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Noise as we proudly To the stage

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Very young 2025 Maytag .

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Award recipient

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My name is Maikel Travis . I'm a youth

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program here at Davis Month in Air

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Force Base Youth Center .

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It's funny because I never wanted to

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work with kids . Sometimes you can't

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run away from your calling . I want to

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teach the kids and try to give them

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that step up in life and , you know ,

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kind of show , hey , Mr . Mikel's going

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through this , uh , are like , hey ,

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you know , look at things from this

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perspective , like , really just giving

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back to the kids .

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It still kind of feels surreal . I

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don't like the spotlight . I just , it

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seems to keep finding me . This

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particular achievement that we achieved

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at the youth center was one that I

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really just kind of like , you know

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what , we did that , it felt really ,

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really good . Something I've learned

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over the years and I'm kind of really

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coming into it fully , uh , ever since

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I left our last TV station is , um ,

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everybody has something to give , like ,

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You don't have to do what I did or be

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who I am to get what I got or what

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we got as a program . It's , I mean ,

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it's just one of a kind thing that we

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get to do .