At the Austin FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) district meet, the Dripping Springs High “Spring Konstant” team won the Engineering Inspiration Award. This award “celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering within a team’s school and community.” Spring Konstan...

Five Hays CISD teams traveled to Austin this past week to compete in the Capital Region Destination Imagination competition held at Connally High, with two programs advancing to the next round. Schools represented include Carpenter Hill, Elm Grove, Fuentes, Kyle elementary schools and Dahlstrom Midd...

Earlier this month, the Mariachi Los Lobos team earned fifth place in 6A at the Texas Association of Mariachi Educators State Mariachi Festival in Grand Prairie. Los Lobos then earned superior ratings at the UIL State Mariachi Festival held in Edinburg. Sonny Hunkin, a senior violinist and four-year...

Earlier this month, Negley Elementary hosted the 2019 running of the Negley Races, a 5K, 3K and 1K run. The event, put on by nonprofit For the Love of Go, had participants run through the winding streets of Plum Creek in Kyle. More than 200 people hit the pavement despite less than ideal weather con...

Photo by Rose Holloway  On Jan. 30th, Alex Yi, an 8th grade exchange student at Wallace Middle School, was the 1st Prize winner at the Manhattan International Music Competition and was invited to perform at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Yi, originally from South Korea, is a p...

A high ranking member of Hays CISD's executive leadership team has resigned after an employee within the district filed a complaint against him in February. Jim Baker, who had served as Hays CISD's chief human resource (HR) officer, resigned Tuesday according to a district statement. Baker had been ...

DSHS engineering students competed at the recent Land Rover 4x4 in Schools National Championship event. The challenge involves between three and six team members working together to design and build a radio-controlled four-wheel drive (4x4) vehicle to exact specifications. The vehicle must be able t...

Dripping Springs Middle School eighth-grader Connor Rezykowski was awarded a Silver Key Award for the Southwest U.S. Region-at-Large for his short story titled “The Last Sunset” in the 2019 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards competition. Connor’s Language Arts teacher is Alex Shindeldecker.The Scholast...

The Dripping Springs High School Hi-Steppers recently completed their competitive season with multiple awards at the Alamo City Dance Classic in San Antonio. DSHS received the ”Line of Champions” and the “Officer Line of Champions” awards, which signifies being one of the highest eight scoring and h...

Photo courtesy Buda Elementary Earlier this week, students from Buda Elementary traveled to Austin to receive a resolution honoring the legacy of the historic campus, which will officially move to a new location starting August 2019. Students met and talked with State Rep. Erin Zwiener (D-Driftwood)...