everybody my name is providence ryan i'm a senior here it's going to be high school and you know i've been in schenectady school district since i was in second grade and i've been in high school since i was a freshman so you know i've always grown up with schenectady i've always lived here and it's always been a part of who i am and i'm really proud of that and i'm really really happy about that too you know like makita said there are a lot of different opportunities for students at secular high school and i think that's one of the things that i really love about it here like i was never limited as a student and i've kind of developed myself as a student leader while i've been here as well this is my second year as the president of best buddies international at the high school and best buddies international is a program that works to empower him to educate people  on other students who have mental developmental disabilities and to empower them into empower empower them to be their own person so you know it's connected to high school has opportunities to students across the board so they don't single anybody out they don't pick somebody over somebody else it's  everybody across the board and i really love that i'm also a full diploma candidate in the international baccalaureate program and i'm the secretary of national music on society and i also just saying here with the high school she requires so i feel like i'm involved in a lot of things that's  going to be high school and being here and being able to have all those opportunities within my grasp and within my reach has really helped me develop myself and i've kind of found myself there off a school you know and it's just are so many good things to say about the high school too it's just you're never i mean he was right you can set a better you're never at a laugh or something to do there are sports and there are you know the fine arts program we're in the middle of our production right now in the blue roses theatre company and it's just really cool you know another great thing about sexy high school is the way you can help you with your future because of all the opportunities i've been given i expected high school and all the support i've been given all the opportunities i've had i received a full scholarship to colgate university for the fall of two thousand and twelve so you know so i think it's just really important to kind of look at the positive aspects of sneck to be like i feel like all the time in the news we hear you know something bad happened at stanford high school there's something going on it's connected that's not positive but there are just so many more positive things and there's so much happening and going on that you know students like me can really thrive and we really have opportunities you know and here it's actually there are so many students in there so many different kinds of people that i really have a group that i fit in with and you know i have friends who you know maybe i'm a part of best buddies and i'm a part of f a but i have friends who are you know on the varsity football team and i have friends who are involved in the robotics club and in the business house and stuff like that so you know you can find diversity not only throughout the entire school but in groups of friends as well and that helps everybody fit and it makes everybody feel really welcome so yeah seeing is always believing how many of you out there would have when you were a high school senior been able to stand up in front of a