Good Ideas Aren't Always Unique

GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY FRIDAY!

GHS Art Student Advance to the State VASE Contest- After competing in the Regional VASE event in Wichita Falls this weekend, we have three students advancing to State with their artworks. Brissa Fuentes, Kaylee Chowning, and Jolie Pippins are invited to the State event in San Antonio this April - please congratulate these girls on their hard work! Congratulations are also in order for Mrs Christie Andrews- thank you for giving our students the opportunity to be great!

GHS Team Qualifies, as 1 of 10 teams, for the StellarXplorers III National Finals to held in Colorado Springs, CO this April. Team members include: Connor Wolf, Smith Graham, Jonah Qualls, Garrett Gatlin, Nicolas Saunder and Mrs. Michelle Lowrey. Congrats and great job!

Bella Blues Drill Team Success at the Danceline USA Classic State Championship- Congrats on Double Division I, 1st Place Student Choreography and 1st Place Team Kick results!

GHS Student Claire Jones Wins the Rotary Four Way Speech Contest- Great job Claire!

Graham Steer Joel Jones Set Personal Records at Junior National Weightlifting Competition- Joel snatched 114kg (251lbs) and clean and jerk 150kg (330 lbs). Awesome job Joel!

Graham Steer and Lady Blues in Action- Good luck and safe travels to all!

Good Ideas Aren’t Always Unique

Innovation is challenging. Especially if you feel held back by that old saying, “There’s nothing new under the sun.” But marketing expert Seth Godin says there’s more to innovation that a unique idea. He offers the safety pin as an example.

When Walter Hunt patented the first safety pin in the 19th century, the device was reminiscent of a fibula -- used by the ancient Romans to fasten their togas shut. Many would-be inventors might have said of the safety pin, “Why should I bother with this? It’s already been done.”

But not Hunt. And rightly so, says Godin, who reminds contemporary inventors and innovators that nearly anything you can dream up has a strike against it.

“It’s either already been done or it’s never been done, “ he writes on his blog. “Ignore both conditions. Pushing an idea through the dip of acceptance is far more valuable than inventing something that’s never existed… and then walking away from it.”

CORNY JOKE OF THE DAY: (Contributed by GISD Employee Debra Timmons)

What do wicked chickens lay? (Scroll down for the answer.)

Deviled Eggs!