Below is a picture of the four teams entered by Jeff/Silva in this weekends Young Scholars Bowl. Jeff/Silva took second and third place with a team from Irvin taking first. Congratulations to all the teams that participated this weekend. 
The May 1st meeting of city council was not just to talk about city business, it was also to celebrate some local students’ hard work.
Council members awarded trophies and congratulated four Coronado students for their part in the El Paso Recycle Right Video Contest.
Alan Castro and Katie Garcia won first place in the contest, while Ivan Kihara and Fernando Aguirre won third place.
Each student and the school received a trophy. The winning commercial will be shown on the local cable network.
Journalism students and teachers from 5 high schools and several middle school traveled to Seattle, Washington from April 12-15 for a National Convention.
The Convention gave students an opportunity to take seminars and learn more about the field of journalism. Class topics ranged from yearbook, to newspaper, to broadcast, and even featured some advertising courses.
Besides the classes, students were also involved in competition. Below are a list of the local winners:
Elijah Natividad – Burges High School – Editorial Writing, Honorable Mention
Christian Molinar – Burges High School – Sports Writing, Honorable Mention
Joshua de Santos – Burges High School – Review Writing, Honorable Mention
Denise Grenier – Coronado High School – Advertising, Honorable Mention
Leslie Ross – Burges High School – YB Copy/Caption: Sports, Superior
Lupita Gonzalez – Burges High School – YB Layout: Theme, Excellent
Alex Camacho – Burges High School – YB Layout: Inside Pages, Excellent
Ileana Mendoza – Irvin High School – Broadcast News Story, Honorable Mention
Michael Padilla – Coronado High School – Broadcast Sports Story, Honorable Mention
Cindy Marshall – Coronado High School – Broadcast PSA/Commercial, Excellent
Connor Hjalmquist – Coronado High School – In-Camera Feature, Excellent
Trey Cardwell – Coronado High School – In-Camera Feature, Excellent
Moriah Garcia – Coronado High School – On-Air Reporter, Excellent
Priscilla Villarreal – Coronado High School – Broadcast Commentary, Honorable Mention
Along with the individual awards, many programs were honored as best of show. Those winners were:
Burges High School – Yearbook 3rd B.O.S. – Hoofbeats
Andress High School – Yearbook 10th B.O.S. – Talon
Coronado High School – Broadcast 6th B.O.S. – CTV
Burges High School – Newspaper 2nd B.O.S. – Stampede
Coronado High School – Broadcast 4th B.O.S. – Explorer
For more information, check out JEA’s website here: www.jea.org
Debate is the League’s longest-running contest, dating back to 1910. Cross-Examination Policy Debate State Meet is celebrated as the largest high school debate tournament in the nation.
The purpose of the contest is to train the students to analyze a problem, conduct thorough and relevant research and utilize principles of argumentation and advocacy and orally presenting the most effective case for or against a given proposition. Debate provides invaluable training in critical thinking, quick responses, defending worthy ideas and attacking invalid ideas. It teaches the students to tolerate other points of view. Debate exists only in democratic societies, and no democratic society can exist without debate.
January 28, 2012, the CX Region Competition was held at Hanks High School (Ysleta ISD). Teams from the many high schools in the El Paso Region competed at this competition. The two top teams from each division (2-4A, 1-4A and 1-5A) advanced to the State CX Competition in Austin, TX (March 16-17).
Congratulations to:
Coronado High School (1-5A), winning 1st and 2nd Place (Both Region Winners)
Jamie Loper and Araceli Sandoval
Rebecca Coss and Caleb Vinson
Chapin High School (1-4A), winning 1st and 3rd place (Region Winners and Alternates)
Luka Fatuesi and Angelica Fraire
Karla Mesta and Sarah Sherman
El Paso High School (1-4A), winning 2nd Place (Region Winners)
Frank Contreras and Perla Espinoza
Jefferson High School (1-4A), winning 4th place
Ashley Diaz and Christopher Medin
The Region II Academic Decathlon Competition took place at Irvin High School on January 20-21. Twenty-five school teams (approximately 250 students) from the region (public and private) participated in the competition. Due to the assistance of Irvin’s administration, students, faculty, staff and community, the event was a great success.
The theme for this year’s competition was THE AGE OF THE EMPIRE. The students competed in several academic areas which included the following:
Speech and Interview
Essay Writing
Super Quiz (The Age of Imperialism: The Making of a European Global Order)
Language and Literature (The feature novella was Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad)
Art (Art and Imperial Power)
Music (Romantic Era)
Science (Scientific Advances of the Nineteenth Century)
Economics (Microeconomics, and Macroeconomics)
Mathematics (General Mathematics, Geometry and Calculus)
Many students from the different schools won awards.
Schools with the top scores advanced to the Texas State Academic Decathlon Competition. The Large School Division will compete in Houston, TX and the Medium School Division will compete in San Antonio, TX (both on February 23-26).
The students and schools which will represent Region II are:
El Paso High School (Medium School)
Principal Kristine Ferret
Coaches: Gerard Neumann and Alex Seufert
Students: Paige Williams
Eita Yamaguchi
Sarah Gonzalez
Joan Golding
Anthony Vera
Christian Pleters
Isabella Uribe
Nathan Daniels
Reagan Hicks
Franklin High School (Large School)
Principal Carla Gasway
Coaches: Carl McCaig and Andrew Young
Students: Lindsey Jiron
Natalie Felsen
Parissa Fallah
Carlos Hogan
Elizabeth Kramer
Aleksey Zebrowski
Rodrigo De La O
Pavel Gonzalez
Emily Richardon
Coronado High School (Large School)
Principal Marielo Morales
Coaches: Brian Keen and Matt Ballway
Students: Nicholas Quintana
Stephen Sheng
Samir Gupta
Darrell Cheu
Brianna Carmen
Eliana Toren
Kaylen Duran
Lugo Reyes
Carlos Chandler
The students, coaches and parents send thanks to all the ISD’s Superintendents for supporting this event.
We would like to congratulate Coronado for their victory at the El Paso Academic Challenge this Saturday.
Franklin came in second at the meet. El Paso High and Valle Verde shared third place.
Below are photos from the recent Chapin High Q tournament
Demry won first place in Domestic Extemp. at the Bel Air Tournament. Below are some photos of the speech winner and his teammates.
Teachers are fond of two rules in the classroom: No talking and no arguing. But for one week this summer, over 40 students made a habit of doing both.
Students throughout the d
istrict attend a speech camp that taught basic speech skills and entered the kids into a speech competition of their choice.
Awards were given to students that placed in any of the 10 categories taught at the camp.
Students selected the category that most interested them and were given helpful skills and criticism before their competition.
The participants were also taught basic speech skills like how to dress, enter a room, and how to project your voice.
The camp took place at Franklin High School and ran from 8:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. on July 25-28 and August 1-3.
Award winners:
Congress – 3rd place Arita Sandoval (Coronado), 2nd place Aleksey Zebrowski (Franklin), 1st place Austin Edens (Coronado)
Duet - 1st place Raul Boswell & Amanda Dispennett (Chapin)
Lincoln Douglas Debate – 3rd place Amirah Orozco (Coronado), 2nd place Austin Edens (Coronado) ), 1st place Aleksey Zebrowski (Franklin)
Cross Examination – 3rd place Isaac Mesta & Joseph (Chapin), 2nd place Talon Montoya & Roman (Chapin), 1st place Arita Sandoval & Jamie Loper (Coronado)
Extemp. – 3rd place Rion Thompson (Franklin), 2nd place Austin Edens (Coronado), 1st place Aleksey Zebrowski (Franklin)
Humorous & Dramatic Interpretation – 3rd place Eric Vasquez (Franklin), 2nd place Ani Mangold (Franklin) , 1st place Ani Mangold (Franklin)
Prose & Poetry – 2nd place Emily Felsen (Franklin), 1st place Ami Mangold (Franklin)
Congress – 2nd place Olivia Favela (Chapin), 1st place Emily Felsen (Franklin)
Front of the Reynolds Journalism Institute
Coronado journalism teacher Alex Seufert has been accepted into the American Society of News Editors (ASNE) High School Journalism Workshop.
The program accepts 33 high school teachers and pays for two weeks of journalism workshops and training.
The workshop will take place from July 17-29 at the University of Missouri at Columbia.
For more information on the program follow the link below:
http://rjionline.org/asne-high-school-journalism-workshop
To watch CTV, the local broadcast Seufert advises, click the link below: