KINYON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL youngsters visit court

Kindergarteners from Mrs. Danaj's class at Kinyon Elementary School visited the Taylor District Court recently to say hello to Judge Joseph Slaven.

KENNEDY HIGH SCHOOL: Midshipman speaks about Naval Academy

U.S. Navy Midshipman Robert Martinez, who attends the Naval Academy at Annapolis, recently visited Kennedy High School.

He visited Teacher Amber McNew's MCAN class and discussed the Naval Academy – what life is like there and how he made the decision to attend.

Martinez attended elementary school in Taylor School District, and is Board of Education Trustee Jamee McCoy's nephew.

Students found his talk very interesting.

TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOL holds December clothing drive

Carly Lundgren-Barnard announces that the annual clothing drive is beginning in December. The group is also doing an ice cream party for the 5th hour Truman High School class that donates the most.

The contest will be December 1-22, and is looking for items that Truman students can wear, so encourage people to donate gently used or even new items.

TAYLOR KIWANIS is forming; meeting on November 30

TRUMAN HIGH SCHOOL: DECA group welcomes the 'challenge'

Truman High School DECA is excited to bring you another year of the DECA Idea Challenge, a fast-paced experiential learning exercise that dares students to find an innovative new use for a common, everyday item in just eight days!

The item to be used in the challenge is rubber bands.

A premier event of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), the competition is a fun and exciting opportunity for students to be imaginative and resourceful while learning about the entrepreneurial process. To participate our students must:

• Organize a team
• Generate an original use for the challenge item
• Create a video pitch of invention
• Submit entry online by the deadline

 The following are links to watch the videos of the winning projects from our marketing classes. Sara Sherazi, Alondra Casteneda, Da'kyra Mcghee Monk, CIndy Nyarko, Sylester Grant, Emily Conklin, Gabby Sanchez, Tiffany Timpf, Marrissa Johnson, Austin Gignac, Andrea Arrendando, Andrea Sauceda, and David Foca. 

We also participated in the Taylor Winterfest holiday parade. Truman and Kennedy DECA students, along with Truman class of 2019 walked with us and threw out candy to the community. 

CAREER CENTER: Rotary Club makes donations

The Rotary Club of Taylor recently made key donations to the Career Center.

The Rotary Club meets on Thursdays at 12:15 p.m. at Wayne County Community College District second floor conference Room 12 of the Educational & Performing Arts Center

The club is very active in the district. The Blair Moody School Hoop House Service Project is an example of that, as was World Polio Day, when the Rotary held a “End Polio Now”. 

Rotarian Linda Newsome, former member of the Board of Education, led the presentation about polio to Taylor students, before the students collected coins from their student body to give to the End Polio Now campaign. 

HOLLAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL class earns Golden Spatula

Mrs.Holstein's class at Holland Elementary School recently earned the "Golden Spatula" for awesome lunchroom behavior!