Friday, April 22, 2016

The GMS journalism department rocks!  Last week was their UIL competition.  The highest award is a Star and the team won three bronze Star awards-- for the 2015 yearbook, for Gnasher News and for digit.press. Only four other schools in the state won three Star awards, and they were all high school programs!

In broadcast, only six Stars were awarded, and the other five went to high schools. In online, 16 Stars were awarded and the other 15 went to high schools. In yearbook, only two other middle schools received Stars-- they also received bronze Stars, so our yearbook was rated one of the top three in the state last year. Additionally, only two middle school newspapers received Distinguished Merit ratings with Star nominations, and Digit was one of them. 

But wait there's more! They also won 83 Individual Achievement Awards. In these, students submitted their work-- news stories, videos, photos, infographics, etc. Students won 29 golds, 25 silvers, 16 bronzes and 13 honorable mentions. In broadcast and online, they compete against up to 4A and 3A high schools, respectively.   http://www.uiltexas.org/journalism/ilpc/results 
The team is really excited.  We are so proud of them!

For the next two weeks, the Colorado Mobil Science lab is on campus.  Students are rotating through different learning stations.




Last night was the awards ceremony of the "Do the Write Thing" Essay Contest.  Two of our students were selected from the over 700 Gorzycki participants John and Kristen.  Congratulations!


Today we celebrated another PAWS for FUN day.  Our last one will be May 13th.  Keep up the good work.