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Students: We are ready to race!
(cheering)
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Mr. Roberts: Welcome -- Pittsburgh's CAPA, 6 through 12,
the Creative and Performing Arts magnet school.
Student: Gooood morning, CAPA.
Please rise for the Pledge.
Mara Flanagan: At CAPA, you come in with the wings and the school teaches you
how to use them.
Paul Johnson: CAPA's a big, diverse, crazy, singing, dancing,
mosaic of a family.
We're definitely all ready to be ourselves.
Zach Harris: I actually attended CAPA as a student and I really wanted to
be able to come back and instill in all of those students the
same passion for the arts that was instilled in me so that we
can all be ready to give back.
Emily Kolb: Well, I plan on pursuing acting as a career,
and the teachers in the classes that I've taken have opened me
up to different worlds and I think that every piece of
knowledge that I have helps me as an actor for the next time
that I am approaching a role.
CAPA has prepared me for the rest of my life because we are
ready to learn.
Shaqui Scott: I was ready for my second chance -- CAPA gave it to me.
When I first started high school,
I was at a regular high school.
There was gangs and violence.
Later that year, I got a letter in the mail telling me that I
was accepted to CAPA.
When I got there, it was a different world --
people were happy, it was like a family.
But by the end of the year, my ways hadn't changed in time,
so I found myself being kicked out.
But I fought to get back in and they accepted me.
I was ready for a change -- and CAPA gave it to me.
Sarah Janoski: Although I will not be pursuing dance,
I have many things that I will be able to take on with me from
high school to college and to better my future.
We are ready to express ourselves in many ways
regardless of what career or field we will go into,
and I feel that we are ready to branch out.
Principal Melissa Pearlman: The vision is, all day, every day,
students studying what they love;
students being able to immerse themselves in the passion and
the definitive idea that art matters.
Dr. Harry Clark: We were ready when we first opened our school.
We were ready to give that experience,
that special experience, to our students.
And now, they have evolved and there are new students coming
in, and this program will have them ready.
Agness Nyama: When I came to CAPA as a ninth grader,
I had drive and needed direction.
CAPA gave me the support that helped me build my foundation
that will continue to help me as I pursue my singing career at
the Manhattan School of Music and beyond.
Student: And I'm ready for the United States Air Force Academy.
Student: Berklee College of Music.
Students: Clark Atlanta University.
Students: Penn State.
Students: University of Pittsburgh.
Agness Nyama: Are we ready for the challenge?
Students: Oh, yeah!
(cheering and applause)
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