Star Academy- #KindnessIsCool ceremony at Times Square, NY Mar.10, 2024

My name is Noor. Nice to meet you Noor. Millennium News 24. Please introduce yourself. My name is Larissa Benkovsky. I'm one of the founders of Star Academy for Gifted and Talented. Our school is like five and a half years old. We started with 28 kids and now it's about 500. So all our kids are gifted in different ways. Some of them really good mathematicians, some of them language people, vocal, sports. So we're trying to get opportunity for every talent to flourish. Very nice. How you came to city of New York and got your award today? One of our teachers just started this process. Please. Please introduce yourself. My name is Steve Gatlin. I'm a grade one through four. During National Kindness Week, I had gone online to find activities. I was so excited and inspired by this that I had all of my classes write essays talking about kindness. I developed a curriculum where we talked about it in social studies. We talked about it in social studies, science, kindness in terms of the environment, kindness in terms of wars going on around our world, kindness in terms of the national discourse here in our country. The kids just loved it. They got very excited. Thank you very much. Nice to hear from you. You guys doing excellent job. You inspired us. Keep in touch with us. I would love to. I'd love to share some of my curriculum materials. Thank you very much. No problem. You want to say anything? Go ahead. Kindness is in everybody's heart. Even if the person's bad, kindness is still in his heart. Very nice. What about you? I think that it's very important that kindness is in everyone's heart because if it wasn't, then the world wouldn't be so strong. You? That everybody has kindness so they can strengthen it. They should spread it. If someone is not acting kind, that doesn't mean they're mean. They might just be having a bad day or got up from the wrong leg, from the left leg, you should give them a chance and try to be kind and make them very nice. Yes, miss? I think kindness is really important because again, without it, there would be a lot of more wars than there are now. There'd be a lot of more people fighting. They're enjoying each and every moment here. They're anticipating to see themselves on billboards, so it's a great opportunity for Star Academy students. You know why? Because we think kindness is what makes this world to go and to see new horizons. Just to be friendly to each and everyone. Our school, Star Academy, is an international independent school for gifted and talented. All kids are gifted and talented in different means. Some are really great in mathematics, some in English, some in vocal, some in sports. So this is what we appreciate so much. But they are all very kind kids. Are you kind, guys? That's why we decided to participate in this challenge because it was very close to what we think about kindness.