Monday, January 20, 2014

Alexander High School UIL "Set A" Invitational Academic Meet

The UIL Journalism team led by Dionni Olivares, competed on January 11, at the UIL Academic Meet in Laredo, Texas.

The competition  consists of 4 different hour long writing events. Each student can compete in each category for individual awards, and then all points are added together to equal a team score.

As an entire team made up of 8 students, they ranked 1st amongst 14 schools that competed and received a plaque.

Individually, Ariana Gomez swept the competition and won first place in editorial writing, 2nd in feature writing, 3rd in headline writing and 4th in news while Sofia Casa placed 4th in headline writing. Freshman newcomer Valeria Sornia earned a 5th place in Newswriting.