Rep. Pete Olson this week congratulate and recognize Michelle Huang, a 10th grader at Dulles High School for her winning submission to the annual Congressional Art Contest. Her piece, entitled “Call of the Plains,” is an oil painting on canvas, picturing three cowboys riding horses on the plains. The winning piece will now be on [...]
Sugar Land students from Stephen F. Austin High School were hand selected by the American High School Theatre Festival to perform in Edinburgh, Scotland this summer at the International Fringe Festival, the world’s largest art festival. Austin High School is returning to the Fringe Festival for the second time in the school’s history and will [...]
Settlers Way Elem. participated in 2013 Blue Ribbon Competition. The theme for Settlers Way was “101 Ways To Praise A Child”. Over 200 students participated in a 40 ft poster, 200 yds. of blue ribbon bows and lots more.
Travis High School’s (THS) theatre department will perform its UIL one-act play, Unexpected Tenderness, for the community on Friday, May 17, at 7:00 p.m. in the THS auditorium (11111 Harlem Rd., Richmond, 77406). The performance is free to the public, but donations to the theatre department will be accepted. The play has advanced at each [...]
Trudy Rogers, Victoria Pride, Julia Shepstone, Bailey Northington and Gustaline Samba from Girl Scout Troop 28103 -Rainbow Stars Service Unit recently marked a major milestone with the successful completion of their Girl Scout Silver Award—the highest achievement a Girl Scout Cadette can receive. To earn this award, a girl must dedicate herself to completing a [...]
Wharton County Junior College drama students recently garnered 12 awards when they competed at the Texas Community College Speech and Theatre Association’s Theatre Festival at Lone Star College in Tomball. The awards were presented for the students’ production of Anatomy of Gray. WCJC students received the following awards: Play Production: Superior award Respondent’s Choice: Victoria [...]
1st Victoria Bank of Texas donated $500 to the Edmunds Foundation as a scholarship grant for Nanci Macias for completing the 1st annual Leadership Skills for Young Adults. Nanci is a senior at Lamar Consolidated High School and opted to take this 7 week workshop to enhance her business and leadership skills. Nanci is majoring [...]
Gulf Coast Medical Foundation (GCMF) recently provided Wharton County Junior College (WCJC) with a grant in the amount of $162,000 for its allied health division equipment project. Pictured presenting the grant are, left to right, are GCMF Board Member Robert Taylor and GCMF President Mike Farrell. Pictured receiving the grant are WCJC President Betty McCrohan, [...]
You literally have to be “one in a thousand” to receive a Gates Millennium Scholarship. For Lamar CISD, it was three in a thousand. Terry High School’s Shelby Rae Guel, Foster High School’s Cyrus Montanya and Lamar Consolidated High School’s Chimsom Faith Orakwue are the District’s fourth, fifth and sixth Gates Scholars – the first [...]
Glover Elementary School has embraced a unique, parent-driven program that builds self esteem in young girls. Through “The I C Beauty Project,” founded by Glover parent Abigail Dillon, first and second-grade girls are learning to find value in themselves and their fellow schoolmates while learning about art. Now in its second year of implementation at [...]
