Rev. Newton provided an invocation. 

Founding scholars Michael Logan and Christian Alston led the board in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. 

Mr. Thompson shared in his excitement for the evening's event and thanked those directors in attendance for their participation. 

Mrs. Chandler read aloud the mission statement. 

Mr. Lee read aloud the vision statement. 

Mr. Thompson read aloud the charter school state law that references the requirement to conduct a lottery if the number of applications received exceeds the number of seats allotted for enrollment and the procedures for doing so. 

Dr. Ivey provided an overview of how the lottery was to be conducted via the Lotterease platform. He also introduced Mrs. Dinasy Uoy, LSC's recruitment coordinator, who provided an overview of the recruitment efforts during the months of October and November. Today, he noted that 110 scholars were being selected for kindergarten, 21 scholars for first grade, and 25 scholars for second grade. 

During this time, Dr. Ivey called on Allen Edwards, a representative from the Williams-Brice-Edwards Charitable Organization to help facilitate the start of the lottery. Mr. Edwards came and "clicked the button" to begin the lottery. As the lottery was taking place, Dr. Ivey provided commentary on how the system was randomly selecting scholars (pulling from the three preference groups allowed under state law first). The lottery was completed within a matter of minutes, and Dr. Ivey then displayed the list of scholars selected for kindergarten, first, and second grade as well as those who were waitlisted. Dr. Ivey then pulled up the publicly accessible list via the school's website, noting that anyone can view the results at any time from this point forward of scholars selected and those waitlisted identifying each scholar by their initials and last four digits of their phone number. 

During this portion of the agenda, Dr. Ivey explained that the lottery results will not be certified by school officials over the next 30 minutes and then released to the public. Upon being released, all families in the lottery will be notified via email of their scholar's admission status. He reminded the board of the approved enrollment policy stating admitted families have five days to confirm their seat followed by 10 days to submit all required enrollment documentation. 

During this portion of the agenda, each director shared in their excitement for the newly admitted 161 scholars.