On March 5th, 2022 there was a devastating tornado that hit Winterset Iowa. All of the Gilbert Community Schools hosted fundraisers to try to raise money and/or supplies for the citizens of Madison County.

We hosted a hat fundraiser where students could pay $1 to wear a hat for a day. We also held free will donations for supplies for the Winterset community.

We were able to donate a total of $2,394.60 as well as 3 full totes of supplies for the community!

We wanted to share this with you all and thank you for the donations! We could not have done this without your help!

A few teachers around the district had some April fools fun! Mrs. Ostrem has a scientist of the month board that students help her decorate each month. These boys took it over today and made Dr. Doofenshmitrz from Phineas and Ferb the scientist of the day! Mrs. Weber brought the students brownies (brown E’s)!

In a letter to all district families, Gilbert Schools Superintendent, Dr. Christine Trujillo announced Mrs. Cindy Bassett has agreed to continue in her role as the principal of Gilbert High School for the 2022-2023 school year. Read more from Dr.Trujillo’s announcement. 

Over the weekend, 9 Gilbert students participated in the DECA State Career Development Conference in Des Moines. There were 50 different events that students could choose to participate in.

Gilbert students competed in the following categories:

• Addison Hodgen – Apparel and Accessories Marketing – 5th Place
• Alissa Clark – Accounting Applications – 5th Place; Financial Consulting – 3rd Place
• Braelyn Thomas – Food Marketing – 1st Place; Professional Selling – 4th Place
• Elle Nguyen – Apparel and Accessories Marketing
• Aldo Escalera – Food Marketing – 4th Place; Professional Selling – 3rd Place
• Kalyn Schmidt and Alice Zhang – Marketing Management Team – 4th Place
• Joey Currans and Nash Hanson – Finance Team – 1st Place

Joey Currans, Nash Hanson and Braelyn Thomas all qualified for ICDC (International Career Development Conference)  and will be traveling to Atlanta, GA, in April.

Congratulations Tigers!