 Today is the 16th annual celebration of educational excellence. It's a statewide celebration of our youth in foster care who have achieved high school graduation, high school equivalency diplomas. I came to the foster care system. I've been in this foster home for about two years. I've been working out. I had my lips and downs here but I got myself on track. I left foster care when I was 18 and I got pregnant like the same month. So I want my son to know like nothing can hold you back. Nothing. Graduation is hard enough for any of our youth in our society today. It's a big feat to overcome just being a teenager in this society. But we've got a group of kids in there who have overcome tremendous trauma, abuse, neglect. So they've overcome quite a bit to get here today. I'm just really excited. I've never done this before. I feel like I actually made it, you know. Andrew Taylor. It's the happiest moment of my life so far. The happiest moment. When you set your standards high, I think it's better because you're not settling for something less than you deserve. We're going to go to college and we're going to try to double major. I'm going to go to a culinary school in Arkansas and get my life started there. These kids are the kids that you see every day. You probably don't even know that they're in foster care. You probably don't know that they've been through such traumatic things in their life because they just keep going forward. They have no choice. They have to keep moving forward. I didn't think I was going to graduate high school and now here I am. I'm actually doing it and I made it.