Youth

The Discovery Class at the Education Center @ Cropper completed a service learning project under the direction of guidance counselor Jody Kendall. The class covers a variety of topics as an acclimation to the alternative school, as students adapt to the new academic-learning standards. The service learning was beautifying the exterior of the school with weeding and mulch.

The Shelby East Middle School and Shelby County High School bands all received distinguished ratings at the Kentucky Music Educators Association District V Concert festival at Collins High School.

This is the first time that all three groups – sixth-grade band, combined seventh- and eighth-grade band and the high school band – all received distinguished in the same year. The last distinguished for the high school band was in 2008.

Students in the orchestras at Collins and Shelby County high schools were judged during the recent Kentucky Music Educators Association competition.

Collins’ orchestra received an overall proficient rating and distinguished for sight-reading at KMEA.

CHS’s eighth-grade orchestra students were MacKenzie Boone, Connor Goodwin, Abigail Griggs, Kayla Henderson, Aubrey Howell, Shelby Hurt, Miranda Nowlin, Grace Powell, Brianna Suggs, Lucia Velasquez, Ruth White and Lee Johnson.

Collins High School had 18 students to represent the school’s FFA at the regional contest that took place at Gallatin County Hugh School.

Superior first- and superior second-place recipients will represent the region at the State FFA convention in June.

Those students were Spencer Hammond, superior first; Taylor Nash, superior first; Sarah Eades, superior second; Heather Rogers, superior second; Carrie Jacoby, superior second; Abby Boone, superior second.