They were armed with bottles of chocolate syrup, sprinkles and whipped cream. And the students at American Montessori Academy were ready to do their worst: turning their principal and other administrators into human sundaes.

Sixth-grader Camryn Sandaw took several ice cream toppings, such as chocolate and sprinkles, and covered her principal and other adults with them in the school’s gym Tuesday. This was before she was grabbed and covered in chocolate syrup herself.

“It felt really good,” the Livonia resident said.

The students at the upper elementary school, located at 17175 Olympia, were granted the chance to make their principal, Jennifer Wilkins, a human ice cream sundae as part of a fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Students raised more than $6,000 during March by bringing in their spare change and donating to other events throughout the month.

Wilkins said the idea came from a student for this year’s donations. Last year, Wilkins dyed her hair pink when her students raised more than $5,000 last year for the society.

She was covered in chocolate syrup, caramel sauce and sprinkles after the students left to go home.

“A sixth-grader heard about it on the radio,” she said the idea came from. “It tastes pretty good.”

Students brought ice cream toppings from home to pour on Wilkins and others, and went classroom-by-classroom taking turns as the chocolate syrup flowed.

Kevin Biga, the school’s physical education teacher who helped organize the monthlong drive, said students had other opportunities to raise money, including bringing $5 and being able to use their iPod or PSP during recess.

He said the students have increased their charitable donations each year, something he’s proud to brag about.

“We always do a service learning project,” he said. “In the last three years, we’ve raised $15,000 combined.”

Some students, like third-grader Bryn Rehling of Redford, said they’ve had experience in previous years making a mess of her principals.

She looked forward all day during school to covering her principal in chocolate sauce.

“It felt really good and funny,” she said with a smile.

American Montessori Academy principal Jennifer Wilkins along with aides Melissa Blouin and Leah Burney. The three were covered in ice cream toppings by students Tuesday afternoon at the academy as a reward for students raising money for cancer research. The school has raised more than $15,000 in the past three years. / Photos by Bill Bresler | staff photographer

For the past few weeks, students at Kensington Woods High School, in conjunction with the Livingston County Hunger Council, have been tackling a big, local issue – hunger.

On March 6 and 7, Kensington Woods students completed a special 2-day project focused on developing solutions for the issue of hunger and food insecurity in Livingston County. All students in the school (7th-12th grades) took place in the project with exception of the Juniors, who were taking their ACT and MME exams. Doing a school-wide project during ACT/MME exams has become an annual tradition for Kensington Woods as it allows students to develop skills that will prepare them for and make connection to college and the real world in ways that a traditional classroom environment cannot. This project allows students to make connections from the content to the real world, just as they are asked to do in college. The project is also designed to develop empathy and character traits needed to be a productive, successful college student and adult. Students developed 21st century skills, such as collaboration, critical thinking, creative thinking and problem-solving.

Students used a model of thinking called Design Thinking, which was created by IDEO (a product design firm) and the d.school at Stanford University. Design Thinking goes through a specific process to allow designers to develop empathy for the situation and those involved and develop innovative, purposeful and practical solutions.

The project began with specific challenges posed students that Kensington Woods High School staff developed in conjunction with the Livingston County Hunger Council. The challenges all fell under the question: How might we address hunger and food insecurity in Livingston County? The challenges addressed three points of view: awareness, reaching hungry children and getting kids and teens to eat more healthfully.

Students then learned about the Livingston County Hunger Council and the role they play in Livingston County as well as the issue of hunger in Livingston County. Students were divided into multi-age teams and worked as a team through the 5-step design process that began with empathy on Wednesday. Students learned about hunger and food insecurity, focusing on real life experiences. They then defined the issue and their point of view on it. On Thursday, they began to ideate, or brainstorm about potential solutions. They then selected from their best ideas and prototyped and tested their solutions, including refining them. In the end, each team presented their solution to other students. Solutions developed ranges from food stands, community events, gardens, social media campaigns, school assemblies, greenhouses and more.

Eight pitches were chosen to be moved onto a final presentation for the Livingston County Hunger Council and the entire school, which happened on Monday, March 18. The pitches were:

• Put a Face on Hunger Campaign by Morgan Sabuda (10th) and Kalie Davis (9th)

• A Student’s Garden by Nathan Boze (9th), Gage Yon (9th) and Case Sedler (10th)

• The Hunger Games by Grant Holback (8th) and Chad Hibbard (8th)

• End World Hunger Social Media Campaign by Sam Sovlansky (12th), Blake Getz (9th), Kayla Shamel (7th) and Emily Way (12th)

• Hunger Hat Community Gathering Space and Relay for Hunger by Maggie Sustic (10th), Christine Tucker (12th), Nathan Knudsen (9th) and Skyler Pifer (9th)

• Hunger Awareness Festival by Patrick Tracy (10th) and Carley Sedler (7th)

• Food Truck and Farm Source by Cameron Wicks (10th), Jared Guarino (9th), Kevin Smullen (9th), Alex Duguay (9th), Kyle Rupert (12th), Sam Walsh (10th), Alex Korach (9th), Emily Whitaker (7th) and Collin Gagnon (9th)

• Greenhouse by Sidney Mueller (12th), Hannah Pockey (10th), Trey Lavely (9th) and Trevor Leffert (9th)

Throughout this process, representatives from the Livingston County Hunger Council worked with students, providing them information, giving them feedback and just observe. Representatives involved were: Nancy Rosso (Livingston County United Way), Michelle Ounanian (Gleaners Community Food Bank), Lindsay Beaudry (Livingston County Human Services Collaborative Body), Gerald Olinik (Olinik Family McDonalds), Donna Gehringer (Livingston County United Way) and Chloe Ferriman (Livingston County United Way).

Now that the project is complete, the representatives from the Livingston County Hunger Council will be taking the students’ ideas back to their strategy sessions and working on making some of them become reality and Kensington Woods will continue to stay involved with the Livingston County Hunger Council.

The Livingston County Hunger Council is a collaborative body made up of a cross-section of the community dedicated to ending hunger in Livingston County. The Council is made up of government agencies, non-profits, local businesses and private citizens who have committed to making our community a place where everyone has access to the nutritious food they need, when they need it.

An article about this project ran in the Livingston Daily on March 31, 2013.

High school students at Howell-based Kensington Woods High School recently participated in the One Million Bones project, an effort to raise awareness of genocide and other global atrocities. The project invites students to participate by creating a bone, and in June 2013 all the bones created will be distributed on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. as an art installation to increase visibility and awareness of humanitarian crises. Each bone generates $1 from the Bezos Family Foundation for the Central Africa network of CARE, a humanitarian organization fighting global poverty.

Students in the school’s Art Honors Society worked with school faculty to develop mini-lessons in different subject areas to look at the issues raised by One Million Bones in a variety of contexts. The students then led their peers through each mini-lesson, giving all students a multifaceted understanding of genocide’s impact before they constructed their bones. In total, the students raised $1,463 by creating 1,463 bones.

Kindergartners at American Montessori Academy in Livonia completed their first service learning project for the year, a winter clothing drive. Students collected donations of coats, hats, mittens and other winter items and worked to sort and display them. AMA parents and families were invited in before the holidays to pick-up anything they needed for the upcoming winter season free of charge. Whatever was not taken was donated to a local charity. (Reprinted from the Livonia Observer and Eccentric December 16, 2012)

Lauren Benstead’s breakthrough season as a runner almost didn’t happen.

She had run a career-best time of 19 minutes, 35 seconds during her junior cross country season for Charyl Stockwell Academy, but had begun to turn her attention elsewhere.

“My goals had moved on,” Benstead said in a phone conversation last month. “I was a little burned out (on cross country) and I wanted to run a marathon.”

She had to be talked into running a 5K race in Milford in August.

“I wasn’t going to do it,” she said. “I entered the day before. I got persuaded to run.”

There wasn’t any persuasion necessary after that. At Milford, she was the overall winner in a blazing 17 minutes, 54.6 seconds, more than a minute and a half off her previous best.

That carried over into her CSPA season, too. Her slowest time was 18:05 at a meet in Linden, then she followed that with a blazing 17:39.5 a week later at the Coaching Legends Invitational, held at Huron Meadows MetroPark.

It is believed to be the lowest time recorded by a Livingston County high school runner, a little over a second faster than the 17:40.53 run by Hartland standout Avery Evenson on the same course at an MHSAA regional in 2011.

“I love to go out there and push myself,” Benstead said. “A lot of people don’t understand. There’s something about when you give it all you have. There’s something so satisfying about it.”

She’ll test herself again on Saturday at the Foot Locker Midwest Regional at Kenosha, Wis., against some of the top runners in the nation.

Benstead’s emergence this year didn’t surprise her coach, Scott Pitcher.

“She’s a very disciplined and driven individual,” Pitcher said. “She runs and studies at a level most adults would never conceive of striving for. She has great attention to detail and puts forth a great effort.”

Getting Benstead to run isn’t the problem, Pitcher said. It’s reining her in.

“Everything with her is about pushing herself as hard as possible,” he said, “in both running and academics. Last year, she started out quite well but pushed so hard she wore herself out early.

“I worked with her on making sure it wasn’t just about running harder and faster, but also to learn about nutrition and recovery and focusing on what she wanted to get from the season,” he added. “Some expectations came her way, and she exceeded them.”

Benstead, who lives in Milford, has been at Charyl Stockwell since the fourth grade.

“I was in a Montessori school and was used to different (educational) approaches,” she said. “I would have been ahead of my class in a mainstream school, and CSPA was the best option for me.”

She attacks academics as well, although she won’t pick a favorite. She plans to study architecture in college.

“I could never choose,” she said, asked to pick a favorite class. “I guess I’ve always loved all my subjects. I’m creative with language and art and I love math. Architecture is a blend of critical thinking with my artistic side.”

She is taking an architecture class at Lawrence Tech University in Southfield and an online Japanese class.

“I went there and I loved the culture and the language,” she said. “It’s my little quirky fascination.”

As for academics, “I’ve always been a good student,” Benstead said. “I kept myself to a standard of getting close to 100 percent in my classes and it’s almost a habit by now. I don’t think about it. A lot of my friends are like that. We started getting higher grades.”

CSPA is not a member of the Michigan High School Athletic Association, which meant the school couldn’t compete in the state meet held at Michigan International Speedway earlier this month.

As for college, at least running in college, she has some definite preferences.

“I’m considering some options, but my main thing is, I do not like Michigan winters,” Benstead said, laughing. “I don’t like going our there when it’s almost zero. You can’t really dress up in sweat pants to run. I don’t like it. I’m searching for a more happy climate for me and I’m looking for a good school where I can study architecture, somewhere I may be able to run for the school.”

Wherever she goes, Benstead’s coach has no doubt about her prospects.

“She’s a very driven and disciplined individual,” Pitcher said. “When others may not feel comfortable about putting in extra miles, she does. She has the ability to get up and get motivated for workouts, and she treats practices the same as meets. I’ve not come across many who can push themselves like Lauren does.”

In the meantime, Benstead, who just turned 17, says she’s not been affected by the attention that came with her meteoric rise.

“People I don’t know are telling me, ‘Great run,’” she said. “It’s been interesting, but at the same time it’s just me. You’d think I’d get a really big head and such, but to me it’s more like ‘This is neat.’

“I still have homework and stuff,” she added. “I still have to clean my room.”

 This article ran in the Sunday, November  23, 2012 edition of the Livingston Press and Argus.

CS Partners, a Brighton based Educational Service Provider since 1996, is proud to see two of the schools they serve earn Reward School designation by the Michigan Department of Education.

The Charyl Stockwell Academy has been designated as a Reward School “for high student achievement.” Charyl Stockwell Academy emphasizes the education of the whole child by considering the developmental characteristics of each age group. Using a curriculum that emphasizes higher level thinking skills and habits of mind it is integrative, exploratory and academically rigorous.

The Crescent Academy has been designated as a Reward School for “making tremendous progress in student achievement.” Crescent Academy offers an educational setting that nurtures in each student a deep and abiding curiosity and appreciation for sustained learning across a lifetime. Students at Crescent Academy are given the support and tools to excel including after school tutoring, summer school, and Saturday school programs are offered to ensure their success.

Reward Schools include the top five percent of schools on the annual Top-to-Bottom ranking of all Michigan schools, and the top five percent of schools making the greatest academic progress over the previous four years.

“We applaud the hard work and achievement of the educators and students in our Reward Schools because they are zeroed in on improving learning,” said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan. “We need to instill that goal in so many more schools, in order to help all kids be career- and college-ready and successful in life.”

“CS Partners is a results-driven management firm, made up of highly regarded educators from the traditional and charter school systems. Our size and location allow us the flexibility to be responsive and hands-on,” said Chuck Stockwell, CEO of CS Partners. “This Reward School designation is the result of a lot of focused effort and hard work by our students and staff in the schools, supported by our professional service providers with over 200 combined years of public school experience.”

Reward School is a new school designation that came as the result of Michigan receiving flexibility to the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act from the U.S. Department of Education.

The Charyl Stockwell Academy has been designated as a Reward School “for high student achievement” by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE.)

Reward Schools include the top five percent of schools on the annual Top-to-Bottom ranking of all Michigan schools, and the top five percent of schools making the greatest academic progress over the previous four years.

“We applaud the hard work and achievement of the educators and students in our Reward Schools because they are zeroed in on improving learning,” said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan. “We need to instill that goal in so many more schools, in order to help all kids be career- and college-ready and successful in life.”

“We believe our combination of high academic expectations and highly qualified teachers motivate our students to learn and achieve today and throughout their lives,” said Executive Director, Shelley Stockwell. “This Reward School designation is the result of a lot of focused effort and hard work by our students and staff.”

Reward School is a new school designation that came as the result of Michigan receiving flexibility to the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act from the U.S. Department of Education.

Southfield – The Crescent Academy has been designated by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) as a Reward School for “making tremendous progress in student achievement.”

Reward Schools include the top five percent of schools on the annual Top-to-Bottom ranking of all Michigan schools, and the top five percent of schools making the greatest academic progress over the previous four years.

“We applaud the hard work and achievement of the educators and students in our Reward Schools because they are zeroed in on improving learning,” said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Mike Flanagan. “We need to instill that goal in so many more schools, in order to help all kids be career- and college-ready and successful in life.”

“We believe our combination of high academic expectations and highly qualified teachers motivate our students to learn and achieve today and throughout their lives,” said Crescent Academy Superintendent Cherise Cupidore. “This Reward School designation is the result of a lot of focused effort and hard work by our students and staff.”

Crescent Academy, authorized by Bay Mills Community College, opened in September 2004 and has grown to keep up with their students needs. Today Crescent offers instruction from pre-kindergarten through high school around the 4-core academic areas of English/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies, in addition to Spanish, Music, Art, Physical Education and APP (Advanced Placement Program) on two campuses located at W. 12 Mile Road in Southfield and a third campus on Code Road in Southfield.

After school tutoring, Saturday school and summer school are just some examples of the extra support Crescent Academy provides students that helped earn Reward School status. In addition, the school superintendent, Ms. Cherise Cupidore, won the Administrator of the Year Award for 2011 from the Michigan Association of Public School Academies.

Reward Schools is a new school designation that came as the result of Michigan receiving flexibility to the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act from the U.S. Department of Education.

Charyl Stockwell Preparatory Academy Commencement Remarks by Chuck Stockwell, Founder – June 9, 2012

Graduates I have just four things to share.

The first is my expectation for you. The core value of CSA is that we will always hold the highest possible expectations for our students. We always believed that you could all learn – and not just enough to get a D and pass – we expected you to achieve mastery. And not just of some of the curriculum, but all of the curriculum. Our goal has always been that all our students will achieve all of the curriculum. We expect that some of our students will finish in three years; we expect that some of our students will get a 36 on the ACT; we expect that our graduates will get into top schools.

Now I know that not all of you are headed off next year to college. Some of you will get jobs and go to school part time. That does not bother me because my expectation for you is higher than college entry. I didn’t start this school to prepare you for college. We worked so hard on this school to prepare you to change the world. My expectation for you is that you will walk out of here today with the determination to make a difference – to change the world.

45 years ago I sat where you are waiting to graduate from high school – the Vietnam war was busy taking 50,000 American lives, we had already killed a president and were getting used to assassinating our leaders, centuries of racism and decades of poverty had led to massive riots in our cities, women were kept from reaching the top. As I sat there I thought about those problems and I said to myself “if not me who?” And I decided that I would have to change the world. The next fall I went to MSU, grew a beard, put a peace symbol around my neck and started trying to change the world!

I have been working at that job for the last half century. I haven’t changed all the things that I want to change and I’m getting old. So about five years ago I came up with the idea of creating a school that would get young people ready to change the world. I only have a couple more decades so I’m going to have to count on you, and the hundreds of other CSPA graduates that follow you, to keep working on changing the world.

You already know how to make big changes. Think about what you did in the last four years. You changed Livingston County. Before you came along there was not a high performing prep school in our county – now there is. Before you there weren’t Sentinels, standing for fair play, good character and winning games. You have made a great start and many more students will follow. You have learned here how to lead the way and make change. Now go out into the world and do it every day. I know you will not let me down!

But while you are out there changing the world I want you to be happy and successful. When I started my quest I didn’t think I could be happy and successful at the same time I worked on making change. I thought I had to be serious and poor. What I found along the way was that the happier I was and the more successful I became, the more change I could make. I learned some important lessons about being happy and successful.

So the last three things I have to share with you are the Secrets to Happiness and Success that I have discovered. Over the years you have been attending CSA we have worked to teach you these secrets – you already know them. I just want to remind you of them, and I hope, share them with you in a way you will remember. I promise you, if you pay attention to these three things, if you work on them every day, if you get good at them – you will be happy and you will be successful and you will change the world!

The first one is the most important. It is the foundation that the others are built on, so it has to come first. The first secret is Know Yourself and Like Yourself.

When you were an infant and toddler and preschool child, you spent most of your time with your mom and dad. They taught you how to walk, and talk, and listen, and use the bathroom, and get dressed and behave yourself. When they brought you to school at five you knew a lot of things. You were ready to start learning academics.

In the next five years you learned to read and count and do arithmetic. You started learning about social studies and science and you explored music, art, phys. ed., and Spanish. When you were around 10 years old – at the end of elementary school, you knew quite a bit about yourself. You knew that you were a boy or girl, had red hair or blond hair, whether you were big or small, short or tall. You knew if you were a good reader or were good with numbers or were a lousy speller. You knew what your family was like and the kind of house you lived it. You knew if you could run fast or kick a ball or shoot a basket.

At that time in your life you started – in your mind – to write a story about yourself. You started to put all your experiences together and decide who you were. You started to reflect. To know yourself and like yourself you are going to have to get good at thinking about yourself. You are going to have to watch yourself, and reflect on what you do and say, and the decisions you make. All through Middle School we gave you activities that would help you learn how to do those things by practicing those things. And then, when you were around 14 or 15 years old you turned into an adolescent. The hormones started to flow and your parents will tell you that you started acting pretty strange. That was an important time as you worked to find out who you were. You started rebelling; you rebelled against the uniform, against school, against your family and your teachers and your coach.

What was happening was that your brain was going through its last massive remodeling and pruning of synapses, getting ready for the final touches of brain development that would turn you into an adult. What you were doing was figuring out what you did not want to be. You’d look around at people or activities and you’d say “that’s not for me.” Now your adolescence is almost over and you have learned a lot about what you do not want to be.

In the next 3 or 4 years you will complete the most important task of your life. You will decide who you are and who you want to be. You will form your personality. For most people that job gets finished in the first half of their 20s. About half of your personality is controlled by genetics, but the other half is all up to you. When your personality is done it will guide your behavior and actions for the rest of your life. You will have completed that story you started writing about yourself when you were ten. And in the rest of your life you will act out that story. You will know who you are – if you have been paying attention – if you have been reflecting on the process. As you complete that task the most important thing is that you choose to be someone you like – someone you can believe in and can be proud of. If you know yourself and like yourself you will be well on your way to a lifetime of happiness and success.

The second secret is the secret to happiness. It is something we taught you every morning in morning meeting in elementary and in secondary school in advisory. It is really simple. It is Getting along with Others.

We have taught you how important relationships are, we taught you the helping habits and the hurting habits of relationships – we’ve taught you how to get along with others. Back when I was sitting there like you are, waiting to graduate, I was in the choir; so at one point in the ceremony I joined the choir and sang. The song we sang was No Man Is An Island. The song is based on the teachings of an ancient philosopher. Here is the first verse:

No man is an island, no man stands alone

Each man’s joy is joy to me

Each man’s grief is my own

We need one another, so I will defend

Each man as my brother

Each man as my friend

 I agree with most of that, but not all. I think each man is an island. As humans we are trapped in our own skin and we will live our lives as individuals. It is that human aloneness that leads us to sadness and depression. The irony of being human individuals is that we can’t be happy by ourselves, but we can be happy in relationship with others. In fact, relationships with others are the only things that will make us truly happy. No matter how rich and famous you become, it is relationships that will make you happy. Whitney Houston was very rich and famous; she was also beautiful and enormously talented. But she died alone from drugs she gave herself because she could not find happiness with people.

If you work hard at getting along with others you will always have friends. I’m not talking about Facebook Friends; I’m talking about real flesh and blood friends. Friends who you can look in the eye, who will give you a hug, who will loan you money, sacrifice for you, invite you into their home, share your sadness, give you honest feedback, and care about you no matter what.

If you are good at getting along with others some day you will meet someone you really like and who really likes you. If you practice those habits of good relationships, eventually you will discover that you have fallen in love and the other person loves you back. You will decide you want to spend the rest of your life with this person and you will get married. You will move to a town and buy a house. You will meet your neighbors and join a church or golf club. You will have children and watch them grow up. You will gain all the happiness the world has to offer through the relationships you have with these friends and family.

And now the final secret – the secret to success. Over 500 years ago a man named Descartes was working on that problem I talked about earlier. He was trying to figure out who he was and what he meant. He was a very smart man. He was the father of human anatomy and he invented an advanced form of calculus. But most of all he was a thinker. He was not satisfied until he took things apart and put them back together and made sure he knew how they worked. He was not satisfied to just believe in something, he wanted to know things. He wanted to know what he meant – finally he came to it – he said, “I think – therefore I am”.   Relationships are about feelings. Working together with others to solve problems is about thinking. This is the secret to success – being able to work together with others to solve problems.

Descartes gave the world a structured procedure and process for working together with others to examine and solve problems. We now know that process as the scientific method. Ever since humans started using this process, living conditions on the planet earth have improved dramatically and continue to improve every year. This process led to the industrial revolution and the technology revolution and the computer revolution and the internet revolution and all the improvements that followed. The basic idea was applied to government and we got democracy and that changed the world. In democracy we declared that each of us was important and that if we used government to support freedom and order, we could solve all our problems because we could all work together.

Working together with others is the secret to success – it is the basic work skill of life.  I you are good at working together with others to solve problems you will always have a job. People who do that well are always needed. If you are good at working together with others to solve problems, you will get promoted on your job, you will become a supervisor and then a manager, a president or a CEO, a Judge, a general, the head of a hospital or church or law firm.

Working together with others to solve problems will lead to your success in whatever you want to do. It’s why we don’t have desks at CSA. We have tried to teach you how to learn and work in groups that use the combined power of multiple minds to solve problems.

There are two additional secrets about this third secret. The first one is that if you circle back to relationships and use working together to solve problems in your relationships – your relationships will be happier. Successful marriages and families and friendships start with love, but their long term success is based on being able to work together with your friends and families to solve the problems that arise every day in your lives.

The second sub secret is about fame and fortune. I have not promised fame and fortune – I have promised you success. But here is the secret – fame and fortune is dependent on the problems you decide to work on, and how successful you are at solving the problems. 

Mark Zuckerburg decided to solve the problem of building a social network using the internet. He worked together with others and solved that problem. Because that problem hit such a popular chord he became extremely rich and famous beyond our wildest dreams. Now if you solve a problem that makes you rich and famous I will applaud you – and I will remind you your alma mater needs computers and playing fields and a lot of other stuff, so get your check book out.

But my satisfaction and your satisfaction, I believe, will be just as high or higher if you decide to solve a problem like the cure for AIDS or Alzheimer’s, if you work with disadvantaged people to help them pull themselves out of poverty, or spend your days trying to find ways to rise above the racism and sexism that threatens to defeat our human progress. But whatever problem you choose, it is your ability to work together with others that will determine your success.

That’s it – the three Secrets to Happiness and Success we have tried to teach you are:

1 Know yourself and like yourself

2 Get along with others

3 Work together with others to solve problems

I fully expect that you will apply these three secrets to change the world and as you do you will find happiness and success.

Simple but powerful!

Congratulations

I love you

Good luck

Transcripts of the other commencement addresses can be accessed on
the CSA District website.