Earlier this month, twenty-four Kinkaid Upper School students competed in the Johns Hopkins University Model UN conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
Over 2500 students attended this conference from around the nation and outside of the country. It was a very competitive group, but the Kinkaid students held their own and did very well. The students later toured the campus of Johns Hopkins University.
Kinkaid 8th grade debaters had a very successful tournament at Olle Middle School this past weekend. This was one of the most competitive tournaments that the students have attended with all the top middle school debate programs in Houston participating in the event.
David Liang won first place in Lincoln-Douglas Debate out of 46 students. In addition to David, Kinkaid had two students also reach the octofinals or the top 16. They were Edward Chamblee and Austin Koort. Students in Lincoln-Douglas compete individually. Their February topic was whether developing nations should prioritize environmental protection over resource extraction.
The partnership of Anish Odhav/Minhhy Truong won second place in Public Forum Debate out of 32 teams with Collin Lawrence/Sam Segal earning third place. Their February topic was the Supreme Court's recent decision on the Voting Rights Act.
This will be the Kinkaid’s last middle school debate competition for the semester (until the team attends the junior nationals this summer in Kansas).
Congratulations to the whole team for its hard work!
Middle School Debate Coach, Stacy Thomas
Once Upon a Mattress
Music by Mary Rodgers
Book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer
Lyrics by Marshal Barer
Produced with permission of Rodgers & Hammerstein Theatricals.
If you think you know the story of "The Princess and the Pea," think again! This delightful musical comedy version will have you laughing, cheering, and humming along as Princess Winifred tries to win her Prince. Suggested for ages 10+.
Friday, February 28 at 7pm,
Saturday March 1 at 7pm,
& Sunday March 2 at 2pm
For individual tickets or for more information call or email:
Box Office Manager
Shelley Mackay
713.243.5442
box.office@kinkaid.org
Many of the events have been rescheduled to be played on Wednesday, Jan. 29th.
Wednesday, January 29th:
-7A Girls Soccer (Away) - 4:00 PM @ Cypress Christian
-JV2 Boys Basketball (Home) - 4:00 PM in Fondren Gym
-7A Girls Basketball (Home) - 4:15 PM in Doggett Gym
-8A Girls Basketball (Home) - 5:15 PM in Doggett Gym
-Varsity Girls Basketball (Home) - 5:00 PM in Melcher Gym
-JV Girls Soccer (Away) - 5:30 PM @ Cypress Christian
-JV1 Boys Basketball (Home) - 5:30 PM in Fondren Gym
-Varsity Boys Basketball (Home) - 6:30 PM in Melcher Gym
Best of luck to our Fighting Falcons!
Eight seventh grade students represented The Kinkaid School at the PSIA District Middle School Speech Tournament at the Lutheran South Academy on Saturday, March 1st, 2014. In the three speaking events, Kinkaid won 1st place in all events.
In Modern Oratory, Kinkaid had two entries: Marynell Ward and Cade Mouton won the top two awards. Marynell placed 1st, and Cade placed 2nd. Both will advance to State.
In Poetry Reading, Kinkaid had three entries: Caroline Moseley, Helena Johnson and Jennifer Sekili. Caroline Moseley and Helena Johnson advanced to finals. Caroline won 1st place in Poetry Reading and Helena won 3rd place. Caroline will advance to State.
In Impromptu Speaking, Kinkaid had three entries: Farise Cravens, Cameron Rudin and Caroline Totz. All three students advanced to finals. Caroline Totz won 1st place and will advance to State.
The State Tournament is Saturday, April 26, at TCU, in Ft. Worth. Over 300 Middle School students will be competing. Congratulations to all of the students who competed on Saturday and good luck to students who will be representing Kinkaid at the State Tournament.
Congratulations to the Kinkaid 8th grade girls’ choir who recently competed at the TPSMEA solo and ensemble festival. The students wowed the judge performing "Laudamus Te" from Vivaldi's Gloria, earning a 1st place rating! The Kinkaid top-performing group includes Jiya Ghei, Ellie Smith, Lillian Rosenfield, and Anna Thomas.
From Jeremy Platt, Director of PE:
Many times our students are involved in activities off campus for which they receive PE credit and occasionally they also receive national recognition. Please read below as one of our students moves forward in the National tournament.
Many congratulations go to Junior, Lauren Rae who, as part of the Houston Polo Clubs Girls Interscholastic Polo A Team, won the US Polo Association Central Region Tournament at ERG Polo Farm, Brookshire, last weekend. The team played some of their best games ever against the Wisconsin Team Hillside (17-4) and Indiana Team Culver. By winning 13-7 in the finals, they secured their place in the highly competitive USPA National Tournament which will take place in Connecticut March 6th - 9th.
Pictured from right to left are Nora O' Neill (Junior, St Agnes HS), Lauren Rae (Junior, Kinkaid HS), Kendall Plank (Senior, Episcopal HS) and Courtney Price (Sophomore, Foster HS)
We wish the girls all the very best as they represent Houston, Texas and their high schools at a national level this weekend.
Good luck, ladies!!
Kevin Veltri, current offensive coordinator at Fort Bend Christian, has accepted Kinkaid’s offer to become the school’s full time offensive coordinator.
Coach Veltri will take over responsibility for the offense, reporting directly to head coach Nathan Larned. In addition, he will coach two secondary sports during the winter and spring, as well as teach PE in the Middle School.
“Kevin has worked under some of the best offensive minds in the country. He will help continue the tradition of explosive offenses at Kinkaid with his version of the spread offense,” Larned said. “Kevin's work ethic, charisma, and fun loving personality fit perfectly into the new philosophy of the Kinkaid Football program.”
Before joining Fort Bend Christian, Veltri coached for eight years at the University of Kansas; four years as a volunteer student assistant and four years as a member of the staff. During his time at Kansas, Veltri worked directly with then head coach Mark Mangino on the offensive side of the ball.
Coach Veltri’s start date is April 21, 2014.
Kinkaid faculty members Leslie Lovett and Harlan Howe recently shared some of the projects from their interim term class Gaming the Past. The students studied periods of history and made video games telling an interactive story set in that time. (These are text-based games, like Zork, where one types actions for the character in the game.) Students used the Inform 7 software to create the games.
The Kinkaid debate team competed at the Texas Forensics Association (TFA) State tournament hosted by Cypress Creek High School in Houston. TFA State is truly the state championship tournament. Unlike UIL or SPC, TFA State includes public and private schools. It is truly statewide in its scope as schools from just about every area in Texas compete. This year, there were 216 schools in attendance.
Students must qualify to attend based upon consistent success in the late elimination rounds at TFA qualifying tournaments. Needless to say, Texas is one of the most competitive states in the country for speech and debate competition, and the quality of competition is a reflection of the student’s talents and dedication.
In policy debate, there were 116 teams (232 individual students). In Lincoln-Douglas, there were approximately 190 competitors. Only the best 32 teams/debaters reach the elimination rounds.
Kinkaid had 11 students qualified to attend, close to being on par with the biggest Kinkaid debate teams in recent history. This year’s crew is unique in that there were no seniors qualified, and the team hopes to return the entire group next year.
These students represented the school remarkably well as Kinkaid was only one of two schools (the other being Greenhill) to have participants in the late elimination rounds of both policy and Lincoln-Douglas debate. Of the 11 Kinkaid students at the tournament, 8 reached the elimination rounds. Of those 8 students, two were first years and two were sophomores.
Kinkaid debate team’s successes included:
Overall, the team had a successful weekend. Please congratulate these students on their successes. Most of the debaters were tireless in their preparation, and they were tired as the tournament was both taxing and time consuming.
Special thanks go to Claire McKinney and Jishnu Guha Majumdar, the two assistant coaches who were instrumental to our success. Also, many thanks to the parents, especially team mom’s Kim Rosenthal and Brigitte Kalai, who provided a cornucopia of snacks and endless support.
-- Debate Coach Eric Emerson
The 2014 Kinkaid Summer Programs brochure has been posted on the Kinkaid Summer Programs webpage. (The Summer Programs webpage is located in the Campus Life > Summer section of the website.)
Online registration for summer programs will begin at noon on March 26, 2014. A link to the registration will be posted here: kinkaid.org/summer
A few weeks ago, Kinkaid Upper School visual art students received Gold and Silver Keys and Honorable Mention awards in the Regional Scholastic Art Awards competition. Two of those students have now been awarded Gold Medals at the National Scholastic Art Awards competition in New York: Ruth (Tory) Smith for Painting (Mixed Media) and Amy Drews for Printmaking (Intaglio). Please congratulate Tory and Amy for their outstanding achievement, an honor placing them among the most promising and creative young artists in the nation. Congratulations are also in order for Upper School art teacher Diane Marks, who has taught Tory for the past three years and Amy for the past two.
This program year, a record-breaking 255,000+ works of art and writing were submitted to more than 100 affiliates of the Alliance for regional adjudication. From the excellent pool of regional Gold Key recipients, an impressive panel of creative-industry experts chose more than 1,800 of the most talented students—representing 47 U.S. states as well as students in Washington, D.C. and American schools abroad—to receive national medals.
On June 6, 2014, students will be honored during a special awards ceremony webcast live from the world-famous Carnegie Hall. To celebrate the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards’ national winners, the Alliance will kick off this year’s National Celebration in New York City on June 5, 2014. The celebration will include the first annual Maker Prom—a party with interactive art-making stations—at the Roosevelt Hotel, as well as the grand opening of the "Art.Write.Now." National Exhibition, a large selection of Award-winning art and writing that will be on display at Parsons The New School for Design and the Pratt Manhattan Gallery. Following the ceremony, the annual Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Benefit will take place at The Edison Ballroom, and to further amplify the festivities that evening, the iconic Empire State Building will be lit in gold.
Former Falcon standout, Duncan Robinson, is making a name for himself as a right-handed pitcher for the Big Green of Dartmouth College. Robinson was named this week’s “Ivy League Co-Pitcher of the Week” for his stellar performances against Nebraska Omaha and #18 Kansas.
While at Kinkaid Robinson was a highly decorated 3 sport athlete, competing and earning SPC honors in football, basketball and baseball. He was also the recipient of the Dan Hart Men’s Athletic Award, C.A. Coskey, Sr. Scholarship Award and the Senior Citizenship Award.
To learn more about Duncan's work on the mound this weekend click here.
Come out and support your Falcons tomorrow for Falcon Fanatic Night!
Nine Kinkaid students (Zaid, Selim, Dylan, Kaveh, Dean, Katie, Jeel, Aliza and Neeshali) attended the Model United Nations conference earlier in March and did extremely well. These students had some of the highest scores at the conference on their position papers, and The Kinkaid School is very proud of their effort.
Berkeley Model United Nations is a student run organization on the UC Berkeley campus dedicated to planning and hosting the biggest Model United Nations conference on the West Coast. Over 1,500 high school students from all over the world came to Berkeley to participate in Berkeley Model United Nations.
Boys Basketball:
Jeff Roberson and Stephen O'Suji
Girls Basketball:
Brecca Thomas and Tyjae' Sclaes
Boys Soccer:
Brendan Martin and Demian Gass
Girls Soccer:
Julia Camp and Aria Pearlman-Morales
Swimming:
Nicholas Fernandez and Sarah Jane Gage
Wrestling:
Casey Cowan, Ben Krantz, Jake Barnett, Blake Lattimer, and John Goettee
Kinkaid's Acting Company will present "Bus Stop" on
Friday, April 11th, 2014 at 7:00 PM and
Sunday, April 13th, 2014 at 4:00 PM in the Black Box Theatre.
The box office will open 1 hour before each show.
About the production:
"Bus Stop"
by William Inge
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
When a bus out of Kansas City gets waylaid by a snowstorm, loneliness is tempered by romance for the eight people passing the night at the little roadside cafe in this classic of American theatre.
April 11, 7:00 p.m.
April 13, 4:00 p.m.
Black Theatre
(PG-13)
Senior Casey Cowan was presented with his appointment to the United States Naval Academy in front of family, friends, teachers and coaches in Kinkaid’s Ogilvie Lobby on Friday afternoon, April 4th.
While at the Naval Academy, Cowan will also be a member of their Varsity Wrestling team. Casey will be coached by newly appointed head coach, Joel Sharratt, who was formerly an assistant coach for Navy, a 1996 Olympic Trials bronze medalist and most recently the head coach for the Air Force Academy.
The process to be considered for an appointment to the Naval Academy is quite extensive. A candidate must first obtain a nomination before they can even apply to the Academy. U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas’ 18th congressional district provided the nomination for Casey and although the congresswoman was unable to attend the acceptance ceremony in person, she extended her congratulations and admiration over the phone and PA system to Casey and his family.
Casey had a number of people speak of his great character, work ethic, dedication and commitment to excellence. Those who spoke on behalf of Casey included Athletic Director Bob Beeman, his wrestling coaches Bobby Eggleston and Grant Johnson, Commander Rosalind Brooks, and Mr. John Kendall, the United States Naval Academy Blue and Gold Officer who presented Casey with his Appointment.
Also on hand to watch the ceremony was Kinkaid alum, LT Charles Escher, class of ’98, who graduated from the Naval Academy in ‘02. Escher was in town to receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award.
(L to R: Mr. John Kendall, LT Charlie Escher, Casey Cowan, Commander Rosalind Brooks)
While thanking all of the influential people in his life, Cowan was articulate, composed and he exhibited character traits our school, community and country can be truly proud.
Congratulations Casey!