Cy-Fair Lifestyles and Homes magazine Mar 2010: School News in Cy-Fair Texas

Katy Naval Sea Cadet Receives Awards - Katy Naval Sea Cadet Tyler Meyer received a good citizenship award medal from the Sons of the American Revolution. He is also the recipient of the Bill Archer Congressional Scholarship, which includes a trip to Washington, D.C., where he will serve as an intern for Congressman John Culberson. Meyer will meet with cabinet and executive branch officials, members of the house and senate, and other dignitaries and key players in Washington. Meyer attends Cy Creek High School.

Cy Woods Students Qualify for Thespian Convention - Three Cypress Woods High School theater students qualified for the International Thespian Convention —scheduled for June in Lincoln, Neb.,—for their performances at the Texas State Thespian Convention in Corpus Christi.

Seniors Katie Bennett and Allison Houser received second-place ratings on their Duet performance of August Osage County by Tracy Letts. Similarly, senior Austin Crow qualified for the International Thespian Convention with his solo pantomime, which also placed second.

Katie and Allison were also recognized by the society for their outstanding work, and each has been awarded a scholarship to pursue a theater arts degree. Overall, Cypress Woods garnered two of the 10 acting scholarships awarded to Texas high school students at the competition.

Langham Creek Boys, Cy Ridge Girls Win District Wrestling Meets - The Langham Creek High School boys and Cypress Ridge High School girls wrestling teams won their respective District 21 meets.

Langham Creek won the boys meet with 256.5 points, followed by Cy-Fair (223.0), Cypress Woods (222.0), Cypress Creek (181.5), Cypress Ridge (159.5), Cypress Ranch (95.5), Jersey Village (92.5), Cypress Lakes (82.0), Cypress Springs (63.0) and Cypress Falls (43.0).

Cypress Ridge won the girls meet with 104.0 points, followed by Langham Creek (101.0), Cypress Creek (98.0), Cypress Falls (59.0), Cypress Springs (58.0), Jersey Village (43.0), Cypress Lakes (40.0), Cy-Fair (36.0), Cypress Woods (21.0) and Cypress Ranch.

NCTE Honors Cy Creek Literary Magazine - The Cypress Creek High School literary magazine, Graffiti, received a Superior rating in the 2009 National Council of Teachers of English Program to Recognize Excellence in Student Literary Magazines.

PRESLM recognizes students, teachers and schools for producing excellent literary magazines. The program ’s mission is to encourage all schools to develop literary magazines, seeking excellence in writing and school-wide participation in production.

Graffiti includes art, photography, poetry and prose from freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors and interested teachers. It was compiled by the Creative Writing class led by student editor Michael Drab (class of 2009) and faculty adviser Leslie Laird.

Students Place in Photography Contest - Twenty-one Cy-Fair ISD high school students received awards at the 2009 Association of Texas Photography Instructors Fall Contest. The print and digital competition, which included a variety of categories including video and computer imaging, received 7,715 entries from 80 schools and presented 409 winners with awards.

Cy-Fair ISD students who placed in this competition are: Cypress Creek High School – Whitney Pavlas, first place and first honorable mention, Advanced Black and White Darkroom Print; Jon Cozart, first place and second place, Beginning Video Music; second place, Beginning Video PSA/Advertisement; Joy Atkinson, honorable mention, Beginning Sports/Action Photo; Shelby Banning, honorable mention, Beginning Video News; Tifany Brown, honorable mention, Beginning Video News; Dylan Farley, honorable mention, Beginning Video News; Cypress Ranch High School – Joe Feritta, second place and honorable mention, Advanced Black and White Darkroom Print; Jersey Village High School - Nick Garza, first place, Beginning Video PSA; Chris Baker, first place, Beginning Video PSA; Amelia Falcon, second place, Advanced Video News; Ally Piotrowski, second place, Advanced Video News; honorable mention, Beginning PSA; Jordan Propst, second place, Advanced Video News; honorable mention, Advanced Video News; Jeremy Niederheiser, second place, Beginning Video News; and honorable mention, Advanced Video PSA; Kayman Coons, second place, Beginning Video News; Trey Stoker, third place, Beginning Video News; Austin Sarabia, honorable mention, Advanced Video News; Shane O’Neal, honorable mention, Beginning PSA; Carmen Brown, honorable mention, Advanced Sports/Action Photo; Megan McCann, honorable mention, Beginning Advertising Photo; and Talice Nieto, honorable mention, Beginning Digitally Constructed Single Image Photo; Langham Creek High School; and Brittany Laurent, honorable mention, Advanced Formal/Studio Portrait.

Jersey Village Students Win TV Honors at Fall Nationals - Three Jersey Village High School students received honors at the Student Television Network Fall Nationals.

Nick Garza and Chris Baker placed second for their public service announcement, Actions, while Adam Mendry received an honorable mention award for his public service announcement, Don’t Gamble.

Cy Falls Publications Win ILPC Lone Star Award - The UIL announced that the Cypress Falls High School newspaper, the Wingspan, and yearbook, the Golden Eagle, will both receive the Lone Star Award at the 2010 Interscholastic League Press Conference Spring Convention.

The Lone Star Award was created to honor staffs that have proven themselves as leaders of scholastic journalism in Texas. To earn the honor, Cypress Falls earned the “Award of Distinguished Merit” for each of the past 10 years. In addition, the journalism staffs earned a “Star” award in at least six of those years.

In the last 10 years, the Golden Eagle yearbook earned 11 Awards of Distinguished Merit, was nominated 11 times for a “Star” award—including 2010—and won nine “Star” awards.

Meanwhile, the Wingspan newspaper earned nine Awards of Distinguished Merit, was nominated eight times for a “Star” award and won seven “Star” awards.

High School Students Receive Yearbook Awards - Students from Jersey Village and Cypress Falls high schools were honored with yearbook awards from Quill and Scroll and the National Scholastic Press Association.

Three Jersey Village students were among the 193 national winners selected from among 1,068 applicants in the 2009 Jostens and Quill and Scroll Yearbook Excellence Contest. The following students won Gold Key awards: Jillian Hernandez, senior, Feature Photo; Emily Johnson, 2009 graduate, Academic Photo; and Skye Comstock, 2009 graduate, Advertising and Graphics.

This marked the first time that the Jersey Village yearbook, the Falcon, has received four Gold Key awards for one year from this organization. Additionally, the NSPA honored the 2009 Falcon yearbook with a first-class rating and one mark of distinction in Coverage, while the Cypress Falls Golden Eagle yearbook received a first-class rating and marks of distinction in Concept/Ensemble, Coverage and Writing/Editing.

Cy-Fair ISD Welcomes Beijing Visitors - Cypress-Fairbanks ISD welcomed 26 secondary principals and administrators from Beijing, China, who visited the district to glean best practices from Cy-Fair ISD focusing on relationships with schools and the community.

The city of Houston Mayor’s Office of International Affairs recommended Cy-Fair ISD to the visitors as a district from which to draw best practices. The Beijing delegation visited Cy-Fair High School, Arnold Middle School and the Instructional Support Center. They met a variety of administrators and heard a presentation from Dr. David Anthony, superintendent of schools, who provided information about population and enrollment growth, demographics, campus ratings, TAKS performance, New Arrival Centers, community partnerships and involvement and the portrait of a Cy-Fair ISD teacher. The delegation also stopped by the Cy-Fair ISD Exhibit Center during the Livestock Show and Sale.

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Cy-Fair ISD Schools Honored for Yearbook Excellence - Several Cy-Fair ISD middle school and high school yearbook staffs have been recognized by Taylor Publishing with Awards of Excellence, honoring their accomplishments in yearbook design and coverage.

Judges selected the following schools’ 2008-09 yearbooks among the best, and they will be featured in Taylor’s 2010 Yearbook Yearbook: Jersey Village, Cy-Fair and Cypress Falls high schools; and Aragon, Bleyl, Goodson and Spillane middle schools.

Taylor awarded 15 other Cy-Fair ISD schools’ yearbooks with honorable mention recognition: Cypress Lakes, Cypress Ranch, Cypress Ridge, Cypress Springs and Cypress Woods high schools; and Arnold, Campbell, Cook, Dean, Hamilton, Hopper, Kahla, Labay, Truitt and Watkins middle schools.

Yearbooks published by Taylor were evaluated in one or more of the following areas: cover design, theme development, layout design, photo content and secondary packages.

Athletes Sign National Letters of Intent - Student athletes at the eight eligible Cy-Fair ISD high schools have signed national letters of intent to their respective colleges and universities:

Cy Fair High School – Tevin Champagne, football, Colorado School of Mines; Kerrie Ford, soccer, Howard Payne; Sydney Curry, soccer, Texas State.

Cypress Creek High School – Cameron Fleming, football, Stanford University; Archie Muniz, football, Mississippi State University; Will Hampton, football, Northwestern University; Michelle Kloss, soccer, Baylor University; Cat Abitua, soccer, Sam Houston State University; Michael Parrish, soccer, University of North Carolina-Wilmington; Rashaun Riley, basketball, Carnegie Mellon University; Zoe Tucker, basketball, Sam Houston State University.

Cypress Falls High School – Duncan Dickerson, football, Columbia University; Jacob Poole, football, Lindenwood University; Jordan Hopper, soccer, Colorado School of Mines; Jennifer Swanstrom, soccer, Queens University of Charlotte; Katie Carrizales, softball, Galveston College; Julio Infante, cross country, Lon Morris College.

Cypress Ridge High School – Kevin Johnson, football, Oklahoma State University; Robert Scarpati, football, Southeastern Louisiana University; Trevor Steele, football, University of the Incarnate Word; Taylor Mungula, softball, University of Texas A&M – Kingsville.

Cypress Springs High School – Evan Newland, football, University of the Incarnate Word; Kimberly Ekholm, soccer, Missouri School of Mines.

Cypress Woods High School – Bryce Callahan, football, Rice University; Dominique Robertson, football, Tulane University; Isaiah Battle, football, Blinn College; Johnathan Cross, football, Blinn College; Crystal Jozwiak, volleyball, Wharton County Junior College; Kourtney Howell, tennis, Naval Academy; Ashley Adams, swimming, Texas A&M University; Cammile Adams, swimming, Texas A&M University; Robert Kelley, soccer, Appalachian State University.

Jersey Village High School – Jarvis Young, football, Sam Houston State University; Jessie Dickerson, football, Trinity Valley Community College; Diane Della Sala, volleyball, Western Carolina University; Audrey Koncaba, golf, McNeese State University; Molly Gorrie, softball, Texas Lutheran University.

Langham Creek High School – Efrem Oliphant, football, University of Houston; Alex Doolittle, football, Naval Academy; DeVon Rhodes, football, Texas A&M – Kingsville; Danielle Licarione, soccer, St. Edward’s University.