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![CELEBRATING AVID SUCCESS: Twenty-seven AVID seniors from McCallum joined AVID seniors from other AISD high schools at the AVID Cording Ceremony today at the AISD Performing Arts Center. AVID senior Elesia Zarzoza was the featured speaker at the ceremony. "[I was] "literally terrified," Zarzoza told MacJournalism. " I thought i was gonna pass out (on stage). I am the first to go to college. I have gotten three scholarships so far, one from Kingsville, one from Breakthrough and the Virgil C. Scott Black Layers Association Scholarship. AVID has been my safe place. It has taught me how to be unapologetically me and that what I have to say is important because it will change the world. I'm kind of scared to be the first one, but I'm glad that I will get to experience the failures and help my little cousins and younger generations when it’s there turn." The following is an excerpt from the speech she delivered today: “We are not bound to the labels that the world has worked so hard to make us remember. We are not just males, females, minorities, black, white, Latino. We are who we decide to be.” Photos and reporting by Selena De Jesus.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/32766200047_5e3a33fc76_o-e1570028430293-600x900.jpg)
