News and Updates
Changes and updates for 2024 (new!)
Contest
Promo Video #1 (students from one school tell why they
love contest)
Contest Promo
Video #2 (one student tells why she loves contest)
Teacher-to-Teacher Tips
Houstonfest Scholarships
Scholarships at State
State Promo Video Contest
Tips for Pair Discussion
Arrival at Heights High School
Lunch options
Daily log of changes to
state-qualifier list
Photo Gallery
Important Dates
Mon. Jan. 8, 2024, 4:00 p.m.: Application for
transportation grants from Houston Saengerbund opens (teachers will be sent a
link to a Google Form).
Tue., Jan. 16, 2024, 11:59
p.m.: Houstonfest registration
spreadsheet due for regular price of $12/student (payment does not have
to be mailed until 1/22).
Mon., Jan. 22, 2024, 11:59
p.m.: Houstonfest registration spreadsheet
due
for late price of $15/student. Deadline to postmark Houstonfest payment.
Sat., Jan. 27, 2024, 9:00 a.m.:
Submission of entries in the 7 virtual Houstonfest events due (get link to
Google Form from your teacher).
Tue., Jan. 30, 2024, 11:59 p.m.: Remote
judging of the 7 virtual Houstonfest events ends.
Wed., Jan. 31, 2024, 9:00 p.m.:
Houstonfest changes (adds,
drops, substitutions) due. After this point, no more changes will be allowed.
Sat., Feb. 3, 2024:
Houstonfest,
Heights High School, Houston.
Fri., Feb. 9, 2024, 11:59 p.m.: State
online registration due for "early bird" price of $12/student (payment does not
have to be mailed until 2/14).
Wed., Feb. 14, 2024, 11:59 p.m.: State
online registration due
for
regular price of
$15/student. Deadline to postmark State payment.
Sat., Feb. 17, 2024, 9:00 a.m.:
Submission of entries in the 7 virtual State events due (get link to
Google Form from your teacher). Also,
Mary El-Beheri Memorial Scholarship
applications due.
Mon., Feb. 19, 2024, 8:00 p.m.:
Entries in
promotional video contest
due to State director.
Tue., Feb. 20, 2024, 11:59 p.m.: Remote
judging of the 7 virtual State events ends.
Sat., Feb. 24, 2024:
Texas State German Contest, Texas State
University, San Marcos.
Sat., Mar. 2, 2024, 11:59 p.m.:
Houstonfest Scholarship applications due.
Sun., Mar. 10, 2024:
Gail Cope
State Scholarship applications due.
rolling basis:
submit
Gail Cope Teacher Grant applications.
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Advantaged
Speakers
"Advantaged
speakers" are students who meet one or more of the following criteria:
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They
have lived in a German-speaking country six weeks or more at one time since
the age of 6.
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They
reside with a native speaker of German who regularly speaks German at
home.
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They
speak German at home.
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They
regularly (annually or biennially) visit or have visited a German-speaking
country, visiting German-speaking homes.
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They
have attended a school where the majority of subjects were taught in German for one or
more years.
It is left
to the professional judgment of the teacher to determine the eligibility of
students. Questions of eligibility should be addressed to the contest director
prior to the contest registration deadline. If a student is designated
advantaged in one event, they must be entered as advantaged in all events.
Advantaged speakers may compete
ONLY in the following events:
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Advantaged speaker test
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Extemporaneous speaking, advantaged category
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Oral
Presentation (virtual event), advantaged category
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Poetry memory, advantaged category
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Prose
memory, advantaged category
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Puppet show, upper level (inform judges as to which actors are
advantaged)
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Skit,
level 4 (inform judges as to which actors are advantaged)
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Most
cultural events: classical ensemble, club album, contemporary
music (as instrumentalists only, not as vocalists), crafts, digital logo design, doll costume,
Einzeltanz, folk dance, gingerbread house, needlework,
original model, photography, polka band, poster design, research
paper, shirt design, video show. Advantaged speakers may NOT compete in
photo essay or vocal solo.
Just to be
perfectly clear, advantaged speakers are NOT allowed to enter the
following events: contemporary
music as vocalists (but OK as instrumentalists), culture,
directed dialogue,
duet acting,
grammar,
listening comprehension,
Pass auf!, pair
discussion, photo
essay,
poetry reading, prose
reading, puppet show (lower level), reading comprehension, scavenger hunt, sight
reading, skit (levels 1-3),
spelling, timed writing, vocabulary, and vocal solo.
Exchange students from German-speaking countries may
not enter any "advantaged speaker" events. However, they may participate in the
following events that are primarily cultural in nature: classical ensemble, club album,
crafts, digital logo design, Einzeltanz, folk dance, gingerbread house,
needlework, original model, photography, polka band, and video show (non-speaking
role or off-camera function only). Alternatively (or perhaps in addition),
they are welcome to help out as judges.
Exchange students from non-German-speaking
countries may enter events for which they qualify (regular or advantaged,
depending on their circumstances), just like their German-language learning
peers. |
When is the next Houstonfest?
Saturday,
February 3, 2024 Where
is Houstonfest?
Heights High School
413 E. 13th Street, Houston, TX
77008
Link to Texas State German Contest
Texas
State German Contest on Facebook
Texas
State German Contest 40th Anniversary Facebook Group |