School

Groups of eighth graders recently worked hard creating a story plan, illustrating pictures, and putting it all together using Microsoft Publisher. Last Thursday these student authors made their way to the elementary school to share their colorful books. Many of the pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students also asked the “big” kids to read them some of their own favorite stories.

After a strong showing at the Hill District FFA Leadership Contests on November 10th, eight teams representing the Blanco FFA Chapter qualified to compete in the Area VII Leadership Development Events on November 19th. This year’s area competition was hosted by Blanco High School. Overall, more than 60 schools and 500 students from across Central Texas competed in twelve different events with hopes of advancing to state.

Pedernales Electric’s 2009 Youth Tour Contest has concluded, and six excited students are packing for a trip to Washington, D.C. The winners are Luke Brown, Amanda Dickinson, Emily Gross and Lynn Nguyen of Dripping Springs High School, Kathlene Davis of Leander H.S. and Hillary Tidwell of Blanco H.S. This year’s contest was in honor of Lyndon B.

Blanco, Texas - Youth from the Blanco High School chapter of Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) recently participated in a weekend leadership conference held November 21-23, in Dallas, Texas. Attendees participated in a weekend of trainings and sessions that challenged, informed, and motivated members and their advisers to become leaders through FCCLA.

Elementary A Honor Roll First Grade Mitchell Barnett, Luke Biggs, Jacob Boubel, Chandler Brewer, Maya Burkhart, Landon Burt, Adrian Campa, Malinda Campbell, Angel Daniels-Zavala, Kyla Davis, Christian Flores, Clarissa Forrester, Angela Gonzalez, Jonathan Gonzalez, Shelby Greene, Travis Grimes, Brayden Hodge, Adeena Houle, Jacob Kasberg, Maiya Keutz, Kade Kneese, Kelton Marek, Kolby Marek, Kinidi Moore, Mason O’Rear, Kevin Peyton, Maritza Ponder, Rachelle Reveley, Ryan Reveley, Hayden Riba,

The ground has formally been broken at Blanco High School for the construction of new tennis courts. Geo-technical engineers from Fugro Consultants, Inc., drilled holes to collect soil samples at the site last Friday. Analysis of these samples is valuable information in the design and construction of the the tennis court slab.