 Having been in your shoes, I truly appreciate your commitment to being here today and representing all 16 of Wisconsin's world-class technical colleges. I'm taking the machine tool techniques program. Automated manufacturing system technology program. Early childhood education program. Marketing student. Business management supervision program. And the industrial mechanical technician program. I'm in the nursing program. I'm enrolled in the gas utility construction program. Early childhood education. And I'm in the laboratory science program. And the criminal justice program. Dole enrollment program. My human services associates degree. The manufacturing information technology specialist program. The human resource management program. The plumbing apprentice program. In human services field. The associate's a nursing degree. Welding and fabrication program. This statewide showcase focuses on Wisconsin technical college students from around the state and highlights the incredible work they do both in the classroom and in the community. Becoming machinists or tool and die makers, basically you're learning CNC programming, manual milling, CAD design. The project that we have here today is a pill picking project and it uses vision to locate where the pills are. We are raising money to help moms get money for diapers that can't afford them. Today we're showing one of our research projects. It deals with the effective ways of communication between our mid-state staff and our students. We want to make sure that every veteran that walks through each one of our campuses knows that they have a place that they can come to. This year is going to be the first year that we have graduates out of the Electromechanical Technician Program. This is our first robot we have and we have three more on the way for next year. Well today I am showing how nursing students model simulation technologies. Basically we covered over two miles of cross-country trails and lit them up with lights and it was all volunteer work. Today I'm here talking about our study abroad opportunities and that very many technical colleges get to do study abroad. We have a few different cheeses today. The reason we have cheeses is there's over 2,000 dairy manufacturers in Wisconsin and they're actually the ones who came to Southwest Tech. They are looking for people. We did an internship with the Watertown Police Department. They compiled for them a brief synopsis of each case so that they could use that to try and get grants. We are seniors in high school and we go to WOTC in the morning for classes then we go back to high school for the rest of our classes. We are showing off our share of the bounty. It is a Thanksgiving dinner package that we did to the families in need. Essentially figuring out how to network factory machines. At the end of the year they get a certificate and with that certificate they also get a recommendation letter that they can give to an employee to show that they have these different skills. We are showcasing an international plumbing competition in India. Today I'm presenting our new Provost Honors Program. Phi Theta Kappa is the International Honors Society of the Two-Year Technical College System. I love this day. This is like one of the best days of my year. You guys have got skills. They are on display all around this rotunda today. You are brave because I know for a lot of you this might be the very first time that you are doing public speaking and telling other people about what you're doing with your lives. Lastly, I know you're all entrepreneurial because these displays didn't come out of nowhere. You built them. You made them. You decided what to put on, what to show off. Many of you are going to end up being the state's employers for generations to come. And that is good for all of us. We're in the capital though today because it's not only about the lieutenant governors. It's also about your state legislators, to whom you will speak and advocate today about Wisconsin's technical college system. I would say that Wisconsin's technical college system rivals any educational system of higher learning around the globe. Our motto as a state is forward. You're going to see it all over the state flags you pass as you go into these legislative offices. Remind your legislators and yourselves that that's exactly what you're doing every single day. Thank you for what you've done and thank you for what I know you will do for Wisconsin's great economy moving us all forward.