 Coming into the school, we didn't have any murals. We didn't have anything to promote a college-going culture. We didn't have anything that would remind me of a traditional or typical elementary school when I first walked in. Everything was very bland. Schools are anchors in communities. Schools are a safe place for families and kids to go to. So partnering with schools is really the formula that's necessary to create healthy communities. When you come into an elementary school, kids should want to be here. Sometimes visual is the way to pull people in, and then you get the hard work done. Working together to come and work towards a common vision, which is to move our school forward and to increase our student achievement. Kids come to school to a place that's safe and clean and conducive to learning, they will learn. MLK has always been a day on, not a day off, that allows us to go out into the community and volunteer and give back to the communities that we serve. There's a lot of things that have to take place to make this project happen. We are doing a library. We are basically creating one from an unused classroom. There is an incredible amount of joy when a student gets a book. I think they are very excited when they see the book. It takes partnerships that are willing to come into our communities. And it's easier said than done. We started with a room that needed to have both cases removed. Rye raceboards removed. All of a sudden we found holes behind those rye raceboards. So now you're talking about getting wall patch, getting the surface ready for a mural so that the muralist would have a blank canvas that she turned into a magnificent piece of art. But just to get to that process was a collaboration of many individuals. Our administration of operations at the local district level, we're in a booty. Our maintenance and operation lead Dennis Bradburn and a variety of people from AOS, CPMs to get us the craftsmen that we needed so that they could come here and put all the pieces together. My name is Dr. Wanda Austin, and I am a STEAM hero. What STEAM means? It's science, technology, engineering, art, and math. As a child that grew up in the inner city, I didn't have role models. I didn't see examples of African American heroes. And so I'm truly honored to be on the wall of heroes because I hope that it encourages young people that they can be whatever they wanna be and be great STEAM heroes themselves. And it's really that working together that creates the magic for what we have as a shared vision. When you bring the arts into any situation, you can transform, you can transform a room, you can transform a life. That engagement is really critical, I think, to the health of any strong community. Be important, wonderful. If you wanna be recognized, wonderful. If you wanna be great, wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's a new definition of greatness. By given that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great. Everyone. Because everybody can serve.