GUERNSEY – Guernsey-Sunrise High school observed and participated in American Education Week and had several leaders from Platte County come and speak on their professions and how education plays a major role in determining and defining a student’s future.

“For American Education Week, Thursday we celebrate “teacher for a day” where we invite people from the community in to talk to students,” said GSHS teacher Abbie Werner. “We had Charles Howshar, owner of Howshar Hardware, talk to a business class. Hal Hutchinson an engineer from Casper who is contracted to do Platte County’s engineering came and talked to my physical science class. Jared Smith the vice superintendent from the state park came to talk to the biology class. And we had scheduled Jeremy Haroldson, our state representative, to talk to the government class.”

Unfortunately on that day, the seniors were all on a field trip to EWC’s tech day. The school rescheduled it from the 18th to the 23rd and opened it up to all 9-12th graders.

“Mindy Kelley and I take on planning all of American education week which also consisted of a nacho supper for students and parents, a drawing contest for elementary of “their favorite thing about school” and an essay contest for high schoolers “what guernsey-sunrise schools will look like in 2050” as well as other fun activities for k-12 students,” Werner said.

The guest teachers had a good chance to view a new generation of students and although it was an incredible activity and a break from the rigors of the usual classroom, it was educational for American Education Week.