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LISD education notes:
Last weekend, Marcus High School journalism students won big at the ILPC state convention. The top honor was that The Marquee was awarded a Gold Star, an award given to the seven best newspapers in the state.
Also, The Marquee won two "Tops in Texas" awards, meaning its work will be published in a book to be sent to schools across the state. One Tops award went to Vallery Phillips for a sports feature, and the other was for Page 1 design.
Journalism staffers also won in numerous other individual categories.
1. News Writing, Jasmine Sachar, 2nd place
2. Feature Writing, Marisa Charpentier, Honorable Mention
3. Entertainment Review, Jasmine Sachar, 3rd place
4. Personal Column, Jasmine Sachar, Honorable Mention
5. Indepth News/Feature, 1st and 2nd place, staff
6. Computer art, Maria Heinonen, 1st place
7. Computer art, Sydney Sund, 3st place
8. Page design, Maria Heinonen, 1st place
9. Sports Feature photo, Kathern Petrauskas, Honorable Mention
10. Page One design, staff
Yearbook
1. Academic Spread, Taylor Slaton, Kayleigh Bywater, McKenzi Blair, 1st place
2. Student Life Spread, Riley Neuheardt, Maddie David, Nicole Perkins, Emily Thayer, 2nd place
3. Club Spread, Nadia Haile, Lauren Thayer and Emily Thayer, Honorable Mention
Marcus college fair
Marcus High School will host a college fair from 7-8:30 p.m. May 17 in its cafeteria. Various colleges will be on hand to provide admission and scholarship information.
McKamy DI team places third at state
DI Area 51 -- McKamy Middle School's Destination Imagination team, placed third at the Texas State Tournament in Corpus Christi on April 14.
Approximately 430 teams from around the state competed. This win for the McKamy team qualifies them to compete in the global finals in Knoxville, Tenn. on May 22-26.
Team members are: Meredith Carlile, Casey Kassal, Hannah Mulholland, Liam Mulholland, Annie Sharp and Elizabeth Storrie.
DI Area 51 chose the Coming Attractions challenge this year -- creating and performing a live action movie trailer, titled Fishy Situation.
The DI Area 51 movie plot: A "killer" is rumored to be on loose in Japan. A Japanese spy invites his Finnish spy friend to Japan for a visit and tea ceremony. While in Japan the Finnish spy learns of the "killer" and the spies are assigned to "Finnish" him. The spies take action to catch the "killer." The trailer leaves you wondering if there is really a killer on the loose or perhaps a big misunderstanding.
The team worked countless hours this year brainstorming, researching, writing scripts, producing an original sound track, building props, making costumes and amazing technical special effects.
Carlile said, "It feels great to know that all our hard work has paid off. It's even better having this experience with great friends."
The McKamy team is currently fund raising to cover their portion of the trip.
Health fair
LISD Health Services will be hosting the West Zone Health Fair from 5-7:30 p.m. May 2 at Marcus High School on May 2.
The fair is free and open to everyone. There will be 21 tables set up for our guest providers. Guests include: LISD Support Services -- Summer Mini Camps; Fit Gram; Aramark -- Gold Menu; Focus on the Future; WIC; Carter Blood Care -- Blood Drive in the back parking lot; Greater Dallas Alcohol and Drug Abuse; Flower Mound CAC; Humane Society of Flower Mound; Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound; LISD nurses; TABC; MADD; Special Ed- Child Find; Counseling Dept.; Denton County Health Dept.; Bone Marrow Registry; Big Brothers and Sisters; American Heart and Community in Schools.
LHS earns UIL awards
On March 24, Lewisville High School's (LHS) theater troupe competed in UIL one-act play competition held at Plano East Senior High. Though the troupe did not advance, five students earned individual awards. Jack McDonald was named best actor for his role as Abner, the father, Garret Smith received the outstanding techie award and Rachelle Cates, Durwan Green and John Tucker were all named honorable mention all-star cast (HMASC) for their roles as Jessie, Pete and David.
College notes
Two accounting students at University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville, Ark. were recently selected as the recipients of scholarships in the amount of $1,500 each, offered by the Arkansas Society of Certified Public Accountants' Student Education Fund. Among those was Danielle Cain, of Flower Mound, a senior level student majoring in accounting. She is expected to graduate in May with a Bachelor of Science in business administration. Cain received the ASCPA Northwest Chapter Scholarship.
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