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OAP Performance Schedule
By Luis Muñoz, Theatre Director | Friday, April 22, 2011 9:14 AM
3A – May 9, 2011 – Bass Concert Hall
4:00 pm – Session I
Aubrey – Pillowman
Gatesville – A Servant of Two Masters
Tyler: Chapel Hill – Too Much Memory
Seminole – Players in the Game
Video from the UIL’s 2011 State CX-Debate
By Chris Schmidt, Communications Officer | Thursday, March 24, 2011 3:39 PM
Video from the UIL's 2011 State CX-Debate Meet
Theatrical Design Contest Announces State Qualifiers
By Luis Muñoz, Theatre Director | Tuesday, March 22, 2011 12:26 PM
The League’s Theatrical Design Contest continues to grow. With 36 entries in its 2006 debut, the contest has grown to 261 in 2011. This year’s preliminary judges included Amarante Lucero, UT-Austin and Denise Martel, UT-Austin for Set Design. Costumes were adjudicated by Barbara Pope, UT-Austin, Kelly Draper, Lamar University, Rosa Lozaro, Texas A&M – Corpus Christi and Ron Dodson, retired, Austin. The team of Michele Autenreith-Brown and Beverly Ingle from Guerra, DeBerry and Coody Marketing & Communications adjudicated the Marketing entries.
The following schools and individuals received Exemplary ratings and will be competing for state honors this May. The exhibition is scheduled for May 9-11 at Bass Concert Hall. The walk-through critiques are scheduled for 9 a.m. on Wednesday. Awards will be presented that night prior to the 5A awards ceremony.
2011 TILF Scholarship Banquet
By Brenda Baxendale, Program Administrator | Monday, March 07, 2011 2:15 PM
The annual Scholarship Banquet for the Texas Interscholastic League Foundation (TILF) was held at the AT&T Executive Conference Center on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin on Feb. 21. TILF is the scholarship program for the University Interscholastic League. Scholarship recipients, TILF Board members, donors and UIL directors and staff attended the banquet.
Committee Selects Texas Teacher’s Topic for National CX Debate Competition
By Julianne Coyne, UIL Intern | Monday, March 07, 2011 11:07 AM
Chad Flisowski
As a child, Calhoun High School debate coach Chad Flisowski was intrigued by space. He was inspired by Star Trek, shuttle launches and the return of Halley’s Comet. He dreamt of sailing through space.
“I never lost that enthusiasm for space travel or space science as I grew older,” Flisowski said. “I read books on the subject, watched documentaries on the Discovery and History channels and even took astronomy in college. And I never gaze up at the night sky without a sense of wonder."
UIL Honors 15 Sponsor Excellence Award Winners
By Chris Schmidt, Communications Officer | Monday, February 21, 2011 3:05 PM
Journalism teacher Mary Pulliam accepts her Sponsor Excellence Award at the February Duncanville ISD School Board meeting. Pulliam has taught journalism for more than 30 years at Duncanville High School.
Photo by Angel Morris
The University Interscholastic League is proud to recognize 15 of the top UIL sponsors in Texas as the 2010 UIL Sponsor Excellence Award winners.
The winners were selected by a panel of judges in the areas of music, athletics and academics from nominations submitted by school principals and superintendents across the state.
Ideas for Scholastic Journalism Week Feb. 20-26
By Julianne Coyne, UIL Intern | Wednesday, February 09, 2011 2:54 PM
The Journalism Education Association has designated the week of Feb. 20-26 as Scholastic Journalism Week. During this week, schools from around the nation will look for ways to celebrate their journalism programs and inform the public of the benefits of scholastic journalism.
Here are some ideas for celebrating at your school:
1. Have students research and celebrate famous journalists like Nellie Bly or Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
2. Hold a fake news conference or stage a fake crime for students to report.
Prepping for Lit Crit in 2011
By Mark Bernier, Literary Criticism State Contest Director | Monday, February 07, 2011 9:22 AM
The district and region meets are just down the road, and I trust that the invitational meets are serving as good preparation. The calendar appears crowded with opportunity even if the weather (and the economy) might be interfering a bit.
Living with the Reading List has its effects; some, I hope, are short-term. I recently dreamed about Lizzie coming upon Yank in a greenhouse, the image of which is permanently burned into my imagination's retina. The Omphalian oracle positioned among "last year's" Erewhonian statues doesn't haunt me, perhaps because New Zealand, even in my dream world, is so beautiful. So it is that I hope that you are enjoying Austen's invitation into Society and O'Neill's thrusting you into the caged world of the working class, as well as Roethke's beckoning you along the recursive path that is the breadth of his lifetime of experience.
Clarifying Questions About New Prose & Poetry Categories
By Jana Riggins, Speech and Debate Director | Tuesday, February 01, 2011 4:01 PM
There is much excitement about the new prose and poetry categories for high school oral interpretation contests. As students and coaches seek to find literature to fit these parameters, questions arise. I have enjoyed being out on the circuit judging. I see firsthand the approaches students are taking with the categories, which aids me in evaluating the category descriptors to ensure they clearly convey the framers’ intent for performances.
I am writing this article to clarify many of the questions I have received regarding the new categories.
Let me begin by reminding coaches the Constitution & Contest Rules require all coaches to read the 2010-2011 edition of the UIL Prose and Poetry Handbook, which should be ordered from the State Office. There is an extended discussion of the categories in Chapter 4 designed to aid coaches in guiding their students to prepare appropriately. Review the manual far in advance of your district meet, in order to prevent problems or disqualification at League-standing contests.
Documentation Details for 2010-11
By Jana Riggins, Speech and Debate Director | Tuesday, February 01, 2011 3:46 PM
As you prepare for your upcoming spring competition, one of the most important things prose and poetry performers must do is to secure appropriate documentation for the performance categories.
Securing documentation is not a task that can be left until the last minute. Although the new categories were designed to make documentation easier, the authors and selections a student chooses may not be quick to document.
Documentation should be found before students put their heart and soul into analyzing and rehearsing a literary work for competition. If documentation is insufficient, students do not get to compete, so knowing the requirements and making certain you have met the contest rules is of utmost importance.