KHS compete at District sends 14 to Academic Region Meet

On April 5th and 6th, 25 KHS students competed in a variety of academic contests at the District Meet. Fourteen of those students will advance to the UIL Region Contest this week in Lubbock. {{more:[Read more]}}

home to the state champion CS team …

Kennedale won four 4 golds including two team awards, 9 silver

including another two team awards and 4 bronze medals. The KHS computer science team sweep the top

medals while winning the first place team award. KHS is the home to last year?s state UIL 4A 2nd place computer science team.

 

5 advanced to state last year …

 

Individual students earning 1st, 2nd or 3rd place and teams earning a 1st place have the opportunity to compete at the region contest. Some students will be competing in multiple categories. Last year KHS sent 17 to the regionals and 5 advanced to State.

 

Earning return trips to Lubbock are Alissa Boubel, Katie Randolph, Courtney Himes, Carson ham and Danielle Hall.

KHS Science team earned silver at district meet

Earning a trip to Lubbock were:

Computer Science: 1st place team and taking 1st ?through 4th place individual were Carson Ham (1st), Johnny Zielinski (2nd), Jase Attaway (3rd), Dimitri Bray (4th).

 

Poetry Interpretation: Katie Randolph (2nd)

 

Prose Interpretation: Alissa Boubel (1st)

 

Ready Writing: Danielle Hall (3rd)

 

Number Sense: Jimmy Crisp (2nd)

 

Current Events: 1st place team Johnny Zielinski, Alex Groff, Andrew Flannigan and Nic Stroud

 

Accounting: Courtney Hines (2nd)

 

Literary Criticism: Jamie Najar (2nd)

 

News Writing: Katie Randolph (3rd)

 

Science: Carson Ham (2nd and top scorer in Chemistry and Physics)

 

Feature Writing: Claudia Vilchez (2nd)

 

Editorial Writing: Katie Randolph (3rd)

 

Headline Writing: Danielle Hall (2nd)

 

Other KHS students competing for the KHS UIL Academic 2015-16 Team were:

• Jamie Najar, Jessica Jennings, Ruth Jaramillo and Jaime Pearce – Literary Criticism (2nd) Team
• Jordan Vasquez – Ready Writing (4th)
• Hayley Smith – News Writing (4th)
• Leanne Blind, Jay Acosta, Tom Dorosky, John Corder & Olivia Ham – Science (2nd) Team
• Leanne Blind Science (5th)
• Emmaline Prinz – Mathematic (4th) & Feature Writing (6th).