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9th Graders Give Back to First Responders

November 30, 2016, 12:23 pm
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Tis the season of giving! The Class of 2020 put a twist on the annual poinsettia sale this holiday season. By supporting the class fundraiser, students were able to give over 170 poinsettias to the Memorial Villages Fire Department and Police Department as a token of their appreciation.

 

“The poinsettias certainly bring Christmas cheer to the fire station” says Fire Chief David Foster. “Lots of people forget that when they’re at home celebrating with their families that their firemen are always here. So it’s nice to have the school, the kids and parents of the school remember them.”

 

Poinsettias were delivered this week and accompanied by 9th grade representatives Annabell Skuvisz '20 and Claire Richey '20 to personally say thank you. Members of both departments will be sent home with one to enjoy with their families. Thank you Class of 2020 for the wonderful gesture! 

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SPC Fall Finishes 2016

November 17, 2016, 7:17 am
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Our fall season has come to a close with the completion of the SPC championships in Austin on Saturday, November 5.

Field Hockey started the weekend off on Friday, November 4. They fell to a tough Hockaday opponent 2-1 and then took St. Stephen’s into overtime before their season came to an end with a 6th place finish.

It may have been a rainy Saturday morning but that didn’t slow down our Cross Country teams. The boys started the day off with a 6th place finish.  Then the girls battled their way through the course to win 1st place and bring home the championship trophy for the 2nd time in three years.

Many thanks to the student athletes, coaches and fans for all of your hard work and support this season!


SPC Championship Finishes:


Girls Cross Country - 1st Place – SPC CHAMPIONS

All SPC Winners

2nd Place - 18:29.6 Camila Vicens ‘20

6th Place - 19:18.9 Mikela McCauley ’20

9th Place - 19:47.7 Alexandra Blake ‘20

10th Place - 19:59.5 Ali Ammons, ‘18


All South Zone Winners

1st Place – Camila Vicens

3rd Place – Ali Ammons

6th Place – Alexandra Blake

7th Place – Caroline Keller

9th Place – Lindsey Ho

 

Boys Cross Country - 6th Place

All SPC Winner

3rd Place - 16:31.3 Dz Zavitsanos

All South Zone Winners

Dz Zavitsanos, Socs Zavitsanos, Andres Melendez, Oscar Melendez

 

Field Hockey - 6th Place

All SPC Winners

Caroline Hanan, Belle Martire

All South Zone Winners

Ellie Bolin, Belle Martire

 

South Zone Finishes

Girls Volleyball – 7th Place in South Zone

All SPC Winner

Chinaza Ndee

All South Zone Winner 

Onuchi Ndee

 

Boys Volleyball - 5th Place in South Zone

All SPC Winner 

Brian Xu

All South Zone Winner

Alex Frumovitz

 

Football - 3rd Place in 4A Division

All SPC Winners

Johnathon Thomas, Ben Padon, Josh Williams, Marquis Hubbard

All South Zone Winners 

Rob Lahourcade, Adam Harter, Pierce Johnson, Kirby Cravens

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Congratulations!

February 14, 2017, 4:20 am
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Congratulations to Soha Sewani who finished in the top 10 at the Regional Spelling Bee! KMS is very proud of you! 

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Headmaster's Message Feb. 2017

February 28, 2017, 1:22 pm
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Please click on the link below to view Dr. Martire's February Message! 

 

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Lawler Named Prep All-American Wrestler

March 1, 2017, 7:34 am
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Colin Lawler '18 was named a Prep All American at the Prep Nationals Wrestling Tournament at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania on Saturday, February 25 by placing 4th in the Tournament finals.  Coach Bobby Eggleston said, "Colin wrestled superbly, winning his first match vs the six seed.  Colin then faced the number 3 seeded wrestler from national power Wyoming Seminary, who had beaten Colin the previous day in a close match.  Revenge was sweet as Colin was in control the entire match before pinning the three seed.  Wow!  It was impressive.  That put Colin in the 3rd/4th place match and, although he was ahead 1-0 in the 3rd period, he came up one point short.  It was tough because there was an inadvertent whistle dispute at the end of the match, but Colin handled the situation like a true champion and did not let it dampen his spirits as he walked away with a 4th place finish."  Colin's 4th place finish earned him distinction as a Prep All American.

As a team, Kinkaid ended the Tournament with a top 25 finish out of 136 teams, finishing as the highest ranked Texas team in the Tournament.  Congratulations to Colin on his All-American honors and to the entire Kinkaid team on an excellent season!

 

Coach Bobby Eggleston, Colin Lawler '18, Coach Derrick Waldroup

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Congratulations!

March 6, 2017, 11:02 am
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Congrats to our Girls Lacrosse team who are the Champions from the St. Frances tournament!
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Upper School Robotics Teams Finish the Season

March 8, 2017, 10:46 am
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Kinkaid's upper school FTC and VEX Robotics teams recently finished their seasons. 

The FTC Robotics Team, Talon Industries, finished its season Saturday, February 18, at the FIRST First Technical Challenge (FTC) Southeast Texas Regional Championships at San Jacinto College in Pasadena, Texas.  After a thorough presentation to a panel of judges about its team's history, goals and engineering process and a string of qualifying match victories using a new and innovative defensive maneuver, Talon Industries pushed its way into the elimination round ranked 11 out of 36 teams.  Team Talon Industries continued use of its new strategy with success in both of two close and hotly contested semi-final elimination matches to advance to the finals.  Although the team did not record a win in the finals, Coach Vinnie Vrotny said, "The team displayed grit, creativity and perseverance throughout the tournament and season".

FTC Team Talon Industries: Christian Gipson '19, Sasha Busa '20, Joseph Wagnon '19, Julian Meyers '19, Andres Melendez '18, Christos Papandreou '18, Jamie Moseley '18, Nikita Munsif '20, Jeni Rojas '20

The VEX Robotics Team, 1221K, finished its season Saturday, February 25, at the South Texas Regionals in Aldine, Texas.  The highlights for the season included a 2nd place finish at their penultimate tourney after upsetting the 2nd and 3rd seed alliances. Coach Harlan Howe reports, "Team 1221K continued to learn and improve over the course of the year. They have been working since last April, including over the summer. Every tournament, they've shown significant improvement." 

 

VEX Team 1221K:  Pictured, Kenneth Lam '19, Isabel Gardner '18, Chris Choi '17 (Captain), Jamie Moseley '18, Seb Seager '19.  Not pictured, Zubair Mukhi '17

Congratulations to both teams on a great season!

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Model UN Students Excel At International Contest

March 23, 2017, 8:10 am
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Over spring break, eleven Kinkaid Model UN students participated in the Harvard Model Congress Europe Conference in Madrid, Spain as one of 36 schools representing 12 countries from around the world. 

Five Kinkaid students were awarded the highest honor, Outstanding Delegate, while two students received the second highest honor, Honorable Mention. Please join us in congratulating these students!

Zubair Mukhi '17 - Outstanding Delegate for playing the role of John Shimkus in the House and Energy Committee

Marie Parra '17 - Outstanding Delegate for playing the role of Terri Sewell in the House Intelligence Committee

Anish Odhav '18 - Outstanding Delegate for playing the role of Johnny Isakson in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and
Pensions Committee

Natalia Gonzalez-Blanco '18 - Outstanding Delegate for playing the role of Sheldon Whitehouse in the Senate Judiciary Committee 

Anna Thomas '18  - Outstanding Delegate for playing the role of France in the Historical Committee: UNESCO 1990 Committee

Camila Vicens '20 - Honorable Mention for playing the role of Anna Eshoo in the House and Energy Committee 

Matthew Kirkwood '19 - Honorable Mention for playing the role of Mo Brooks in the House Science, Space and Technology Committee 

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Congratulations!

March 27, 2017, 6:02 am
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Congrats to Andrea Le who won gold and silver in the Vietnam National Women's Tennis Championship. KMS is proud of you! 
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Debate Team Competes in Statewide Tournament

March 27, 2017, 10:40 am
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The Kinkaid debate team marked another high point in the year as they competed in the Texas Forensics Association (TFA) State tournament earlier this month.
  • Jason Yang '17 placed 2nd out of 200 Lincoln-Douglas debaters. Yang was also awarded the 7th overall speaker. 
  • In policy debate, the senior team of Sam Richey '17 and Sabrina Bajwa '17 placed in the top 16 (out of 108 teams). Richey was awarded the 2nd overall speaker (out of 214 individual speakers) while Sabrina was awarded the 3rd overall speaker. Richey and Bajwa were undefeated and the top seed coming out of preliminary rounds.
  • In policy, the sophomore team of Dani Knobloch '19 and Amy Ho '19 placed in the top 32. 
  • In Lincoln Douglas, Sam Segal '18 was incredibly close to reaching the elimination rounds. He was the 33rd seed and the top 32 advance. He missed by .4 adjusted speaker points (after dropping high and low)
  • Please congratulate the teams of first year Sahar Punjwani '20 and Hannah Shi '19 and the freshman team of Spencer Powers '20 and Karm Ghei '20. The LD debaters include Vivian Liu '17, Jiya Ghei '18 and first year Shreya Mehta '20.
  • Finally, congratulations to Sabrina Bajwa '17 for being awarded with a scholarship for college named in honor of legendary coach Barbara Garner. 
Congratulations to the team and to our wonderful coaches Jason Courville, Akhil Gandra,Rikki Bleiweiss and Josh Jennings for preparing these students for success.  
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Welcome!

March 30, 2017, 4:44 am
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Welcome newly accepted Kinkaid Middle School students!
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US Photography Competes in ATPI Photography Contest

December 9, 2016, 10:57 am
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Kinkaid US Photography students participated in a highly competitive competition, the 2016 ATPI Fall Photo Contest, hosted by The Association of Texas Photography Instructors, and came away as winners in several categories! The following students received honors:

Advanced Smartphone Category:
First Place, Madi Malouf, "Touchpoint"
Third Place, Natalia Gonzalez-Blanco, "Social Life Outside Stupa"
Honorable Mention, Natalia Gonzalez-Blanco, "Catholic Church on Wheels in Sandals"

Advanced Architecture / Cityscape:
First Place, Hannah Barden, "Cascading"

Advanced Image Portfolio (a collection of 5 cohesive images):
Honorable Mention, Marie Atmar, "Peace Be To Israel"

Advanced Time Exposure:
3rd Place, Robin Kate Davis, "Sonic Sound"

Advanced Travel:
First Place, Hannah Chambers, "Overlooking"
                                                                         
Congratulations! Please view the first place winning photos below.

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Congratulations!

April 3, 2017, 4:22 am
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Congrats to all of our Quiz Bowl participants who placed both First and Third place this weekend! KMS is very proud of you! 

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Headmaster's Message December

December 8, 2016, 9:45 am
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Happy holidays from The Kinkaid School!

Please click on the video below to view Dr. Martire's December message. 

 

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Famed Author Visits LS

April 18, 2017, 11:16 am
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Lower School 3rd and 4th grade students met best selling author-illustrator Javaka Steptoe this week. Sharing with them his latest book Radiant Child The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, Steptoe’s work won the highest honor for a picture book in 2017, the Caldecott Medal. This title shares the life of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as a young boy and his passion for creating and the power of art to heal. 

Steptoe took an interactive approach to teaching about the book, choosing five volunteers to portray the characters of the book and their actions as he narrated to the students. Kinkaid would like to thank local independent bookstore Blue Willow Bookshop for partnering to bring Steptoe to directly to our students!

Check out photos from his time with our students below. 

 

 

 

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Congratulations!

April 20, 2017, 4:25 am
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Congratulations to our 8th Grade Girls Lacrosse team who are headed to the HJPC Championship!

Also, a big congratulations to our 7th and 8th grade Boys and Girls Tennis players who won the HJPC title! 

KMS is very proud of you! 

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Congratulations!

April 24, 2017, 4:26 am
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Congrats to our MS Orchestra students who performed over the weekend.

Also congratulations to our Girls Track, MS Tennis, and Boys Baseball for all winning HJPC Championships!

Lastly, congratulations to our Quiz Bowl participants who won 3rd and 5th place over the weekend!

We are very proud of all of you!  

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Kinkaid Art Students Show Well!

January 4, 2017, 6:17 am
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Congratulations to Kinkaid Middle and Upper School students for their success!


Houston Art Society Juried Fall Show 2016 

First Place:

Claire Wexler 6th grade: watercolor

Eliza Lawrence 9th grade: mixed media

Adelaide Randall 9th grade: photography

Emma Sykes 10th grade: ceramics, hand-building

Sophia Sole' 12th grade: ceramics, pottery wheel throwing

 

Second Place:

Katherine Zhang 6th grade: watercolor

Emma Hurley 7th grade: drawing

Duncan Harper 9th grade: mixed media

Caroline Cone 10th grade: ceramics, hand-building

Tyler Baldridge 10th grade: ceramics, hand-building

Emmy Heyser 12th grade: ceramics, pottery wheel throwing


Third Place:

Laurel Davis 6th grade: watercolor

Morgan Le 7th grade: drawing

Audrey Ho 10th grade: ceramics, hand-building

Katie Erikson 11th grade: ceramics, pottery wheel throwing


First Honorable Mention:

Caroline Cone 10th grade: ceramics, hand-building

Caroline Moseley 10th grade: ceramics, hand-building

Tyler Baldridge 10th grade: ceramics, hand-building

Honorable Mention:

Patrick Brown 10th grade: ceramics, hand-building

 

Houston Young Artist's Concert - Visual Arts Competition

First Place:
Taqi Hasnain 11th grade: painting

Honorable Mention:
Chris Choi 12th grade: painting

 

 

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Kinkaid Debate - January Success

January 20, 2017, 3:32 pm
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Kinkaid Debate started off the year strong with an early January appearance at the University of Houston Cougar Classic, one of the most competitive tournaments in the city, with 54 schools from 4 states competing, and the only Tournament of Champions (TOC) qualifier in all of the debate events in Houston.
  • The policy team of Sabrina Bajwa '17 and Sam Richey '17 placed 2nd, losing a close finals round on a 2-1 decision. Sabrina was awarded the 3rd overall speaker and Sam the 4th. Sabrina and Sam have received their 5th bid to the TOC.
  • In Lincoln-Douglas Jason Yang '17 placed in the top eight (quarterfinals), losing on a 2-1 decision to cross town rivals, Strake Jesuit. Jason was awarded the 2nd overall speaker in LD. Jason is now fully qualified for the Texas Forensics Association (TFA) State Tournament.
  • Sam Segal '18 placed in the top 16 (octofinals) in Lincoln-Douglas.  Sam has 10 of the 12 points needed to qualify for TFA State.
The following weekend, the team took advantage of the long weekend to compete from coast to coast and locally. Lexington High School in Boston is the biggest and most competitive tournament in Massachusetts that is not named Harvard, with 103 schools representing 19 states.  Harvard Westlake High School in California is a major of Lincoln-Douglas debate with 76 schools representing 10 states in attendance. Meanwhile, locally, Katy High School hosted a strong local with 32 schools from throughout the Houston area. 
  • Sabrina Bajwa '17 and Sam Richey '17 received their 6th bid to the TOC by reaching the finals of the Lexington tournament.  The final round was postponed until February.  Sabrina was awarded the top overall speaker award out of 120 individuals.
  • Jason Yang '17 placed in the top 8 (quarter-finals) at Harvard Westlake. He went undefeated in preliminary rounds and was awarded the 4th overall speaker out of 108 individuals. 
  • At Katy HS, the policy debaters closed out the final round receiving 1st and 2nd place.  Amy Ho '19 and Dani Knobloch '19 received first since they went undefeated in preliminary rounds and were the top seed. Sahar Punjwani '20 and Hannah Shi '19 received second.  Sahar and Hannah are now fully qualified for TFA State and Amy and Dani are one point away.
  • In Lincoln-Douglas, Sam Segal '18 was the top speaker of the tournament and finalist, losing on a 2-1 decision. Sam is now fully qualified for TFA State.
  • Vivian Liu '17 was the 2nd speaker and was a quarterfinalist.
  • Shreya Mehta '20 was undefeated in preliminary rounds and reached the top 16. Shreya is now 2 points away from qualifying for TFA State.

Congratulations Debate students!

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Seager Selected to All State Symphonic Band

January 24, 2017, 8:48 am
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The Kinkaid Music Program is proud to recognize flute player Seb Seager ‘19, for his selection to the ATSSB All-State Symphonic Band.

Seb is one of over 1,500 student musicians who were selected from a process that began with over 60,000 at the start of the school year. Prior to being named to the All-State Band, Seb competed in one of 28 region competitions where he placed first chair flute in November. From there, he competed at one of seven area competitions where he again placed first chair. All-State is the highest honor a Texas music student can receive.

Seb will perform in San Antonio, February 11, 2017 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center as part of the Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention. This is the largest music convention in the country, and the students chosen to the ATSSB/TMEA All-State ensembles represent the top 2% of all high school musicians, public and private, across the state of Texas. Join us in congratulating Seb! 

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