GCISD students won eight individual awards and three team awards at the state UIL Academic Contest held May 18-19 at the University of Texas Austin. Collegiate Academy competed in UIL 3A, while Grapevine High School competed in 5A. Congratulations!
Collegiate Academy
Individual Awards
Abigail Stucky, second place copy editing
Team Awards
Social studies, fifth place
Grapevine High School
Individual Awards
Manar Elmahi, second place, poetry interpretation
Piyush Mallick, first place, mathematics; first place, number sense; tied for second place, calculator applications
Davis Marino, third place, prose interpretation
Pepper Sychitkokhong, fifth place informative speaking
Alexis Weatherall, fifth place, feature writing
Team Awards
Overall school sweepstakes, third place
Speech team, second place
Team awards are based on points awarded in individual contest categories. In most individual contests, points are awarded to first through sixth places. Sweepstakes awards are presented in each UIL division to schools with the most points across all state academic events.