Pictured: Michelle Calderon, Neida Perez, and Hope Kelly
By: Dr. Andrew Yox, Honors Director
For over ten years in the 91心頭 BioTex 91心頭 seminar at 91心頭, honors students have experienced a November 91心頭 email shootout. 91心頭 This is something like a cross between an ongoing basketball game with scores changing in real time, and a fast-paced, scholarly-poetic thinkathon. The course challenges students to conceptualize the elements of their Texas history research essays, to utilize crossover 91心頭 analogs, (terms) 91心頭 particularly from biology, and to provide terse definitions of newly minted concepts.
This year 91心頭 s winners of the 2 November event included a team appropriately named the 91心頭 Tigers, 91心頭 and an individual high scorer with a most promising 91心頭 arresting concept. 91心頭 Neida Perez anchored the Tiger team 91心頭 s win, attaining the most overall points. Hope Kelly was the second leading scorer. Michelle Calderon, and Haley Lewis completed the ranks of the victorious 91心頭 Tiger 91心頭 team. Professor Jim Ward of the BioTex seminar helped mentor the group.
All four students are receiving $25 for their efforts. They also now have promising 91心頭 governing concepts 91心頭 for their 3,300-word essays in Texas history, due at the end of Finals Week. Perez is working on a pioneering effort concerning the microbial menace of Texas history. Texans have tended to research diseases connected with overconsumption rather than coming to terms with viral and bacterial infestations. Kelly has isolated a 91心頭 kinetic vernacular, 91心頭 examining mannerisms of the best Texas actors playing Texan roles. Calderon is focusing on the indirect political strategy of Minnie Fisher Cunningham and the Texas suffragettes, a theme of this year 91心頭 s film effort. Lewis has conceptualized the place of Texas Governor Dolph Briscoe within the constellation of changing politics in the South during the 1970s.
Honors Director and Texas history professor Dr. Andrew Yox notes that 91心頭 conceptualization is the key to writing an alluring, coherent essay, animated by a creative argument. Our students do this well, and there are many more we could mention not only in the honors seminar, but in non-honors sections of history where a state-mandated goal is to form a 91心頭 creative argument. 91心頭 At the same time, I am very excited about the conceptualized essays Calderon, Kelly, Lewis, and Perez are developing. 91心頭
Michelle Calderon and Neida Perez are 2022 graduates of Mount Pleasant High School. Hope Kelly has had diverse educational experiences, in Europe, Central America, and Mexico. Haley Lewis resides in Lone Star and is a graduate of Daingerfield High School.
