Students Advance to DECA National
Irving High School DECA
student Brent Felty won first place at the state competition in Corpus
Christi, becoming the first Irving High student to qualify for
competition at the national level since the school began its DECA
program.
Distributive Education
Clubs of America, or DECA, is an organization designed to create future
leaders in the areas of management, marketing and entrepreneurship.
Felty took the top award in Quick Serve Restaurant Management with Chris
Woolfolk
qualifying as an alternate for national competition in the area of
automotive services marketing.
At The Academy of
Irving ISD, a team of three students qualified to represent their
chapter in the Entrepreneurship Promotional Event at the national level.
Academy juniors Emma Graziani, Chantal Jarayanpour and Morgan Hudgins
wrote a 30 page paper and conducted a presentation about what the
chapter had done to promote entrepreneurship as a career option at the
state contest. The team won in their division and will make their second
trip to national competition.
The DECA national
contest, known as International Career Development Conference, will be
held April 26-29 and encompasses competitive events as well as
leadership seminars, motivational speakers and student officer
elections.
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Brent Felty,
DECA member at Irving High School, won first place in the
state in the category of Quick Serve Restaurant Management
and will be the first Irving High student to compete at the
national level. |
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Middle Schoolers
Attend Girls’ Engineering Day
As part of National
Engineers Week, the ExxonMobil company hosted area middle school girls
at the company’s “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” February 28.
Girls from IISD’s
Austin Middle School joined students from DISD’s Soto Elementary School,
Communities in Schools Dallas Region, Inc., and Girls Incorporated of
Metropolitan Dallas. More than 60 students were invited to ExxonMobil as
part of the program to highlight career paths in science, technology,
engineering and mathematics.
Students listened to
engineers talk about their career experiences, participated in hands-on
science experiments and were hosted by engineers and employees for
lunch. In addition to promoting engineering career paths, the visit was
also designed to attract young women to the engineering profession and
raise awareness of the impact engineering careers have on everyday life.
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Students
from Austin Middle School visited ExxonMobil February 28 as
part of “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day”, an event
designed to attract women to the engineering career field. |
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Parent Information
Night Scheduled
On Monday, March 31,
the IISD Special Education Department will sponsor its annual parent
information night from 6-8 p.m. at MacArthur High School library.
The event is designed
to make families aware of the various agencies and community resources
available in the Irving area. Representatives from area agencies will
also be available to answer questions. Agencies represented include:
Dallas Metro Care, ARC of Dallas, North Lake College, Department of
Assistive & Rehabilitative Services, Special Care & Career Services, and
REACH of Dallas.
Several concurrent
information seminars will also be presented in two sessions throughout
the evening: guardianship, social security, group homes, and “How to
Speak ARD at the Secondary Level.” Most sessions run in 30-minute
periods from 6:15-6:45 p.m. and from 7-7:30 p.m., with the guardianship
session running from 7-7:45 p.m. and again at 7:15-8 p.m.
The MacArthur library
is located at 3700 N. MacArthur Blvd. Child care and refreshments will
be provided.
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Board of Trustees
Election Candidates Announced
The following individuals
have filed to run for IISD Board of Trustees, Places 1 and 2, in the
election scheduled for May 10.
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CANDIDATE NAME |
PLACE |
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Stacey Ponce
Gina Bates
Nancy Jones |
1 |
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A.D. Jenkins
Jorge Alfonso Chac II |
2 |
The write-in candidate
deadline is Monday, March 17. IISD administrative offices will be closed
for Spring Break March 17-21, however candidates may submit write-in
applications at the IISD Tax Office, open Monday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Early voting will be
April 28-May 6 and election-day is Saturday, May 10. For a list of
early-voting and election-day polling places, access
www.irvingisd.net/page/election.htm.
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Orchestra Students
Excel in District Competition
Fourteen soloists, two
duets, and one trio received highest honors among more than 500 total
entries at Irving ISD Solo & Ensemble contest February 21 at Lamar
Middle School.
IISD orchestra instrumentalists from all three school
zones represented their middle and high schools. For a complete list of
the top 17 entries, go to:
www.irvingisd.net/articles/OPAwards2008.htm
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ISTV to Repeat ICE Awards
The
Eighth Annual ICE Awards ceremony will be aired three times per day on a
daily basis from March 12-23 at 10:20 a.m., 2:20 p.m. and 10:20 p.m. on
Irving Schools Television (ISTV).
ISTV can
be seen in Irving on Time Warner Cable channel 98 and Verizon FiOS
channel 33.
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