UIL academic team advances 22 to regional meet

Twenty-two members of the UIL academic team will advance to the regional academic meet in Abilene April 20-21 to compete for a spot at the state meet in Austin in May. At the district academic meet at West Texas A&M University March 24, the following students placed in the top six of their events.

Accounting – Brittany Lowry 3rd

Calculator Applications - *Meagan Taylor 2nd, Conner Parker 5th

 Number Sense – *Trevor Ferril 1st,  Alex Mayhew 4th

 Mathematics – Connor Parker 5th

 Literary Criticism – *Tessa Bass 1st, Katie Brigance 4th, David Bishop 6th

 Ready Writing – Janea Robinson 4th, Josiah Tull 6th

 Spelling & Vocabulary- *Trevor Ferril 2nd,  Kelli Hallmark 5th, Ara Potestas 6th

 Science – Sierra Miller 6th

 Editorial Writing – *Chance Walton 1st, *Cortlyn Dees 2nd,

 Feature Writing- *Kori Adair 3rd, Chandler Shaw 6th

 Headline Writing – *Rachel Smith 1st, *Trevor Ferril 2nd, Kyleigh Head 6th

 News Writing – Chandler Shaw 6th

 Lincoln Douglas Debate-Averi Bulla 2nd

Poetry Interpretation -*Jonas LaLonde 3rd, Cody Johnson 5th, Tasneem Alvi 6th

 Prose Interptetation -*McKenzie Jackson 3rd, Tristen Tellman 4th

 Informative Speaking – *Julie Randall 3rd, Bella Barnett 6th

 Persuasive Speaking – *Jayden Beatty 3rd, Connor Lawrence 5th, Brett Howard 6th

 * denotes regional qualifier

 

 

 Academic District Championship to be determined one-act play competition.

Current District Standings

1st Canyon High 377 points

2nd Randall High 342 points

3rd Frenship High 322 points

 

First Place Teams

Number Sense, Literary Criticism,

Spelling & Vocabulary, Journalism,

Speech & Debate

 

Second Place Teams

Calculator Applications

 

Third Place Teams

Computer Science

 

Feb 2 District CX Debate Meet earned points toward overall score

2nd place (state qualifiers)  Brett Howard & Jayden Beatty

 

Students advance to State UIL Academic Meet

Senior Luke Porter and sophomore Chandler Shaw will compete in the  UIL state academic meet May 6-8  after earning top three placings at the regional meet in San Angelo, April 23-25. Two other journalism students and the one-act play earned state alternate honors.

Porter placed first in the computer applications contest  while Shaw placed second in news writing. Freshman Rachel Smith earned fourth in news writing, and senior Krislyn Wurtz earned fourth in feature writing, qualifiying each to serve as state alternates.

The  journalism team was named second place regional journalism team.

The one-act play “Paganini” placed third at the regional meet, earning a spot as the alternate play for the state meet.  Seniors Josiah Robinson and Thomas Wieck were named to the all-star cast and senior Andrew Young was named to the honorable mention all-star cast.

Each of the four regions in Texas sends three students per event to the state meet, placing the students who qualified in the top 12 4A students in their events in the state.

One-act cast advances to regional meet

Continuing with the music of Paganini, the one-act play will advance to the regional meet in San Angelo April 23 after overcoming musical difficulties to win the area competition.

An hour before the competition, the group found a rule in the UIL handbook that disallowed the use of live music without approval. This included violin music, which the lead, senior Josiah Robinson plays several times during the performance, and singing. With quick adaptations, the cast still managed to continue to the next level and will be able to use live music at the regional level.

Seniors Sabrina Meck and Josiah Robinson made the All-Star Cast, and juniors Madison Russ and Blair Carpenter were named to the alternate All-Star Cast.

The next public performance of the play will be Tuesday, April 20 during activity period and again at 7:00 p.m. that evening.