Talk of the Neighborhood: Local achievements and honors for April 17, 2011
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Talk of the Neighborhood highlights Central Texans’ achievements.
* Class Acts *
* Six of the seven Robinson FFA career development event teams that competed at the Area VIII FFA judging contests held at Tarleton State University qualified for state contests in their events. Click here to see photos of some of the winners.
Three teams will compete at the Texas FFA State Career Development Event Contests hosted by Tarleton State University on April 21.
Mason Stanley, Treavor Wolff, Jared Goedeke and Randy Riddle placed first out of 28 teams in the land evaluation contest. Stanley received an award for being the high-point scoring individual for the contest out of 101 participants.
In dairy foods evaluation, Ruby Elder, Abigail Elder, Clarissa Paar, and Cody Atkinson placed fourth out of 33 teams.
The dairy cattle team of David Butler, Colton Moorhouse, Courtney Dillon and Paige Zink placed fifth out of 38 teams. Moorhouse was the fifth-highest individual out of 128 contestants.
The horse judging team of Sheridan Bridges, Cody Davis, Trevor Yglecias and Ashlyn Bracewell placed seventh of 51 teams. These students competed Saturday at state competition at Texas Tech University.
In the floriculture contest, Bradi Rogers, Megan Farney, Keeli Nehring and Rachel Netherland placed fifth out of 20 teams. Their state contest will be hosted by Sam Houston State University on May 6.
Collin Grady, Kirsten Turner, Haley Herzog and Jay Crumley placed eighth of 55 livestock judging teams. Their state contest will be at Texas A&M University on May 7.
Reed Johnston, Nathan Neumann, Dylan Hammack and A.J. Vorderkunz placed eighth of 16 teams in the nursery/landscape evaluation contest but will not advance to state competition.
* McGregor High School sent 11 students to the regional meet after they placed first, second or third at the District 16-2A University Interscholastic League academic-speech meet. McGregor placed first as a team in mathematics and computer science.
Those advancing to regionals are (listed by event with place at district; includes fourth place, which is an alternate):
Calculator applications — Corina Hueske, 3rd.
Current issues and events — Alex Vences, 2nd.
Computer science — 1st as team. Hannah Lenamon, 1st; Erik Mercado, 2nd; Tyrell Pruitt, 4th; Dalton Piersol, 5th.
Lincoln-Douglas debate — Darlisha Blaylock, 2nd.
Mathematics — 1st as team. Erik Mercado, 1st; Corina Hueske, 4th; Hannah Lenamon, 6th; team member Raunel Suarez.
Persuasive speaking — Stephen Simcox, 1st.
Ready writing — Katie Bowden, 3rd; Courtney White, 4th.
Science — Alex Vence, 3rd (top biology score).
Social studies — Courtney White, 2nd.
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