Munn Competes at State
AUSTIN-Junior Mariah Munn took third place in the headline writing competition on May 6. This was part of the UIL academic championships.
PHS Student Advances to State
STEPHENVILLE-Paradise Junior Mariah Munn took first place in Headline Writing at the Regional competition on April 24. The event was held at Tarleton State University. Mariah now advances to the State meet in Austin that will be held May 6-8. Her event will be held on May 6.
PHS Takes District Title
Paradise High School has taken first place for the 2010 year in UIL Academics. The point total was clinched when Paradise advanced in One Act Play. Congratulations to all students and their coaches.
Numerous Students Win at District
BROCK-On March 21 and 23 Paradise had a large number of students compete in the district UIL Academic meet. Paradise students did very well and 24 of our students advanced to the regional meet at Tarleton. Individual awards are listed here:
Calculator Applications
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Prose Interpretation
Current Issues and Events
Literary Criticism
Spelling and Vocabulary
Computer Applications
Mathematics
Science
Editorial Writing
Number Sense
Ready Writing
Feature Writing
News Writing
Headline Writing
Persuasive Speaking
Informative Speaking
Poetry Interpretation
Paradise Hosts
Academic Meet
PARADISE-PHS hosted a UIL academic meet on March 6, and our school easily won the meet. Results (in pdf format) can be found here...
PHS Makes Mark at Brock
BROCK-Paradise High School had a large number of students who traveled to Brock on Saturday, January 23 for the Brock Invitational UIL meet. Here is the list of students who placed in their individual events:
Huy Nguyen - 2nd place Mathematics; 2nd place Number Sense; 1st place Chemistry
Lacee Akridge - 6th place Poetry Interpretation
Josh Talley - 1st place Prose Interpretation
Hannah Kaker - 3rd place Prose Interpretation
Janet Lizalde - 4th place Prose Interpretation
Taylor Dickens - 2nd place Current Issues & Events (he was 2 points away from a perfect score!)
Jacob Smith - 6th place Current Issues & Events
Kaitlyn Sides - 3rd place Headline Writing
2010 UIL Academic Schedule
January 8-9: Princeton UIL Invitational Meet
January 23: Brock UIL Invitational Meet
February 13: Valley View UIL Invitational Meet
March 6: Paradise Invitational Meet
March 22: Academic UIL District Meet (Writing events only) - Brock HS
March 24: Academic UIL District Meet (All other academic events) - Brock HS (note: this date was changed from March 31)
April 24: Academic UIL Regional Meet - Tarleton University, Stephenville
May 8: Academic UIL State Meet - University of Texas, Austin
(tentative) May 18: Academic UIL Recognition Banquet - PHS Cafeteria, 6:30 pm