|
News and Updates
Daily log of changes to
state-qualifier list
Houstonfest Scholarships
Gail Cope Scholarships at
State
Scholarships for winning research
papers at State
Changes taking effect in 2012
New venue for 2012 - Clements HS
Directions /
Map
Lunch
options
Concession stand at Houstonfest
Plays will be performed at Houstonfest
Important Dates
Feb. 10, 2012:
State online registration due by 11:59 p.m. in
order to qualify for regular price of $10 per student. Online
registrations submitted after this point incur the late registration fee of $12
per student.
Feb. 16, 2012:
State payment check must be postmarked
Feb. 25, 2012:
Texas State German
Contest, University of Texas at Austin
Mar. 2, 2012:
Houstonfest
Scholarship applications due
Mar. 9, 2012:
Gail Cope
Scholarship applications due
Jan. 14, 2013:
Houstonfest e-mail registration
due by 11:59 p.m. in order to qualify for regular price of $10 per student
Jan. 21, 2013: Last
day to submit late registration ($12 per student) and last day to postmark
payment check
Jan. 29, 2013:
Proof sheet of entrants sent to teachers for final
verification and changes
Jan. 31, 2013, 8:00 p.m.: Deadline to submit changes (adds,
drops, substitutions). After this point, no more additions or
substitutions will be allowed in individual events. Substitution of
students in group events may continue in emergency situations.
Feb. 2, 2013:
Houstonfest
|
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 2, 2013,
8:00 a.m. Where
is Houstonfest? Probably back
at its customary location at Lanier Middle School in Houston.
Link to Texas
State German Contest |