Cy Falls Science Olympiad Team Qualifies for Nationals - The Cypress Falls High School Science Olympiad team placed second in the state
in the C Division of the Texas Science Olympiad. Cypress Falls finished with
138 points behind the first-place team, Liberal Arts and Science Academy of
Austin. By placing second, Cypress Falls qualified for the 2009 National
Science Olympiad Tournament. Only the top 60 teams in the country advance to
the national tournament.
Team members are Cathy Phan, Rachel Lewis, Franco Gallastegui, Anthony Ly, Jose Tamez, Sihe Jiang, Randy Pok, Abhas Mishra, Jasneet Singh, Nhan Tran, Michelle Lai, John Fortner, Rohit Kumar, Norman Ren, Rohit Raghu, Layeek Ismail, Nicole Chae and Perry Feng.
The team also won several individual awards at state: Cathy Phan, Rachel Lewis
and Nhan Tran won first place in Experimental Design; Cathy Phan, Michelle Lai
and Randy Pok won first place in Picture This; Cathy Phan and Rachel Lewis won
second place in Write It, Do It; Michelle Lai and Randy Pok won second place in
We
’ve Got Your Number; John Fortner and Sihe Jiang won second place in History of
Science; Franco Gallastegui and Anthony Ly won third place in Cell Biology;
Franco Gallastegui and Abhas Mishra won third place in Chemistry Lab; Anthony
Ly and Jose Tamez won third place in Physics Lab; John Fortner and Norman Ren
won third place in Fossils; Cathy Phan and Michelle Lai won fourth place in
Health Science; and Rohit Kumar and Rohit Raghu won fourth place in Egg-O-Naut.
From Jersey Village High School, Julie Nguyen and Samantha Fleitman placed second in Disease Detectives; Oscar Nguyen and Christopher Charles placed fourth in Fossils; and Holly Wu and Jessica Rentcome placed fourth in Herpetology.
In the B Division, Spillane Middle School placed 12th in the state and Hopper
Middle School placed 24th. Spillane eighth-grade students
Cres Kelly and Mason Burger placed first in Science of Crime Busters; seventh-grade students Lydia Berger and Joshua Pittman placed second in Triple E; eighth-grade students Terrance Griffith, Clayton Marshall, Mason Parker and Ryan Powers placed third in Pentathlon; Joshua Pittman and sixth-grade student Marina Vences placed fourth in Dynamic Planet; sixth-grade student Jacob Berger and eighth-grade student Taylor Hanath-Culp placed fourth in Fossils; and Jacob Berger and seventh-grade student Merrick Lucas placed fourth in Naked Egg Drop.
Hopper’s team, coached by Lawrence Witt and Courtney Foerster, won the Spirit Award. Team members are sixth-grade student Justin Lawson; seventh-grade students Aloysuis Pereira, Derrick Simiyu, Jacob Briggs, Hollie Ricard, Hallie Ricard, Sakina Haji, Diamond Wakim, Luis Zelaya, Collin Chance and Alexandrea Foster; and eighth-grade students Shelby Beatty, Ashley Isles, Joseph Castillo and Davone Lawson.
Willbern Elementary Names Volunteer of the Month - Cy-Fair ISD board member Lida Woodul was named the Volunteer of the Month at Willbern Elementary School for May.
A board member since 1999, Woodul has volunteered at Willbern each Tuesday
during the 2008-09 school year. She specializes in helping the younger students
with their reading.
Woodul was unanimously voted the Volunteer of the Month by Willbern’s Parent Teacher Organization board. Along with the honor, she received a
reserved parking place for the month of May and a Willbern Whales T-shirt.
Bands Receive First Division at UIL Contest - All Cy-Fair ISD varsity concert bands received first division status at the
UIL Region 27 Concert and Sight-Reading competition. The
competition uses three judges to measure students’ abilities by giving them a rating of first (the highest) through fifth
divisions.
Receiving a “first division” means the performance was rated superior by the panel of judges, the music was
executed at a high level and the students are fundamentally sound on their
instruments.
“Having all the high school varsity groups receive this UIL award shows the fine
teaching of our directors and the expertise of our students,
” said Larry Matysiak, Cy-Fair ISD director of secondary music. “It also shows that high standards are evident at each campus in the district.”
Students Qualify for State Academic Meet - Eleven Cy-Fair ISD students and one team qualified for the UIL State Academic
Meet after placing in the top three in 10 events at the Region II meet. Cypress
Woods High School will send eight representatives to state. Junior
Sophia Nguyen was the district’s sole double state qualifier after placing first in Literary Criticism and
second in Current Issues.
The following students qualified for state: Current Issues – Sophia Nguyen, Cypress Woods; Computer Applications – Josh Kohlschmidt, Cypress Woods; Computer Science – Nick Goodman, Cypress Woods and Nick Rohleder, Cypress Woods; Headline Writing – Cindy Santana, Cypress Creek; Lincoln Douglas Debate – Saif Kazim, Cypress Falls and Sara Meghji, Cypress Falls; Literary Criticism – Sophia Nguyen, Cypress Woods; Cypress Woods Team 1 – Sophia Nguyen, Katherine Nguyen, Jennifer Livingstone and Matt Wheeler; News Writing – Christine Nguyen, Cypress Creek; Poetry Interpretation – Lario Albarran, Cypress Ridge; Prose Interpretation – Brett Gray, Cypress Ridge; and Social Studies – Sairam Krishnan, Cypress Woods.
