so we can walk everywhere. So I think that's a phishing program and we actually do a lot of phishing, trying to move on. And the fourth graders go every other week to the public library, and we are going to do the minus section of the department and the recreation center, so it's been great. We're still working on part of the people further out, hearing out, so you can get to school. We built this really cool sidewalk, way back in the day, this is school. Starrton, out on top, happened. He came down to the cond, and saw the cars and truck stores like a hundred miles down. We've been in policy to school for a long time and this is really quick, you know, I think it's really quick. Say a word about the relation and the schools and the American community. And as Kurt and everybody understands, the car is a major problem, a climate change problem, and I wanted to do something physically and best productive for my school, so a lot of you understand this is this generation that has done, made this do what we have to do. Climate change, because this is a huge, huge crisis in Kurt, I sympathize with you, you're in the house and in the legislature, we have to drive our legislative leaders to do that. And this is all a big part of it, so we're putting in the new power power, it's a new product that we're gonna introduce for sale in September, so this first winter is the first sort of outing. So I wanted to do something that was more artistic, okay, this is something we can be proud of and it's invisible, because people get to buy that, I want to have it in the North Side, I don't want anybody to see it, I don't want anybody to know about it, but this is something you should be really proud of. So that's what this process is all about, and it's really so that it can be really quick to install and pretty reasonably cost, and so I'm really happy that this school will. And now I think we're just wrapped up and it's a really good part, very good part. And it's going to be, like she's saying, as a state, so thank you for coming and I'll see you guys next time.