 My name is Katie Pedersen. I'm the Director of Strategic Advancement for the Wisconsin Technical College System. The Wisconsin Technical College System is a gem and I think that we used to be called the best kept secret and we no longer are and I think that that is a really wonderful thing but I think that if we could get every person in the state on to a campus of the of any tech college in the state they would see how vibrant and how fantastic all of those campuses are. The tech college system is the largest higher education system in the state. We affect almost 300,000 students every year and that doesn't even account for the number of faculty and staff that work at the colleges or the number of employers or employees at the local community businesses that work closely with the colleges. The passion that the people that I'm surrounded by have for what they do is a driver for for all of the rest of us. There's not a single person that I talk to that I work with that isn't passionate for this work. I am successful when someone who may not understand the breadth and depth of our colleges can listen to a story or can watch a video that we've produced or can read a newsletter and understand the impact that our colleges and the staff and faculty at our colleges and at the system have on a student's life and that's a real person's life.