Student success will be on display when Lawton Public Schools Life Ready Center celebrates its fifth anniversary with a showcase April 16.
LRC Principal Lindsey Hoerbert said the Life Ready Center Common Ground celebration is to showcase the students and programs at the LRC. All of the programs will be represented in some way, either through displays or participation. For example, the culinary class will provide refreshments, the Kiowa and Comanche language classes will sing a hymn and offer a prayer and the American Sign Language class will sign the national anthem.
Hoerbert said the event is to showcase students, the programs and the growth of the center, which provides an opportunity for high school students to take a variety of classes not offered at their home schools.
“Here is about growing up,” Hoerbert said. “This is common ground.”
Hoerbert said the goal of the celebration is to recognize students and the work they have done.
Part of that recognition will include 400 pieces of student-made art that will be on display and a fashion show from the fashion design students. The show will be complete with a carpeted runway, thanks to work by students in the construction trades classes. The celebration also will include a video from the video production class and an animated video. The French class will have Mardi Gras masks on display and the ag mechanics classes will showcase artwork they have welded. Students in construction trades classes also will display some of the items they have made.
“I hope the community can see the purpose and the good things that happen here,” Hoerbert said.
The celebration will start at 5 p.m. with the student art exhibit, multimedia theater and academy showcases. Light refreshments will be served from 5:30-6 p.m. with entertainment provided by an LPS orchestra. The program officially begins at 6 p.m. and the fashion show is slated to begin at 6:15 p.m. The ag mechanics and construction trades shops will be open for tours at 7 p.m. The event will conclude at 7:30 p.m.