SOME PROUD MOMENTS FROM OUR CLASSROOMS

2007 GRADUATE INFORMATION
46% - Ontario Scholars
44% - University Bound
40% - College Bound
3% - Apprenticeships and World of Work
13% - Returned for further education

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
180+ Co-op placements in the community
Parker-Hannifin support for the Skills Canada National Robotics Championship

ON THE STAGE
• Graduate Art Show; Grimsby Public Art Gallery Student Art Show;
“Off the Wall” Art Show
• Improv (National competitor)
• Drama “The Offering” (Regional)
(Best Crew Excellence and Best Canadian Play;
Best Set Design and Video Prowess; Best Director; Merit Award for acting)
• Music: Port Colborne Music Festival (Regional competition);
MusicFest Canada (National Competition)

OUTSTANDING WINNERS IN UNIFORM
• Cross Country (OFSSA)
• Rowing CSSRA (Schoolboy) - gold in Jr. Men’s Eight; gold in Sr. Men’s 72 kg Pair; silver in Sr. Men’s Heavy Pair; 6 GSS rowers won gold medals at the Royal Canadian Henley Regatta in 2008
• Track & Field (Provincial) (International Youth Meet of Champions -
1st & 2nd in shot put; 1st in pole vault)
• Girls Curling (SOSSA)
• Synchronized Skating (National)
• Sr. Tennis (OFSSA)

BEYOND GRIMSBY SECONDARY SCHOOL
• Advanced Placement Program opportunities
• Art/History trip to Italy; Students in Action Ecuador School Building Trip
• Music cruise to the Carribean (2007); Music Trip to Barbados (2009)
• Visual Arts students trip to New York
• Exchanges to/from Brazil
• Grimsby Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Customer Service Award winner
• Jostens Partnership In Excellence Award to the Yearbook Team
• Grimsby Youth Citizen of the Year Award
• GSS National Math Contest winner
• EFN/Tiger Cat Scholarship Winner
• Grimsby Historical Society Plaque Project
• International Robotics Skills Competition in Japan (placed 6th out of 43 countries)
• Leadership opportunities: Encounters with Canada, Ottawa
Ontario Education Leadership Camp, Lake Couchiching
Ontario Student Leadership Conference, London
Students in Action
• Numerous Creative Writing/Speaking winners: Fresh Ink; Canadian Creative Writing; National Creative Writing anthology; Marion Drysdale Creative Writing; Royal Canadian Legion Poster and Literary Contest; Canadian Poetry Institute
• Relay for Life - $80,000
• Zonta International Young Women in Public Affairs Award Winner