

Category 5 Yearbook

Senior Portrait Information
📸 Schedule Your Senior Portraits 📸
The deadline to submit your picture to the yearbook is December 19th.
Click the image below to schedule your senior portrait sitting.
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📸Pictures Needed for the Yearbook📸
Please send us the following pictures over the summer:
- Sumer Vacations
- Summer Jobs
- Summer Camps
- Community Service
- Water Activities
- 4th of July
- International Travel
- Beach Pictures
- Travel Sports or Sports Activities
Please email Mrs. Trainer or one of the editors
Order Your Yearbook
Current Price: $145
There are still 60 yearbooks remaining for the 2025 School Year
2026 yearbooks go on sale beginning in August.
Click the image below to order
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About Category 5 Yearbook
📸 Meet Our Staff 📸
Mrs. Trainer
Maddie McDermott
Dominic Buffalini
Incoming Staff Members for 2025-2026
Zoe Armacost
Caylie Barlow
Neveah Comber
Briana Crisman
Addyson Garner
Isha Vaidya
Aubrey Woodard
Congratulations 2025 Seniors!
Evie Herb
Bella Buffalini
Makenna Curry
MaKayla Gray
🏅 Category 5 Hall of Fame 🏅
Coming Soon
🏆Category 5 Yearbook Awards & Honors 🏆
- 2015
- Best Visual- Reflect*
- Gettysburg Excellence Green Award -Reflect*
- 2016
- Best Content, Coverage, & Organization- Making Headlines*
- 2017
- Jostens Look Book- Reflect*
- Best Verbal- We Lived*
- Gettysburg Excellence Award Gold Track- We Lived*
- 2018
- 2019
- Jostens Look Book- We Lived*
- Production Crew Book Choice- Legacy*
- 2020
- Jostens Look Book- Legacy*
- 2021
- Jostens Look Book- The Place to Be*
- 2022
- Jostens Look Book- The Town*
- National Yearbook Program of Excellence- Bronze- Downpour*
- 2023
- National Yearbook Program of Excellence- Silver- Invincible*
- Best Theme-Gathering Storm*
- Jostens Look Book- Invincible*
- 2024
- National Yearbook Program of Excellence- Silver- Gathering Storm*
- Year After Year Improvement- Connecting the Dots*
- Best Organization- Connecting the Dots*
- 2025
- National Yearbook Program of Excellence-Silver-Connecting the Dots*
- Jostens Look Book- Gathering Storm*
*-Indicates name of book which earned the award.
💫2024-2025 Badges💫
List Maker
Earned 8/28/2024
En(roll) With It
Earned 8/28/2024
Gotcha Covered
Earned 9/4/2024
Commanding Coverage
Earned 9/5/2024
Buzz Builder
Earned 9/6/2024
Sales Gurus
Earned 10/6/2024
One Down
Earned 12/25/2024
Personalization Submitted
Earned 2/1/25
Best Seller
Earned 5/22/25
Yearbook Complete
Earned 3/35
You're in the Book
Earned 5/17/25
Meaningful Book
Earned 4/8/25
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The Deadline Has Passed for These Events
Senior Extra Portraits
Every year, the Category 5 yearbook staff provides an opportunity for seniors to submit two additional pictures to be placed next to their senior portrait.
This is a great way for students to show who they are. Seniors may submit any picture of their choosing-school appropriate- including, but not limited to; senior portraits, family portraits, pets, scenery, sports photos, etc.
👉The due date for pictures is Friday, December 13th 👈
Senior Ad Information
Create your own personalized congratulatory ad for your graduating senior. Tribute Ad$ provides a variety of templates, colors, and fonts, making each ad unique. Click on the Tribute Ad$ logo to order your senior ad today.
❗❗❗Final Submission Deadline: February 1 @ 11:59 PM ❗❗❗
Ad Prices:
Eighth Page: $200
Quarter Page: $225
Half Page: $325
Full Page: $450
📧If you have questions about your ad, please email help@tributeads.com or call 843-818-3153📧
🎾 🥏👟Spring Sports Photos🥎🥍⚾
Click the picture below and use the online code to view all spring sports photos.
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WE WANT YOU
TO REGISTER FOR YEARBOOK!
How to Join Yearbook
Have you ever thought about joining yearbook during your high school career? Well look no further, the Category 5 Yearbook Staff wants you to be a part of our class next year.
We accept students in grades 9-12 who eagerly want to be in yearbook. See our course descriptions below.
If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Trainer: trainera@calvertnet.k12.md.us
Course Description
1530 Journalism II: Yearbook Students receive both theoretical training and practical experience in journalism through the production of the school yearbook. Opportunities are provided for experiences in writing copy for the publication, interviewing, word processing, creating layouts using desktop publishing software, proofreading and editing copy using computers, taking and scanning photographs and using digital photo software, business, advertising, promotion and publication management. Students are assigned pages and sections of the book, input materials into computers, take photos, create camera-ready layout pages for the publication, and are responsible for all aspects of creating the yearbook.
CREDIT: 1 TYPE: Academic GRADE: 10-12 PREREQUISITE: Successful completion of Journalism I (1500) 👉👉👉👉 or instructor’s recommendation.👈👈👈👈
This includes incoming 9th graders!!!!!
1560 Journalism III: Advanced Yearbook Students receive both theoretical training and practical experience in journalism by serving as student leaders in the production of the school yearbook. Students in Journalism III will take class concurrently with Journalism II students and will serve as editors of the publication. Experiences include assigning stories and managing student staff, writing and editing copy using computers, word processing, creating and editing layouts using desktop publishing software, taking and scanning photographs using digital photo software, handling advertising and yearbook business. Students in this course are expected to serve both as managers and student leaders of the publication. This course may be taken a second time, but the granting of credit is contingent upon evidence of continuous growth in the subject. CREDIT: 1 TYPE: Academic
GRADE: 12 PREREQUISITE: Successful completion of Journalism II: Yearbook (1530) and Journalism III instructor’s Course Descriptions - English 73 recommendation and determination that the student will hold an editorial leadership post on the publication.