 Our mission at Cooper Hewitt is to inspire people of all ages, but with particular emphasis on the younger generation. To have this national competition draw 200 applicants and then have these three finalists articulate answers to these problems so well was really just so impressive and my spirits are just soaring right now. Mentor day was great. The maker space that we talked to the mentors in was really, really cool and the mentors actually helped a lot to give a lot of great advice. This is a great competition and it inspires young people like myself to think outside the box and come up with solutions for problems they have gone through. I'm very impressed. The three finalists were articulate, they had to thought their plan out very carefully. It was like presenting a professional business plan to the judges. How nutrition should be valued in their lives. Comino Fresca is a mobile food stand. In thinking about Dress-Dent Market I was really trying to think about goals and what our successes would look like. What impressed me about the finalists was the level of thought that they've actually given to the challenge and the fact that each one of them found a way to tie it back to their own story, be able to tie it back to humanity and being able to each explain the significance of how this would improve the lives of people that are really near and dear to them. What I'm so sold on the narrative that it's like you could hire someone to figure it out and I don't care that you're 15, you don't like, you could do that. I think there's a way that you, with one iteration and a little bit of testing, if you have that capacity, you could figure out a pretty simple set of things. We had sweat on our brows because it was not easy to select one of you. You all did an excellent job, so that you are the winner. This was just a really amazing experience overall. I think I learned so much about design, about the design process and just how to think about approaching your design and making it the best it can be and just sort of like going out of my comfort zone. I didn't expect this at all. I'm so grateful and I'm so honored and it's amazing. We saw the best of the best and for that to be representative of the talent pool that submitted applications and designs, it's something that I'm going to remember forever and something that I hope when the world sees what they do, they get inspired by it as well.