 Good evening. My name is Matthew Antis, and I have the honor of being part of the family at Lakeshore Technical College and now the Student Ambassador for our wonderful school. I would like to thank Mr. Cole and R.W. Baird without you. I might not have muted my cell phone before I came up here tonight. No. Thank you very much for your support. It means everything to us and your generous gift as well. My story in secondary education began 15 years ago. 33 years old, I went to a private four-year university and I went because everybody else was and I was not going to get left out. And I didn't know what I wanted to do. I knew I was good at math. So, guess what my major was? It was math. A little dry to talk about at parties, but I was good at it, but I had no direction. And there wasn't, I was a number, there was a big class size as I was a number. There wasn't very much oversight or even advisor interaction with me and I didn't really, I was kind of swaying. So I left school three years in without a degree. I had the learning that I had from three years, but I was not fulfilled like your sister. I entered the workforce because we have to eat, don't we? We have to survive. So I was in manufacturing for the last 10 years, extremely unfulfilled. And I started, within me, something started changing. I started desiring a better life for myself, knowing my capabilities. And so I started considering going back to school. But something more, something smaller, something more family size, something more focused for me. Lo and behold, Lakeshore Technical College had everything that I was looking for in college and a brand new program to boot. I joined the IT Web and Software Developer Program at LTC and in its first year has blown me out of the water. The opportunities at the school, I mean, I could talk for an hour. By show of hands, how many people here have an iPad, iPhone, Android device, something, handheld? Guess how many there were in the world in 2009? Two years ago, two and a half years ago, zero, none, exploded. By the end of this program, I will be writing software for iPads. I'll be writing apps for your mobile phones. I'll be fully educated and enabled to exceed in a blockbuster industry that is just really taking off. I have LTC to thank for that. I got elected as a president of a brand new club. We had no club for our new focus on campus because it was a new program, so we made one. And they elected me president. I don't know why, they may regret that later, but we've had a great time. We're currently developing websites for businesses in our community. Non-profits, small businesses, larger businesses. We're generating business contacts. All of these things, and I don't say this to me, all of these things have been provided, these opportunities have been provided by our wonderful staff at the school, my instructors. I have come in, built relationships with my classmates, with my instructors, with staff that have turned into friendships. It's been an invaluable experience to me. I cannot wait to graduate. And I'll tell you what, I can't wait to tell people who are like me or 18 years old and just had to go to school some four years. Where are you going to school? Where are you going to school? It was a big deal. I wish I could go back and say, you know, I chose LTC and I got a technical degree and a field that was blowing up and they equipped me to be a success. Thank you very much for this opportunity and it's a great honor.