Welcome, friends, family, teachers, and Denfeld alumni. Thank you for joining us tonight to celebrate this pivotal milestone of our lives. Before I begin, I would like to personally express my gratitude to all who have helped and encouraged us to get to this point in our lives. It’s very cliche and “gag,” as English teacher Stephanie Mickle likes to say, but we truly wouldn’t be here without the support from so many people in this audience tonight.

Whether you know me or not, I hope you know that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. We (hopefully) all learned and memorized this during the last four years of science. I’m not entirely sure what else we learned or what information we retained, but I can tell you what the Pythagorean theorem is (a² + b² = c²) and how to solve the a

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