Minutes of Board Recognition Ceremony February 29, 2016

The Board of Trustees
Texas City Independent School District

Members Present:	Dickey Campbell, Vice President
			Melba Anderson	
Hal Biery
			David Moss
			Tom Prouty
			Bryan Thompson

Absent: 		Manuel Guajardo Jr., President

A Board Recognition Ceremony of the Board of Trustees of Texas City Independent School District was held Monday, February 29, 2016, beginning at 6:30 PM in the Blocker Middle School Auditorium.

1.	Cover Page		
2.	Welcome by Melissa Tortorici		
3.	Call to Order

Mr. Dickey Campbell, Vice President, called the meeting to order at 6:32 p.m. Mr. Campbell announced that a quorum was present, that the meeting had been duly called, and notice of the meeting had been posted in the time and manner required by law.
		
4.	First Order of Business		
A.	Announcement by the President whether a quorum is present, that the meeting has been duly called and notice of the meeting has been posted for the time and manner required by law		
5.	Pledge & Invocation

Northside Elementary fourth grade student, Kaylen Hayes, led the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. Flag.

Roosevelt-Wilson Elementary fourth grade student, Lily Melchor, led the Pledge of Allegiance to the Texas Flag. 
		
6.	Board Recognition (See Attachment)

TCISD Foundation Projects in Education Program

The Texas City ISD Foundation for the Future has awarded more than $3 million for innovative teaching grants since its inception through the Projects in Education Program. The Foundation is made up of a volunteer board of directors. Recently, the Foundation awarded 70 grants for approximately $601,349 to teachers during Prize Posse in December. Deborah Laine is the Executive Director of the Foundation. 

The funds were granted in the following categories:

All subjects $43,019.73
Art $9,637.84
Behavior $474.25
Bilingual $4826.13
Drama $4,378.68
Foreign Language (Spanish) $6,507.69
History $4,994
Math $61,614.03
Music $42,946.56
PE $1,745.15
Reading $31,117.40
Science $43,410.21
Social Studies $5,040.75
Special Ed $2,275
STEM $277,429.58
Writing $1,272.34

Red Ribbon Essay Winners

Students at Levi Fry Intermediate participated in the annual Red Ribbon Week Essay
Contest. The theme was “Respect Yourself by Being Drug Free.” Winners Gerard Dorsey placed first, and Dylan Zornes, placed second, received a special lunch with Principal Tony Furman. The sponsors of the essay contest were counselors Yolanda Mejia and Ann Blair.

Geography Bee Winners

Students at Levi Fry participated in the annual Geography Bee with the hope of making it to the National Championship in May. Topics included were ‘State Savvy’,
‘U. S. Road Trip’, ‘Discover National Parks’, ‘Weird But True!’ and more. Cody Gregurek placed first, and Leah Lillie placed second. 
Sponsors are Tim Wilson and Lisa Clark. 

Jump Rope for Heart – Kohfeldt

Kohfeldt Elementary students participated in Jump Rope for Heart. The top fundraisers are being honored. The coaches at Kohfeldt are Jodi Thompson and Ryan Welch. 

Winners were as follows:

HARLEY GONZALES, 1st Place fundraising
SHONNON JENKINS, 2nd Place fundraising
JOSHUA BOSTELMANN, 3rd Place fundraising
YARIANA MARTINEZ, Top Fundraiser
HANNAH TABER, Top Fundraiser
CHARISMA WHITE, Top Fundraiser

Jump Rope for Heart – Heights

Heights Elementary students participated in Jump Rope for Heart. The coaches at Heights are Jacob Hon and Sara Riske. The top fundraisers were honored.

Winners were as follows:

REESE ALBA
CAMDYN BROWN
ANNASTASIA HATHCOCK
PRISCILLA MEGRESS

NFL's Punt, Pass & Kick Competition success

Heights Elementary participated in the NFL's Punt, Pass & Kick competition. This program is a national skills competition for boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 15 to compete separately against their peers. Other students were honored in November. Heights winners were honored. Their coaches are Jacob Hon and Sara Riske.
 
Heights Elementary

SAUL BARRERA, JR.
PAYTON COON
JENNIFER DELEON-ORDONEZ
MAKENNA MARTINEZ-JONES
JAYDA RODRIGUEZ
CARLOS SALAS

Spelling Bee Winners

Levi Fry Intermediate annually participates in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. 97 students took part in the first level. This was a written test. From those, 33 moved on to the second level, which was a school-wide oral bee. This event went 15 rounds. Amaya Walker won the Levi Fry Spelling Bee and participated at the County Spelling Bee on February 11 where she tied for 7th place. Lisa Bunker is the sponsor for the Spelling Bee.

AMAYA WALKER - 1st Place
DYLANA ZORNES - 2nd Place
MICHAEL TRANCHINA - 3rd Place
AURIONNA SIMMONS - 4th Place
TOKIRISTON LEACH - 5th Place

Business Professionals of America (BPA) State Qualifiers

The Texas City High School Business Professionals of America Chapter students competed at the Regional Leadership Conference Competition held in Pasadena in January. They competed in a variety of areas from live production jobs to
showcase technical skills. They plan to compete in March in Corpus Christi at the State competition. The BPA advisor is Hope Smalley Jackson. Julie Puckett is the Career and Technology Education (CTE) Lead and Richard Chapa is the Director of CTE.

State Qualifiers

GABRIELA GARCIA - Fundamental Desktop Publishing Secondary Division - 1st Place
ALEXANDRIA STREETER - Fundamental Desktop Publishing Associate Division - 1st Place
KALEB JACOBS - Fundamental Word Processing Associate Division - 2nd Place
SHAYLAN YOUNG - Presentation Management Individual Secondary Division - 3rd Place (State Alternate)

TCHS Volleyball Honors

Multiple students from Texas City High School received District 23-5A and Galveston County volleyball honors for the 2015 season. The District Offensive Player of the Year was Outside Hitter Treslyn Ortiz, senior. This is the first time in the school's history that we have had a volleyball athlete receive a District specialty award. Christian Dunn is the head volleyball coach.

TRESLYN ORTIZ - All-District Offensive Player Of The Year; 2nd Team All-Galveston County;
Greater Houston Volleyball Coaches Association South All-Star Team
CELESTE LACY -1st Team All-District; Honorable Mention All-County
KENDAL KING - 2nd Team All-District
MYA MCMILLIAN - 2nd Team All-District; Honorable Mention All-County
KELSEY THOMAS - Honorable Mention All-District
SHELBY THOMPSON - Honorable Mention All-District

Blocker Choir students make Region 17 Choirs

Blocker Middle School Choir had ten students make the Region 17 Junior High/Middle School Choirs. This is the highest honor a junior high choir student can achieve in the Texas Music Educators Association process. These students attended the Region 17 Clinic and Concert where they rehearsed and performed with the top choir students in the region. The Blocker Choir Director is TeeJo Gasca.

SHARIYA ANDERSON - Mixed Choir
SHANE BAKER - Mixed Choir
AMARE GEORGE - Mixed Choir
RUSTIN HARA - Mixed Choir
JAVONNE POOL - Mixed Choir
JILLIAN LEMAIRE - Treble Choir
ANGELICA MORAN- Mixed Choir
SHAYLEE RIVERA- Treble Choir
ADRIAN SENDEJAS - Mixed Choir
RAY SMITH - Mixed Choir

TCHS Robotics

The Texas City High School VEX Robotics team, Team 590, competed in their first tournament at the Space City VEX Robotics Competition in November. TCHS was selected as part of the 7th seeded alliance and was eliminated in the quarterfinals. At the Urban STEM Robotics League (USRL) tournament at Space Center Houston in December. The team was selected as part of the 2nd seeded alliance and was eliminated two games to 1 in the best of 3 semifinals. At the USRL tournament at Barber's Hill High School in January, the team was selected as part of the 7th seed alliance. The alliance upset the 2nd and 3rd seeds to make it to their first ever tournament final. At the North vs. South State Tournament Warm-up at Ball High School in February, the team was again selected as part of the 7th seeded alliance and eliminated in the quarterfinals. The team has also ranked as high as 6th in robot skills and twice 3rd in programming skills. They also qualified for and competed this past Saturday at the VEX South Texas State Championships at Clear Falls High School. The students would like to thank their volunteer mentor Jeff Ciabattoni, a 2007 TCHS graduate, for helping with their success. James Jobe is the robotics teacher. 

THOMAS ARMSTRONG
VICTOR GARMS
MATTHEW JECKER
CELESTE LINDUSKY
SAM MOON
HANNAH ROSE

Students advance to HLS&R art contest

Texas City High School art students competed within Galveston County. TCHS students received 3 "Best of Show" and 2 "Gold Medal" ribbons. Each of these students will have their work displayed at the Hayloft Gallery at NRG Stadium during the HLS&R in March. The Houston area high school students who won "Best of Show" and "Gold Medal" ribbons will then be judged again, and a percentage of those students will be auctioned off while others will receive college and art scholarships this summer. These students and are Megan Carpenter, Desiree Haddock, Ada Martin, Jennifer Massie and Lola Rios. 

BROOKE BETHEA - Best of Show High School Division
ASHLEY ACOSTA - Gold Medal High School Division
REBECCA MCCAULEY - Gold Medal High School Division
BONNIE PILLOW - Best of Show Middle School Division
EMILY WOODS - Gold Medal Middle School Division
ALIVIA TOWNSEND - Best of Show Intermediate Division
CLAIRA MENDEZ - Gold Medal Intermediate Division Finalists
ALYSSA DURAN
DALTON HILDEBRAND
NAYELI SALAMANCA
AURIONNA SIMMONS
ALEXANDRIA SLOWEY
SYDNI SPENCER
MADISON WYLIE  

Texas Association of Future Educators Awards

Texas City High School students attended the Texas Association of Future Educators
Regional Competition held in Needville in December. All of the students below advanced to State. At State, the following students placed for their team projects: 1st place Blue Ribbon – Bulletin Board; Canesha McKinley and Chis Ford; 2nd place Red Ribbon – Bulletin Board; Brianna Gomez and Anahi Reyes; 1st place Blue Ribbon Project Visualize – Guadalupe Zamarripa, Kaitlyn Mull, Amy Wadding, Atziri Gutierrez; and 2nd place Red Ribbon Teacher Created Materials; Arely Rabago and Rhett Caballero. Christina Hartsfield is their teacher.

RHETT CABALLERO - Teacher Created Materials
CHRIS FORD - Bulletin Board
BRIANNA GOMEZ - Bulletin Board
ATZIRI GUTIERREZ - Project Visualize
CANESHA MCKINLEY - Bulletin Board
KAITLYN MULL - Project Visualize
ARELY RABAGO - Teacher Created Materials
ANAHI REYES - Bulletin Board
EMILY SUMMERS - School Support Interview and Job Shadow
KELSEY THOMAS - CTE Lesson Planning and Delivery
AMY WADDING - Project Visualize
GUADALUPE ZAMARRIPA - Project Visualize and ELF Test

Blocker Middle School Science Fair winners

Blocker Middle School recently held its Annual Science Fair. These students qualified to compete in the Galveston County Science Fair. Many industrial, business and community members volunteered to serve as judges. The Science Fair was organized by Blocker science teacher Pam Osteen.

7th Grade Winners
AMBER STEBER - 1st Place
CARA PIAZZA - 2nd Place
KAITLYN RODRIGUEZ - 2nd Place
EMILY HUDNALL - 3rd Place
SAVANNAH MCLEMORE - 3rd Place
MAKAYLA JARAMILLO - Honorable Mention
CLAYTON PRIDE - Honorable Mention

8th Grade Winners
SHANE BAKER - 1st Place
KATIE FOREMAN - 2nd Place
LANE SIMMONS - 2nd Place
JORDYN CHEATHAM - 3rd Place
ANNELISE MENDOZA - Honorable Mention
AMBER SNARR - Honorable Mention

Swimming District & Region Honors

The swimming attended the District and Regional tournaments. Coach Roger Bird was named District Boy's Coach of the Year.

HUNTER BATTLE - 1st Team All-District, All-District Academic, Region Finalist
MARIYA BERNAU - 1st Team All-District, Region Finalist
LUKE BRINKLEY - 1st Team All-District, All-District Academic, Region Finalist
AARON HARALSON - 1st Team All-District, Region Qualifier
VICTORIA MYERS - Region Finalist
JULIA REED - 1st Team All-District, All-District Academic, Region Finalist
ANGELA RIVAS - 1st Team All-District, Region Finalist
ALEXANDRIA SLOWEY - 1st Team All-District, All-District Academic, Region Qualifier
AUDRIANNA SLOWEY - 1st Team All-District, All-District Academic, Region Qualifier
JARED STEELE - 1st Team All-District, All-District Academic, Region Finalist
ALEXANDER THOMAS - 1st Team All-District, Region Finalist
GABRIEL WHITE - 1st Team All-District, Region Finalist
EDGAR WINDOM - All-District Academic
NAOMI WINDOM - 1st Team All-District, All-District Academic, Region Finalist

Heights Winter Dash

Heights Elementary had a special run to raise money for the school. Students registered to participate in the 1K for Kindergarten and 1st grades and the 3K for 2nd through 4th grades. Robin Bacon, Jennifer Fernandez, and Wendy Patterson sponsored the run.

Kindergarten
LUIS CANTERA - 1st Place
SARAH MOSELEY- 2nd Place
JORGE HERNANDEZ - 3rd Place

1st Grade
MASON CUNNINGHAM- 1st Place
MICHAEL GOBERT - 2nd Place
TYLER SHANNON - 3rd Place

2nd Grade
ISAIAS YBARRA - 1st Place
TYLER RAMOS - 2nd Place
KENDRIA THORNS - 3rd Place

3rd Grade
KALEB KANE - 1st Place
JAYDA RODRIGUEZ - 2nd Place
LUCAS MARTINEZ - 3rd Place

4th Grade
JAYDEN MORALES - 1st Place
EVAN HUDGENS - 2nd Place
ANDRIK VALLE - 3rd Place

All-State Choir & Band Auditions

All-State is the highest honor a Texas music student can receive. More than 1,600 students are selected through a process that begins with more than 64,000 students 
from around the state trying to perform in one of 15 ensembles (bands, orchestras, and choirs). This competitive process begins throughout the state in auditions hosted by 28 TMEA Regions. Individual musicians perform selected music for a panel of judges who rank each instrument or voice part. From this ranking, a select group of musicians advances from their Region to compete against musicians from other Regions in seven TMEA Area competitions. The highest-ranking musicians judged at the TMEA Area competitions qualify to perform in a
TMEA All-State music group. These All-State students participate in three days of rehearsals directed by nationally recognized conductors during the annual state TMEA Clinic/Convention. Kathy Skinner and Rico D. Hamilton lead the choir. Matthew Raines, Casey Watson, and Ben Guillotte lead the band. The students that made the All-Area competition to compete at the All-State level are as follows.

All-State Honors

SOFIA FAUS - All-State Choir; Region Choir
RILEY HARPER - All-State Choir; Region Choir
THOMAS ARMSTRONG - All-State Band; Region Band
Region Choir
NICO STROM-McKEE
VERONICA STOVICH
MEG TREADWELL
Area Band
LOGAN BONNER
LUKE BRINKLEY
AUSTIN KELTON, Region Band
PATRICK KENNEDY
NOAH MARTINEZ
KAMERON MILLS
KORA MOLINA
ALYSSA PLASEK
GABRIEL POARCH
ISIDORO RAMOS
DAKOTA RENKEN, Region Band
SYDNEY RIOS
HANNAH ROSE
JESSICA ROSE
BRENNA SERVANTES
ALEXANDRIA STREETER
CE’NEDRA WEST
ASHLEY YELVERTON
ERIK YGLESIAS
KELVIN ZHOU

Rotary Youth Leadership Awards

The Rotary Club of Texas City selected 13 juniors from Texas City High School to attend the District 5910 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) in Woodlake, Texas. RYLA emphasizes leadership, citizenship, and personal growth. It provides an efficient training experience for selected youth; seniors Ryne Cooper, Jacob Garza, Parker Johns, Treslyn Ortiz and Macy Rae Surovik returned as counselors this year. Dylan Alvarado and Michael Martinez were selected to go back as 2017 counselors and Jacob Garza and Macy Rae Surovik receive scholarships and the opportunity
to go back in 2017 as trainers. Melissa Tortorici is the Rotary RYLA Chairman.

DYLAN ALVARADO
LEAH BEAR
MADISON BOURGEOIS
JADE CHAPMAN
RYNE COOPER
KAYLEI EDMONSTON
ABIGAIL FORASIEPI
JACOB GARZA
MYKAELA GOROM
SAMANTHA GUTIERREZ
RYLAN HARA
PARKER JOHNS
MICHAEL MARTINEZ
SUMMER MILLER
ALEXANDRIA NEELY
TRESLYN ORTIZ
JULIA REED
MARIAH RUIZ
ALEXANDER SHOLMIRE
EMILY SUMMERS
MACY RAE SUROVIK
KELSEY THOMAS
SHELBY THOMPSON
KIA WELLS		
7.	Adjournment

A motion was made by Mr. David Moss, Board Member to adjourn at 7:02 p.m. The motion was seconded by Ms. Melba Anderson, Board member. The motion carried 6/0. 		
 
Approved: 
	
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Manuel Guajardo Jr.
Dickey Campbell	 			Date 
TCISD Board of Trustees 

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Adriana Lyle, Secretary 			Date 
TCISD Board of Trustee