Students recognized for ‘reflections’
The work of seven Dripping Springs ISD students received recognition at the 2017 Texas PTA “Reflections” State Contest, including two national qualifiers. A total of 18 Dripping Springs students qualified for the state competition.
Student work is submitted in one of six categories and evaluated based on artistic merit, creativity, mastery of the medium, and interpretation of the theme; this year’s theme was “What Is Your Story?”
National qualifiers are sophomore James Bartling for his musical composition titled “My Story” and eighth-grader Drew Wilson for his photograph named “Choosing My Colors”; both received Awards of Excellence at the state level.
Wilson also received a state Award of Merit in Visual Arts for “My Life Underwater,” as did seventh-grader Caroline Manning in Musical Composition for “Forever I Stand.” Four students earned honorable mention: Isla Conreaux (Visual Arts), Vivian Gomez (Literature), Michael Gearing (Musical Competition) and Ginny Falls (Literature).
Tiger authors earn awards
Two DSHS students in Creative Writing classes received writing awards recently. Senior Henri Brink received two Silver Key Awards (in the categories Writing Portfolio and Poetry) and Honorable Mention (Short Story) in the national Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards Competition, which featured more than 330,000 entries. Sophomore Julia Junker won second place in the Youth Short Story category of the Texas Night Sky Festival’s writing contest.
