March 3, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:Megan Overman, Public Information Officer
Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District
817-251-5503

Fifteen GCISD students go to state Reflections contest

Entries from 15 Grapevine-Colleyville ISD students from the Area #17 level of the 2007-2008 Arts Reflections Contest will advance to the state level of the contest and have the opportunity to compete in the national level of competition. A total of 41 students were winners of the GCISD Council of PTAs Reflections Contest and went on to be judged at the District/Area #17 level contest. From those 41, the 15 winners from GCISD were selected.

Over 900 students at the 17 elementary, middle and high schools in the Grapevine-Colleyville ISD entered the 2007-2008 Arts Reflections Contest in six categories including dance choreography, film/video production, literature, music composition, photography and visual arts. Each entry was originally judged at the schools in four levels on the interpretation of this year’s theme “I Can Make A Difference By…,” creativity and artistic merit.

Area #17 is comprised of 18 school districts including Birdville ISD, Carroll ISD, Castleberry ISD, Crowley ISD, Eagle Mountain-Saginaw, Era ISD, Everman ISD, Fort Worth ISD, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD, Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD, Keller ISD, Lake Worth ISD, Lindsey ISD, Muenster ISD, Northwest ISD, Sivells Bend ISD, Slidell ISD and White Settlement.

This year’s Area #17 Reflections winners of the Award of Excellence or 1st place are:

Film/Video Production
Parker Rawlings, 4th grade, Teaching Pet Identification, Interm, Glenhope Elem
Lenexa Morais, 7th grade, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Middle, Heritage Middle
Todd Meeker, 10th grade, Self, Senior, Colleyville Heritage High

Literature
Samuel Salazar, 2nd grade, I Can Make A Difference By, Primary, Heritage Elem
Delaney Davis, 3rd grade, Making A Difference, Intermediate, Timberline Elem
Jenny Foster, 4th grade, A Change, Intermediate, Colleyville Elementary
Addison Payne, 5th grade, Autism, Intermediate, Cannon Elementary
Naomi Sims, 6th grade, The Girl Next Door, Middle, Grapevine Middle

Music Composition
Chris Daily, 12th grade, Making You Laugh, Senior, Grapevine High

Photography
Sophie Wilkinson, 1st grade, Being a Better Friend, Primary, Silver Lake Elem
Shawn Foster, 7th grade, Frogland, Middle, Cross Timbers Middle

Visual Arts
Janaye Barker, 5th grade, Words That Make a Difference, Interm, Bransford Elem
Jacqueline Kirby, 5th grade, Therapeutic Horseback Riding, Interm, Cannon Elem
Candace Gabel, 8th grade, Being a Volunteer, Middle, Heritage Middle
Heejung Park, 11th grade, I Can Turn the World Around with Belief in Myself and God, Senior, Grapevine High

Last year, Chris Daily's musical composition competed at the national level of the Arts Reflection contest. Daily, a senior at Grapevine High Schoo, has entered another musical competition this year.