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00:00Alabama A&M is the place to be.
00:13You can start at A&M and go anywhere.
00:16Our students, when they come, if you tap in, there's nothing that you can't do.
00:20The key elements that make this university feel like home is that it's family-oriented.
00:26What we do here at Alabama A&M, with our motto being, service is sovereignty,
00:30the day of service is a beautiful sight here on the campus.
00:33I definitely appreciate the Home Depot Retool Your School partnership
00:37for giving us the opportunity to renovate, not only for ourselves,
00:41but for future students that come in and enjoy the art side of Alabama A&M University.
00:46And so we want to make sure that all of our students understand the need to give back
00:51and to benefit the community.
00:54So I think the Home Depot Retool Your School project has a multi-layered impact on our campus.
00:59It brings us together. Alumni and current students, they come together, they get people to vote.
01:05But also, it allows us to work together and compete with other HBCUs.
01:09And we're lucky enough, blessed enough, to be a multi-year winner of the Home Depot Retool Your School grant.
01:15It truly gives us the sense of being with our family and working together
01:19to get the common goal of beautifying our campus,
01:22whether we're doing the campus cleanup around on the outside,
01:25or whether we're doing inside renovations to make sure that everywhere feels like home
01:29and that our visitors that come to our home definitely understand how much we value our space.
01:34Part of campus that makes me feel most at home is Legacy Lake.
01:37Legacy Lake is our First Lady's lake. All of our First Ladies have a bench at our lake.
01:42Through the partnership that we have with the Home Depot Retool Your School,
01:45we've actually planted those benches that you see at the lake.
01:50We like to throw a good party on our yard, so no matter what building you go to,
01:54there are benches and there's a hood covering.
01:56And that was provided through the Home Depot Retool Your School project,
01:59so we thank them for allowing us to have that place where we can make our community a home.
02:05When consumers think about Home Depot, we want them to think,
02:08oh, that's the school, that's the store, that's the business that partners with Alabama A&M.
02:12And so, we look forward to having iconic companies on our campus as often as possible
02:17to expose our students to opportunities.
02:19Anytime a student can go home and mention that they're doing something,
02:23they're benefiting from the partnership of Home Depot and Alabama A&M,
02:27or Ebony and Alabama A&M, that's the result that we want.
02:31I think it's important for students to understand that college is what you make it.
02:36If you take advantage of the resources that are available on the university's campus,
02:41there's nothing that you can't accomplish.
02:43They say, hey, this is your university, beautiful university.
02:45It makes me feel proud. It makes me feel glad about our university
02:48because it's not easy maintaining our university, especially with the population that we have.
02:52In the state of Alabama, we are the premier HBCU.
02:55We are an illustrious HBCU and an HBCU that cares about each other.
03:00We don't just care about money, it's about love and family.
03:05I think college is a place from the foundation for us to grow, to become better.
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