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☀️ GW Important Links – Summer Break 2025 ☀️ 📚 Summer Reading & Assignments 📎 https://bit.ly/4jsf3OQ 🎓 Summer School Credit Recovery Info 🗓️ Registration: June 9, 2025 📍 Location: GW Library | 🕘 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM 📬 Summer Contact Emails 📎 https://bit.ly/43R7FYx 📞 School Phone Number 304-348-7729 Have a safe, restful, and fun summer break, Patriots! 🩶✌️ We’ll see you in August! 📘🎒 #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #summerszn #gwsummerinfo

👏 The Kanawha County Commissioners recognized the George Washington High School chapter of the National Honor Society for their national-level honor in community service! 🏛️📜 These Patriots logged over 10,000 hours of service during the 2024–2025 school year—true role models making an impact! ✨🩶 #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2526 #gwcommunity #NHS #ServiceLeadership

🎉 Big news from the Hill! Thanks to the dedication of our incredible educators and the brilliance of our GW young women, we’ve earned the @CollegeBoard Female Diversity Award for expanding female participation in AP Computer Science Principles! 💻✨ Let’s keep breaking barriers and coding futures 👩‍💻🚀 📄 Read more: https://5il.co/3kdj9 #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2526 #gwcommunity #APCSP #WomenInSTEM

🎨✨ History made—again! ✨🎨 GW Senior Katelyn Lowe has just done what no student has before… 👏 She’s the ONLY student to win two awards in the Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes ArtEffect Competition, a global contest with over 1000 entries from 40 countries! 🌍🖼️ 🎖️ 2025 Winner – 2nd Place High School ($2000) “An Artist’s Modernization of American Indian Art” 🎨 Unsung Hero: Oscar Howe 🎖️ 2024 Winner – Best of Show ($3000) “A Woman Ahead of Her Time” 🎨 Unsung Hero: Jackie Ormes Way to represent #PatriotPride at the highest level, Katelyn! We’re so proud of you! 🤍🩶

🎓 Summer School Credit Recovery Registration 🗓️ Date: June 9, 2025 📍 Location: GW Library 🕘 Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM 📬 How do you know if you need it? Report cards will be mailed home Tuesday, June 2 — if you have a failing grade, you should attend registration. #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #creditszn #creditcomeback

🔥 GW Baseball is on FIRE! 🔥 WVU commit Slade Barton just threw a NO-HITTER to send the Patriots back to the AAAA State Tournament—for the 3rd time in 4 years! ⚾️💥🙌 Clutch. Dominant. Unforgettable. Let’s go, Patriots! 💪🩶 #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #GWBaseball #NoHitterHero

🎉 Big congrats to our newly elected GW National Beta Club Officers for the 2025–2026 school year! 🏅📚 We’re so proud of your leadership and can’t wait to see what you accomplish! ✨ 👑 President – Baylee Branham ⭐️ Vice President – Jemma Boyd 📝 Secretary – Neeka Abbassi 💰 Treasurer – Qamar Al Yasin 📸 Historian – Dharani Thangasamy 📲 Social Media Manager – Sajjad Al Sinayyid #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #BetaClub #StudentLeadership

📸💯 Huge shoutout to our amazing Attendance Director, Ms. Combs, for always going the extra mile to support student attendance at GW! 🌟 Thank you for making our freshman reward party extra special with your creative photo frame booths — you made those memories picture perfect! 🤍🎉 Your dedication doesn’t go unnoticed! #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #thankyoumscombs #attendancechamp #freshmanfun #attendancegoals #attendancematters

☀️ Freshman fun in the sun! 🎉 Today we celebrated our freshmen with solid attendance for 2nd semester at an outdoor party packed with pickleball, frozen treats, music, volleyball, and selfie booths 📸🏐🍦🎶 👏 Big congratulations to all our 9th graders who showed up, stayed strong, and finished the year strong! We see you 💪🩶 #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #freshmanfun #attendancegoals

🎉💯 Shoutout to Elizabeth Bell for winning the “100 for 100” drawing for perfect attendance during the 4th nine weeks! Her commitment paid off with a $100 Amazon gift card! 🛍️💸 #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #PerfectAttendance #100For100

🗓️ Mark your calendars! The final LSIC meeting of the school year is happening Thursday, May 29, 2025. Let’s wrap up the year strong with our GW community! 🤝 #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #LSIC #schoolleadership

It’s time to show off the GW Senior Walks for the Class of 2025 at Kenna Elementary & Alum Creek Elementary! 🎓✨👟 From tiny desks to big dreams — our seniors walked the halls where it all began 📚➡️🎓 So much love, so many memories, and plenty of high-fives along the way! #HailGW #PatriotPride #LifeOnTheHill #GW2425 #GWCommunity #SeniorWalk #BackToOurRoots

🚀 Big congratulations to GW student Manvitha Sanjaya for earning the Air Force Research Laboratory First Award of $750 at Regeneron ISEF! 🧬🌿 Her project, "Unraveling the Mechanisms of Duckweed Tolerance to UV-B Radiation Stress," stood out in the CELL016 category for its innovative insights into adaptive plant responses! 🌞🌱 We’re so proud of you, Manvitha! 💫 #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #RegeneronISEF #FutureScientist

They started with crayons and story time… now they’re rocking caps and futures! 🖍️➡️🎓 Today, the GW Class of 2025 took their Senior Walk back to where it all began — the elementary schools that first shaped their journey 🏫💫 Forever Patriots, then and now. 🤍🩶 #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #SeniorWalk #FullCircleMoments

🎓 Graduation Week Info – Plan Ahead! 🛣️ 🚧 Charleston will host USA Cycling races May 19–26, causing road closures downtown — right as 6 Kanawha County schools, including GW, hold graduations at the Coliseum. 📍Use alternate routes shared by the city to avoid delays. ✅ Check the flyer for details & share with guests heading downtown. #HailGW #patriotpride #lifeonthehill #gw2425 #gwcommunity #GraduationReady #CharlestonEvents

🎥🎓 Livestream Info for 2025 KCS Graduation Ceremonies 👩‍🎓🔗 In 2012 ⏪, phones still flipped, TikTok didn't exist, and the 💡Class of 2025 began their educational journey as preschoolers with tiny backpacks, crayon names🖍️, and big dreams. They grew up with changing technology, shifting trends, and a world that seemed to spin faster every year. ⏩ Fast forward 13 years, those preschoolers have turned into young adults and are about to earn their high school diploma! There will be tears 🥹, smiles 😃, and high fives 🫸🫷. Reaching this point is a team effort, and we want to make sure everyone who has played apart in this journey can join in on the celebration! 🥳 🔴 All eight KCS High School Graduation Ceremonies will be available to watch live using link below. 👇 🔗: videoproductions.com/watch 📅: 2025 KCS High School Graduation Schedule 🟣 Riverside High School, May 21st — 1:00 PM 🟠 South Charleston High School, May 21st — 7:00 PM ⚪️ George Washington High School, May 22nd — 1:00 PM ⚫️ Nitro High School, May 22nd — 7:00 PM 🔵 Capital High School, May 23rd — 1:00 PM 🔴 Herbert Hoover High School, May 23rd — 7:00 PM 🔴 St. Albans High School, May 27th — 1:00 PM 🔴 Sissonville High School, May 27th — 7:00 PM 🎥: Livestreaming provided by — Video Productions

🎓 Graduation Week is Almost Here! 🚴‍♂️ ⚠️ Heads up! The City of Charleston has shared some helpful info about the best routes to use when heading to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center between Monday, May 19 – Monday, May 26. During that time, the city will be hosting the USA Cycling Pro Road Races, which means some roads will be closed around Charleston. At the same time, six of our Kanawha County high schools will be celebrating graduation at the Coliseum! To help make sure everyone gets to their ceremonies on time (and without too much stress), we encourage families and guests to use the routes provided on the flyer. 🎉 Let’s make graduation week a smooth ride for everyone — and a time to celebrate all our amazing grads! 📍Check out the flyer for all the details, and feel free to share with anyone who might be heading downtown.

🎉 We are SO proud of our amazing students who competed in the 2025 West Virginia State Social Studies Fair! 🧠📚 Your hard work and creativity were on full display, and you represented KCS and your school with pride! 💙💛 A huge shoutout to all of our participants — and a round of applause for the students who placed at the top of their categories! 🥇🥈🥉 You knocked it out of the park! 🌟👏 Way to go, KCS students! We’re always cheering you on! 🎓🙌🔥 📷: Event photo courtesy of the WVDE

📣 Congratulations to Clay Dusenbury of GWHS — your 2025 Charleston Youth Poet Laureate! 🏆 ✨ The National Youth Poet Laureate program, is a celebrated initiative recognizing young poets who use their words to inspire their peers to make a difference. On Saturday, the University of Charleston honored Clay and an incredible group of young poets for their creativity, passion, and civic expression through poetry. 👏 Shoutout to the KCS finalists: Dwayne Ruffin (SCHS) and Mariam Hamdan (SCHS) 🎖️ Honorable Mentions + Special Recognitions were awarded to an additional 12 talented students across the region! These poets are using their voices to inspire change. 🔥📝

🙌 We are incredibly proud of the outstanding students who represented KCS at the ✏️ State Math Field Day competition over the weekend! Securing a spot in the state competition is a tremendous accomplishment, and every student who competed should be incredibly proud of the work they put in to get there. 👇 Below are KCS Students that earned a top spot in their grade level! 🏅 Roger Lin from Central Elementary earned 3rd place in the 4th grade division 🥇 Hope Wu from John Adams Middle School took home 1st place in the 8th grade division 🥇 Shrihan Malkaram from George Washington High School won 1st place in the 10th–12th grade division 🎉 Archana Krishnathas from George Washington High School placed 10th in the 10th–12th grade division 👏 To top it off, Region III — which includes Kanawha County Schools — was named the Highest Scoring Region in the 10th–12th grade division! ✨📐 We’re so proud of the hard work shown by these students. 🧠