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Highlighting 2024 central Maine area graduates
This spring, we reached out to students in the class of 2024 throughout the coverage area for the Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and Central Maine Sunday, hoping to hear from them about their lives. Despite everything, the students in the class of 2024 are optimistic.
This spring, we reached out to students in the class of 2024 throughout the coverage area for the Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel and Central Maine Sunday, hoping to hear from them about their lives.
We asked them about the path they have chosen after graduation — whether they will go to college, enter the workforce, or join the military.
We asked them to talk about why they have chosen that particular path, and what they think about the world they are about to enter.
We asked them whether, when all is said and done, they see themselves staying in Maine, or returning to their home state after college.
In the end, we spoke with 10 graduating seniors, representing 10 different high schools.
Some are going to college out of state. Some are staying closer to home.
Some know exactly what they want to do once they get their diploma. Others aren’t so sure.
Regardless of their plans, the students were universally worried about the crushing college debt accumulated by so many of the graduates that have come before them, and most have taken steps in one way or another to avoid the same experience.
Not surprisingly, all of the students were affected by the pandemic, having entered high school under the spectre of the COVID shutdowns and remote learning. The pandemic challenged them, and shaped who they are.
Despite the hardships and worries, however, the students in the class of 2024 are optimistic. They are grateful for the lives their home state and local communities have given them — and excited for the whatever the future brings.
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