Standing a few feet away from a rather apropos graduation theme of “Oh, the Places You’ll Go,” a half-dozen soon-to-be high school graduates considered their preparatory years and career paths that await.

Alexis Moore, Teairra Tveit, Addie Berg, Julian Hutchison Blouin, Amanda Dodson and Liam Harris were among the crowd of about 190 students in Sequim High School’s Class of 2018 to receive diplomas on June 8.

Alexis Moore

Moore is headed to Washington State University to study kinesiology. She said she developed an interest in the field of physical therapy after she sprained her knee playing soccer as a youth.

“(I got that) watching how they worked on me,” Moore said.

Lessons learned in high school: Stay true to yourself, be more responsible and balance everything.

SHS highlight: Cheerleading her first three years. “It was a nice thing to be part of,” Moore says.

Teairra Tveit

Tveit is headed north to study diesel mechanics, something she picked up from her family.

“There’s nothing I don’t love about working on diesels,” she says.

SHS highlight: In her junior year, she and fellow auto mechanics class students fixed up a vehicle to give to a family in need.

Addie Berg

Berg is ready for some sunshine, as he’s headed to the University of Southern California.

“I want to live in southern California,” says Berg, whose brother Eli attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, Calif. Berg, who was accepted into USC’s economics program, says he’s not locked into that major.

“Engineering is also appealing,” Berg says.

Lessons learned: The educational background, and working with other people

SHS highlight: Success with peers, including a Knowledge Bowl state championship (with fellow seniors Joe Benjamin, Liam Stevenson, Devin Hibler and John Purvis, and sophomore Sam Frymyer), and the best finish by an SHS boys soccer team in school history

Jilian Hutchison Blouin

Hutchison Blouin will stay local to start, taking classes at Peninsula College. But the recent grad says she has plans on attending the FBI Academy.

“Watching the Casey Anthony trial got me angry,” she says.

Amanda Dodson

Dodson looks to get into biochemistry studies at Pacific Lutheran University, but she may end up in another science field. “I have such great passion for science; I’ll just jump in and see where it takes me,” Dodson says.

She will get the chance — for a semester, anyway — to take that passion abroad: As part of the International Honors Program at PLU, Dodson gets to spend a term at the University of Oxford.

Dodson says she was hooked on science the first time she walked into an SHS classroom and wound up taking five classes in her high school days (only three are required).

SHS highlight: “I won the science award (a week before graduation); it was such an honor to receive that from my teachers.”

Liam Harris

Harris, Sequim High’s record-setting soccer scorer, says he may walk on at Seattle University come this fall where he will study computer science.

“The program there is really good,” he says.

Lessons learned: “Work hard and put effort into all the things you do.”

SHS highlight: Soccer, for sure. “Mainly the people, the players and the coaches.”