 The recent elections impacted my life in different ways. It seems like we're just going backwards. People said they were scared. They were angry. For me, it kind of like motivates me, I guess, to become like a stronger individual and a stronger, like, have more faith in my religion. This is what I believe in, and this is who I want to be. It's full of faith! I'm in here to protect sacred water. There's a lot of things going on in society, and a lot of people try to hide the fact that they're Muslim, but Averaweese teaches us to be proud. Averaweese has helped me become more confident about myself. One thing I like about Averaweese is that the community's small. Each teacher knows you personally. And you really get to bond, and it's like you build this connection. I believe Averaweese has prepared me in a lot of ways. They prepare you for life, and they want you to succeed. They provide us with college counselors and teachers with experience to help us accomplish our goals that we set as a freshman. I learned that I can be myself around people, and I don't have to change myself to fit in. One thing I've learned at Averaweese is being able to accept people for their differences and learning to live with one another. There's a saying of the Prophet Muhammad, and it's a beautiful saying. It says, even if the day of judgment is around the corner, plant a seed. So I can't lie, I wrote something, I wrote two pages, and then I was sitting over there and I was like, you know what, I'm going to just have an honest conversation. High school is hard. It's hard. Here we have these young freshmen coming into school. They're trying to be independent. They're trying to be on their own. They got hormones kicking in. They have social media that they have to deal with. They have girls and boys on their minds, and then we have to teach them. It's extremely hard. So what Sister Ali said about being a partner in this, it is so crucial that the parent, the student, and the staff work together in order to make it successful for the students for that four years. They're going from being young, young children, and until adulthood. And it's very important that you guys work together. Today I'm going to challenge the junior high schools, even though I know we partner on a lot of levels that we work together, because the communication between you and us will allow us to help those kids. And so it's very important that we work together as a community, but it is extremely hard at the high school level. But I enjoy it. I love it. I come in. I smile. They put a smile on my face. And to see them in ninth grade, to see them become seniors and graduate the maturity level, the things that they accomplish, and then to see them in the real world, coming back as council members, coming back as techs and consultants, and they're very, very grateful they come back and give to the community. So we must stick together. And that's the only way our kids are going to be successful in Charlotte. So I'll tell you a little bit about Averi's past this one up. We're passionate educators. We've been around for 12 years. We're essentially located in Fremont. We have a partnership with Aloni College. So we have a building down right across from the Aloni campus. We have like three classrooms up at the top of Aloni. We utilize their facilities for our sports, soccer, basketball. We have a great relationship with them. They also let their college counselors come in and speak to our kids about what they need to do to progress in college in Charlotte. We're A through G approved and wants accredited. Other things we offer, and I'll have Brother Sadiq come up after I go through the slides and talk a little bit about our theology program in Arabic and Quran in Charlotte. We have our courses, Math, Science, History, PE, Humanities. We do the dual enrollment. Like I said, we have college classes at Aloni College. We have competitive sports. Alhamdulillah, I'm the basketball coach as well. Our boys' basketball team did really well. We made it to the state bracket, so we were really excited about that for the first time. And our boys' soccer went to the playoffs as well for the second time. Traveling, our seniors go to Spain. Our juniors go to D.C. Our 9th and 10th graders kind of flip-flop. They go between the Navajo Nation and Arizona, and then they also go to the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta, Georgia, and down south. That is the most beautiful trip I go on in almost every year. And it's very exciting. You learn so much about the history, the American history, as they say. We do have a counselor. We're going through Khalilullah. We have a therapist on well, on our staff as well, Ms. Sabine. She's done amazing with our children. Support of Islamic environment, community service, workshops. We do a lot of camps, internship. We bring in private companies to work on their college applications and give support in that area. We try to build those long-life relationships. It's students who text me to this day just checking in on me, seeing how I'm doing, seeing what we need for our school, so we definitely build those bonds. So AHS graduates are innovative problem solvers, effective communicators, college and career ready, equipped with life skills, emotional intelligence, and have that growth mindset. I know that's another thing about Islamic high schools. They say that our kids can't go to the prestigious colleges, and I beg to differ. We had our kids get into Cornell, Berkeley, Purdue, UC Davis, Temple, UCLA. I think last year we had two of our students get into Berkeley. Two got into Davis, I believe, Alhamdulillah, and that was out of probably like 12 or 13 kids. Alhamdulillah, our kids are doing really well. These are some of them. Omar Jean, he's a council member, and San Jose. Some of our players do go on to play college basketball. Brother Sadiq's son, Mohammed Gilchrist, he played at the college level. Masha'Allah, he's done really well, even being on ESPN. Sister Summer, I believe she's in mental health now, so Alhamdulillah, our students are achieving success outside of Averro's. Like I said before, let's stay together, let's stay connected. It's important that we all work together because we cannot do it alone, and there is a big battle out there that our children have to face every day. Thank you. Briefly, just to reiterate this fact, so basically I'm just going to run down a quick list of what they're going to be studying this year. So our ninth and tenth graders in Cretal Theology, they'll be studying the Aqid of Imam Ahmed Al-Muqzuki. It's called Aqid Al-Awam, a very famous poem. Many of the children learn it at a certain level, but then when they get to high school, it's imperative that they go deeper. So our ninth and tenth graders will be doing that. Our eleventh and twelfth graders will be studying the Johara to Tahrir, which is a book which was written by Ibrahim Al-Aqani, which is also in Cretal Theology, but it's even deeper look. So these books are designed to give them some of the tools that they'll need to navigate all of these challenges that they're facing. In Islamic jurisprudence, they're going to be studying the metin of Ibn Abi Shuja' al-Asfahani, it's a very good Islamic book for them to study in terms of Islamic law. And then finally, when it comes to prophetic biography, they'll be studying the Shema'il of At-Tirmidhi. And then in Islamic Akhlaq and Adab, they'll be studying the Bidayat al-Hidayah from Imam al-Ghazali. These books are good books for them at this particular junction in their lives because it equips them with some of the tools they'll need to navigate the serious questions that they'll face when they go to college. So inshallah, we've been working really hard for the last two, three years to do that. And we ask for your du'a that we're successful.