- Hello. We are the HOSA
Community Awareness group
and this ceremony was put in
place to help us say thank you
to everybody who supported
us to get to this point.
It has been a wonderful experience working
alongside these girls and it
has been an incredibly true,
awarding experience to have
autism awareness being spread
at our school.
In the beginning, we
would have never thought
we would have made it to this point
but with the dedication
and the motivation that all
of our staff members, all of our friends,
family have given us we have
been able to make a difference
in our school and with that
information we have hoped
to influence our peers
to make a difference
in the community as a whole.
So once again thank you to
everybody who has supported us
and this is our way of
showing our gratitude.
- So today we're here
to donate $1,500 divided
into two organizations,
Team Mario and Capable Kids.
They will each be receiving
$750 each to create more events
to spread more autism awareness.
- Hi, I'm Stephanie Wilson
with Capable Kids Foundation.
We are a foundation here in
the upper and lower Valley
that we work with individuals
with special needs
to create opportunities for inclusion
for them, sports programs,
proms, parent support groups,
all kinds of events that will
involve not only the children
but also adults and
families with special needs.
- Hi, my name is Andres Del Fierro
and I'm one of the
co-founders of Capable Kids.
We at the Capable Kids Foundation
would like to thank the
PSJA T-STEM HOSA chapter for their check
and also for being a
sponsor at our next prom.
Thank y'all so much.
We appreciate it.
- Hi, Team Mario is very
happy to accept this donation.
I will accept it on their behalf.
Team Mario is an organization,
autism organization
throughout the Valley hosting events
to promote inclusion and awareness.
Thank you.
- Hi, I'm Robert Laciste.
On behalf of Thomas Jefferson T-STEM,
we would like to thank
our very own students
for taking their time and effort
to give back to their community.
Pairing up with Team
Mario, also pairing up
with Capable Kids Foundation
to help support autism
and bring awareness to the community.
- Hello, my name is Brisa Alvarez
and today I want to thank
our principal, Mrs. Bazan,
two of our teachers, Mrs.
Cantu and Mr. Dejano,
who have been very understanding
of all of our events
and even went up as like
allowing us their day
of fundraising to allow us
to fundraise for our checks
and I also, as a member of this team,
I'm also the youngest one here.
I have on more year and I just want to say
that hopefully next year, I
will be seeing you all again
when I continue with this.
So, that's it. Thank you.
(members clapping)
