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News and Updates
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
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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:
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Scholarships of $500, $450, $400, $350, and $300 will be awarded,
perhaps more.
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The deadline for entry is
11:59 p.m. on
Friday,
March 2, 2012.
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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.)
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The student must be nominated by his/her German teacher.
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Each school may nominate only one student.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ties will be broken by the 100 words or less written by the
nominating teacher.
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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 |