Highlander Happenings - Woodlands High School
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Highlander Happenings - Woodlands High School
The Woodlands High School Highlander Happenings March 2 – March 14, 2015 SHATTERED LIVES – TWHS is pleased to announce that Shattered Lives of Montgomery County that the Shattered Lives program will be at The Woodlands High School on April 7-8, 2015. We invite all Junior and Senior students and at least one parent interested in participating in the program to our first meeting on Monday, March 9th at 7:00pm in the auditorium. If you plan to attend the meeting you MUST have at least one of your legal guardians present with you the night of the meeting. There will be a second meeting on Monday, March 30th at 7:00pm. This meeting will include all confirmed participants that have attended the first meeting with one or more guardians and have been selected for the program. At this meeting you will need to have at least one guardian as well. It does not need to be the same guardian though it MUST still be a legal guardian. We look forward to seeing you at the first meeting and we will answer any other questions at that time. COLLEGE AND CAREER CENTER NEWS Seniors: March is scholarship month; we have over 100 scholarships listed in Family Connection with deadlines from March 1-31. Many local scholarships with March deadlines are Alden Bridge, Coulson Tough, Mitchell, Eastern Star, Woodlands GREEN, Meghan Manning, Gullo and more. Juniors: Together for Tomorrow is Monday, April 13th! Juniors and parents, make arrangements to be at this event (6:30-9:00pm) Twenty-five colleges will be here to meet you and discuss college topics such as majors, programs, applications, and more. We will send out a list of participating universities and topics after Spring Break. See you there! TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF FUTURE EDUCATORS: At the state Texas Association of Future Educators (TAFE) conference in Lubbock, Audrey Vance placed 5th in state in the EXPLORING STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES CAREERS competition. Audrey will be advancing to the national competition at the Future Educators Association (FEA) conference in Washington, D.C. in April. Michelle Bailey, the TWHS Speech-Language Pathologist, was instrumental in this project. She allowed Audrey to shadow her and interview her as part of the necessary requirements. Audrey is the only student in CISD that will be advancing to nationals. PRIVATE PE SIGN UP: The window for signing up for Private PE for the 2015-2016 school year begins March 23 and will close on May 1st. You must be signed up with an approved facility on or before May 1st or you will not be able to participate in Private PE for the next school year. During individual conferencing with your counselor, be sure to let them know your intent to sign up and if you will do a 5 hour or 15 hour a week commitment. Please contact Christy Farris if you have any questions [email protected]. If you have a facility in mind please make sure it is on the approved list. Visit http://ci.conroeisd.net/depts/pe/ for links to sign up. MARCH MADNESS MONDAYS: March Madness Mondays are here! Faculty and staff at TWHS will be wearing their finest college t-shirts every Monday in March to promote college awareness. Students are also encouraged to wear their college t-shirts for March Madness. There will be an informative March Madness Bracket displayed in the cafeteria providing tidbits of information about various colleges in the US. SCIENCE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY: On Thursday February 19 several Science National Honor Society students went to Anderson Elementary to help with their Science and Technology Night. This week several went to the Bush Elementary Science and Technology Night. These students helped the elementary children with various science experiments and demonstrations. POETRY SLAM: Looking for Contestants, Spectators, and Judges!! Coming March 6th is our annual Poetry Slam! Friday night from 6:30 to 8:30 at TWHS, is your chance to shine!! Come present your finest poems or stories, or judge others on theirs!! This event is free, though any donations will go toward the publication of our literary journal, The Fife. For more details, email [email protected] or come by room 205 to sign up! GOLF NEWS: The TWHS boys went to April Sound Country Club on Friday and Saturday, February 13-14, to compete in the Montgomery High Golf Invitational, and the boys came home with the gold medals. Leading the way for the Highlanders was Steven Schmulson’s 154 (71-83), followed by Austin Shaw’s 155 (80-75), Brady Price’s 156 (78-78), J.P. Lavalle’s 161 (81-80), and Juan Villalobos’s 165 (79-86). Their winning total was 624 (308-316). The Highlander B Team was led by Joey Kerner’s 156 (81-75), followed by Will Arend’s 159 (78-81), Austin Wentz’ 172 (86-86), and Cameron Keramati’s 187 (93-94). Kyle Zuspan posted a first-day 90. The B Team total was 671 (335-336). Also competing were Jace Jensen’s 171 (84-87). The TWHS boys went to the Oak Ridge High School Invitational Golf Tournament at River Plantation Country Club on Tuesday, February 10th, and came home with the silver medals for second place. Setting the pace for the TWHS A Team was tournament runner-up Daniel Ramirez (79). Also contributing were Max Cortez (82), Ethan Marts (83), and Aser Ruiz (88). The second-place team total was 332. The Highlander C Team finished with a total of 360. Leading the way was Noah Raine (84), followed by Cameron Shafer (86), Darian Allizadeh (91). The TWHS B Team posted a team total of 375, led by David Carlson (89). Others competing were Matt Ryan (90), Jake Jacobs (97), Will Weisbrod (99), and Drew Schnell (100). The Lady Highlanders went to High Meadow Ranch in Magnolia to compete in the Spring Fling Golf Tournament on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21. The girls came in fourth against a state-level field of competitors. Leading the way for the Lady Highlander A Team was Gracie Aday’s 151 (75-76). Others competing were Greta Bruner’s 153 (81-72), Brooke McDougald’s 154 (75-79), Carly Charbonneau’s 165 (82-83), and Oriana Jerez’s 167 (83-84). Their two-day total was 623 (313-310). Pacing the Lady Highlander B Team was Cassie Lidisky’s 159 (79-80). Also contributing were Stephanie Lamb’s 171 (85-86), Hannah Bruner’s 173 (84-89), Jayne Clark’s 175 (88-87), and Veronica Grey’s 186 (86-100). Their team total was 676 (334-342). The Lady Highlander C Team was close behind with a team total of 678 (354-324). Leading the C Team was Ana Contreras’s 165 (84-81), followed by Kenlie Barrett’s 171 (89-82), Hana Bowman’s 172 (9082), Samantha Salcedo’s 174 (95-79), and Kim Clark’s 186 (91-95). LADY HIGHLANDER BASKETBALL: Girls’ Basketball lost a heartbreaker in the Area playoff game against Austin Bowie to finish out their season with 20 wins. Aaliyah Wheatfall hit 4 three pointers to lead the team with 12 points. Payton Walker followed had 8 points and 10 rebounds. Elisa Flores and Julia Glandt each chipped in 5 apiece. Below are listed all of the girl's ALL DISTRICT awards. Academic All District: Meagan McConnell, Bailey Olson, Amber Terry, Payton Walker, Julia Glandt and Elisa Flores. Academic All State: Meagan McConnell and Amber Terry 1st Team All District: Aaliyah Wheatfall, Payton Walker and Amber Terry Newcomer of the Year / 1st Team: Luisa De La Rosa 2nd Team All District: Meghan Musso and Julia Glandt HIGHLANDER BASKETBALL: Boys Basketball finished up another successful season (19-13) on Tuesday night losing to Klein Forest in the State playoffs. Our Highlanders were the only CISD boys’ basketball team to make the playoffs. It is the 10th year in a row that we have made the playoffs. We have an outstanding group of young men that will be returning for next year as well. Thank you for your support of Highlander basketball. The JV season ended in dramatic fashion last Tuesday night, which was fitting considering how many close games the squad played in the 14-15 season. A last second shot rolled off of the rim as time expired and the Highlanders lost 55-52. The loss ended the Highlander basketball sub-varsity season and ended a highly competitive season for the junior varsity team. A final record of 19-12 included 11 games that ended within one possession of the opponent. The JV Highlanders were 7-4 in those games. First, fourth, and fifth place finishes in tournaments, and a second place finish in a highly competitive district were hallmarks of the team's campaign. The Boys Basketball Freshman Green team completed its season last week. The boys finished with an overall record of 24-3 and a district record of 10-2. The team captured the championship at the TWHS Freshman Tournament, Runner-Up at the Katy Freshman Tournament and won the District Championship. Congratulations to the team on all of their hard work. TWHS IMPROV SHOW: The TWHS Improv Troupe is proud to present the first ever Students vs. Parents Improv Show! The show will be TOMORROW (2/28) at 7 pm in the Senior Campus Theater. Tickets are $5 but extra donations are always encouraged. We will be raising money for Montgomery County Youth Services. Also we want to thank everyone who has come to our shows so far and donated. Because of you we have raised $10,000 for various deserving charities. We are well on our way to reach our total goal of $15,000 for the entire school year! SKILLS USA: Congratulations to The Woodlands High School Culinary Quiz Bowl Team of Nicolas Buendia, Lisa Cardinal, Shannon Knapp, Omar Saber, and Sapna Srinivasan. The team earned a Silver Medal for their Culinary Knowledge which included industry standards, culinary technique, history and current food trends. The team has advanced to the SkillsUSA State Competition in Corpus Christi. ART DEPARTMENT NEWS: This past weekend, the Woodlands Waterway Art Festival Student Art Scholarship Program contest took place at the Woodlands Children's Museum in Panther Creek. The WWAF the offers scholarship awards to juniors and seniors in six categories of art: Painting, Drawing, Mixed Media, Digital Media, Photography, and Sculpture. TWHS students received the following recognitions: Painting: 1st place--Sidney Ylagan 3rd place--Ignacio Garcia-Casas Tron Honorable mention--Zane Wang and Madison Chamberlaine Drawing: 1st place--Abbey Johnson 2nd place--Martha Ortiz Honorable mention--Kendall Farris and Hannah Austin Mixed Media: 1st place--Alyssa Drew 3rd place--Juliane Santiago Honorable mention--Sidney Ylagan and Ignacio Garcia-Casas Tron Photography: 3rd Place--Daniel Kestenbaum Honorable mention--Blair Smith Sculpture: Honorable mention--Martha Ortiz The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place awards totaled $8,500 in scholarship awards for our students, and all of these students have been invited to exhibit their work at the Woodlands Waterway Art Festival over the weekend of April 10-12. SWIM NEWS: Congratulations to the Highlander swim teams for outstanding performances at the UIL State Championships in Austin on February 20 & 21, 2015. The Girls team consisting of four young ladies finished in 4th place among all 6A schools in Texas. Below are the girl’s results: 200 Medley Relay 3rd Place, Lucie Nordmann, Payton Neff, Emily Reese, Ania Gawronska 1:46.03 200 Freestyle 6th Place, Payton Neff 1:53.01 200 IM 5th Place Emily Reese 2:03.81 100 Butterfly 10th Place Emily Reese 56.06 100 Freestyle 3rd Place Lucie Nordmann 50.68 500 Freestyle 5th Place Payton Neff 4:55.41 100 Backstroke 1st Place State Champion new School Record Lucie Nordmann 53.38 400 Freestyle Relay 6th Place 3:31.50 Emily Reese, Ania Gawronska, Payton Neff, Lucie Nordmann The boys team battled with the best in Texas and came home with a 7th place finish. Their results were: 200 Medley Relay 7th Place Reed Keen, Ryan Sorensen, Nolan Persyn, Alex Merrill 1:35.83 500 Freestyle Matt Anderson 5th Place 4:28.08, Rhory Legendre 7th Place 4:32.45, David Killian 13th Place 4:43.96 200 Free Relay 13th Place Cole Pollina, John Norris, Nolan Persyn, Alex Merrill 1:26.56 100 Breaststroke 5th Place Ryan Sorensen 57.07, John Norris 14th Place 1:00.0 400 Freestyle Relay 10th Place Alex Merrill, John Norris, Matt Anderson, Cole Pollina 3:10.20 Congratulations on a great season! TENNIS RESULTS: The tennis team travelled to the Ft. Bend ISD Tennis tournament on February 20 and came away with outstanding performances. TWHS results from 39 team event were: Sydnee Parker/Rico Anaya-1st Place B Mixed Doubles Valeria Tobey/Sara Loyo-1st Place B Girls Doubles Varun Hari-Finalist B Boys Singles-(DNF) Rain Jordan Laner/Carlos Esteban-Consolation winner in B Boys Doubles Lilley Scheckenbach/Kristian Castagnola-Semi-finals-A Mixed Doubles Ben Friedman-Semi-Finalist-Boys A Singles HIGHLANDER TRACK: The Varsity Track Team served notice in their first meet of the season that they are contenders for the 6A state championship. The Highlanders hammered the ten-team field at the Oak Ridge Invitational, and did so in record breaking fashion. Obi Igbokwe won the 200M with a time of 21.1, shattering the school record (set in 1997, James Wegener) and claiming the top time in the nation! Obi also teamed up with Chris Bell, Will Varnell, and Patrick Carr to win the 4x100M in a nation’s best time of 41.37. The 4x200M and 4x400M teams (Jack Greer, Kaleb Robling, Victor Suszylo, and Mason Blackford) placed 2nd with impressive times (1:29 and 3:19). Also leading his event in the nation is Adrian Piperi who won the shot put with a 61’8” effort. Piperi also won the discus with a toss of 160’. Other individual winners included Logan Jorgensen in the Pole Vault (14’) and Ian Kennedy in the 300MH (40.0). The JV and Freshmen boy’s teams won their opening meet last week, defeating Klein Oak, Westfield, and Eisenhower. JV winners included Candy in the 400M, Schmid in the 300M-H, Koonopczhnki in the 800M, Martin in the 3,200M, Trogg in discuss, Stokes in pole vault, and Heiser in high jump. The JV relay teams also swept all four events. Freshman winners included Lanier in the 100M, Solomon in the 400M, Wright in the 800M, Albiter in the 300M-H, Houfpair in the 1,600M, Baker in the 3,200M, Wiley in pole vault, and Schupp in high jump and triple jump. Freshman relay teams won the 4X200M, 4x400M, and DMR. LADY HIGHLANDER SOCCER: The girl’s teams are all doing well. We just made the turn in district play and all of the teams are undefeated in district. The varsity team is presently 8-0 in district play and sitting in first place. The teams will play College Park at College Park on Friday Feb. 27 at 4, 5:30 & 7:30pm, come out and support the girls. We had 5 girls sign their national letter of intent to play college soccer earlier in Feb. The girls are Rawan Ashrawi will be attending Texas Wesleyn, Kelly Barbalias will be attending Texas State, Monica Dallacasa will be attending UT Dallas, Stephanie Evans will be attending Ekerd College and Sabrina Marx will be attending Michigan State University. These girls have given so much to this program over the last 4 years and we wish them all the best of luck. The Lady Highlanders have also had 3 Juniors who have verbally committed to play college soccer already this year. They are Grace Piper to Texas A&M University, Sommer Stanley to Baylor University and Savannah Ulrich to Mary Hardin Baylor University. Come out and see all of the girls in action! BASS FISHING TEAM: During our third inshore series tournament, anglers demonstrated their bass fishing expertise by catching and successfully releasing over one hundred pounds of fish at The Woodlands Waterway. Coming out on top out of 11 teams in the McC Division was Austin Fisher, who fished solo and still managed an impressive 11.63lbs! Out of the 15 teams representing the TWHS Division, Hugh Cosculluela and Eddie Yao claimed first place with 11.19lbs. A new big bass record was set by Michael Allen of TWHS with a 4.87lbs Texas toad! Congratulations to all our anglers who competed. The next inshore tournament will be held on March 7, 2015 at Burroughs Park. This tournament will determine Team of the Year as well as create the roster for the Inshore Championship. More importantly however, this tournament will serve as a fundraiser to help those in our community. Our goal is to entirely fund two fishing charters for a child battling cancer as well as a wounded veteran. For more information about this project visit: www.twhsbft.org. This Saturday will be our third HHFC tournament held on Lake Conroe. Despite a wet weather forecast, our anglers are determined to bring home a TWHS win! As always we look forward to seeing friends and family come out to support and tight lines! JAPANESE NEWS: Japanese Club will be celebrating HINAMATSURI Festival on March 3rd. It is "Girls' Day" in Japan. We will be making origami HINA dolls. Snack and tea will be provided. Members and friends are welcome to join us. The students who signed up to travel to Japan in July, please attend the trip meeting on Saturday, March 7th. Details will be emailed to the students and parents. Students (who signed up) will be taking the Japanese National Exam on Tuesday, March 10th, in the computer lab in senior campus library. Please come to the library after school. It will be about 45 minutes. WINTER GUARD: The Varsity Winter Guard continues to dominate, taking the highly competitive title of Winter Guard International (WGI) Austin Regional Champion on February 21 at Lehman High School. After two excellent performances, the ladies of the varsity guard easily won both prelims and finals competitions. They hold on to their top national rank, and will compete at one final Texas regional before heading to World Championships in April. The JV Winter Guard will perform once again at the TCGC (Texas Color Guard Circuit) Katy High School competition this Saturday at 6:04p.m. A full schedule is available at www.texascolorguardcircuit.org. All winter guards will perform an exhibition in the competition gym at the main campus at 7:30p.m. on Thursday, March 26. Don’t miss the last chance to support the varsity, JV, and McCullough guards on their home turf as they make their way towards state championships! Go Guard! BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS OF AMERICA (BPA) competed at Regional Competition at Klein Collins and the following teams and individuals were qualifiers for state competition: ECONOMIC RESEARCH TEAM (Brian Busby, Taylor Phipps, Ben Sauber, and Tyler West). This was the fourth consecutive year our Economic Research Team qualified for state. Students are assigned an economic topic to research, report on, and discuss before a panel of business people. All of the work is done outside of their regular course work and the competition took up an entire Saturday. Thanks for all of your time and effort! BROADCAST NEWS PRODUCTION TEAM (Marcelle Baker, Bailey Bettencourt, and Kelsey Proctor). These young ladies were state finalists for the second year in a row. They prepared a news broadcast including an intro, two news segments, and an outro reporting on real news topics via making a presentation to judges regarding the entire process. Great job ladies! FINANCIAL ANALYST TEAM (Josh Smith and Nick Palermo). This was the first team to enter this event for TWHS, and they were Regional Finalists which the judges found amazing as neither of them have had accounting and they were competing against students with three years of finance courses. PRESENTATION MANAGEMENT (Ryan Hawkins and Alexander Walston) Ryan and Alex’s challenge was to create a new Special Olympic event and describe the entire process of putting on a charity event. They did a great job and were regional finalists. Other regional events and participants were: Small Business Management (Greg Devlin, Andrew Hueske, and Cortland Samford). Greg also participated in Extemporaneous Speaking. A big thanks to all of our participants for doing an outstanding job representing TWHS! CHOIR: Please login to our data management system www.charmsoffice.com and update your contact information, as well as check trip balances, fees due, and credits. There is also a complete choir calendar of events. Use the code thewoodlandschoir (all one word, all lowercase) to access your student's information, please enter their school id number. Chamber Choir Madrigal festival - Last spring, Our Chamber Choir competed in the Madrigal and Chamber Choir competition with 42 other choirs from around the Southwestern United States. They were chosen by audition to perform an honor concert at the Madrigal Festival on March 6, 2015. They will travel to San Antonio to present their concert to a multi-state audience. Congratulations on this amazing honor! Spring Concert - On April 10, all TWHS Choirs will present their UIL music at The Centrum 6823 Cypresswood Drive. Attendance by all students is required and graded. The choirs will ride buses to The Centrum and rehearse prior to the concert. Food will be provided, and the concert will begin at 7:30. Parents may sign students out after the concert, or students may ride the bus back to TWHS. UIL Choir Contest - On April 14, 15, 16 all academically eligible students will participate in UIL Choir contest. To be academically eligible, students must be passing all classes with a 9 week grade of 70 or above as of Friday, March 13.Each choir will be assigned a performance time, and the schedule will be distributed by April 1. Specific performance times will be listed on Charms, and sent through group email. PROJECT PURPLE: On February 20th TWHS Project Purple held their 1st annual Talent Show. Project Purple will donate a portion of the proceeds to The Herren Project and Corner Stone Recovery. Thank you for your support and congratulations to… 1st Place: Seirenes ~ Alex French, Miguel Hallare, Howman Pagola, and Noah Ratcliffe 2nd Place: Chandler Lawn 3rd Place: Christy Chinn & Derrick Eugenio Thank you to the TWHS students who were our tech support for the show ~ Ben Thory, Austin Crum, and Gina Esgate. A special thanks for our guest judge, Krista Dueitt. CHEERLEADING: The annual cheer banquet will be held on Thursday March 5 at the Fellowship of The Woodlands. The banquet will celebrate our seniors and all of their accomplishments throughout their years as a Woodlands High School Cheerleader. Thank you seniors for your dedication and commitment! Mascot and cheerleading tryouts will occur March 9-12. Congratulations to all the candidates. NATIONAL ENGLISH HONOR SOCIETY: NEHS will hold elections at the March 3rd meeting. The meeting will be held in the LGI at 2:35 PM. All active members are eligible to vote. Self-nominations closed on 02-14-15. At the March 3rd meeting, all nominees will be expected to introduce themselves and tell why they should be elected to their desired positions. Officers will be announced and installed at the April banquet. The banquet will be on April 28th, from 3 to 5 pm, at Macaroni Grill. Members who are active and have paid their dues, have already paid for the banquet. Those who have not paid, must see Dr. Emmons in order to pay and be able to attend the banquet. POWERLIFTING UPDATE: The Highlander Powerlifting Team hosted its 11th annual powerlifting meet on Saturday, February 21st and took home the 1st place team trophy. Grayson Brown won the 148 lb. class and took home the award for best light platform lifter at the meet He also set three new school records with a 515 lb. squat, a 465 lb. dead lift, and a 1270 lb. total. Grayson is currently ranked #2 in the region. Gavin Webster won the 123 lb. class and set a new school record with a 240 lb. bench press. He also set a new meet record with a 1075 lb. total. Gavin is currently ranked #1 in the region. Zach Hawkins took home 4th place in the 148 lb. class and broke his own school record with a 300 lb. bench press. Zach is currently ranked #12 in the region. Other medalists at the meet include: Nick Provost (1st place, 114 lb. class, #10 regional ranking), Jack Lockhart (2nd place, 114 lb. class, #19 regional ranking), AJ Ono (2nd place, 123 lb. class, #3 regional ranking), Nigel Moyer (2nd place, 132 lb. class, #8 regional ranking), Kyle Brennan (3rd place, 181 lb. class, #25 regional ranking), Dustin Baranowski (3rd place, 198 lb. class, #15 regional ranking), Ali Jumili (4th place, 198 lb. class, #30 regional ranking), and Rene Troche-Baez (4th place, 220 lb. class, #6 regional ranking). The Highlander Powerlifting Team will conclude its regular season at Navasota on February 28 before competing in the Regional Championships at Katy Taylor on March 7. FBLA News: Wednesday, March 4 is TWHS FBLA day at Grub Burger Bar, please go to Grub Burger Bar and order lunch, dinner, or snack, mention you wish to support The Woodlands FBLA, and we will get a portion of their profits. FBLA members we will have a social at Grub Burger Bar time to be announced at our meeting. Alicia Swart and Salman Bawani are traveling to San Antonio to participate in FBLA State Conference on March 5-7. If anyone would like to become a part of FBLA, please feel free to e-mail Mrs. Filer at [email protected]. SKILLSUSA: The Woodlands High School came away with many awards, advancements to state, and students accomplishing successful leadership skills during the District 7 competition held in Beaumont, Texas this past weekend. The SkillsUSA State Competition will take place in Corpus Christi on March 25th; we wish them the best of luck! SkillsUSA Audio Video Production had a very successful weekend at the District 7 Contest held in Beaumont, TX. Teacher Jenny Hobbs had twenty one Audio Video Production students compete in the District 7 hands on contests. Andrew Cruz and Caroline Long took Gold winning 1st place for Digital Cinema Production. Maggie Toerner and Ashley Long took Silver winning 2nd place for Digital Cinema Production. In this category students are given a video prompt the day of competition and have 12 hours to completely script, storyboard, shoot, and edit their own original short film. Andrea Czobor, Mitch Sawyer, Drake Seymour, and Alyssa Horne competed in the Broadcast News Production contest and brought home the Gold winning 1st place. The students had 90 minutes to create a three minute news broadcast and record in only one take. Gina Nguyen and Sebastian Ballesteros took Bronze winning 3rd place in TV Production. In this competition students created a 1 minute promotional video about Lamar University’s upcoming Cardinal Preview Day. Brittany Miller competed in the Job Interview contest and won 1st place. For her competition she applied to be a Journalist and demonstrated the qualities of a professional job interview. These students will go on to the state level and compete with the top contestants from each district all over Texas hoping to secure a spot at the national contest. Each student also submitted a video project they have worked on all year long to be scored by the judges. The students that will be advancing to the state competition for their video projects are Veronica Pineda, Alyssa Horne, Sebastian Ballesteros, Caroline Long, Maggie Toerner, Andrea Czobor, Andrew Cruz, Allison Durkin, Aislinn Rice, Brittany Miller, and Ashley Long. Two students received the Judge’s Choice award for their videos: Andrew Cruz and Maggie Toerner. Four students also competed in the Photography job exhibit and received advancement to state. Those students were Aislinn Rice, Maggie Toerner, Andrea Czobor, and Andrew Cruz. In Interior Design, all five students taught by Karin Spence, advanced with superior ratings to the State Competition for the Job Exhibit Category. Students who competed and advanced to state are: Samantha Gannon, Ashley Lapierre Thacker, Lucy Lynch, Grace Aday, and Abby Lopez. Samantha Gannon and Ashley Lapierre received “Best in Show”. The student projects consisted of taking on the role of an interior designer by finding a client with a room makeover. Some students interviewed teachers or parents as clients and designed a room using budgets and interview questions, including surveys regarding wants and needs. Revit software and various websites were used to fully design and decorate the rooms. To show their designs, students created professional design boards and a notebook log to display. These boards and binders will be used in the state competition as well, and students will add models built to scale for their presentations. Congratulations to The Woodlands High School Culinary Quiz Bowl Team of Nicolas Buendia, Lisa Cardinal, Shannon Knapp, Omar Saber, and Sapna Srinivasan. The team, taught by Lillie Hoover, earned a Silver Medal for their Culinary Knowledge which included industry standards, culinary technique, history and current food trends. The team has advanced to the SkillsUSA State Competition in Corpus Christi. Conroe ISD Culinary Academy student Jennifer Burks, Junior earned 4th place in Commercial Baking at SkillsUSA and will advance to the state competition in Corpus Christi. Six Fashion Design students taught by Susan Roberts successfully competed for the first time at Skills USA from the Woodlands High School and all six ladies brought home first place blue ribbons and have advanced to the State competition to be held in Corpus Christi in late March. Students who competed and advanced to state are; Abby Jones, Kylee Sanders, Laura Ramirez Garcia, Allie Pope, Klaire Blanchard and Sicily Mader. Mader also won “Best of Show” for her “The Water’s Edge” Fashion Design board depicting light and airy summer fashions as well as advancing to state as a first place winner. Teacher, Eliseo Garcia’s Architectural Students submitted projects in the Skills USA District 7 Job Exhibit category. Several students received a superior rating and will advance to state. Let’s give a big round of applause to students, Ariana McDaniel, Allison Hutton, Deborah Campos, Jessica Cardinal, and Lydia Consculluela who put in their hard work to achieve this rating. TWHS PTO BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Are you interested in getting more involved with the PTO next year? If so, please go to our website: www.twhspto.org to look over our list of committee chairs and executive positions for next year. We are a fun group and are looking for new people to get involved. There are both smaller (less time-consuming) positions as well as larger ones. Our elections will take place at the General Membership meeting in April. Questions: please contact Dana Higginbotham at [email protected] TWHS GRADUATION HIGHLANDERS REGISTRATION IS OPEN: Online registration is now OPEN! Students (or parents) can register for The Main Event 2014 Graduation Highlanders all night lock-in party. The registration fee is now $35. The fee will increase to $40 on April 1, $45 on May 1 and will be $50 at the door. Register now, check it off of your “to do” list for your Senior! To register online, please visit our website: www.twhsgrad.org and click on the “2015 Registration” tab. If you prefer to register offline, you may send in a check for $35 payable to TWHS PTO. The check MUST have your student’s name, ID # (not social security number) and say “Graduation Highlanders Registration” on it. Please put it in an envelope marked “TWHS PTO” and drop it off at the front desk of the main campus or mail it to school to the attention of the PTO. GRADUATION HIGHLANDERS DONATIONS NEEDED: Do you own a business or offer a service that would like to donate as a prize for our graduates at our Graduation Highlanders lock-in after graduation? Monetary donations are always appreciated but we are also looking for personal training sessions, teeth whitening, or items like sunglasses (from an optometrist), or anything you think recent high school graduates might like. If you have something you’d like to donate, please contact us at [email protected] TWHS SPIRIT WEAR: The PTO has spirit wear available for sale every day at the front desk of both campuses. A variety of t-shirts, shorts, hoodies, earrings, car decals and more at very reasonable prices. Go Highlanders! The Woodlands High School Calendar March 2 – March 14, 2015 Monday, March 2 Red Day Smash Club Meeting 2:45 room 341 Boys Soccer Booster Meeting 7:00 LGI Math/Spanish Tutorials 5:30-7:30 room 201 Tuesday, March 3 Green Day Math/Science Tutorials 5:30-7:30 room 201 National English Honor Society Meeting 2:45 LGI Softball vs. Atascocita @ TWHS 4:30/6:00 Girls Soccer @ Seven Lakes 5:00/7:00 Boy’s 9th/JV Soccer vs. Cleveland @ TWHS 4:00/6:00 Wednesday, March 4 Red Day Boys/Girls JV Track @ TWHS 4:00 Thursday, March 5 Green Day Math/Science Tutorials 5:30-7:30 room 201 FCA Meeting 7:00am LGI Mu Alpha Theta Math Relay 2:45 Cafeteria Orchestra Booster Meeting 7:00 Orchestra Room Boys Track @ Montgomery TBA Varsity Baseball @ Ft. Bend Tournament TBA JV Baseball @ Spring Branch Tournament TBA Sophomore Baseball @ TWHS Tournament @ McC TBA Varsity Softball @ HSSL Tournament TBA Friday, March 6 Red Day Science National Honor Society Meeting 2:45 LGI Girls Soccer vs. Oak Ridge @ TWHS 4:00/5:30/7:30 Boys Soccer @ Oak Ridge 3:30/5:30/7:30 Tennis @ Spring Branch Tournament TBA Girls Varsity Track @ Tomball TBA Varsity Baseball @ Ft. Bend Tournament TBA JV Baseball @ Spring Branch Tournament TBA Sophomore Baseball @ TWHS Tournament @ McC TBA Varsity Softball @ HSSL Tournament TBA Saturday, March 7 JROTC Parent Expo 8:00-12:00 JROTC Area Tennis @ Spring Branch Tournament TBA Girls Varsity Track @ Tomball TBA Varsity Baseball @ Ft. Bend Tournament TBA JV Baseball @ Spring Branch Tournament TBA Sophomore Baseball @ TWHS Tournament @ McC TBA Varsity Softball @ HSSL Tournament TBA Monday, March 9 Green Day Math/Spanish Tutorials 5:30-7:30 room 201 Smash Club 2:45 room 341 Cheerleader Tryout Clinic 4:00 Gym 2 Student Council Meeting 6:00 Cafeteria Interact Meeting 7:00 Cafeteria Shattered Lives Parent Meeting 7:00 Auditorium Tuesday, March 10 Red Day Math/Science Tutorials 5:30-7:30 room 201 Cheerleader Tryout Clinic 4:00 Gym 2 Project Purple Meeting 3:00 room 121 Highstepper Show Off 6:30 Gym 1 FFA Meeting 7:00 room 129/131 JV Softball vs.Kinkaid @ TWHS 5:30 Wednesday, March 11 Green Day Cheerleader Tryout Clinic 4:00 Gym 2 Boys/Girls JV Track @ College Park 4:00 Thursday, March 12 Red Day Math/Science Tutorials 5:30-7:30 room 201 FCA Meeting 7:00am LGI PTO Board Meeting 9:30 Conference Room 2 Cheerleader Tryouts 3:00 Gyms JV Girls White Soccer @ Oak Ridge 5:00 Band Concert 6:30 Auditorium Varsity Baseball @ Highland Park Tournament TBA JV Baseball @ TWHS Tournament TBA Sophomore Baseball @ Klein Tournament TBA Girls Varsity Track @ TWHS Wacky Relays TBA Friday, March 13 Green Day End of 3rd Nine Weeks Boys Soccer vs. Summer Creek @ TWHS 3:30/5:30/7:30 Girls Soccer @ Summer Creek 5:00/7:00 Girls JV Red Soccer vs. Cleveland @ TWHS 5:00 Varsity Baseball @ Highland Park Tournament TBA JV Baseball @ TWHS Tournament TBA Sophomore Baseball @ Klein Tournament TBA Saturday, March 14 SAT @ TWHS 8:00 Varsity Baseball @ Highland Park Tournament TBA JV Baseball @ TWHS Tournament TBA Sophomore Baseball @ Klein Tournament TBA The Conroe Independent School District (District) as an equal opportunity educational provider and employer does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, or disability in educational programs or activities that it operates or in employment matters. The District is required by Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as Board policy not to discriminate in such a manner. For information about Title IX rights or Section 504/ADA rights, contact the Title IX Coordinator or the Section 504/ADA coordinator at 3205 W. Davis, Conroe, Texas 77304; (936) 709-7752.