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Highland County TAG students tour Pennsylvania on annual field trip

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Highland County’s Talented & Gifted (TAG) students are pictured in Philadelphia during a recent field trip. (Submitted photo)
By
Kimberly Douglas, Coordinator of Gifted Services for Highland County

Highland County’s Talented & Gifted (TAG) students recently experienced Philadelphia, Valley Forge and Gettysburg, Pa. on their annual TAG field trip, May 2-5. 

The 42 fifth-, sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders and six chaperones toured Philadelphia with stops at the Liberty Bell, Franklin Court, Independence Hall, Congress Hall, Carpenters’ Hall, the National Constitution Center, Betsy Ross House, Elfreth’s Alley and the Franklin Institute of Science. Other highlights of the trip included guided tours of Valley Forge National Park and Gettysburg Military Park.

Students attending from Fairfield Local Schools were Weston Baldwin, Vinny Ballard, Brya Fauber, Jaxton Heard, Morgan Hughes, Bobby Keirns, Laural McCoy, Davis McKenzie, Roman Russell, Addison Stanfield, Cameron VanDyke and Dailey Watson.

Students from Hillsboro City Schools were Rush Abernathy, Abby Anderson, Tyler Bender, Madison Burwinkel, Brayden Coates and Chloe Pierson.

Bright Local School District was represented by Luke Cox, Ivy Garrison, Annie Overstake and Makayla Wilder.

Lynchburg-Clay students included Paisley Donley, Kari Ferguson, Colton Grabill, Connor Runyan and Gabriel Wright.

Greenfield Exempted Village Schools were represented by Alaina Best, Ellen Cullom, Landan Cullom, Lucas Dettwiller, Brylee Douglas, Audrey Giffin, Grayson Jones, Jack Judkins, Grayson Knedler, Preston Mossbarger, Jaelyn Northrup, Gabriel Quincel, Gatlin Secrist, Joanie Shrout and Jax Vanzant.

Chaperones for the trip were Mrs. Kesia McCoy, Mrs. Elena Cullom, Mrs. Shellie Anderson, Mr. Chad Walls, Mr. Michael Donley and Mrs. Toda Shrout. The trip was coordinated and chaperoned by Kimberly Douglas, Coordinator of Gifted Services for Highland County, in conjunction with Debbie Bowling, agent for Martin School Travel, Lexington, Ky.

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