 it made me strive for and it makes me want to do more for my community which I am going to. Hi I'm Jaylon Bond I go to Tap Academy. Today's been a pretty great day. I had a good first workshop with Jacob Diaz talks about higher education and how important it is and how he had teachers that had put it down all his life and then he had that one teacher in high school that just helped him get through community college. Today has been a great day so far. I had a nice breakout session with Dr. Derek Brooms. It was really great. He taught us about higher education and what we need to do to excel in it and how to get to that point and we just shared goals, seven ways for success, just little steps to get farther into whatever you want to do. Me and a couple of friends came had a lot of fun. We have free food, meeting new people. I kind of look forward for next year too. It's actually really fun. It's actually real nice. Today it's like really changed my views on how racism is viewed and what a real man is and it's been really helpful and it's encouraged me to actually try in school and just apply myself to do better than I normally am and it's also helped me just to be a better person in general and to help out my fellow man. It was a great experience especially for minorities in the community helping them realize that there is education further than high school and it is available to everybody. I'm definitely going to come back and try to be a caucus leader next year and try to bring as many people as I can because there's no way you cannot have fun at this kind of event. These are really really sharp kids here and I can see them being very engaged in the session and I think one of the things that they like about coming to the summit is because here at the summit we're talking about issues that they can relate to. We couldn't have had a better you know opening keynote speaker in terms of you know Dr. John Carlos and his experiences and the things that he done in sacrifice for you know this generation and hopefully some of that stuff rubs off on our students and they see their importance and see that they then have to you know sacrifice and it's their role to build for you know future generations. Today's event the Black and Brown Summit was really beneficial for all of our Black and Brown males giving them an opportunity to look beyond themselves look at the man in the mirror and really embrace their diversity, embrace their multicultural backgrounds and also lift one another up. It's been really empowering to have us come together and talk about what we can do to close the education gap what we can do to be proud of who we are and where we come from and what we need to do to progress our communities you know and and really create some positive change. We doubled maybe tripping our numbers from last year so I think that I have a plus grade for the Black and Brown male summit I think all those who've been involved all those who want to be involved come along it's a ride to see these young men really strive and really get information that is important in them being successful and the presenters are really bringing it to them and like I said before the students are really engaged and it's a great event.