June 5, 2026
🎓 Senior Spotlight 🎓
NICOLAS “COLE” SCHULER is Great Bridge High School’s 2026 Salutatorian. 💚🐾😺
Post Graduate Plan: University of Virginia to study Biochemistry.
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What is the best class you took in high school and why?
AP Chemistry, without a doubt. I’ve always believed in the idea that, if broken down to the smallest level, anything can be understood. AP Chem was the closest class I could take that even began to border that line of thought. The teacher, Mrs. Grier, was also incredible. The conversations we had in class, sometimes not even about chemistry, were always grounded and felt like a back and forth between two people who respected each other's intelligence.
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How do you feel about graduating?
Bittersweet. I won’t miss going to school, but I will miss walking through a classroom door and wondering “will my friend be sitting in class”, or “will soccer practice be cancelled today.” I think anyone who doesn’t say the same thing didn't get the point of high school, which to me wasn’t about actually learning, but finding the kind of people you want to learn around, whether the subject be calculus or how to pass a soccer ball.
#Classof2026! 🎓 #CPSCelebrates
NICOLAS “COLE” SCHULER is Great Bridge High School’s 2026 Salutatorian. 💚🐾😺
Post Graduate Plan: University of Virginia to study Biochemistry.
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What is the best class you took in high school and why?
AP Chemistry, without a doubt. I’ve always believed in the idea that, if broken down to the smallest level, anything can be understood. AP Chem was the closest class I could take that even began to border that line of thought. The teacher, Mrs. Grier, was also incredible. The conversations we had in class, sometimes not even about chemistry, were always grounded and felt like a back and forth between two people who respected each other's intelligence.
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How do you feel about graduating?
Bittersweet. I won’t miss going to school, but I will miss walking through a classroom door and wondering “will my friend be sitting in class”, or “will soccer practice be cancelled today.” I think anyone who doesn’t say the same thing didn't get the point of high school, which to me wasn’t about actually learning, but finding the kind of people you want to learn around, whether the subject be calculus or how to pass a soccer ball.
#Classof2026! 🎓 #CPSCelebrates