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Houstonfest Scholarships

 

Gail Cope Scholarships at State

 

Scholarships for winning research papers at State

 

Plays will be performed at Houstonfest

 

Venue 2012

 

Concession stand at Houstonfest

 

Daily log of changes to state-qualifier list

 

Important Dates

 

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

 

Feb. x, 2013 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. x, 2013 State payment check must be postmarked

 

Feb. 23, 2013 Texas State German Contest, University of Texas at Austin

Houstonfest Scholarships 2012

 

2012 Winners

 

$500 - Halla Bearden, Bellaire High School (110 sweepstakes points)

 

$450 - Britt Montross, Deer Park High School (97 sweepstakes points)

 

$400 - Ethan Mader, Clements High School (81 sweepstakes points)

 

$350 - Hannah Aergerter, Kingwood High School (75 sweepstakes points)

 

$300 - Stephen Schilter, Friendswood High School (68 sweepstakes points)

 

Honorable mention, $50 each:

Jose Jimenez-Rocha, Seven Lakes High School

Anna Clawson, The Woodlands College Park High School

Lynsie Patschke, Taylor High School

 

 

Rules:

·         Scholarships of $500, $450, $400, $350, and $300 will be awarded, perhaps more.

·         The deadline for entry is 11:59 p.m. on Friday, March 2, 2012.

·         Any student currently in 11th or 12th grade who placed in the top five in three or more events at Houstonfest 2012 is eligible.  (Students who win a scholarship as juniors are eligible to be nominated again their senior year, but if they win their senior year, their total winnings over the two years will be capped at $500.  The philosophy here is to spread the wealth around.  For instance, if a student wins $350 as a junior and then qualifies for the $400 scholarship the following year, he/she will receive $150 the second year, for a two-year total of $500, and the remaining $250 the second year will go to create a scholarship for someone else further down in the rankings.)

·         The student must be nominated by his/her German teacher.

·         Each school may nominate only one student.

·         The entry must be submitted on this downloadable form as an e-mail attachment to rustin.buck@fortbendisd.com.  Tip:  click the link, then save the form to your computer before editing and e-mailing it.

·         Scoring will be based solely upon how many sweepstakes points the student contributed to his/her school’s sweepstakes total, with the following provisions:

o       Only points earned for 1st through 5th place will be considered.  Points earned for 6th through 10th place will NOT be considered.

o       Only the original placing will be considered.  If a student who placed 6th through 10th in a particular event later became eligible for State because someone in 1st through 5th place dropped out of that event, that event will not be considered.

o       Individual events and group events are treated equally, i.e., enter the full number of sweepstakes points earned for each event, regardless of whether the student worked on the event alone or in a group.

o       The accuracy of your entries may be checked against the results spreadsheet and the alpha lists submitted at the time of registration for Houstonfest.  Inaccurate or dishonest entries will result in the disqualification of the application.

·         Sweepstakes points can be found on the original results spreadsheet.  Tip:  a quick way to find out the best student to nominate and how many points he/she earned is to re-sort the original results spreadsheet in this way:  select "Sort" from the "Data" menu and then sort by "School" then by "Winner" then by "Place."  Find the section where your school's students are listed, and compare the points earned by your various students.  Look only at places 1-5 (ignore the gray rows for places 6-10) -- but don't forget to factor in group events, as well.  

·         Ties will be broken by the 100 words or less written by the nominating teacher.

·         Scholarship payment will be in the form of a check made out to the student and mailed to the teacher by March 30, 2012.

 

2008 Winners

 

$500 - Brian Clark, Clements High School

 

$450 - Amalie Barras, Cy-Fair High School

 

$400 - Courtney Svatek, Taylor High School

 

$350 - Abby Spitzer, Cy Woods High School

 

$250 - Lucas Center, Westside High School

 

2009 Winners

 

$500 - Stephanie Sladek, Kingwood High School

 

$450 - Alice Lin, Clements High School

 

$425 - Garrett Steiger, Friendswood High School

 

$400 - Luke Chen, Seven Lakes High School

 

$375 - Daniel McBride, Deer Park High School

 

2010 Winners

 

1. $500 - Ana Builes, Clements High School

 

2. $100* - Luke Chen, Seven Lakes High School

 

3. $400 - Jessie Jones, Deer Park High School

 

4. $350 - Philip Meyer, Cinco Ranch High School

 

T5. $325 - Samantha Birchard, Taylor High School

 

T5. $325 - Tracilynn Roberts, Langham Creek High School

 

* The second-place award would normally have been $450, but because Luke won a $400 scholarship in 2009 and because the lifetime limit is $500, he received $100 in 2010.  This allowed us to award 6 scholarships instead of 5.

 

2011 Winners

 

$500 - Callie Parrott, Deer Park High School

 

$450 - Miranda James, Clements High School

 

$400 - Connor Heaton, Cy-Fair High School

 

$350 - Kaitlyn Berreth, Seven Lakes High School

 

$300 - Nikita Viswasam, Cinco Ranch High School

When is the next Houstonfest?

 

Saturday,

February 2, 2013,

8:00 a.m.

 

Where is Houstonfest?

 

In 2013, probably back at its customary location at Lanier Middle School in Houston.

 

Link to Texas State German Contest