All results from this past week’s UIL District 24-5A Academic Meet are in, and we can now report conclusively that the 2024 MACademics team not only matched last year’s historic result, it exceeded it. McCallum repeated as overall district academic champions and as journalism champions, but the school also won the speech team title.
MAC won the overall title by winning the highest number of individual and team sweepstakes points. McCallum earned 563 points, ahead of second-place Ann Richards (322) and third-place Crockett (209). LASA (174), LBJ (119) and Navarro (116) placed fourth, fifth and sixth respectively.
A year ago, McCallum’s winning point total was 523.5 points. The speech and debate team made this year’s overall improvement possible. McCallum won the speech team title with a total of 126 points in speech events, ahead of second-place LBJ (70) and third-place Ann Richards (65). Crockett and LASA tied for fourth with 20 points.
The Shield staff captured the journalism team title after earning 183 points, ahead of second-place Crockett (52) and third-place Ann Richards (30).
In the other team competitions, McCallum placed first in current issues and events and in spelling and vocabulary, second in mathematics and number sense and third in science.
Crockett won first place in accounting and fourth in science. LASA won first place in computer science and mathematics and second in science. Navarro earned first place in calculator applications and number sense, second in current issues and events and in spelling and vocabulary and third in mathematics; Ann Richards finished first in science and second in calculator applications.
A first-place team finish earns a school 10 points and all of its competitors qualify for region. A second-place team finish earns five.
For individual events, a first-place finish earns 15 sweepstakes points; a second-place, 12; a third-place, 10; a fourth-place, eight; a fifth-place, six; and a sixth-place, four; If a competitor places in the top three individually, they qualify for the UIL Region 3 Academic Meet, which will be at Fulshear High School outside Houston April 26-27.
UIL District Results
Calculator Applications
Camilla Vandegrift, third
Computer Science
Felix Murdock, fourth
Current Events
Mac Lopez, first
Knox Williams, second
Lucy Kuhn, third
Team, first
Informative Speaking
Knox Williams, first
Caroline Bell, second
Jack Formby, sixth
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Shayla Allen, first
Mia Foster, fifth
Jack Formby, ninth
Mathematics
Hazel Reddy, fourth (tie)
Shoshanna Witchel, fourth (tie)
Caroline Bell, eighth
Elizabeth Nation, ninth
Teddy Smith, 11th
Team, second
Number Sense
Camilla Vandegrift, first
Hazel Reddy, seventh
Katie Wiseman, eighth
Shoshanna Witchel, ninth
Caroline Bell, 13th
Team, second
Persuasive Speaking
Henry Holmes, second
Fiona Arthur, third
Jesse Silverman, fourth
Poetry
Charlotte Becker, third
Prose
Willem Zuniga, second
Noble Pierce, fifth
Ready Writing
JoJo Barnard, first
Sofia Saucedo, second
Mira Patel, fifth
Science
Hazel Reddy, third
Felix Murdock, seventh
Shoshanna Witchel, 10th
Team, third
Felix Murdock earned the second highest score in the physics portion of the science test, which makes him an alternate for regionals.
Social Studies
Wilson Corbitt, sixth
Spelling
Kalliope Haltom, first
Violet Gill, second
Gaby Alvarado, fifth
Greta Wayman, seventh
Cilley Phan, eighth
Audrey Stanford, 11th
Team, first
Journalism
Copy editing
Ingrid Smith, first
Lanie Sepehri, second
JoJo Barnard, fourth
News writing
Ingrid Smith, first
Francie Wilhelm, second
Chloe Lewcock, third
Feature writing
Camilla Vandegrift, first
Lanie Sepehri, second
Alice Scott, third
Editorial writing
Alice Scott, first
Lanie Sepehri, second
Noah Braun, third
Headline writing
Franice Wilhelm, first
Alice Scott, second
JoJo Barnard, third
![With the AISD rank and GPA discrepancies, some students had significant changes to their stats. College and career counselor Camille Nix worked with students to appeal their college decisions if they got rejected from schools depending on their previous stats before getting updated. Students worked with Nix to update schools on their new stats in order to fully get their appropriate decisions. “Those who already were accepted [won’t be affected], but it could factor in if a student appeals their initial decision,” Principal Andy Baxa said.](https://macshieldonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/53674616658_18d367e00f_o-1200x676.jpg)
