News and Events from the Greater Garden City Area
Elisabeth Maldonado, Culinary Arts instructor at Garden City High School, holds a framed certificate marking the GCHS culinary arts program’s Elite 50 designation. Photo credit: GCHS GARDEN CITY — The Garden City High School culinary arts program has been named to the 2018-19 Elite 50 from the National Center for […]
Joshua Greenberg, Garden City High School art teacher, was one of several teachers who was awarded a mini-grant Wednesday from the Garden City Public Schools Foundation. GARDEN CITY — The Garden City Public Schools Foundation Grant Squad visited schools on Wednesday, March 20, and awarded $200 mini-grants to help teachers […]
Photo courtesy GCHS GARDEN CITY — Students from the Garden City High School Buffalo Broadcasting System (BBS) – radio and television classes received 55 awards, including 16 state champions, 21 state runners-up and 18 honorable mention finishes in the Kansas Association of Broadcasters (KAB) state awards competition. According to a […]
Garden City High School, home of International Thespian Troupe 2846, has been invited to present their production of Hamlet directed by Barbara Hilt, at the nation’s leading high school theatre festival in Lincoln, Nebraska. Eight schools have been invited based on productions that were adjudicated last fall; three more will […]
The Garden City High School Hall of Fame Committee is now accepting nominations for 2019 Hall of Fame inductees. Nominations must be received by 5 p.m., Friday, March 1 at the Educational Support Center, 1205 Fleming Street, Garden City, Kansas 67846. Nominees must be graduates of Garden City High School. Other […]
Michelle Shull, school nurse at Abe Hubert Elementary School, and Michelle Thompson, wellness champion at Charles Stones Intermediate Center, have received a Healthy Habits for Lifegrant funding from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation to fund at-school programs aimed at helping students enhance their health. Shull received […]
The Garden City Rotary Club has been distributing dictionaries to Garden City Public Schools third-graders this week as part of the Rotary Dictionary Project. Dictionaries were delivered to students at Georgia Matthews Elementary, Jennie Barker Elementary and Abe Hubert Elementary on Tuesday; and to students at Plymell Elementary, Jennie Wilson […]
GARDEN CITY – Garden City Public Schools teachers Sarah Drubinskiy, Violet Dubois, and Sarah Harris were honored by being named 2018 Crystal Apple Teachers of Finney County during a banquet Thursday night at the Clarion Inn in Garden City. Drubinskiy teaches at Charles O. Stones Intermediate Center, Dubois at Horace […]
GARDEN CITY – The Garden City Public Schools Foundation Grant Squad visited schools on Tuesday, November 13, to award $200 mini-grants to help teachers enhance their classrooms. The awards were presented to teachers in a surprise celebration in their classrooms. The foundation received 44 grant applications from staff around the school […]
Jennie Wilson Elementary to hold Ag Day Jennie Wilson Elementary School will hold an Ag Day from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2. The hands-on educational event will show students the essential role agriculture plays in the region. Students will participate in a number of activities related to agriculture. Local […]
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