University of Central Florida students plan on building on the momentum from last weekend’s March for Our Lives event.

“The march was just the beginning. That was the things that got as many people involved and it gave them a foot in the door in the process,” said Trevor Wild, UCF’s ‘Never Again’ organization president.

Wild and fellow UCF students said they plan on doing whatever it takes to keep the gun reform conversation alive. Although organizing the march was a huge undertaking, they said that was just the beginning.

As a Margery Stoneman Douglas High School grad and now an Orlando resident, Wild is all too familiar with the stories behind the Pulse Nightclub shooting.

He said he’s ready to hit social media with his fellow classmates and rally students behind local elections, saying that’s the Never Again Movement’s next stop.

Wild explained his team plans on hosting their own town hall discussion, inviting local politicians to come out and discuss their plans for local legislation coming up on April 7.

“We are making sure that while we have this momentum … we are using (this platform) to really make a change,” he said.

Wild also mentioned seeing a wave of eligible young people register to vote at Saturday’s march.

Monday, Spectrum News 13 reached out to our local supervisor of election offices to see if over the weekend they did see a spike in registrations. We are waiting to hear back.

Gov. Rick Scott reacts to marches

Spectrum News 13 asked Governor Scott about the march while he was making a stop at Wekiwa Springs State Park Monday. The governor was there meeting with park ranger cadets and touting money he’s built into this year’s and previous state budget’s aimed at protecting Florida’s natural resources.

“We live in a great country and in this country you can have a peaceful protest,” said Governor Scott. “You have your first amendment rights, and I think it’s always a positive thing when people are involved in the political process.”

As for calls by marchers for elected officials to pass tougher gun-control legislation, Scott said he believes the measures he signed into Florida law earlier in March will make Florida’s schools safer.

The new laws raise the minimum age for buying a gun from 18 to 21, keep guns away from anyone suffering from a mental health problem and they harden physical security at schools.

The governor said he pushed for the legislation after meeting with family of the shooting victims in Parkland.