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Farmers Branch Carrollton Art Association Student/Scholarship Show

The Farmer’s Branch Carrollton Art Association will be hosting their annual Student/Scholarship Show from Saturday, November 2 through Friday, December 6 at the Farmer’s Branch Manske Library, 13613 Webb Chapel Road, Farmer’s Branch, Texas.
The show is open to all high school students in the Carrollton Farmer’s Branch ISD. Scholarships are given to graduating seniors planning to major in art at an accredited college, university, or academy.

The winners are:
$1,000 Scholarship winner:
Violet Smith – Creekview HS, teacher Cindy Summerman

First Place (Best of Student Show) Chris Galindo – Creekview HS, teacher Bob Thomas, ‘Tears of Fear’ painting

Second Place Shaun Houpy – Creekview HS, teacher Cindy Summerman,’Snake’ jewelry

Third Place Rose De Los Santos – Creekview HS, teacher David Carroll, ‘It’s Not a Bowl’ ceramics

Honorable Mentions
Creekview HS
Habesh Kisanga ‘Barbara’, Black and White drawing
Cameron Chopra ‘You Name It’, ceramics

Newman Smith HS
Leona Blake ‘Dog Days’, drawing
Anna Martinez ‘Hawks Eye’, sculpture
Katauna Lewis ‘Jelly Fish’, ceramics

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Smith Students Earn National Merit Scholars

Congratulations to the following students that earned National Merit Scholars honors so far for 2017.

Jason Zhang has been named a National Merit Semifinalists for 2017.  This is an outstanding achievement considering the difficulty of the re-designed PSAT exam.  Zhang earned one of the top scores among all 16,000 semifinalists in the competition.

Also, congratulations to Chisara L. Campbell, Emily C. Clark and Julien Tagnon for earning National Merit Commended Scholars honors.

Their score were likewise impressive.

Our National Hispanic Recognition Program Scholars are Eric Talamantes and Antonio Camacho.

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IBA Hosting Fundraiser for Smith Student Recovering from ICU

On Thursday, September, 29th, one of our on IBA students at Newman Smith, Daniel Song, was hit by a car on his way to school. He spent a week in ICU but is thankfully doing much better now. The International Business Academy is holding a fundraiser to help out this sweet family while Daniel recovers.

The fundraiser will be held on Saturday, October 15th from 9am-noon at the Sonic at Josey and Keller Spring. IBA students will be your servers delivering those tasty Sonic treats to your car! We hope that you can find time to come out Saturday morning and help support Daniel, an important part of our CFBISD, Newman Smith, and IBA family!

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Senior at Smith Wins 1st Place at Frisco Liberty Tournament!

Congratulations to Senior NSHS Trojan Golfer Casey Washmon.

She shot a low score of 75 yesterday at Plantation Golf Course in Frisco winning 1st Place Medalist at the Frisco Liberty Tournament. She eagled one hole 8 with a chip in.

Also, congratulations to our JV Boys team who placed 2nd at our own Michael Ebanks Tournament on September 19th.

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Smith Choir – District Choir Results

Newman Smith had 21 singers audition on the first round and 14 of them will be advancing to the next round on October 15. The following students will be advancing:

Jamie Bottomley 11th S1
Aden Black 10th S2
Sierra Davis 12th S2
Lamisa Mustafa 12th A1
Morgen Amalbert 12th A2
Natasha Duke 11th A2
Wiley Dodge 12th T1
Alejandro Aguilar 11th T1
Carlos Torres 12th T2
Cesar Ramos 11th T2
Sergio Lopez 11th T2
Rami Bakr 10th B1
Miguel Morales 12th B2
David Lasater 10th B2
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Creekview Speech

Newman Smith Tournament Results:

DI –     1st place – Roxanne Hill

HI –     1st place – Kaden Yowell

4th place– Ellington Jones

Prose – 3rd place – Cassie Gilpin

Duo –   3rd place  – Jacob McIntosh/Kaden Yowell

4th place – Emme Basnett/Josiah Willis

Oratory – 2nd place – Joy Lim

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Smith – Drumline Competition

Smith – Drumline Competition

The Smith percussion section competed in the Plano Drumline Competition.   They won their division and were also awarded most outstanding snare and quad line in their division.  If you are interested, here is a link to our judges sheets and audio recordings from Saturday.

http://www.pdlconline.org/NewmanSmith475f6a2826/

 

2016 NSHS Percussion Section

NAME GRADE
Alliya Cannon – SL 12
Brendan Paxton 12
David Burbano 12
Demarcus Simpson 12
Ezequel Delgado – SL 12
Jacob Yow – SL 12
Jorge Teran – SL 12
Julien Tagnon – SL 12
Stephen Munoz 12
Danny Posada 11
Johnson Tran 11
Josh Thurman 11
Adriana Lima 10
Brian Rodriguez 10
Jared Lee 10
Kayla Rakovan 10
Rebekah Masih 10
Adam Eoff 9
Allison Taboada 9
Grace Couvillon 9
Jack Texada 9
Luke Maternowski 9
Tiffany Loredo 9
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