UIL District 25 Academic, Speech and Debate Contests

UIL Speech & LD Contests - March 25th

Speech and Debate events will compete on Wednesday, March 25th, at Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic Church (located at 6571 FM 970, Florence, TX 76527).  

UIL Academic Contests - March 27th and 28th

The UIL District Academic Contest will be held over the course of the next two weeks.  Computer Science students will compete Friday, March 27th at Cedar Park High School.  They need to obtain travel times from Mr. McMillan.  All other academic testers will be competing Saturday, March 28th at Cedar Park High School.  We will depart the front parking lot at HHS at 6:30 AM, and will return back there around 6:00 PM. 

All students must travel to the contest with their team.  Students who leave early need to have their parent or guardian send a photo of them with their parent/guardian in the car to both their coach, and Mrs. Lozano (512-213-7795) to confirm that they have been safely picked up.

All students need to fill out the travel permission form.  It is the responsibility of each coach to ensure that the members of their team have submitted the permission form.

UIL Speech & LD Contests on Wednesday, March 25th

6:30 AM Depart HHS with Bailey and Lozano (Front Visitor Lot of HHS)

7:45 AM Arrive at Competition Venue (Santa Rosa de Lima Catholic Church)

8:30 AM Round 1 LD Debate

9:00 AM Prelims - Prose & Poetry

9:30 AM Round 2 LD Debate

10:30 AM Round 3 LD Debate

11:30 AM DRAW - Informative & Persuasive

12:00 PM Prelims - Informative & Persuasive

12:30 PM Lunch - Students need to bring lunch

2:00 PM Finals - Prose & Poetry

Semifinals - LD Debate

3:00 PM Finals - LD Debate

4:00 PM DRAW - Informative & Persuasive

4:30 PM Finals - Informative & Persuasive

6:00 PM Depart Competition Venue

7:00 PM Arrive at HHS

Computer Science on Friday, March 27th

**Please check with Mr. McMillan to ascertain specific departure and return times.

10:00 AM Computer Science Written

12:00 PM Computer Science Hands-On

Academic Contests on Saturday, March 28th

6:30 AM Bus departs from the front visitor's parking lot of Hays High School

8:00 AM Current Issues and Events

Number Sense

8:30 AM Ready Writing

9:00 AM Calculator Applications

10:30 AM Copy Editing

11:00 AM Accounting

  News Writing

  Science

  Spelling

12:00 PM Feature Writing

1:30 PM Editorial Writing

Social Studies

2:30 PM Headline Writing

Mathematics

3:30 PM Literary Criticism

5:00 PM Students depart from Cedar Park High School 

6:00 PM Students arrive back at Hays High School 

Students may be picked up from Cedar Park High School following the completion of their last contest.  Any student who does not ride the bus home needs to send their coach and Mrs. Lozano (512-213-7795) a text message with a selfie of themselves and their parent/guardian in the car together.  This is the only acceptable way for students to depart the venue early.