Grafton High School

Check out this drill storage rack Tommy built out of scrap material for Building Construction Class. Great use of extra material.

Good Luck today to Aden McEldowney and Gabe Spino as they compete in the Skills USA competition for their UTC programs. Aden will be competing in Motorcycle Service and Gabe in Welding Sculpture! We are proud of you both 🐾💙💛

Digital Imaging and Multimedia Year 1 Student Showcase – Junior student, Nicole, shares a recent Adobe Photoshop 2022 class project! Project Goal: Create a composite image blending photographs. Students were provided five image files to use features from each to create a blended scene. Students were to incorporate environment elements, such as the mountains, sky, and beach. Students learned to use brushes of varying sizes to create accurate layer masks, rasterize layers, use a variety of keyboard shortcuts to improve their workflow, and to use advanced options in adjustment layers to modify specific colors in an image. The completed, blended beach scene is featured in the top right of the collage. Nice work! Digital Imaging and Multimedia 1 is open to students in grades 9-12. The course also fulfills a Fine Art graduation credit. CTEMonth #ThisIsCTE

Congratulations to GHS swimmers and coaches headed to states. Relay Qualifiers: *Boys 200 Free Relay - Will Angus - Layne England - Kaden Delaney - Zach Nibert Individual Qualifiers: Will Angus - 200 freestyle - 100 backstroke Bella Lemon -50 freestyle -100 freestyle

Congratulations to Elias Rubenstein for passing his audition for all state choir. He will represent GHS in Charleston March 3-5. Congratulations to his teacher, Mrs. Mayle. Students are chosen from their high school. They then learn 6-7 pieces of music from classical to spiritual and modern music. Each region holds auditions where a panel of 3 judges(choral educators in the state) choose excerpts from the music and then the students sing on demand that section. *photo credit Focused & Framed

Digital Imaging and Multimedia Year 1 Student Showcase – Freshman student, Italy, shares a recent Adobe Photoshop 2022 class project! Project Goal: Restore a damaged photograph. Students were provided with the black and white ballerina image file in the top right. The image was purposely shared with students on a rotation to first practice straightening and cropping an image. Students learned to create and organize layers, set blending mode and opacity, use Crop, Spot Healing, and Clone Stamp tools, use the Type tool and set basic character and paragraph settings, and to Save for Web and Export files. Clockwise, the collaged image shows the project’s progression. Students were able to add colors of their choice. The final project, including text, is showcased on the left. Well done! Digital Imaging and Multimedia 1 is open to students in grades 9-12. The course also fulfills a Fine Art graduation credit. #CTEMonth #ThisIsCTE

Attention Class of 2022- please use the form below to submit your Senior quotes for the Yearbook. https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=S7AZ4AwzekaLrgn7FzdNalXRLr5v-1tIhrq-DuUjUXxURTJIRU1JMjZRTEJPN0pFQU5RWlc0U0FVUS4u

Spanish students celebrated Venezuelan day by learning how to make arepas! Students enjoyed the lesson and activity. Thank you, Sra. Skaggs!

Digital media gurus bring their unique vision to life everyday with shapes, color, and effects through Adobe Illustrator, the industry-standard vector graphics software. Earn an industry-recognized certification for Adobe Illustrator in our Digital Imaging and Multimedia II course! Students successfully earned Graphic Design & Illustration using Adobe Illustrator certification today! Congrats, to our Year 2 concentrator and program completer students! #ThisIsCTE #CTEMonth

Our CTE (Career and Technical Education) Senior Completers have the opportunity to apply for a $2,000 scholarship. The Albert Yanni Scholarship provides high quality career and technical education (CTE) students an opportunity to pursue advanced education and/or training related to their career aspirations. Applications must be submitted no later than April 15, 2022. Please check with your CTE concentration teacher or guidance counselor. #ThisIsCTE #CTEMonth

Spanish Classes are celebrating Venezuelan day! Students ate arepas, a famous food from Venezuela. Thank you, Sra Smith!

Afterschool Credit Recovery applications are now available. If you failed a core (English, Math, Science, or Social Studies course) Fall semester or in year's past (that you have not yet made up) you will be required to recover those credits to remain on track for graduation. Please see your Livegrades messages or Teams for more information.

Taylor County Schools will have an NTID day today. Students and staff are to work from home. This includes board office personnel.

Taylor County Schools will operate on a 2 hour delay, tomorrow, February 4, 2022.

Interested juniors and seniors from our Welding, Culinary, and Business/Technology classes will visit Pierpont Community and Technical College on Friday, February 11. Permission slips are due Tuesday, February 8. Students are looking forward to learning more about the related programs, WV Invests, earning EDGE credits and potential EDGE scholarship! #ThisIsCTE #CTEMonth

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Good Luck Swim.

Congratulations to GHS student MaKenna Poling for her first place finish in the 2022 Almost Heaven Governor’s Art Exhibition. More information available at the link below. https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/winners-of-2022-almost-heaven-governors-art-exhibition-announced/?utm_source=wboy_app&utm_medium=social&utm_content=share-link

TAYLOR COUNTY FFA This month the Taylor County FFA members are staying busy! Students are currently studying a wide variety of topics ranging from sheep breeds to developing Résumés. February is also the month of FFA Week where we participate in community service, show appreciation to our teachers, and learn more about the history of FFA. As we begin scheduling for next year, if you are interested in FFA and being a Plant Systems or AgriBusiness Completer, see Mr. Tennant or your counselors for more information. #ThisisCTE #CTEmonth

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