WEBVTT MARTINEZ, HE GOT UP AT 4:00 IN THE MORNING TO TAKE THE BUS TO SCHOOL. MARLEI: THE PICTURE OF DETERMINATION, THOUSANDS CHEERING THIS PHOTO OF A LOCAL LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE. >> FEEL A LITTLE BIT OVERWHELMED. >> A MAX BUS DRIVER SNAPPED THE SHOT OF COREY PATRICK WALKING TO THE BUS STOP IN FULL CAP AND GOWN TO GO TO HIS GRADUATION. HIS FAMILY DOESN’T OWN A CA >> COREY WAS SO EXCITED THAT DAY. MARLEI: AND IT TURNS OUT, HIS BIG DAY WASN’T THE ONLY DAY HE TOOK THE BUS. FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR, COREY WALKED FROM HIS WEST END HOME TO THE BUS STOP TO GET TO TARRANT HIGH SCHOO COREY LEAVES THE HOUSE AT FOUR EVERY MORNING SO HE CAN MAKE IT TO THIS BUS STOP BY 5:41. SCHOOL IS ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN. >> SOME MORNINGS I HAD TO NUDGE HIM A LITTLE BIT. BUT HE GOT UP. MARLEI: COREY GETS UP THAT EARLY BECAUSE HE MOVED OUT OF TARRANT LAST YEAR. HIS MOTHER SAYS THEY’VE HIT SPEED BUMPS THIS YEAR WITH FINANCES. BUT NOTHING WAS GOING TO KEEP HER SON FROM WALKING THAT STAGE. >> I ALMOST CAME TO TEARS. IT HAS BEEN A LONG YEAR. I FINALLY ACCOMPLISHED MY GOAL. MARLEI: AND THE DAY AFTER GRADUATION COREY WENT TO WORK. >> COREY SET THAT GOAL TO ACCOMPLISH, AND HE DID IT. MARLEI: COREY SAYS HE WANTS TO USE THE DONATIONS TO GO TO COLLEGE AND GET A CAR. WHAT’S YOUR DREAM CAR? >> MY DREAM CAR IS A FERRARI. MARLEI: A TEENAGER DETERMINED TO LIVE OUT HIS PICTURE OF SUCCESS. IN BIRMINGHAM, MARLEI MARTINEZ, WVTM