YOUNG ARTISTS SHOWCASE MASTERPIECES
To celebrate Youth Art Month, CCISD presented "Young at Art," a student art exhibit at the Clear Creek ISD Challenger Columbia Stadium Fieldhouse. The exhibit featured more than 400 works of art created by students from kindergarten through 12th grade representing the CCISD Visual Arts Program. Visitors also enjoyed music from Clear Springs High School and Clear Falls High School band members
BOEING SPOTLIGHTS CCISD STUDENTS
District community partner, The Boeing Company, extended a very special invitation to spotlight the next generation of scientists and engineers during National Engineers Week. Two CCISD students, Dhiren Wijesinghe of Clear Brook High School (The Piezoelectric Pacemaker: A Rechargeable Cardiac Device) and North Pointe Elementary's Brooke Richeson (Kite Flight), shared their Science & Engineering Fair winning projects with Boeing employees, including astronaut Mike Hopkins. The students also had the opportunity to tour and experience firsthand Boeing's Training System Integration Lab (TSIL) which offers a docking simulation of the CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station.
 
Photo credit: Boeing
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KNIGHTS RUN FOR TEXAS
The Clear Falls High School Mighty Knights JROTC running team completed the 10th annual 200-mile Texas Independence Relay on March 26.  The relay challenges the teams to run from Gonzales, Texas, where the initial  beginning of the revolution is recognized to have taken place in 1835, and ends at the San Jacinto Monument in La Porte, Texas, where the final battle took place and Texans won their independence. It took the team 30 hours to complete, and they were one of the only teams consisiting of only high school students! Way to go, Knights!
WEBER CAREER DAY
Weber Elementary 5th grade students got a glimpse into the real world as they interviewed guests in a variety of professions, such as police officers and nurses, for Career Day.
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ROBOT OF THE FUTURE
Congratulations to 3rd grader Izyan Maredia at Ed White E-STEM Magnet School for being selected as the Grand Prize Winner in Scholastic's MECH-X4 Robots of the Future Science and Engineering Contest, which is also co-sponsored by Disney XD. His concept for his robot, Robo+, was recognized for its creativity and originality for helping wounded soldiers in the armed forces. Maredia was awarded a MacBook laptop computer, as well as iPads for his teacher and her classroom.
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