Last year Bessemer’s Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School celebrated their first graduation ceremony for their first graduating class, and this year they celebrated their second commencement. This time, however, it was for the first class to attend there all four years.
This milestone is one that should be remembered just as much as the very first class, with these students whose entire high school years have been spent at one of Alabama’s premier and trendsetting establishments when it comes to academia.
We had the pleasure of speaking to one of its standout pupils, Mr. Jarod Grayson. Set to begin college courses at great Lawson State Community College, he’s going to focus on studies in the engineering forum.
Mr. Grayson told us, “I will begin the next chapter of my life by attending Lawson State Community College where I will be studying Robotic Engineering. In the future I would like to design computers and software to use them. I would also like others to know that the Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School is a school that is interested in its students and how they advance in today’s world. The classes may be small, but the instructors and literature they teach are advanced.”
Very focused and enthused about the coming years, Grayson, we believe, will be a great contributor to the world’s technological field due to his free thinking and willingness to learn as well as his interests in helping others.
He also told us, “Being a member of the first graduating class that completed four years at Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School gives me pride in knowing I started with forty other students and we all finished together completing a historic task that no one else has done.”
We also asked him who has been his best support team and motivators to reach towards a big and bright future.
“My greatest supporters thus far in my life have been my family. They’re a part of everything I do; from studying, tutoring, projects or events, my family is there,” is what he told us with a big smile.
We congratulate Jarod and the Alabama Aerospace and Aviation High School’s class of 2026 as we know they’ll make us all proud by exploring the limitless possibilities awaiting them.