News and Updates

 

Houstonfest Scholarships

 

Gail Cope Scholarships at State

 

Plays will be performed at Houstonfest

 

Changes to rules and critique sheets for 2010

 

Scholarships for winning research papers at State

 

Daily log of changes to state-qualifier list

 

Important Dates

 

Mar. 5, 2010Houstonfest Scholarship applications due

 

Mar. 10, 2010Gail Cope Scholarship applications due

 

Jan. x, 2011:  Early-bird registration ($8) must be postmarked and online registration must be submitted by 11:59 p.m.

 

Jan. x, 2011:  Regular registration ($10) must be postmarked and online registration must be submitted by 11:59 p.m.

 

Feb. 5, 2011:  Houstonfest, Lanier Middle School, Houston

 

Feb. x, 2011:  State early-bird registration due (submit online registration and mail payment; payment must arrive by Feb. x)

 

Feb. x, 2011:  State regular registration due

 

Feb. 26, 2011Texas State German Contest, University of Texas at Austin

 

Advantaged Speakers

 

“Advantaged speakers” are students who meet one or more of the following criteria:

  • They have lived in a German-speaking country six weeks or more at one time since the age of 13.

  • They reside with a native speaker of German.

  • They speak German at home.

  • They regularly (annually or biannually) visit or have visited a German-speaking country, visiting German-speaking homes.

  • They have attended a school where all subjects were taught in German for one or more years.

No exchange students from German-speaking countries may enter any event at Houstonfest, including the "advantaged speaker" categories.  (They are, however, welcome to help out as judges.)  Exchange students from non-German-speaking countries may enter events for which they qualify (regular or advantaged, depending on their circumstances).

 

It is left to the professional judgment of the teacher to determine the eligibility of students.  Questions of eligibility should be addressed to the contest director prior to the contest registration deadline.  If a student is designated advantaged in one event, he/she must be entered as advantaged in all events.

 

Advantaged speakers may compete ONLY in the following events:

  • Extemporaneous speaking, advantaged category

  • Poetry memory, advantaged category

  • Prose memory, advantaged category

  • Skit, level 4 (inform judges as to which actors are advantaged)

  • Puppet show, upper level (inform judges as to which actors are advantaged)

  • Play (inform judges as to which actors are advantaged)

  • Any cultural event (chorus, classical ensemble, club album, doll costume, folk dance, gingerbread house, needlework, photo essay, polka band, poster design, research paper, T-shirt design, video, vocal solo)

Just to be perfectly clear, advantaged speakers are NOT allowed to enter the following events:  culture, directed dialogue, duet acting, grammar, listening comprehension, Pass auf!, poetry reading, prose reading, puppet show (lower level), reading comprehension, scavenger hunt, sight reading, skit (levels 1-3), spelling, and vocabulary.

When is the next Houstonfest?

 

Saturday,

February 5, 2011,

8:00 a.m.

 

Where is Houstonfest?

 

Lanier Middle School

2600 Woodhead Street

Houston, TX 77098

(Click on the address

for a Google map.)

 

Link to Texas State German Contest