2015 GRADUATION SPEECH BY - SRC PREZ.

HALI-DAS COMPUTER STUDIES

GRADUATION SPEECH BY THE S.R.C PRESIDENT, MR. AGOMA ABENGIBA SIMON IN THE

GRADUATION CEREMONY HELD ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5^TH 2015 AT THE GARU TEACHERS

CO-OP ERATIVE CREDIT UNION CONFERENCE HALL.

Mr. Chairman, Chiefs, DCE-Garu, Management and Staff Member of Hali-Das, District Police Commander, Ghana Education Service Representative, Hon. Assembly Members, Pastors and Imams present, Members of the media, parents, invited Guest, Fellow student all protocol observe, Ladies and Gentlemen.

The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever. This day 5^th September, 2015 marks the end of particularly long and difficult Graduation period. This day however is also a special day that signifies the ending of years of hope for fifty students who have completed in one of the unique I.C.T school in the Garu- Tempane district.

Mr. Chairman, we the students of Hali-Das Computers who sit in as graduates and pioneers for that matter are proud to begin the process of tracking and connecting the society into the I.C.T world. It is our hope that we cannot only connect students but rather the entire Garu-Tempane Community and the country at large.

Mr. Chairman, Graduation season is upon us, meaning that scores of students up and down Hali-Das Computer Studies will be pilling into grand old buildings and receiving the most important piece of their lives as they embark on a glorious journey towards adulthood and crippling debt repayment. One notable graduation tradition is the graduation speech. More often than not these are monotone monologues delivered by 80-year-old men with dodgy knees.

Mr. Chairman, my fellow students, we only arrived here 3 to 6 months ago, and now it’s already time to leave. How did it all go so fast? It seems like only yesterday that we started this course but we are standing here ready to graduate and move forward in the world.

How do we measure the time we’ve spent in Hali-Das Computer School? In the beginning, we measured it in class period, counting down the day to eventual freedom. As the minutes and hour passed, we measured it in days, weeks and later in months until this D-day.

And now here we stand, our role is over and it’s up to the next class to step into our shoes and take over. I know that as I look out at all you we will measure our time here in much different ways, I will measure it in all the friendship I’ve enjoyed these last 3 to 6 months. Some were pretty casual and others were much closer, but I’ll remember each one fondly, as I’m sure you all will measure too. And when many of our school memories begin to fade, that’s how we’ll ultimately measure the time we spent here, not in periods or weeks, months but in friendship that we make and the time we share together.

Congratulation my fellow graduates of the class of 2015 batch. Wherever we go and whatever we do, may we always be friends when we meet again.

The future is in our hands. We stand here today on the precipice of the future. It’s not a distant reality anymore. It begins here, it begin today.

We began Hali-Das Computer School as children but we’re leaving here as adults. We have completed a basic computer training that will serve as the platform that we will use to launch ourselves into the future. Some of us will go on to colleges of Education, universities, other will go straight into the work force, but each of us will travel our own path.

No matter where we go or what we do, there are challenges ahead of us. What I’m asking for, from each of you and from myself is to meet those challenges straight on with your head high and our heart wide open. It’s not enough to simply try to get by in life. That doesn’t move the world forward. You must try to excel in everything you do. Strive for excellence in every task, large or small.

Although it may not be easy to see every accomplishment, your individual successes benefit society as a whole because when you succeed, you lighten the burden on your fellow human beings. When you succeed, you are in a position to give rather than take.

Imagine if every individual lived up his or her own potential. Think about how amazing that would be, and how much better of the world be. Now imagine if just half of those individuals lived up to their potential. The world would still be an awesome place. Even if ¼ of those individual worked to make their lives successful, they could still make some amazing contribution to society.

Well we may not have the power to inspire the entire world to strive for success, but we do have the power to try to achieve it for ourselves. My challenge to each of you and to myself is to do all that you can do to reach your full potential. If each of the 2015 students in this graduation class is able to do that, just imagine the effect that it would have. The future is truly in our hands, so let’s make the most of it.

Thank you.