College Knowledge for Parents
The Office of Community Relations at Texas State University annually hosts every San Marcos CISD sixth grader on campus for full day of college awareness and career activities. These tours benefit the students, preparing them for careers and/or college, and informing them about what they need to do NOW to be academically and financially prepared to enter higher education.

The Office of Community Relations has recently incorporated a parent component to their annual college awareness tours. This component  provides middle school parents with information on what they should be doing to ensure their child is prepared to enter post-secondary education. The program is designed to educate parents about academic awareness and financial opportunitiesParent Involvement Night for grades 6-8 was held April 9 at Miller MiddleSchool from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. with a free pizza dinner, and a presentation given by Texas State students. United Way of Hays County also provided free books for the middle school students.
It's time for spring cleaning!
San Marcos residents are invited to contribute gently used items for local needy families. Texas State's largest recycling event, Pack It Up and Pass It On begins its 12th year. Collection barrels will be placed in residence halls across campus April 11- 16. Pack It Up and Pass It On is a program that benefits San Marcos families by donating unwanted, and reusable items from students moving out of the Texas State residence halls and apartments. Donation collections will be April 16 through May 10. Pack It Up and Pass It On "Shopping Day" is set for May 17 at the LBJ Student Center Ballroom, opening at 7 a.m. 
'A Water Odyssey'

The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University will partner with the Common Experience to present "A Water Odyssey: A Film Screening," on April 22 from 4-5:30 p.m. in the Centennial Hall Teaching Theater, located on the Texas State campus.

 

The event will showcase three short documentaries, along with presentations from the filmmakers and scientists who produced the films. The showcase is free and open to the public.

 

The mission of the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment is to develop and promote programs and techniques for ensuring sustainable water resources for human needs, ecosystem health and economic development. For more information, click here.

Hill Country Youth Chorus and the Texas Lutheran Youth Choir joint Concert

The San Marcos community is invited to welcome the spring through song as the local singers of the Hill Country Youth Chorus present their end of the year concert with the Texas Lutheran Youth Choir. The concert will take place at the First Lutheran Church in San Marcos at 3:00 pm on Sunday, April 28, 2013. The feature piece on the program will be the Peace Mass by Bob Chilcott. The concert is free to the public, but the members of choir encourage you to bring a sack or box of non-perishable food to donate to the San Marcos Foodbank. Each spring the choir collects food for the foodbank as one way to give back to the community.

 

Prospective choristers are encouraged to come hear the young men and women sing. The Texas State University School of Music hosts the chorus and the choir rehearses in the music building on Monday evenings throughout the academic year.

 

You can contact the choir by logging on to: http://www.txstatechoirs.org/hill-country-youth-chorus. Donate directly to the Hill Country Youth Chorus or schedule a performance by contacting [email protected]


Free dress rehearsal of Tony award winning play Urinetown
Everyone is invited to a free dress rehearsal, thanks to a partnership between Coral Theatre and The Office of Community Relations, Sunday evening, April 14, and there is limited seating for the Monday showing, call 512-245-9645 for more information.
 
Texas State University's Department of Theater and Dance will present the spring musical, Urinetown, April 16-21 at 7:30 p.m. and April 21 at 2 p.m. on the main stage of the Theatre Center.

Directed by Kaitlin Hopkins, Urinetown is the Tony Award-winning tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. In a Gotham-like city, a 20-year drought has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity's most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides he's had enough, and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom. Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill,Urinetown is a humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny.
 
Tickets are $10 for general admission and $7 for students with a valid Texas State ID, and may be purchased beginning April 9 at the Texas State Box Office.
For Box Office hours, click here.
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MAES Science Extravaganza on April 18

The Texas State University MAES Science Extravaganza™ is a full day event of hands-on interactive engineering and science presentations designed to give San Marcos CISD students a unique opportunity to learn about various fields in a fun and educational environment.

Equally important, the extravaganza gives an ethnically diverse group of students an opportunity to visit a university campus and meet college students and professionals with similar backgrounds.

The event has created a collaborative partnership between academia, government and industry sponsors that share an interest in the education and development of our future leaders.

 

Global Odyssey Exhibit showcased through May 10
Global Odyssey: From Texas to the World and Back draws from the rich archival material at Texas State's Wittliff Collections to examine how generations of Texas writers have journeyed across the world, encountering a variety of experiences that have inspired their creativity while at the same time underscoring their distinctive heritage as Texans. Global Odyssey is staged in conjunction with Texas State's 2012-2013 Common Experience theme, Global Odyssey: Exploring Our Connections to the Changing World.