Well, the Public Education Foundation is another wonderful organization working with the Clark County School District and other community partners to award millions and millions of dollars in scholarships each year.

Now, one of those scholarships, the Charles and Phyllis Frias Legacy Scholarship, is based--listen to this--on grit, not grades, and awarded to students who have overcome obstacles in their young lives.

I had the incredible honor of being in the room when these students received this life-changing scholarship.

Check it out.

(Mr.

Mowbray) Congratulations.

You are all going to be awarded a scholarship.

-It was the surprise of a lifetime for 19 high school seniors, each awarded the Frias Legacy Scholarship.

-$100,000 scholarship winners!

-One of these lucky winners, Nassir Hunt, a senior at Centennial High School.

(Nassir Hunt) Just a blessing, a blessing that's going to help me, you know, and a blessing that I never thought I could get.

I never had a scholarship before, and I never think that I could go to college and do what I could do.

So now I have a lot of opportunities, and a door just opened for me.

-Since 2022, the Charles and Phyllis M. Frias Charitable Trust, with the help of the Public Education Foundation, has surprised 77 students to date with this life-changing gift.

(Rich Broome) Charlie Frias died 20 years ago.

Phyllis died 10 years ago.

And yet here we are today, in 2026, and all of these kids will remember and be talking about Charlie and Phyllis Frias for the rest of their lives.

That's 70, 80 more years that the Friases will live on and hopefully with kids who come back to our community and become our leaders the way Charlie and Phyllis were.

-For these future community leaders... -We are so proud!

-...this historic scholarship award ceremony, a memorable family affair.

-My dad and my little brother, Bryce, and my stepmom, Lisa.

My little brother, yeah, my little brother and my family, yeah, definitely.

I have to be a role model for him.

So, yeah, it keeps me going every day.

-And there's no doubt little brother Bryce is Nassir's biggest fan.

(Bryce) I'm proud of my big brother Nass because he did so good in high school.

-100,000!

-100,000!

-Love their special bond.

So very sweet.

Well, there were so many special moments captured during that ceremony.

One of those moments happened when the students were surprised with their huge checks, each check delivered by scholarship recipients of years past, all wearing their "Four Years Debt Free" shirts.

Absolutely amazing.