 It's my pleasure to be here today with all of you to welcome you to the Kaiser Permanente Healthcare Career Scholarships Program Award Ceremony. We are so proud to support you as you embark on this journey to college and your career and health. And this year we are awarding more than half a million dollars to 166 students. That's incredible. Only three quarters of our scholars this year are from diverse backgrounds and over two-thirds are bilingual. Our hope is that in 2016 scholarship recipients along with more than 900 Kaiser scholars who have come here before will stay connected to the Kaiser Permanente organization throughout college and beyond. If you had a chance to speak to our employees today at the career fair you heard about what a great place Kaiser Permanente is to work. We hope that one day you'll join us. A deep heartfelt congratulations. This is a significant accomplishment and I'm so honored to get to be here with you today and just share in this celebration. Now you all are going to have a tremendous opportunity to influence many people. You're going to have patients who will hopefully listen to you but you are going to be a leader with much influence in your community and I hope that you will consider using your voice and your influence not just to improve health for the sake of individuals but health for the larger region. Valcing work in a rigorous course load forces me to study on my commute and during lunch breaks at work. Challenges like these remind me to stay humble and continue to work hard. The financial support of the Kaiser Permanente scholarship has allowed me to work fewer hours and devote more time to my studies bringing me one step closer to fulfilling my career goals. I feel very privileged and touched to receive your support in my post-secondary endeavors. It is such an amazing emotion for me personally to know there are always these networks of support out there assisting students in their educational pursuits. I believe my dreams of becoming a physician will help me achieve my ultimate goal of educating, providing awareness and giving back to my community. And as we honor this latest group of Kaiser Scholars we need to remember and appreciate the powerful impact that the teachers, counselors and educators have on all these students. Mr. Magnon has been a great part of my college preparation. Thanks to his motivation and I was keeping things straightforward I am glad to say I am able to continue my education. You can have a quick conversation with Mrs. Diabobus about what you want to do with your life and you can walk out as if no one in the world can stop you. I hope to become a cardiologist one day. In pursuit of becoming a radiation therapist. I will become a registered nurse. I will become a pharmacologist. I plan to become an ultrasound technician. Wow, so many amazing smiles and great handshakes. I am so impressed by what these young people have accomplished and I know we are all optimistic about what they are going to achieve in their future here. I just want to leave you with something not to forget. That a kind glance, a warm reassuring smile and a caring touch can never be replaced and means so much to the care that we provide and the love that we give to all of our friends, family and our patients. So with that again another round of applause to all the scholarship recipients.