Highland County TAG students tour Chicago on annual field trip
Highland County’s Talented & Gifted (TAG) students are pictured during their field trip to Chicago. (Submitted photo)
Highland County’s Talented & Gifted (TAG) students recently experienced Chicago, Ill. on their annual TAG field trip, May 4-7.
The 42 fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth graders and seven chaperones toured Chicago with stops at the Navy Pier, the Field Museum of Natural History, the Museum of Science and Industry, the Shedd Aquarium, the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio in Oak Park, the Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Millennium Park’s “The Bean and 360 Chicago (John Hancock Building), including the Tilt.
The students also enjoyed an architectural boat tour on the Chicago River and Connie’s Chicago-Style Pizza. A tour of the Tippecanoe Battlefield & Museum in Battle Ground, Ind. was included on the trip home.
Students attending from Fairfield Local Schools were Spencer Allering, Weston Baldwin, Vincent Ballard, Lyla Cockerill, Lyndi Cockerill, Brya Fauber, Cambria Hartley, Jaxton Heard, Bobby Keirns, Laural McCoy, Oakley Purvis, Roman Russell and Addison Stanfield.
Students from Hillsboro City Schools were Rush Abernathy, Kinsley Allen, Abby Anderson, Ann Boyd, Madison Burwinkel, Bradyn Coates, Nicole Mortensen and Chloe Pierson.
Lynchburg-Clay students who attended were Lillian Curry, Paisley Donley, Ciri Edwards, Gabriella Grabill, Colton Grabill, Lily Layne, Riley Markey, Riley Patrick and Connor Runyon.
Greenfield Exempted Village schools were represented by Gavin Anderson, Brady Binegar, Lyla Chamblin, Jenna Jenkins, Grayson Knedler, Maddison Lee, Hunter Lytle, Preston Mossbarger, Jailyn Northrup and Joanie Shrout.
Bright Local School District students attending were Luke Cox and Kenley Juillerat.
Chaperones for the trip were Mrs. Kesia McCoy, Mr. Michael Donley, Mrs. Toda Shrout, Mrs. Marcy Boyd, Mrs. Joni Layne and Mrs. Elena Cullom.
The trip was coordinated and chaperoned by Kimberly Douglas, School & Student Services Coordinator for the Southern Ohio Educational Service Center, in conjunction with Debbi Lamblin, agent for Martin School Travel, Lexington, Ky.