Over 900 students from around the state participated in the Texas French Symposium hosted by KF March 27 – 28. This contest is the French version of UIL with all stages of the competition completed in one weekend. The level of competition is “very high and the top prizes are trips to France” according to Madame Karen Watson, French teacher.

The following students placed in the contest:

Poetry: Preliminaries, Angela Bert, Fr 1 3^rd place, Kristen Shotton, Fr 1 1^st place, Alexis Alonso Fr 2, 3^rd place and Jair Gonzalez, Fr 3 1^st place. In semi-finals Shotton and Gonzalez both placed third. They both also received a medal for placing third overall in poetry.

Prose: Preliminaries, Kristen Shotton, Fr 1  3^rd place, Alexis Alonso, Fr 2 4^th place, Kennedy Baldwin, Fr 2 4^th place and Dqaniela Martagon, Fr 2 3^rd place.

Guided Speaking: Preliminaries, Alexis Alonso, Fr 2 1^st place, Chyanne Blackwood, Fr 3 5^th place, Odaliz Cardozo, Fr 3 2^nd place, Claire Duong, Fr 4 3^rd place. Alonso place first in the Semi-finals.

Sight Reading: Daniela Velazquez, Fr 2 5^th palce, Chyanne Blackwood, Fr 3 3^rd place, Dana Goodman, Fr 3 4^th place, Daniela Orta, Fr 3 3^rd place.

Drama Solo: Preliminaries, Alexandria Beckford, Fr 2 2^nd place, Olga Luna, Fr 3 3^rd place.

Vocal Group: Alexis Alonso, Amy Duong, Daniela Martagan , Annnie Nguyen and Daniela Velazquez placed 4^th in preliminaries.

Instrumental Solo: Anh Pham, Fr 5 placed 5^th in preliminaries.

Instrumental Group: Jair Gonzales and ANh Pham placed first in preliminaries, second in semi-finals and placed second overall.

Piano Solo: Jenny Nguyen placed 4^th in preliminaries.

Dicte’e (dictation in French): There were no preliminaries or semi-finals. Anh Pham placed 6^th overall.

Bande Dessine’e (original comic strip in French): There were no preliminaries or semi-finals. Amy Duong, Fr 2 placed 4^th, Claire Duon, Fr 4 placed 4^th and Anh Pham, Fr 5 placed 2^nd.

Vocabulary Test: There were no preliminaries or semi-finals. Anh Pham, Fr 5 placed 3^rd out of 51 students.

Civilization Test: There were no preliminaries or semi-finals. Jair Gonzalez, Fr 3 placed 6^th out of 220 students and ANh Pham, Fr 5 placed 3^rd  out of 51 students.

Scavenger Hunt: There were no preliminaries or semi-finals. The entire KF team placed first.

The following students were just one point away from advancing to the next round: Fr 2: Miracle Williams, Jennifer Sanchez, Elizabeth Ortiz, ReHaab Shahid;  Fr 3: Chantal Grimaldo, Estaben Sanchez, Leslie Landaverde, Jessica Aguilar, Aylin Hernandez, Laila Nafees and Keiry Gomez; Fr 4 Charissa Mathew,Melissa Valdez; Fr 5: Keyz Chester