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Washington speech team, high-school art show and elementary clay exhibits highlighted by district
Summary
CRCSD hosts celebrated Washington High School speech team—s strong state showing, upcoming All-State festival in Ames on Feb. 22, a district high-school art show at CSPS featuring nearly 200 student artists, and elementary clay exhibits at the Cedar Rapids Public Library.
District hosts highlighted several recent student accomplishments and exhibitions, including a strong state performance by the Washington High School speech team and district art events.
The podcast said Washington High School—s speech team brought home the maximum 26 Division I performances at the district level and advanced to state; the hosts named Kennedy and Jefferson as other schools with All-State qualifiers and said the All-State Festival will take place in Ames on Feb. 22. The episode noted Washington hosted a district event that drew about 86 teams, more than 425 performances and roughly 5,000 attendees.
On visual arts, the CRCSD high school art show opened at CSPS with nearly 200 student artists from Jefferson, Kennedy, Metro and Washington; the People's Choice award went to Ashley Myers of Kennedy for a digital piece titled "Pretty Ladies." The exhibit runs Thursday through Sunday from 12 to 6 p.m. in the CSPS upper galleries, the hosts said. Separately, elementary third-grade clay projects are on display at the Cedar Rapids Public Library Beams Auditorium on the library's second level; that exhibit was described as open this weekend from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The episode did not provide competition scores or adjudication documents; it reported performance counts and attendance as described above.
