News and Updates
Houstonfest Scholarships:
Winners Announced
Scholarships at State
NEW:
Houstonfest history
Changes and updates for 2024
Contest
promo video #1 (students from one school tell why they
love contest)
Contest promo
video #2 (one student tells why she loves contest)
State promo video contest
Teacher-to-teacher tips
Tips for Pair Discussion
Arrival at Kingwood High School
Lunch options
Photo gallery
Daily log of changes to
State-qualifier list
Important Dates
Mon. Jan. 8, 2024, 4:00 p.m.: Application for
transportation grants from Houston Saengerbund opens (teachers will be sent a
link to a Google Form).
Thur., Jan. 18, 2024, 11:59
p.m. (extended by 2 days, previous deadline 1/16): Houstonfest registration
spreadsheet due for regular price of $12/student (payment does not have
to be mailed until 1/22).
Mon., Jan. 22, 2024, 11:59
p.m.: Houstonfest registration spreadsheet
due
for late price of $15/student. Deadline to postmark Houstonfest payment.
Sat., Jan. 27, 2024, 9:00 a.m.: Submission of entries in the 7 virtual Houstonfest events due (get link to
Google Form from your teacher - it was sent to them on Wed., Jan. 24).
Tue., Jan. 30, 2024, 11:59 p.m.: Remote
judging of the 7 virtual Houstonfest events ends.
Wed., Jan. 31, 2024, 9:30 p.m.: Houstonfest changes (adds,
drops, substitutions) due. After this point, no more changes will be allowed.
Sat., Feb. 3, 2024:
Houstonfest,
Heights High School, Houston.
Fri., Feb. 9, 2024, 11:59 p.m.: State
online registration due for "early bird" price of $12/student (payment does not
have to be mailed until 2/14).
Wed., Feb. 14, 2024, 11:59 p.m.: State
online registration due
for
regular price of
$15/student. Deadline to postmark your State payment.
Sat., Feb. 17, 2024, 9:00 a.m.: Submission of entries in the 7 virtual State events due (get
the link to a
Google Form from your teacher; it was emailed to them on 2/7 by the State
director). Also,
Mary El-Beheri Memorial Scholarship and Sandra Dieckman GTHS Memorial
Scholarship
applications due (to submit the application, get the link to a Google
Form from your teacher; it was emailed to them on 2/10 by the State director).
Mon., Feb. 19, 2024, 8:00 p.m.:
Entries in
State promotional video
contest
due to State director.
Tue., Feb. 20, 2024, 11:59 p.m.: Remote
judging of the 7 virtual State events ends.
Sat., Feb. 24, 2024:
Texas State German Contest, Texas State
University, San Marcos.
Sat., Mar. 2, 2024, 11:59 p.m.: Houstonfest Scholarship applications due.
Sun., Mar. 10, 2024: Gail Cope
State Scholarship applications due.
rolling basis but no later than Tue., Apr. 30, for payment
this school year: submit
Gail Cope Teacher Grant applications.
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Results
The results of Houstonfest will be posted below,
sometimes initially as a Google Sheet and eventually always as an Excel spreadsheet. The
Google Sheet will have two tabs at the bottom: Winners List and
Sweepstakes. The Excel spreadsheet will have three tabs:
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Original 1-10: The original,
unaltered list of winners from Houstonfest. This list will never be
altered (except to correct errors), so that the original list of winners
will always be available.
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Updated 1-10: The current list
of places 1-10, reflecting all drops and move-ups to date. This
spreadsheet will be updated daily between the date of Houstonfest and the
date of State. If State were held today, the students in slots 1-5 in
each event would be the competitors.
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Sweepstakes: An
event-by-event listing of the events won and sweepstakes points earned by
each school along with the results of the sweepstakes, Klein aber fein,
Rookie Teacher of the Year, and Rookie School of the Year competitions.
Results (Excel)
Tips for teachers:
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The spreadsheet can be a very flexible and
useful tool for you. You can save it to your computer and re-sort it
in various ways. For instance, you can re-sort or filter the list by school and thereby group all of your winning
students together.
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To simplify the process of monitoring
changes to the state-qualifier list that affect your students, you can also
view a daily log of changes.
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E-mail me (Rustin Buck) if
you have any students who will not attend State so that I can drop them from
the qualifier list and move up the next student.
Archived results:
2024:
Spreadsheet (use the link above)
Slide Show
2023:
Spreadsheet
Slide Show
2022:
Spreadsheet
Slide
Show
Video
2021: Spreadsheet
Slide Show
Video
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
We do not have
complete results before 2008, when I (Rustin Buck) became director. However,
when I retired from my job as German teacher at Clements High School in June
2021, I found hard copies of the results from some of the earlier years as I was
cleaning out my filing cabinet (going back to my first year as a German
teacher). I have scanned them for inclusion here. Please excuse the highlighting
of Clements winners (and others in our school district) and the X'ed out names
(those students did indeed win but then opted not to attend State), as these
hard copies were for my use as the Clements teacher as we planned our trips to
State. Still, they're better than nothing! If anyone comes across copies of the
results from 2004 to 2007 or pre-1996, send them to me and I'll post them.
2003
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
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When is the next Houstonfest?
Saturday,
February 8, 2025 Where
is Houstonfest?
Kingwood High School
2701 Kingwood Dr.
Kingwood, TX 77339
(new location in 2025!)
Link to Texas State German Contest
Texas
State German Contest on Facebook
Texas
State German Contest 40th Anniversary Facebook Group |