The Kentucky Association of Secondary School Principals (KASSP) has selected Paducah Tilghman High School principal Art Davis as the KASSP Principal of the Year.  This is the highest award given to a secondary principal by KASSP. 

Davis will be formally introduced as the recipient of the KASSP Principal of the Year Award at the KASSP summer conference at the Galt House in Louisville on July 16, 2013.   He will be a contender for the national NASSP Principal of the Year award to be presented in the fall in Washington, D.C.  While in Washington, Davis and all state winners in the MetLife/NASSP National Principal of the Year program will go to Capitol Hill to visit with their members of Congress and advocate in support of school leadership.

The Paducah Tilghman Future Problem Solving Team placed in the finals in three out of four entered events at the Future Problem Solving International Competition held in Bloomington, Indiana on June 7-9, 2013. There were 61 teams and over 400 competitors in Tilghman's division.

• Four seniors (Catherine Miller, Alicia Humphrey, Savanna Whelan, Caroline Washer) placed 9^th  in the Global Issues Problem Solving event.
• All five team members (Catherine Miller, Alicia Humphrey, Savanna Whelan, Caroline Washer, and Lilly Burba) placed 3^rd in the Presentation of the Action Plan event.
• Coach Karen Smith’s adult team (including Coaches from Washington, California, Florida)  placed 2^nd in the Multi-Affiliate Global Issues Competition.

Twenty-three cadets from the Paducah Tilghman High School Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC) unit traveled to Norfolk, VA for their annual naval orientation trip April 24-27. 

While the trip is designed to familiarize the students as to how the U.S. Navy operates, the cadets also visited other sites of interest near Virginia Beach and Norfolk.

On April 25 the cadets received toured a Landing Craft-Air Cushion (LCAC) and toured the Naval Amphibious Base-Little Creek in Norfolk.  While there they saw amphibious warfare ships, experimental vessels and the headquarters of some of the Navy’s SEAL (special warfare) teams. Later that day, the cadets toured the Norfolk Naval Station, the largest navy base in the world. 

Best wishes to the PT Future Problem Solving Team (Catherine Miller, Caroline Washer, Alicia Humphrey, Lilly Burba, and Savanna Whelan) as they compete at the FPS Internationals today in Bloomington, Indiana.

26 states and 13 countries will be participating in the competition.

"This has been an awesome adventure for me with this group of girls. Most of the team has been with me since their freshman year," said FPS coach Karen Smith. "They have placed at District all four years to advance to Regionals. They took first place at Regionals the last three years and second their freshman year to advance to State. I am excited to be able to have one last competition with these girls and the topic could not have been more perfect - Women's Rights."