MISD Messenger

Congratulations are extended to the following MISD students for a variety of accomplishments:

National Merit Scholarship Program
Iselee I. Hill from Timberview HS and Cortney Simmons from Mansfield HS were among the outstanding Black American high school seniors who have won Achievement Scholarship® awards through the National Achievement Scholarship Program. Hill received the National Achievement Scholarship and Simmons received the UPS Foundation Scholarship.

Daniel L. Goodwin from Legacy HS won a corporate-sponsored
National Merit Scholarship award. Goodwin received the National Merit Calmer L. Johnson/John W. Leslie ITW Scholarship.

Texas Visual Arts Association

The results are in for the 2010 Texas Visual Arts Association Annual High School Art Show and Competition held at the University of Texas at Dallas Fine Arts Gallery. This year, there were over 1,100 entries from schools all across north Texas and 197 pieces of art were accepted into the show. Legacy High School art students had 13 pieces of art accepted from nine students and three Legacy art students were selected as award winners at the show.

2010 TVAA Winners:

$100 Judges Choice: Jacob Fordyce - Sculpture
$100 First Place, Outstanding Drawing: Viridiana Guzman
$500 Best in Show: Jasmine McMasters

Students accepted into the 2010 TVAA High School Art Show are:

Tonie Roberts - Drawing
Viridiana Guzman - Drawing (2 pieces accepted into show)
Tamrha Echols - Drawing
Morgan Cawley - Photography (2 pieces accepted into show)
Caitlin Redfield - Photography
Jacob Fordyce - Sculpture
Gus Jalil - Sculpture
Courtney Keys - Ceramics
Jasmine McMasters - Painting/Drawing (3 pieces accepted into show)

SkillsUSA State Awards

In last month's Messenger, two students were not included from Ben Barber recognition - Eric Brown received 1st place in Electronics and

Trevor Van Doren took 2nd place in the same category.

Related:

Check out the SkillsUSA BBCA

construction state champion team (surveying) photo.

Visual Art Scholastic Event State Competition

On Saturday, April 10 at the University of Houston-Clearlake campus, 19 Legacy High School art students competed at the 16th Annual Visual Art Scholastic Event State Competition. And for the third year in-a-row, the Legacy High School Art Department dominated the competition and broke a MISD record with three Golden Seal State winners and 18 Superior rated state medalists.

Gold Seal State Winners

Nadley Doerge (Sculpture)
Viri Guzman (Drawing)
Erin Davis (Painting)

Superior State Medalists

Elena Chudoba (Drawing)
Dashanay Brown (Drawing)
Erin Davis (2 medals) (Paintings)
Nadley Doerge (2 medals) (Ceramics and Sculpture)
Tamrha Echols (Drawing)
Haley Farabee (Photography)
Viri Guzman (Drawing)
Michelle Heath (Photography)
Courtney Keys (Ceramics)
Jessica Lamb (Ceramics)
Jenny Li (Drawing)
Jasmine McMasters (Painting)
Holly Nicely (Ceramics)
Derek Rejcek (Drawing)
Samantha Server (Photography)
Bryan Sprinkle (Sculpture)

The 2010 Visual Art Scholastic Event consisted of almost 25,000 artworks that competed at various regional levels across the state. Over 2,100 pieces of art advanced to the state competition and only 151 are selected as Gold Seal Winners.

Education in Action
Elizabeth Nyabuto from Wester Middle School has been selected to travel to the Houston/Galveston area as a participant in Education in Action's Lone Star Leadership Academy, June 14-18, 2010. Elizabeth's selection for the Academy was based on her outstanding academic success, demonstrated leadership ability, a recommendation by her teacher (Janale Stockett) and her involvement in school and community activities.

Related: A total of five MISD schools participated in the 4th grade "Proud to be Texan" experiential learning day program in Austin during the 2009-2010 school year:

Charlotte Anderson on 11/13/09
Annette Perry on 3/31/10
Roberta Tipps on 4/1/10
Cora Spencer on 5/3/10
Alice Ponder on 5/27/10

School Bus Safety Poster Contest

At the recent Region XI Chapter of TAPT meeting, the MISD swept all three divisions with first place school bus safety posters. Yaritzi Ibarra, 2nd grade from Ann Daulton Elementary received Division I. Karissa F. Muehr, 3rd grade student from Louise Cabaniss Elementary, received Division II. And Noah Swiggort, 7th grade student from Danny Jones Middle School, received Division III.

National Junior Classical League

Two MISD Latin students won 3rd place medals in the National Junior Classical League Creative Writing national contest.

3rd place: Anna Bino, 12th grade Legacy HS
3rd place: Katie Atwood (Alyssa Atwood), 10th grade Mansfield HS

We also have one MISD Latin student, Laura Baker 9th grader from Legacy, attending the National JCL Competition at the University of North Dakota this July.

(Whew! That was a lot. Pat yourself on the back if you made it through it all.)