This school year is as normal as it could possibly be at Gibraltar Secondary School, and that is quite alright for two of the Class of 2022 co-valedictorians Harrison Krauss and Nico Salm. 

They started their sophomore year in mobile trailers in the school’s parking lot while the district wrapped up its referendum projects. The pandemic's start would come two months later, keeping them out of the building for the most part until January 2021, about halfway through their junior year. Many of the district’s mitigation strategies were in place until the early winter. Salm and Krauss say they went through a lot but opted to look at the positives of the experience before they are a part of the first class to graduate inside the Door Community Auditorium since 2019.

They leave Gibraltar with some advice for the future graduating classes of their school.

Krauss will attend Moravian University to pursue a degree in mathematics, while Salm plans on studying computer science at UW-Madison. The class’ two other co-valedictorians, Emmaly Bertges and Angel Jauregui, were unavailable to interview on the day of our recording. You can listen to our entire interview with Krauss and Salm by clicking this link.