Students from the Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced Learning’s Media Technology program recently competed in the SkillsUSA district competition for AV Production. Winners were:
Best in Show for Animaton
- Lydia Tallon, Richland High
State Qualifying Video Projects
- Joel Warren, “Threshold”
- Drew Thomas, “Projections”
- Hunter Coon and Daron Westphal, “Curbside”
- Kason Bryden, “Edgar”
- Lydia Tallon, “Gouda”
- Connor Clift, “Before and After”
AV Production Quiz Bowl
Silver Medalists (Advancing to state)
- Kason Bryden, Richland High
- Coleton Gambill, Richland High
- Lydia Tallon, Richland High
- Collin McDonald, Richland High
- Connor Clift, Richland High
Video Product Demo:
Silver Medalists (Advancing to state)
- Amanda Murphy, Birdville High
- Cody Nelson, Birdville High
Bronze Medalists
- Lydia Tallon, Richland High
- Dani Greenlee, Haltom High
Fourth Place
- Tyler Whittington, Birdville High
- Nick Heinhold, Richland
Audio Production
Silver Medalists (Advancing to state)
- Kason Bryden, Richland High
- Coleton Gambill, Richland High
Fourth Place
- Collin McDonalid, Richland High
- Ryan Adame, Richland High
TV Production
Fourth place
- Kason Bryden, Richland High
- Veda Vandever, Richland High
Congratulations to the Richland High School artists who received superior ratings in the Region Visual Arts Scholastic Competition hosted by Texas Art Educators. They are:
Van Ratsaphangthong, seventh- and eighth-grade Pre-AP math teacher at Watauga Middle School (WMS), was awarded a Horace Mann Scholarship to the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals’ (TASSP) Principal Academy. He will attend the conference for principals and aspiring principals this summer in San Antonio. The scholarship pays for the conference and all expenses. He was one of two Texas winners that Horace Mann selected. Ratsaphangthong is a graduate of BISD and has taught at WMS for six years. 
Birdville ISD fourth grade teachers at Holiday Heights Elementary took their classrooms on the road to Austin with Education in Action’s “Proud to be Texan” experiential learning day program, 2/3/2012. Students visited the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum and the Texas State Capitol and experienced what they are learning in fourth grade Texas History.