The UIL Academics team traveled to their third invitational of the year this past Saturday. They competed at the Grand Oaks Invitational in Conroe ISD. Royal was placed in the Division 2 category and our team brought home the 1st Runner-up Sweepstakes Trophy. Our Current Issues Team, Mathematics Team, Calculator Applications Team, and Accounting Team all brought home the first-place team award.
Students competing included:
Extemp Persuasive -
Gabriel Velasquez, advanced to Finals
Ready Writing -
Eleanor Recinos, 5th place

L-D Debate -
Gabriel Velasquez

Computer Science -
Armando Cruz
Joshua Kosmalski
Alejandro Rodriguez

Number Sense -
Alejandro Rodriguez, 1st place

Current Issues & Events -
Josue Arciga, 1st place
Jesus Argueta, 2nd place
Elisha Glover, 3rd place

Prose Interpretation -
Camila Escobar

Calculator Applications -
Alejandro Rodriguez, 1st place
Armando Cruz, 2nd place
Jade Lopez, 3rd place
Alex Castillo, 6th place

Copy Editing -
Ester Castro, 7th place
Elisha Glover
Jareli Cazares
Kimberly Pedraza

News Writing -
Eleanor Recinos, 3rd place
Kimberly Pedraza

Science -
Consuelo Aguinaga
Josue Arciga
Jesus Argueta
Jareli Cazares
Armando Cruz
Camila Escobar

Accounting -
Ester Castro, 1st place
Valerya Vargas, 2nd place
Jade Lopez, 4th place

Editorial Writing -
Eleanor Recinos, 3rd place
Kimberly Pedraza, 5th place
Valerya Vargas

Headline Writing -
Consuelo Aguinaga

Mathematics -
Joshua Kosmalski, 1st place
Jareli Cazares, 2nd place
Jade Lopez, 4th place
Ester Castro, 6th place
Armando Cruz

Literary Criticism -
Eleanor Recinos, 3rd place
Kimberly Pedraza, 4th place
Camila Escobar, 5th place

Our next competition will be this Friday and Saturday at the Waller Invitational.
Thank you for your continued support and thank you to our coaches in attendance: Dr. Enos Inniss, Mrs. Lisa Inniss, Mr. Junior McKay, Mr. Nicholas Mojaver, Ms. LaRay Odum, Mrs. Katie Shearer, and Mrs. Veronica Webb.

