Mason High School won the District UIL Academics Championship for 2016 in a two-day contest held April 4th and 6th in Johnson City. The MHS team posted 542 points to the second place Harper’s 283 points. On top of winning handily, the Mason students pulled off a rare feat of placing in every one of the 24 contested events.
In all, Mason students won first place in nine different events, and 25 students advanced to compete at the Regional Meet that will be held April 22-23 in Corpus Christi.
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Thursday, April 7, 2016 was an exciting day at Mason Elementary! The cafeteria and school was completely full, with well over 100 people! It was the 4th Annual Leadership Day, where students had an opportunity to show how The Leader in Me has been put into action throughout the school.
Mason High School’s performance of scenes from You Can’t Take It With You won the Area contest on April 8 and will travel to Region contest at Veterans Memorial High School in Corpus Christi on April 21, 2016.
More adversity occurred this week when music cues did not function properly as the show was about to begin.
By the time you read this, the Punchers and Cowgirls will be competing in the first round of Regional play in Corpus Christi. The first round tees off early Wednesday morning and will conclude with the second round on Thursday.
The Cowgirls finished in Seconded Place behind the San Saba Armadillo’s.
The Johnson City ISD is asking parents with children preparing for Kindergarten to attend the Kindergarten Round-Up on Wednesday, April 20 from 4:30-6:00 pm at the LBJ Elementary School.
The school staff will conduct a brief, informal assessment regarding your child’s current skill level with the following items: letter and sound identification, counting, shapes and colors.
The Johnson City track team did something that had not been done since the Nixon administration, the Eagles won the Track District Championship.
The Eagles took a 2 point lead into the final race and ran a mile relay race that will be remembered for a long time. Morgan Lindsey and Sylvester Quinonez ran the first 2 legs and kept the race very close, then Brett Harris took the baton and ran an amazing leg giving the Eagles the lead.
Congratulations to a very successful turnout from the Johnson City Academic contestants who competed at the District level meet last week. Students advancing from Regionals to State will have the opportunity for $2000 TILF scholarships. Individual Awards and Team Awards listed below:
Computer Science: Kaitlyn Arveson (lst), Seth Beall (2nd), Charles Hedlund (5th), (Quaid Thompson); 1st place team Number Sense: Kaitlyn Arveson, Makayla Arveson, Seth Beall (ALT) and Rafael Garcia (lst place team) ...
The Johnson City Eagles traveled to Ozona Friday night and handed the Lions a 8-2 defeat. Johnson City jumped out to an early 5-0 lead after 2 innings. The Eagles added another two runs in the top of the fourth, but Ozona answered with 2 runs of their own, leaving the score Eagles 7 Lions 2.
