A TEA Recognized School!   Round Rock I.S.D.   
 
Calendar of Events
May

21  - OSR Cookout
23  - 6th grade Academic Awards
24  - 7th Grade Academic Awards
27  - NO School - Memorial Day
28  - 8th Grade Academic Awards
29  - Finals
30  - Finals
31  - Finals
Chisholm News
Final Exam Schedule

2013 - 14 School Supplies
Order Form - 3/1 - 6/26

Chisholm Tech Ed could use your help with their courtyard project. Brick Engraving Donation Form

Chisholm Trail teacher receives Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award 
Chisholm Trail MS Band Director Tracey Redus has been selected to attend the 2013 Symposium on Music in Schools and to receive the Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award. Redus was one of fifty chosen from a pool of nearly 300 nominees representing 45 states by a panel of music professionals for her outstanding accomplishments and vision as a public school music teacher. Congratulations!

2013 - 14 Round Rock ISD Course Catalog

HOME ACCESS CENTER NEWS 

We now have a new feature in the Home Access Center, which will allow existing users to retrieve forgotten usernames or reset their own password. 

The next time that you log back into the system, you will be prompted to enter two challenge questions and answers. You only have to provide these challenge questions and answers once. The prompt boxes for these questions and answers are 'free text' fields, so you will choose your own question (hint) and answer. Once you have provided the initial challenge questions and answers, you will be logged into the system as usual. You can always update your challenge questions by selecting the "My Profile" option and update your responses. 

If you experience problems logging into the Home Access Center, please contact Michelle Santos at 428-2504.
Cougar Congrats:
Congratulations to Carlos Fernandez for winning 1st Place in the district's Hispanic Heritage art contest in the middle school category!

Congratulations to the students who took the National French Exam this year.  Honorable mention goes to Jake Zeiner.  Bronze medalists are Alejandra Fraire, Hayden Jones, Allie McLellan and Stephanie Waugh.  Silver medalists are Vaish Sankar, Heather Choate and Jennifer Perez.  Special congratulations to gold medalist Isa Duong, whose perfect score gives her a national ranking of 1.

This week, we had about 36 art students compete in the RRISD Secondary Art Show - click Winners to see the results.

CTMS had 28 students place in this year's National Spanish Exam. Go to the Students Tab for a list of winners.

Congratulations to the following students for placing in the Pioneer Day Poster Contest:
3rd Place - Kayla Sportsman
Honorable Mention - Christian Tiger

J Hatchett represented Chisholm Trail Middle School this weekend at the TAME state level competition at Texas A&M College Station this last weekend and placed 1st in 8th Grade Science and 2nd in Middle School Geometry. Congratulations!!! 

Brooke Crosby represented Chisholm Trail in the Special Olympics Area 13 Basketball Tournament at Texas State University March 2, 2013. Brooke received 1st place and earned a gold medal in the individual skills competition. 

Congratulations to Vaishnavi Sankar who won two awards at the Austin Regional Science Festival on February 21st, 2013. Vaish won first place in Chemistry and she also won the Broadcom Masters SSP award. Vaish will advance to the Exxon Mobil Challenge to compete at the state level. Go Cougars!!!!

Congratulations to our 8th graders for placing 3rd in the district UIL competitions. For individual placements, go to Mrs. Risers' Teacherweb.

On Saturday, Feb. 2nd, TAME (Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering) members from CTMS went to the University of Texas to compete in the local area competition. 
The results of the competition are:

*Annie Wang placed 3rd in the Math Level 2 test and won the Judges Choice Award with her team.
*Ryan Elam and his team won the Team Design Challenge.

All of the TAME club members did an EXCELLENT job and represented CTMS well.

Congratulations to the following CTMS
Spelling Bee winners:

1st Rohan Chakravarty
2nd Vaish Sankar
3rd Praveen Elangovan
Rohan advances to the district competition in February.

Congratulations to Carlos Fernandez (8th grade) for his
1st Place artwork in the regional Lion's Club International Peace Poster Contest.  Carlos' poster has been sent to compete in the state level competition

Brooke Crosby (7th grade) represented Chisholm Trail in the Special Olympics Area 13 Tournament on Tuesday and brought home a silver medal in singles bowling. She bowled her best two games in competition doubling her average in both games.

Congrats to H Williams, A Billings, and D Tang for auditioning this past weekend (11/10) and making Region Band.  This band will perform on December 1st and is a great honor and privilege to do so.  

Congratulations to our CTMS students who auditioned for district band this weekend. CTMS had 9 kiddos make District Band: V Sriramprasad, C Ptacek, N Billings,
H Williams, M Benavides, D Tang, A Billings, P Harrison and J Zwerneman.  5 of those students placed high enough to advance this coming Saturday when they go against all the schools in our Region.  All 26 of them. Those students are V Sriramprasad, H Williams(3rd chair out of 44 students!!!), A Billings(5th chair out of 71 students!!!), D Tang, and P Harrison(He got 3rd chair out of 61 students!!!)

This past Saturday (10/13/12) 37 amazing singers from Chisholm Trail auditioned for a coveted spot in the Region 26 Choir, and 13 hard working students achieved their goal of being a member of the 2013 Region choir.

CTMS Orchestra students competed for a spot in the Region Orchestra this weekend of 10/13.  
Congratulations to H Choate, violin, V Sankar, violin, and N Starich, viola on their acceptance into the Region Orchestra.  They will be performing with the Region Orchestra on November 17th.  We are proud of all of the students who tried out.

Congratulations to Garima Singh who was one of the top 15 finalists in North America for the Google Science Fair.  Her project is featured on their website along with the other finalists.  Our own Carolina Carner (science) even got some acknowledgement in Garima's project for her help with Science Fair! http://www.google.com/events/sciencefair/finalists.html