UIL Academic District Success

Apr 1, 2019

Our UIL Academic Teams competed this past Friday, March 29 and Saturday, March 30 at Hendrickson High School for the UIL District Competition. Several students advanced to UIL Region which will be held at Baylor University on April 12-13.

Congratulations to the following students in their successes:

Accounting

Melia Fox – 4th place (Alternate for UIL Region)

Sheryl Lawrence – 6th place

2nd Place Team – Melia Fox, Matthew Jenkins, Sheryl Lawrence, Eric Paredes

Computer Applications

Sheryl Lawrence – 2nd place (Advancing to UIL Region)

Computer Science

Joey Kurkjian – 1st place (Advancing to UIL Region)

3rd Place Team – Govind Joshi, Joey Kurkjian, Sage Sanford, Cooper Ward

Headline Writing

Bailey Wililams – 3rd place (Advancing to UIL Region)

Anna Geppert – 4th place (Alternate for UIL Region)

Connor Ellinor – 5th place

4th Place Team – Journalism Overall (Copy Editing, Editorial, Feature, Headline, Feature Writing)

Lincoln Douglas Debate

Sreya Gandra – 2nd Place (Advancing to UIL Region)

Literary Criticism

Mateo Grasso Goebel – 4th place (Alternate for UIL Region)

4th Place Team – Honor Buffington Mack, Mateo Grasso Goebel, Fariah Mahmood

Number Sense

Srishaan Iyenga – 5th place

4th Place Team – Srishaan Iyenga, Weiyu Lin, Jin Seok Oh, Kevin Tran

Poetry

Eric Lightsey – 5th Place

Science

Gowri Kamma – 1st place Biology (Advancing to UIL Region)