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 [...]
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 [...]
On April 30, the Fort Bend Optimist Club Sugar Land held its annual Youth Appreciation Banquet and Scholarship Dinner at the Sweetwater Country Club. This dinner honored students from Ft. Bend Independent School District High Schools for their volunteerism in our community and we also gave out $10,000 in scholarship money. One graduating senior at [...]
Carolyn Ramirez, a Gifted/Talented (GT) Mentorship student and Austin High School senior, is recipient of a 2013 Texas Association of Gifted and Talented/Laura Allard Future Vision Scholarship. The $2,500 scholarship is awarded annually to one graduating GT high school senior who has demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, possesses a strong sense of purpose and clearly defined [...]
During the recent Clements NJROTC End of Year Awards Ceremony, two of the Clements Cadets were given a special honor. The Texas Lone Star Chapter Of Korean War Veterans, Inc., presented the Sergeant Thomas J. Campion Memorial Scholarship Award to Cadet Lieutenant Commander Christopher Mann, the Unit’s Commanding Officer, and the runner-up award to Lieutenant [...]
Fort Bend ISD is proud to announce that three of its Destination Imagination (DI) teams have advanced to the DI Global Competition after earning top awards at the state tournament. The students were challenged to think on their feet, work as a team and devise original and creative solutions that met the requirements of specific [...]
