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Description: Dontae Sharpe and his supporters discuss the pardon of innocence Gov. Roy Cooper granted him on Friday.

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Dontae Sharpe and his supporters discuss the pardon of innocence Gov. Roy Cooper granted him on Friday.

<p>please keep your mic muted as we continue with this program. So I would let reverend experiment. Please take it away. Thank you Brittany. Uh, look, I don't have much to say at all because I am elated and overcome with joy. All I want to do is try my best to, I was trying to show you the signed by recording in progress. The sign behind me up above my head says pardon Dontae Sharpe. Now that's past tense y'all because Dante has been pardoned. That's all I have to say. Yeah, thank you, reverend Spiderman, reverend barber. You know, I'm sitting here out in front of this road thinking about the long road that Dante has had. I want to, first of all remember his anti who's going on the glory. Who visited him every weekend every day. She could with his mother. I just talked to his mama Sarah and you know the real hero in all of this is Dante shop. Everybody has done different pieces. But the system in here, north Carolina, time and time again said to Dante, if you will just say yes to something that you did not do. Uh, we'll consider letting you out. And what I'm so glad about is that Dante listening to his mama's teaching. Don't ever say that you did something that you did not do. I want to thank God that they for keeping Dante's mind, keeping his heart even in the bitter times. I want to thank God for those mothers and that stayed with him. I want to thank God for the day the Duke innocent project and a young lawyer named Peyton Swain took up this case and refuse to let it go. Look found the witness, that headline figured out that the system had cheated him at 19 and did all of the legal words. I want to thank the, the lawyers at the NaACP. When I first met Dante and went in and met with him, I want to thank the water that said to me, this man should never be anywhere near this prison and gave us a space so we could wash his feet and commit. And I was in 2017. I want to thank God that when we uh, left the NaacP, we had dr Spielman that man, I knew that would not back up that would continue the process. And I want to thank God for everybody. Uh, every petition person, everybody that did anything. The british broadcasting, a company that did the documentary uh, dr Spielman for making the decision, he had to come and stay others that join all the people and freedom friday. Everybody that prayed, you know, this has all been effort of family love. But then I also must cry some today and Say that there's still three more and and others we don't know and Dante wouldn't want us to forget them. I want to also say that this is too much when you're that, that Dante could have been pardoned before even he was exonerated by the courts and the systems and power didn't do and people in power, he could have been part of after the exoneration that same day. It didn't have and this is too much north Carolina. We have got to change and so yes, you shout today but it is not the shout that you can shout the harvest over. It's a shout that says we gotta keep fighting and keep standing. And most of all I want to say this clearly Dante is more man than any man I know in this state. Any man that has sat in the legislature to any man that is shot in the governor's office because if you can keep your head through all he's been through and remember north cloud as I close this man was put in for like they buried him and and and said he would never see the outside of a prison again. But God is still the God of a resurrection and God still uses people uses people like all of the people have been out here 52 days dot experiment has been here and many, many years these lawyers have been working and fighting and, and and things will never see on the tv camera but all things work together for good for those that love the Lord and have been called according to his purpose. So Dante man, I love you and I'm looking forward to when you, when we can get together, I just want to sit at your feet man and uh and and just listen to you and I told you when you got pardoned, you can give me that stole back. But I think I'm gonna let you keep it brother, you just keep it and you and you give it to somebody else you're gonna work with as they're waiting on their part. God bless you man. God bless you. Yeah, thank you, reverend barber. And of course now we'll have Dontae Sharpe speaking. Well well, well uh well they don't cover everything man. You know, I'm just, you know, thanks for the God, you know, like reverend barber and reverend spirit and said uh for my mom, man that raised me like she did and put them more resentment, some principles, you know, I didn't might stick to all of them, but when I got in the situation, it came the right thing came back to me, you know, uh and it went for her and my aunt man, I probably would have made it all the visits and the support and you know, I'm big on the support, you know, the most important people in this fight, you know, I'm gonna give honor where honor is due. You know, that's two people out there with reverend spearmint and reverend barber with Caitlin them and forward Justice N double A cp black voters matter, all the organizations, all those mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers, I've seen it on wheelchairs out there for me and uh all the marches, individuals and I got kind of emotional reverend spirit and Barb was talking, you know and I really haven't, I really haven't soaked it in yet, you know, it was a surprise me and Kate was just talking 10 minutes, folk Teresa called me and told me that called me mr pardon? You know uh me and Kate was just talking about this. All of this is just preparation, you know, you got to be prepared when you get your blessing for God, he knows how we are, how we respond to the blessing, but we really don't know and he always sent us through preparation times and me and Kate was just saying that today, I believe it all, it's all been preparation for me For the further work I got to do, you know, because it's it's my freedom is still incomplete, complete longest. There's still people going to prison wrongfully if there's still people in prison wrongfully and there's still people is waiting on parts. So my freedom still isn't 100% and I don't believe it's ever going to be 100% because you know, I have been in there, I went through the fire and went through there with guys and seeing guys and know that their guys in that innocent and know that our system is is you know it's a corrupt and it needs to be changed. So um I just want to thank everybody that fought for me and fought with me and pray for me, especially behind the scenes getting emotional now and uh I'm just gonna soak it up and uh celebrate the night and uh just sit back and really think and thank God uh and just be thankful that you know I got mine and and be also thankful that the guy the other guy is going to get there is to you know because that's really what's important now now I can move on now my my family's name is being clear, you know, a pardon of actual innocence, it lives a burden off of my shoulders and my family shoulders and it's just a blessing and I do want to thank Mr cooper for doing what was right, it might then come when I want it, but we all know God was really in charge anyway. And at the end of the day like I said, he gave his word that he was going to make a decision. We didn't know what that decision gonna be by faith. We believe they were going to be a part of me and he did it but we still believe in for the other guys get pardoned too. I can't forget them, I won't forget them and uh you know, just God bless everybody that helped me get from prison to this point in my life and I know I hope some of y'all will continue on this journey and fight with me to help right this system. Yeah, Caitlin. I want to say one thing Dante just did something. He's quite magnanimous. And I want to say to the governor, I pray that in the next few days you'll bite Dante in and you all can sit down together and look out of the eye and talk man to man because perhaps in the midst of all of this, you all can join forces and get the rest of those men out and really change the system is broken. But I think governor as Dante, thank you for what you did. You ought to call him in and thank him for he stood and talk and look at how this system can be changed. So Dante, I want to thank you for teaching us because sometimes we want to be angry when things didn't come exactly what robert. Thank you Justine and that's why I want to listen to you. Thank you. Because if you can be magnanimous, the rest of us got to follow. Mm Thank you so much Dante and reverend barber for your powerful words. We're going to have Caitlin Swain co director for justice to close us out. Well, there's, there's nothing more to say. Uh, I, I will say say that today is a beautiful day in north Carolina for justice. It is a beautiful day for Dante and his family. It is a day that is so well deserved and it has been earned through real pain and I will say what reverend barber just just lifted up when Dontae Sharpe came into my life, it was a blessing. It was a blessing the day that I met you Dante and you are a blessing to north Carolina with how you have taught us about the struggle for justice, about what it looks like to do that while you're healing, while you are living out your healing, your family's healing and what you have called on and called into being with all of us who have come together and learn from you and from the example that you set is a better way of doing justice in this state. So I, I applaud governor cooper for doing what is right today for continuing to do what is right in the coming days. And I agree with reverend barber, let in the voices of the people of north Carolina. Like Dontae Sharpe who had been leading in showing a different way to do this justice away that on where's the humanity of all. And then I do have to say Theresa Newman Jamie lau, jim Coleman spencer, paris could not be on this call today, but call out their names and thank them for their leadership in this state for supporting people who come and say I was unjustly incarcerated wrongfully incarcerated in this state and I need help. They do. They listen the wrongful convictions clinic at Duke Law is one of the best in this nation and I hope people will lift them up and support them because their work is so needed. We look forward at forward justice to continuing to work with this administration in every administration at every level at the national level, uh federally, in this state, at the local level, who is committed to transforming this criminal justice system from one that denies the humanity of people to one that centers the humanity of people. Thank you all for your leadership. Uh, and I know that there are many press on this call who may have questions Dante. And I spoke before this call and I think that we are going to ask for you to please email those questions uh, directly uh, to uh, we're gonna put a contact information in into the chat so that he can actually have this evening to celebrate uh, this and and and soak this in, you know, uh Dante unless you wanted to take any questions now. Is that is that, am I right? Whatever you say, I'm riding with your whole a pastor seat, whatever you're gonna do. Okay, so I'm seeing from de mola any inquiries can be sent to Brittany cheatham. We have one question on behalf of the Associated Press brian. If you want to ask your question, you can come off of you. Uh, thank you all so much. Can you hear me okay there? Awesome, awesome. Uh well, God bless them and thank you so much for for taking this. I'm sure you want to celebrate so I won't be keeping you too long. I just wanted to hear from you Dante. Can you just sort of describe a moment when you felt most at the end of your ropes? What got you through it? And when you hear the word pardon of innocence, what that means to you today? Got Theresa right here, hold on. Well the man apart Teresa, I'm on zoom right now with everybody. You want to hold on for me. I need to get I need you, can you write this down, hold on. You need as soon as you can you need to call this guy, call this guy. Okay, don't say these words out loud. Hold on one second. Hold on. Can we mute dot okay, so we can make. There we go. There we go brian, he's coming right back on the ap um go ahead, reverend Barbara and as he says he's talking to you know, one of the things that was so powerful. I remember the first time I walked into the prison to visit Dante with uh Capeman and what I was amazed by knowing he had been framed. There was no hatred in his thought, there was no malice. Remember that Caitlyn? Um, he was, he was hurt but he did not have hate, he was disappointed but he was not despondent. He was, he was, he knew he had been done wrong but he didn't have any kind of sense of vengeance, you know, all he wanted to do was the right thing to be done. And I remember uh when we were able uh as I said the water and even said this man has no business being in here and you know, some of the things that they didn't normally allow and we said we wanted to do foot washing, which is a form of in the church when you wash another person's feet and we got found a cup of water and the tower and wash his feet and Dante kept saying, even then I want to use my life, he wasn't even part, he wasn't even out of jail but to make a difference. And I do believe in a real sense that when you somehow can have that kind of spirit, it's not a weak spirit, it's not that you give into the system, but you refuse to let the system determine who you are, You decide inside the bars that you're not gonna put yourself in another prison and the prison of hate. That is one of the things that then allows you to receive from grace received from the spirit receive from God, the kind of supernatural if you will strength to hold on to your freedom. And even when freedom is far away the same way you saw Dante Justin smiling and last thing at this party remember Caitlin was the same way he was when we went into the prison it's really amazing the same Dante. He has not changed is not shifted remember that same smile, that same commitment to truth, that same thankfulness for all the people that have stood with him For for 20 some years it's the same Dante thank God for his continued witness in this community bro. He's still out there you want me? Yeah yeah just uh if you heard the question again it was just when were you most at your ropes and what got you through it and when you hear the word pardon of innocence what goes through your mind right now? Well I'll be up and down for me man you know up and down sometimes emotional emotional roller coaster but God and my mom and same thing I'm gonna say the people that supported me you know times when I've seen people out that margin for me and individuals and that stuff let me back up, I'll be down God man praying and then when I heard a part of the day I just got the phone with Caitlin Swain and uh I was kind of in shock. I thought it was a joke when Theresa Newman called me my lawyer in terms of my internally she called me but I know she don't joke like that because she really wanted me to have his pardon and she down with me down for the count you know like everybody else has been involved, everybody been down with me and Down for the Count. But I really want that excited. I was I'm still in a haze kind of cause you know, I learned that when you're dealing with us human beings, you know, it can go any way, you know, yes or no, you know, we still are well can be kind of we can be kind of stubborn and hard, harder than, you know, I didn't really know what to expect. I will believe in for a pardon, but whichever way it went because he said he was gonna make a decision. He hadn't said he was gonna part, he said he's gonna make a decision by december. He did. So it was a surprise that it happened today after the conversation, me and Caitlin Swain had that really what shot me but I'm still in I'm still absorbing it right now, I'm still absorbing it. But the first thing is really part of my mind or the people that have been fighting for me and I always see those ladies uh in the wheelchairs and all those people out in the cold and heat and the rain for me. That was really to be honest, the first thing that part of my mind because I know best who really brought it about all the support. They're coming together. The people that's what because we run things. The people run this thing really, you know, you want to get it all the way you know, God using the people man, you know through the people. So that's what got me through Prayer people and you know, I'm excited, but I'm not that excited. You know, I haven't really had, it'll probably hit me two or three in the morning and I'll tell you when I get by myself. That's right. I like that excited, but not that excited. That's that's that's the way it ought to be because this should have happened a long time ago. That's right. Thank you everyone. If there are no other questions will be closing out until Al Dante to go be with his family today. Great! All right, take care. Oh three.</p>

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Gov. Roy Cooper, museum leaders and museum paleontologist Dr. Lindsay Zanno on Thursday preview Dueling Dinosaurs, a brand new exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. The exhibit opens to the public Saturday.

In that institution's history. But all of you can and I have seen that enthusiasm and that understanding that you are part of something special over the past few years as you have prepared for this day. So to the staff of the museum, thank you. And it's not just staff, a project like this wouldn't have been possible without a lot of important partners on behalf of everyone involved in this immensely successful public private partnership. And in addition to the General Assembly's extraordinary investment, I would like to take a moment to thank some of the very generous supporters of the Dueling Dinosaurs capital campaign, the SECU Foundation, the Bank of America Duke Energy, the North Carolina Glaxo Smith Kline Foundation, Wake County, friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences who really not only helped us in, in raising the funds but also in making this day happen and this opportunity happen. And so many others who are recognized on the campaign do donor wall just to the right of the exhibit entrance. So I encourage you as you go through there today to make sure you take a look at that wall. Now, along with the state's investment. This village of support has enabled the museum to open this new globally unique visitor experience. And on that note, I would like to invite Secu Foundation board chair, Chris Ayers to speak to the foundation's leadership gift, Chris. Thank you. Well, good morning fellow paleontologists. Um I'm excited to be here today representing the SECU Foundation and the over 2.7 million members of state employees credit union who fund that foundation. So this is a great day of celebration for the State of North Carolina, the Department of Cultural and Natural Resources and the many museum supporters and friends who have joined together to make this day a reality. I can tell you the foundation, the State Employees Credit Union has been looking forward to this day for a long time, going all the way back to when we got a sneak peek when they first rolled these fossils into the museum uh a number of years ago. So today's ribbon cutting ceremony shines a brilliant light on the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences as a research institution and the largest museum in the southeast of its kind. The work of the museum professionals and the world class facility benefits more than 1 million visitors each year. And we're delighted to help fund the Secu Dino Lab, which will be enjoyed by students, teachers and families from across the state and beyond. In addition to the SECU Diner lab, the foundation support of the museum also includes the large icon globe that we're in right now that you see outside the building, uh The SECU Daily Planet. As longtime supporters of the museum SECU is pleased that our collaborative efforts help bring the museum and our state to the forefront of natural sciences, education and research, innovative initiatives like this can only be achieved through incredible teamwork and support from the community if it isn't obvious. Let me say that we are so happy to be part of this team and we feel really lucky to have our SECU headquarters and our Sal Salisbury Street branch right next door where we get to see the daily droves of visitors year round. SECU is built on the principle of people helping people and our members live that philosophy through our support of nonprofits that uplift people and communities throughout our great state. For those of you who may not know the SECU foundation is funded through a unique concept known as the power of a dollar where SECU members contribute through the reallocation of their $1 monthly checking account fee. Collectively a dollar truly can make a profound difference. As you see here today, this summer marks the foundation's 20th anniversary. And over the past 20 years, our foundation's commitment to North Carolina nonprofits has surpassed a quarter of a billion dollars for scholarships, grants, financing for education, housing, health care, human services, all benefits to our great state. And we're going to celebrate that 20th anniversary. This fall dueling Dinosaurs is history in the making right here in downtown Raleigh. And we're so lucky to have a front row seat to marvel at the Scientific Discovery and the World of Paleontology. We at the SECU Foundation are honored to be part of this and I want to thank everyone for the great work and contributions that so many of you have made to make this day in this exhibit a reality. Thank you, Chris. Now I mentioned earlier about our staff and they really are all superstars, but there is one particular staff member who has as this project has developed over the recent years, kind of reached celebrity status. If you read Walter magazine, you probably read a profile of her and her work and how that has contributed to uh this particular exhibit. I'm pleased to introduce that person to you this morning. None other than uh the individual who had the vision to make this happen. Doctor Lindsay Zano, head of Paleontology here at the museum, Doctor Doctor Zano. Good morning. It's wonderful to be hosting you all this morning. You know, every week I get an email from a parent who wants their child to meet and talk to a scientist every single week. They want to fuel that child's love for science, encourage them to pursue their dreams. But more than anything they want that science to be real, they want it to be accessible, meeting those Children is wonderful. It's also not enough because not every parent has the resources of the opportunities to reach out to a scientist and arrange a one on one meeting for their child. Most of the Children who are interested in science will fall through the cracks and every public event I attend, I have a conversation with someone in our community who doesn't see the relevance of science to their daily lives who's never been invited to peek behind the proverbial curtain to see who scientists are and what we do and how we go about solving problems that are relevant to our communities. Today, we mark the next step in the evolution of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. We celebrate the opening of the dueling dinosaurs experience. This is one of the most daring public science projects ever imagined at its heart is a world class specimen and the barrier breaking sccu Dino lab that houses it. The specimen represents a single moment in time 67 million years ago when behemoths like tyrannosaurs and triceratops battled for life. The lab is a place where there are no walls between the scientists and the communities that we serve. One where the term behind the scenes loses all of its meaning. A place where every kid regardless of their socioeconomical status can talk to a scientist every day, any day, a place where they can look in the face of a scientist and see themselves staring back at them a place where science is done for the public with the public and transparently in front of the public and for those that cannot make it to us on site, we're broadcasting this project all over the world. Now, the dueling dinosaurs experience is fueled by an amazing team of scientists who I'm so proud of. And in the past two years, we've grown from 6 to 14,000. And that's because a year and a half ago, we launched our public science project Cretaceous Creatures. And already over 14,000 middle school students from around the state have made once in a lifetime scientific discoveries as real members of our scientific team. And we are just getting started. I want to close this morning by thanking the state all of our incredible donors, my amazing museum colleagues, and especially my team for believing in this project, for believing in my vision. I want to thank them for tirelessly working for eight years to bring this project to the people of North Carolina and beyond. You are all dreamers and I could not be more honored to be on this journey with you. One thing we can all agree on is the world loves dinosaurs. So today we're going to bring the next generation of leaders in science and technology and engineering and innovation and have them born right here in North Carolina. Let's show the world how it's done. Thank you. Make sure I didn't mess up the screen and dropping that. Um Thank you, Doctor Zano and I don't know what the acoustics are back there. But standing up here as you were talking about Children in that next generation from up here, you could hear all the Children up there in nature Research Center visiting the labs and it just kind of brought to life. What you're talking about this experience will mean it's now my pleasure to introduce to you, my boss, uh Secretary Reed Wilson. Now I can tell you, Secretary Wilson, this is a special project. He does a lot of openings, ribbon cuttings for our sites all across the state, state parks aquariums and not to play favorites. But I know this one ha holds a special place in his heart. He was telling someone this morning that he's been working on this project for seven years and so Secretary Wilson, I'm pleased to introduce you and we finally got here. Thank you, Jeff. Good morning, everybody. Uh Thank you all for being here this morning and to all involved. Uh Congratulations. This is an amazing huge day for North Carolina and for this museum, you know, making doing dinosaurs a reality has been a collective effort. And I want to thank some people that have already been thanked, but you can never thank these people enough. First, our sponsors, we would not be here today without your generous support. No doubt about that. I also want to thank the board and the staff of the friends of the Museum of Natural Sciences and three of the four board presidents who have been presidents during this period are here with us today. Um, but the whole board has been invested in this and not only did you all raise significant sums of money, but you tiptoed way out on that branch of risk. I remember the conversations. Well, we really sure we wanna do this. Uh But you were, you made the decision to, to just dive in um because you kept your eyes on the prize and, and understood what the risk was, but all that risk went away. Uh I wanna thank the museum staff. Um Thank you so much. I know that every section of this museum has been involved with this. And I, I dare say that there isn't anyone on the staff of this museum who wasn't involved in this project at some point. Um And obviously to Doctor Zano and your paleontology team. Um Y'all are just amazing. You're brilliant. All of you. Um Javin Sutton and your ex exhibition team, Christy Flint and your education team. I mean, I could mention everybody in this museum, everyone's been involved. It's been a long process and you've done a phenomenal job because here we are today and of course, we wouldn't be here without substantial public support. Thank you to members of the General Assembly um who prioritized the investment in this state of the art lab in particular. I do want to thank the leadership of the legislature speaker Moore, Senator Pro TEM Berger, minority leader, blue and minority leader Reeves. Uh, they're unable to join us today, but I think we should give a round of applause to the entire general assembly who supported this project. So it's taken us a while for us to get here today. And as Jeff mentioned, I've been involved with this one probably since the first week I was in this department in early February 2017. Um So it's not been quite 67 million years, but sometimes it felt like it. Um Is that my wife laughing? I remember, I do remember vividly the early Sunday morning in April 2017, almost exactly seven years ago to this day when these specimens arrived. I watched as the movers painstakingly removed them from the tractor trailer truck and carefully moved them into their hidden storage places. It was definitely a goose bumps moment for hours and then we had the groundbreaking in the midst of COVID, uh which complicated everything. And as I said, then at the groundbreaking, when this lab opens, our state will become a must see destination for dinosaur lovers everywhere, from young kids to academics to anybody. Um And so here we are and it's even better than I think any of us dreamed it could be. You will see when you go in there. What a special exhibit this is. We have the best dinosaur specimens in the world and the best setting for people to see them and learn from them. Hundreds of moments and of awe and wonder will unfold in there every single day. And I can't wait to just wander over here sometimes to watch the kids' eyes pop open. Now, at the heart of this project is the science. Our paleontologists will make discoveries as they carefully uncover these and analyze them. Science will be happening in front of the public's eyes. Um And so do doing dinosaurs is an excellent way for the state to engage students in scientist scientific discovery and to develop greater science literacy. So why is that important? Um It's important because the only way we're going to solve our big problems is to rely on the science and the experts who know what they're talking about. And the key to getting to that point is to expand science education to make sure that every child understands the value of science and how scientific discovery works. The Dueling Dinosaurs exhibit is going to pull people into this amazing world of science that's so important to our future. So I am now pleased to introduce a leader who uses science and facts and data to make his decisions as governor of the state of North Carolina and he has supported this project throughout its duration. Everyone please give a warm welcome to our Governor Roy Cooper. Thank you, Secretary Wilson. I'll tell you when we have cabinet meetings every Monday. His is always the coolest report, particularly when we get the updates on the dueling dinosaurs. Uh I am so grateful to everyone who helped to make this happen. The partners. Thank you so much for the work you've done all of the contributors. Uh My family, Chris is proud that our state employees credit union accounts that $1 a month is going to things like this. That is so exciting. And when I think about this week, I spent Monday Earth Day on the Blue Ridge Parkway looking at our amazing vistas uh in Western North Carolina on Tuesday and Wednesday, I got to spend time with North Carolina's own astronaut Christina Cook who set records for time that a woman astronaut spent in space and space walking. And she actually presented us with a lob Lily pine that had been germinated on the moon. Native plant, Karen, first lady made sure it was a native plant, uh excited about planting that in our pine forest at the executive mansion. And she presented us with the North Carolina flag that flew with her on her mission in the International Space Station for 11 months, presenting it to the people of North Carolina. Then I got to come over here with Doctor Zano, doctor Doctor Young and to go through this exhibit and to talk to these scientists and see see these dinosaurs and think about how amazing it was that this was happening right here in North Carolina. You know, North Carolina is the first and best in so many things. Now, we're the best in dinosaurs. I love it. You know, it is amazing and extraordinary that we have the best preserved and most complete tyrannosaur and triceratops in the world. Right here at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Scientists. This exhibit will add to an already excellent rep reputation that North Carolina has as a world class research university community College state. And I'm excited about that. I have been through this exhibit and, and to see the faces of the paleontologist, how excited energetic that they are. And they're also excited and maybe even a little bit nervous about sharing their work as they do it with the world, with the cameras on top of them, with their brushes and their equipment as they make discovery after discovery. And I said, you know, you're gonna get comments and praise and maybe some criticism from science, all scientists all over the world. They said, we know we know and we're ready for that and that's what makes this so special. Uh Doctor Young Doctor Zano, thank you for leading me through. Thank, thank you for the work. I asked Doctor Zano what she was gonna do this summer? She said, Utah, Montana and Mongolia. Wow, that's cool. Bring some stuff back with us uh to, to us but to compete, compete in today's world stem and steam classes. Are more important than ever. And our next generation of leaders will be walking through this museum every day that it's open and this exhibit will stimulate interest in a lot of them. I have declared 2024 as the year of public schools in North Carolina. And I am deeply grateful that the legislature stepped up and invested in this exhibit. Uh It, it took a lot of work to pull everything together and their work was instrumental and I am encouraging them now also to invest more in our public schools in our early childhood education. Our state has a history of investing in public education in order to fuel our innovation and our discovery. And when these young students learn in their school classes and they get to come here and meet face to face with these sci scientists. It's going to develop interest and it's going to create our scientists of the future this state of the art secu diner lab and the dueling dinosaurs belong to the people of North Carolina. It's open to everyone free of charge. That is amazing. Thanks to everybody who made this happen. This is a proud day for the state of North Carolina. Thank you so much. Thank you, Governor Cooper. Uh It truly is an exciting day for all of us and thank you for being here. Now, at this time, I would like to invite everyone to join us just outside the auditorium here. A little bit to the right at the at the entrance for doing dinosaurs for the official ribbon cutting. And I want to invite all of you up there on the 2nd, 3rd floor. Presents. Come on down and join us. So let's go celebrate. Thank you. Yeah, we're at the back line up a little bit. It's gonna be quite a few people here. They are going to be coupled. OK? Don't cut it. Yeah, check, check, get out. OK. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Right. The the face. Thanks this chair, right. You all right. So fantastic. Hey guys for media. We questions afterwards over step on. This is the best to the future. This very good virtually. Yes. Is young. Was it? How about that? This is Yeah, you and then I now make the tea for. Can you be away if you're gonna be here? J JJ? Yeah, I was gonna have how many we have to get here in the morning right here. I didn't see anyone. All right, I need to tell everyone you should never put your hands inside the mouth of a tyrannosaurus. It's very sharp, well done on the end. Just a little bit here. Thank you. All right, just in the position. All right forward. Creep forward. Look for the fray. There we go. 321. Hold on. Is there we go. No cool, cool. The skin is tough. It's a meat eater. Not a ribbon eater. So OK. Sorry. OK. Barry can we do one more second? Let me fill in real quickly with one more. Yeah, they have thank you. Who gets to keep this to bring here? Let's get next to a do what you want us here. That be perfect. And can I get you on? So right here, you know what the secret with you and, but yeah, one photo, 12 and three. All right, thanks everybody. Right. If we have five, hello, if you guys want to come over here, I'll stand where the governor is gonna be. I.

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