 My name is Chandler Abbott and I'm a senior music and business student. My name is Peyton Weedner. I am a studio art major focusing in ceramics. My name is Cannon Reeves and I build robots. My name is Kristen Smith and I was a journalism in African and African American Studies major with a music minor. There's so many creative students on campus. The university wants to give these students opportunities to explore that. And that's why these residence halls are being built. What makes this residence hall special is just many things that have all come together. From the construction type of the cross-lemonated timber to the students involvement in furniture and room layout and design. We have over 11,000 square feet that are dedicated to academic and creative space. There will be six living and learning communities currently planned to be in the facility. New to the residence hall is a partnership with the Brewer Hub on entrepreneurship and innovation. We're very excited about the partnership. I think that this residence hall is going to expose our students to equipment and opportunities that may be available to them after graduation. Not to mention the networking that they're already going to start to have. Having this opportunity to live in a residence hall where they're creating relationships that will carry them into the next stages of their careers is vital. So as I'm hiring, looking through many resumes, and if I had one come across my desk with a student who lived at the residence hall, that would pique my interest. It's new, it's unique, and it's a differentiator for them as they move from student into potential employee. With the resources, facilities, and faculty that are going to be in these new residence halls, students are going to be able to accelerate their careers and be more prepared than ever for the future. When you are in an environment that encourages you to practice and to try your skills, it will allow you to accelerate much faster and be much happier with what you can create. I think it's important to be surrounded by other creative people because I think they push you. You thrive off of others and you push and you learn from others as well. And so we're hoping that this cross-population of students, whether they are artistic majors or they're not artistic majors, will learn from each other. And I think it's a great addition of the campus and it signals that the university cares about the individual students and what they do outside of the classroom just as much as they do inside the classroom. I am jealous that they have a space this wonderful available to them now. I think that anyone who has the opportunity should take advantage of being in a space this innovative, this forward thinking, and this just comforting and nurturing.