After landing the coveted first-place $60,000 awards, the 2008 Most Valuable Student top winners, Megan Spencer of Lodi, Calif., and Donovan Barfield of Vidor, Texas, got to go to Disneyland. That’s right, they attended the Grand Lodge Convention in Anaheim in July to express their gratitude to all the Elks that make their scholarships possible.

Watch their riveting speeches: