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Okay, so congratulations to everyone, UN Women Too.

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Okay, we now call upon the chair.

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Yes, go ahead.

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We call upon the chair of UN Women Too, Rosalind.

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Thank you.

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Should we do a shakeout?

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Baby shark, maybe?

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No?

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So I'm Rosalind.

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I was the chair of UN Women Too.

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We had an extremely productive committee,

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and I was extremely impressed by the sheer number of ideas

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and the thoughtfulness and depth of the resolutions.

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We passed both resolutions in our room,

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one unanimously and one with 16 out of 17 delegations voting yay.

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The first focused on acknowledging the massive inequalities

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in basic education in developing countries.

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One delegation said it best when they said,

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giving scholarships for STEM education does not matter

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if women cannot read or even have access to a computer.

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Our second resolution centered on the importance

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of increasing representation of women in the workplace

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through blind hiring practices and illegalizing pay gaps.

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I was impressed by the intelligent conversation

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about intersectionality and the need to recognize

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all kinds of diversity in STEM careers

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that took place in our room.

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Overall, our room focused on building strong foundations

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needed for women, communities, and all countries to thrive.

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Building a strong foundation for your future

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is exactly what Global Classrooms is all about.

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One delegation said today, the delegation from Kenya,

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said that Global Classrooms has taken them out of their box

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and forced them to see everything from a different perspective.

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This is exactly what it is supposed to do.

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Please keep challenging yourself to think creatively

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to solve the world's biggest issues,

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and continue to ask questions.

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It is so important to be curious about the world.

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And as you all know, when in doubt,

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just ask how are you going to get the money for that.

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Please use your confidence, energy, and passion

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to one day implement the brilliant ideas developed this year.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Rosalind.

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All right, for the awards for UN Women 2,

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Best Position Paper, Dominican Republic,

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Second Honorable Mention, Morocco,

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First Honorable Mention, Kenya, and Best Delegation, Thailand.

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Congratulations.

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And to present the awards, we call upon Mr. Benjamin Ziff,

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Encargado de Negocios Ad Interim, Embajada de Estados Unidos.

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Wonderful.

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And now we are going to announce UN Women, Room Number 3.

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First of all, Joe Joseph, chaired by Joe Joseph.

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All right. Hi, everybody.

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Hi.

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My name is Joe.

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I'm a language assistant at Galileo Galilei High School.

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There they are. I told them not to scream.

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And I also had the honor of serving as chair for the UN Women Committee 3 today.

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In my committee, I was blown away by the level of energy and excitement,

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especially regarding a topic so crucial in the advancement of global gender equity.

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Together, we discussed issues ranging from the effect of workplace sexual harassment

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on the retention of women in STEM and ICT careers,

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the need to establish stronger baselines of educational achievement,

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for young women across the world and the intersectional struggles that women of

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color face in STEM fields. Throughout our debate, I was captivated by the

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creativity I witnessed coming from students of all genders who are

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committed to this vital issue. From a personal standpoint, today is a bit

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emotional for me as it marks the end of my three-year involvement with the

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global classrooms program and I may or may not have been crying during the

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student speeches so honestly I couldn't imagine a better group of students with

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whom to celebrate this occasion and I have to give a shout out to my first of

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SO students who are here with me today and yes I still think of them as first

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of ESO students because we started this global classrooms journey together when I joined

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my high school at the same time that they did.

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Thank you all for making this day so special for me.

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I want to also extend my appreciation to Lily, Chiara, Pablo, and everyone who made this

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Believe it or not, I'm really going to miss editing position papers, memorizing parliamentary

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procedure and arriving at CRIFACACIAS before the sun has even risen.

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But what I will miss the most are all of you, the Global Classrooms participants, this year,

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for your dedication, your passion, and for helping me to believe that the future lies

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in the hands of empathetic people who will fight for the rights of those who are most

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marginalized, and will carry on a continual march toward progress. I hope that you carry this

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passion forward with you in all of your endeavors, and you reflect tirelessly on how to improve the

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world that you are a part of. Congratulations to all of you once again. With that being said,

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the awards for UN3, UNW3. Best position paper goes to Somalia. Second honorable mention

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goes to Ireland. First honorable mention goes to Chile. And best delegation goes to the

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Dominican Republic. And to present the awards, we have Catherine Matlis.

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Okay. We now call upon the chair of UN Women for Alicia.

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All right. Yay. Thank you, honorable chair and esteemed delegates. Today, I'm here to talk about the topic. Just kidding.

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My name is Alicia, and I was a GCLA this year, and I'm so excited to be here today.

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As I was thinking about what I wanted to say and how I wanted to reflect on these past

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few months, I was thinking more and more about what it means to be a global citizen, because

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it's so easy for us to get caught up in the ups and downs of our daily lives and kind

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of ignore the bubble like everything outside of the bubbles that we're living in and it hurts us

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so much less when we don't have to think about the world's big problems and I think that's why

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to me being a global citizen is to look at the world around you even when it's easier to look

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away and that's what global classrooms allows us to do is we are allowed to learn these tools

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and contribute to the world and learn about it

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in a way that looks beyond just ourselves.

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And I think that's so cool.

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I don't know if you guys think that's cool, but I really do.

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And I am not afraid to admit that big problems sometimes really overwhelm me.

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I mean, how am I, a singular person,

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supposed to find the balance between economic growth and resource efficiency?

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how am I supposed to seal the leaky pipeline to stem fields I can't but together through global

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classrooms and other avenues we can work together and solve these big world issues little by little

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and so today in UN women's four that was my committee we got to see our global citizens in

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action. We heard ideas about changing the way we advertise children's toys in stores

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to try to make them more gender neutral. We talked about funding summer camps. So many

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summer camps and scholarships. And we talked about women helping women and lifting each

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other up. And before today, I didn't realize that hot pink could be formal wear, and then I saw

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the delegation of Oman's earrings, and I realized that you definitely can pull off hot pink even in

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a formal setting. But what I was most impressed by, truly, was the intense arm workouts that you

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all did today with your placard raising. It was genuinely, I don't understand like how you could

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do it because I don't have that kind of arm strength. And I just want to take a moment to

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kind of allow you to reflect on the journey that got you here today. Think about that first day of

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class when you learned what the general assembly was and think about now you're all here

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representing your school and honestly some of the best that Spain has to offer

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and all of this is because of your drive and passion and preparation and your love for global

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classrooms and so you should be so so proud of yourselves and take a moment of course to thank

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your teachers and your language assistants because you will not believe, I say this from personal

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experience, the amount, the number of hours we've spent thinking about you when you're definitely

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not thinking about us. We've all wanted you to succeed and you have gone above and beyond our

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expectations, truly. And I honestly cannot wait to see what you have in store for us. And with that,

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I motion to adjourn this speech, but I want to congratulate you all again.

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Thank you so much.

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Okay, wonderful.

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And now to announce the awards for UN Women for

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Best Position Paper, Greece,

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Second Honorable Mention, USA,

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First Honorable Mention, Iran,

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And Best Delegation, Sweden.

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To hand out the awards, we call upon Ruth Horsfall from the British Council.

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Okay, thank you.

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We now call upon the chair of UN Women No. 5, which is Jack.

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Wow, they raised the podium for me.

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That's nice.

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Over the past six months, I've seen so much growth in the abilities of global classroom students.

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In our committee today, we passed two resolutions, one unanimously,

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about promoting gender equity in education and protecting women in the labor force.

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I was blown away by the respect and creativity I saw from you all today.

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It cannot be overstated how important this experience is.

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Even if you don't think of yourself as the leader of tomorrow,

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the value of your research skills, knowledge, knowledge of international

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politics, and ability to respectfully debate, argue, and compromise will not

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only make your lives as individuals easier, but they will help the lives of

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everyone you know. Six months ago, who knew what a sustainable development goal was?

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Not me. Who knew how to debate or publicly speak in front of 30 random

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strangers? Who had the mountain of knowledge you now have about everything from resource efficiency

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to the complexities of wage gaps and representation of women in STEM? Who knew how to do the cha-cha

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slide? The people I saw today had committed their minds to rigorous research, dazzling debates,

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and some outstanding outfits. Except for you, the delegation from the United States.

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Your shoes were untied for like four hours, but I didn't want to break the quorum.

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In all sincerity, the thing I was most impressed about today were your hearts.

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In a competition like this, it is easy to try to be concerned about how many points you will score,

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how smart you sound, or how much you can commit to your country's character.

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However, delegation after delegation, and speech after speech, I was blown away by everyone's compassion.

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You guys have heard a lot today about how all the skills you've gained in researching, debating, communicating, and compromising,

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but none of that means anything without having hearts and compassion.

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I'm really proud of you for those skills, but I'm even more excited for the future for you guys to use your hearts.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Jack. I'm glad we raised the platform.

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All right, now for the awards in UNW5, Best Position Paper, Oman, Second Honorable Mention, China, First Honorable Mention, France, and Best Delegation, Saudi Arabia.

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And to give out the awards, Doña Mercedes Marín, Directora General de Bilingüismo y Calidad de la Enseñanza.

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Okay, and last but not least, for UN Women's 6, Ms. Emma Watson.

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Hi, everyone. My name's Emma.

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You heard Emma Watson, the actress.

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And I was the chair today in UN Women's 6.

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Although my students are not here today,

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I was so very excited to participate again as a chair in this final conference

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because Global Classrooms has been such an incredible growing experience,

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both for me and for my students.

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To me, Global Classrooms has been all about community.

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It's been about building a community within our own schools,

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about building a broader community across Madrid

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as we come together to discuss critical topics like resource efficiency and women in STEM,

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and it's been about building a group of students

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who are more aware of the global community in which we are all living.

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Today, I've been lucky enough to witness this incredible community once again.

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I've seen you working together, challenging yourselves and others to think critically,

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and supporting each other's ideas as you created peaceful solutions to the complex issues of women's participation in STEM and ICT.

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In UNW6 today, we had a few standout moments that I wanted to share with you.

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We had a really creative idea from Greece to implement a STEM Olympics every year

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where students aged 13 to 17 will participate to encourage other students about the sciences.

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Mexico wants to increase men in social fields and women in STEM through exchange field trips.

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China and South Africa want to implement summer camps, as many of you want to, to teach about technology.

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And Turkey even showed us a mini computer that he brought to the conference that only costs 40 bucks.

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So if you find Turkey after, he can show you the mini computer.

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I hope you can carry with you all this passion and creativity that you showed us today

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during the debates far beyond your years in secondary school.

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You all found your stride today and truly shined.

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We're so proud of you for the hard work that you've put in over the course of many months,

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many position papers, and many speeches.

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Seeing you all be so supportive, be inclusive, and be innovative

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has truly made GC the most special part of my experience as a language assistant.

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I hope that it's been special to you as well.

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I hope that 10 years from now, you'll look back upon this experience with pride

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and remember the incredible community that you helped to build

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through your participation in global classrooms.

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So congratulations, everyone.

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All right, and now the awards for UNW6.

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Best Position Paper, Saudi Arabia.

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Second Honorable Mention, South Africa.

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First Honorable Mention, Germany.

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Best Delegation, USA.

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And to give out the award, Mr. Benjamin Ziff, please.

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OK, and now the final speech is going

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to be given by two very well-known people, Lily Roth and Karen Castro. They are Fulbright

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ETAs, mentors, and they have been the coordinators of this year's conference. They've done teacher

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training. They've taught 140 GCLAs. They've found positions for you. They've named you.

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they've organized, they've done everything.

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They've even caught some mistakes I've made

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and corrected them before they were executed.

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So thank you, you have all our gratitude, Lily and Kiara.

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Hello, everyone.

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I'm gonna apologize for my voice.

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We really gave this our all, and this is the result.

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But I have found the silver lining

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of having a voice like this,

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is I can turn on the emotion at the drop of a hat.

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So I'd like to thank the Academy,

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I'd like to thank Global Classrooms for all of the work you've done.

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Anyway, I'm going to try to make it through this,

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and I might have to turn it over to Kiara to read my parts

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if it doesn't go as planned.

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So, hi, everyone.

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Standing up here, we realize that many of you,

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namely the delegates, probably have no idea who we are.

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And we also realize that many of you,

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namely the GCLAs and your teachers, have far too much of an idea of who we are.

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So for those of us who we haven't had the pleasure of meeting in person,

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my name is Lily Roth, this is Kiara Nicastro,

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and we have had the immense pleasure of serving as the coordinators

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for this year's Global Classrooms Conference.

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All right, I thought I'd share a little story to begin.

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So when I was 14, 13, I could never imagine being here.

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I mean, look around.

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Like, the ceiling itself is pretty incredible if you haven't looked up yet.

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So if you were to hand me Hermione Granger's time turner

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and were to transport me back in time to have a conversation with myself,

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I wouldn't believe it.

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This is incredible.

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When I was your age, I was just recently diagnosed with severe learning disabilities

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and also entering my own school's Model United Nations program.

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And it honestly changed my life.

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I only attended one conference and represented the country of Lebanon.

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Woo-hoo!

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And I was hooked.

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From then on, I went on studying the world and foreign cultures,

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and it pushed me towards activism and social justice.

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This passion for social justice and cross-cultural learning

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serves to the basis and the ideas of what persuaded both Lily and I

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to apply to be the mentors and be here today.

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And let me tell you, believe it or not,

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we have seen all sides of global classrooms at this point.

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From when we started, it was my first year in Spain.

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I had never had tortilla, believe it or not.

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I'm from California.

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We don't, our tortillas are with Mexican food,

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not with eggs and potatoes, maybe onions, you know.

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But yeah, it was our first year in Spain.

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and we were GCLA's just like many of you for the first time and we got a taste of

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global classrooms and we couldn't stop eating just like tortilla so this year

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we've watched all of you grow we've watched your GCLA's grow and we've

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watched many of your teachers who this may be their first time doing global

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classrooms grow into who they are today and so when Kiara and I sat down at the

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beginning of the year this is after we got to go to New York with these

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incredible students that we have behind us who gave some pretty phenomenal

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speeches it's difficult to follow that after we had the opportunity to watch

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them just perform outstandingly in a room full of 16 17 18 year olds and

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completely hold their own and and reflect on what global classrooms is and

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what we wanted from this year as we were going to lead the program we talked

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about it, and we decided that the thing that we wanted to hold on to this year with global

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classrooms was the sense of joy that comes through the program. And I think we can all agree that GC

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is challenging. It's really hard sometimes, and it's hard to teach, and it's hard to learn.

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Research is difficult, especially in a language that's not your own when it's these intense

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academic sources, writing position papers, doing all the procedural stuff, moderated caucuses,

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unmoderated caucuses. And so we understand that stuff gets pretty heavy. And we also understand

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that the content itself is really heavy. And I think both of us, you know, we're not that much

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older than all the delegates here. And that rhetoric that's like, that talks about the world

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and the state it's in and how it's our responsibility

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to be the generation to fix it, right?

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We're both really impacted by that too, and that's a weight.

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And so what we helped this year with Global Classrooms

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is that we could face that weight head on, but with a sense of joy.

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And the joy really comes from community,

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and it comes from the relationships that we've had such a pleasure to form

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throughout the course of this year.

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So with that being said, there's a lot of people that we have to thank and a lot of people that we want to celebrate here right now.

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Yeah, we have built our community here in Spain.

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I wouldn't even go a step further and say many of you have become our family and we wouldn't be able to do with what we do without you.

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First of all, the GCLA is like, wow, amazing.

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like the amount of emails your gclas received from us on how to do lesson plans on how to volunteer

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for the different positions at the conference they received loads and loads of emails and put

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in lots of extra hour and some of their own personal time to be here today and to create

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the experiences that you have all gone through so don't forget to give your gcla an extra hug

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or a high five at the end of this as a huge thank you to them.

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The other thing I want to talk about are the Hornadas.

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Teachers who spent their time after school coming to our Hornadas,

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GCLA's who missed school and sometimes showed up sick to our Hornadas

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just to learn all the knowledge that we were trying to help share with all of you.

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So huge thank you for attending those and making them possible.

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The next thing I want to, the lifers like Joe,

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and also to our new GCLA's thank you we're so we wouldn't be here again without their knowledge

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as we said we've only done this one year so this is our second year so we are nowhere near as have

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as much resources as they do and the last thing I wanted to say a special shout out to our evaluators

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they spent lots of time evaluating each of you making sure that everyone had fair grades some

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of them were not meant to work and would left school and had to take the train or a cab to

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make sure that they got to here on time because someone else had fallen sick or something like

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that. So huge thank you to our evaluators and also to our chairs. Okay. Yeah, we can clap. That's

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great. It's the end. We can do a lot of clapping. So in addition to the language assistants and the

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teachers. GC is such a collaborative program and it takes really strong, supportive teachers

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just as much as it takes really strong GCLA. So we're so lucky to have that foundation

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because this wouldn't be possible without it. We'd also like to thank the ministry. We'd like to

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thank Fulbright and all the support that we've received. We worked really closely with Pablo

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Cantero, and let me tell you that he cares about this program so much. He really, really cares about

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it, and that's evident every day when he comes to work, and how eager he is to talk about it, to get

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feedback, and to figure out how we can make it better. So if you see him, make sure to tell him

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Thank you.

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So we've been lucky to have the support of Pablo Eftrini

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and of all the Consejeria.

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We've been there several times

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throughout the course of the year.

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We'd like to thank Ben and Kathy, of course,

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from the Fulbright Commission,

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who have also provided a lot of support

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through the unexpected twists and turns of this year.

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We'd like to thank the U.S. Embassy for being here

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and for providing a lot of the funds for New York,

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which is an amazing thing, and to the British Council and the Assemblea as well.

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So thank you to all of our partners.

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Yes, thank you.

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So we'll end on one note, which is what struck me the most throughout all of this,

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and I think is really evident from the speeches here today to both of us,

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is that all of these people here care about you so much.

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They really do.

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and they are so excited and overjoyed and touched by all of your successes and triumphs

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and challenges big and small. And so let that be something that you keep in your mind as you go

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forward and you continue on in your global classrooms journey even if global classrooms

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might not continue on technically from here on out. And so as you continue on in that journey

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whichever way it takes you, as you find your cause, your purpose,

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the little space in which you want to make it done in the world,

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let that care and that community buoy you and take you onward.

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So thank you so much, guys.

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Well, everything has its end.

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And I want to conclude by thanking the Assemblea de Madrid again,

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a los representantes de las instituciones,

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a los profesores auxiliares de conversación

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y a todos los delegados que habéis trabajado duro

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para llegar hasta aquí.

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Y despidiéndonos hasta el año que viene,

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damos por clausurada

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la edición número 14 de Global Classrooms.

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Gracias.

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Esteemed delegates, the Assemblea is giving us a ten minute courtesy period if anybody

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wishes to take a final photo in the Assemblea or the tribuna and otherwise we will see you

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again soon, okay?

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Ten minutes, we have to be out.

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Thank you.