UIL contests conducted on site

By Sandy Morris

 Albany ISD Junior High and Nancy Smith Elementary students are scheduled to compete in various UIL academic events on Tuesday, Dec. 8. 

This year, all events will be conducted locally with no outside audiences allowed. 

Junior high UIL coordinator Melanie Anderson said contests will be run the same even though they are being held locally.

“All UIL rules and time limits remain the same,” said Anderson. 

All writing events are already being conducted and sumbitted via email, and speaking events are being recorded and sent to judges to be scored. 

Any additional events will be conducted on paper as usual, but will be submitted for remote judging, with all results being returned via email.   

There are nine second graders, 20 third graders, nine fourth graders, nine fifth graders and 27 sixth graders competing from NSES. 

According to NSES counselor Susie Beard,  students will be competing in events such as Oral Reading, Chess, Spelling, Social Studies, Ready Writing, Editorial Writing, Impromptu Speaking, Listening, Maps, Graphs and Charts, Music Memory, Mathematics, and Number Sense.

There are 50-plus junior high students competing in categories including Art, Calculator Applications, Chess Puzzle, Dictionary Skills, Editorial Writing, Impromptu Speaking, Listening, Maps, Graphs and Charts, Mathematics, Modern Oratory, Music Memory, Science, Number Sense, Oral Reading, Ready Writing, Social Studies and Spelling.