SCHOOL NEWS
NHS filmakers ready to walk state UIL red carpet with 2 films
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
Films created by the Nocona High School students have once more earned a place in the top six across the state and will compete at the UIL Young Filmmakers Festival on Feb. 25.
The University Interscholastic League has offered this contest the past seven years, with NHS competing the last six years walking the red carpet in 2016, 2018 and 2019.
This year the school submitted one documentary and one traditional animation. The film festival takes place at the Paramount Theater in Austin where all the films are screened before awards are presented.
Rob Norman, digital media teacher, explains across the state there were 1,800 films sent for the contest. Norman also was asked to judge films which he said was exciting.
The divisions are based on school size with division one for 1A-4A schools, and division two for 5A-6A. NHS will compete with films from Hudson, Lytle, Argyle, Pleasant Grove, Kennedale, Mount Enterprise, Jim Ned and Sabine Pass High Schools.
In the quarterfinals, the films are ranked by three judges. The top three from that round advance where they are ranked again for the final top six that go to state, where they will be placed first, second and third.
Last year, Nocona placed second with a narrative and a traditional animation. In 2018 it won first and second for traditional animation and in 2016 won fifth for a documentary.
Click on the hyperlinks below to watch the films.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QzeTBpZGF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYfbcPkuR_k
Read the full feature in the mid-week Bowie News.
Abigail Hill, Nocona High School valedictorian, is the 2026 UIL feature writing state champion. Nocona faculty have been looking through school records and UIL records to see when Nocona last had someone won state. UIL record archives only date back to 1983 and they didn’t see anyone listed as winning a gold medal in Academic UIL. According to Nocona records, she is the first UIL Academic Champion since 1973. (Courtesy photo)
Bowie Elementary kindergarten students entertained the huge audience that attended the graduation ceremonies at the high school gym on May 21. Each kindergarten class performed a song for the guests. They also were invited to dress as their future career choice such as a doctor or a police officer.
Each class entertained with a song.
By Andy Newberry, MSU Texas
Midwestern State University junior Rykir Evans is not only building his skills during a NASA internship—he’s creating memories that will last a lifetime.
Evans has been a remote student at MSU Texas this semester while completing the internship. During that time, he had the opportunity to meet American naval aviator and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, as well as NASA Chief Flight Director Gene Kranz.
“It definitely has been an amazing experience thus far, and meeting all of the super inspirational figures in flesh and blood was definitely surreal,” Evans said.
Read the full story in Thursday’s Bowie News.
(Top photo) Rykir Evans had a chance meeting with Reid Wiseman NASA astronaut and commander of the Artemis II lunar fly-by mission. He also met famed NASA chief flight director Gene Kranz, who directed the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.
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