00:00 - We are hosting our spring reception which we do twice a year a spring and fall

00:04 - and tonight we're actually raising funds towards our semicolons centennial

00:07 - scholarships

00:08 - that will be awarded to pennsylvania seniors in two thousand and twenty six america

00:12 - to fifty p a is actually the.

00:14 - Commonwealth's commission

00:15 - that was charged with planning and coordinating all of the programming projects and

00:18 - events around the two hundred and fifth the at anniversary of the united states and

00:21 - twenty twenty six we actually raised.

00:24 - Just over twenty thousand dollars towards those scholarships of which we will be

00:28 - giving out two hundred and fifty thousand dollars total

00:31 - across all sixty seven counties

00:33 - and tonight's torn out is amazing we have so many local hosts who made tonight

00:38 - possible including obviously

00:39 - our host venue king's college but we're just really excited to be able to offer these

00:44 - scholarships for our next generation of pennsylvanians

00:47 - we have so much talent here we want to keep that talent here in the commonwealth.

00:51 - Being a.

00:52 - Graduate community college

00:53 - tonight is extremely important.

00:55 - For raising funds

00:56 - for students going to community college.

00:58 - I'm a community college graduate.

01:00 - This is a creamy meaningful to me.

01:03 - Community colleges.

01:05 - Impact and change

01:06 - people's lives.

01:08 - Changed.

01:09 - It.

01:09 - Wasn't for

01:10 - me to college

01:11 - or shrewdly would not be

01:12 - to.

01:13 - Tonight.

01:14 - We're closer what was going to happen

01:16 - I was going to be because it means that much to me.

01:19 - America to fifty p

01:21 - is bestowing the first

01:22 - statewide title of america to fifty p a ambassador.

01:27 - Some.

01:31 - I have been with this commission since day one

01:33 - so to see the pen viola I'm really start to swing and to see the awareness start to

01:37 - build and the solid foundation that we have laid

01:40 - just really as heartwarming and to be able to see so many people chipping in

01:45 - but also recognizing the importance

01:47 - that pennsylvania played in the founding of our nation is just amazing to see.