News and Updates
Houstonfest Scholarships -
winners announced!
Changes and updates for 2022 including procedures for
online contest
State Promo Video Contest
"Texas State German Contest at 40" newsletter
series (full of tips for contest prep and Pass auf!
study material)
"Leidenschaft der Aussprache" Pronunciation Contest
Scholarships at State
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
Tips for Pair Discussion
Photo Gallery
Arrival at Heights High School
Lunch options
Daily log of changes to
state-qualifier list
Important Dates
Sat., Jan. 15, 2022, 11:59
p.m.: Houstonfest registration
spreadsheet due for regular price of $10/student (payment does not have
to be mailed until 1/24).
Tue., Jan. 18, 2022, 4:00 p.m.: Registration
opens for
pronunciation contest "Leidenschaft der Aussprache" (teachers who submit a
Houstonfest registration by the regular deadline will receive a link to register
for this special contest)
Mon., Jan. 24, 2022, 11:59
p.m.: Houstonfest registration spreadsheet
due
for late price of $12/student. Deadline to postmark Houstonfest payment.
Wed., Feb. 2, 2022, 8:00 p.m.:
Houstonfest changes (adds,
drops, substitutions) due. After this point, no more changes will be allowed.
Sat., Feb. 5, 2022: Houstonfest
(virtual) - submissions of art and recordings due by 9:00
a.m., some
events conducted live via Zoom
Tue., Feb. 8, 2022, 11:59 p.m.: Remote
Houstonfest judging ends
Fri., Feb. 11, 2022, 4:45 p.m.: Houstonfest
results announced via live-stream (see Results page for a
recording of the awards show)
Wed., Feb. 16, 2022, 11:59 p.m.: State
online registration due for "early bird" price of $10/student (payment does not
have to be mailed until 2/18).
Fri., Feb. 18, 2022, 11:59 p.m.: State online registration due
for
regular price of
$12/student. Also,
Mary El-Beheri Memorial Scholarship
applications due. Deadline to postmark State payment.
Wed., Feb. 23, 2022, 8:00 p.m.:
Deadline extended: Entries in
promotional video contest
due to State director Jennifer Christianson.
Sat., Feb. 26, 2022:
40th
Annual Texas State German Contest
(virtual) -submissions of art and recordings due by 9:00 a.m., some
events conducted live via Zoom (ask your teacher for the sheet with all the
links!)
Tue., Mar. 1, 2022, 11:59 p.m.: Remote State
judging ends
Sat., Mar. 5, 2022, 11:59 p.m.:
Houstonfest Scholarship applications due. State awards video released.
Fri., Mar. 11, 2022:
Gail Cope
Scholarship applications due.
Sat., April 30, 2022:
Gail Cope Teacher Grant applications due.
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Results
The results of Houstonfest are posted below,
perhaps initially as a Google Sheet and then later as an Excel spreadsheet. The
Google Sheet will have two tabs at the bottom: Winners List and
Sweepstakes. The Excel spreadsheet will have three tabs:
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Original 1-10: The original,
unaltered list of winners from Houstonfest. This list will never be
altered (except to correct errors), so that the original list of winners
will always be available.
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Updated 1-10: The current list
of places 1-10, reflecting all drops and move-ups to date. This
spreadsheet will be updated daily between the date of Houstonfest and the
date of State. If State were held today, the students in slots 1-5 in
each event would be the competitors.
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Sweepstakes: An
event-by-event listing of the events won and sweepstakes points earned by
each school along with the results of the sweepstakes, Klein aber fein,
Rookie Teacher, and Rookie School competitions.
2022 Results Spreadsheet
(Excel)
2022 Slide Show
(PDF)
Recording of
Live-Streamed Awards Show
(The recording is a huge file, but it should play directly in your browser
without downloading.)
Tips for teachers:
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The spreadsheet can be a very flexible and
useful tool for you. You can save it to your computer and re-sort it
in various ways. For instance, you can re-sort the list by school and thereby group all of your winning
students together.
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To simplify the process of monitoring
changes to the state-qualifier list that affect your students, you can also
view a daily log of changes.
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E-mail me (Rustin Buck) if
you have any students who will not attend State so that I can drop them from
the qualifier list and move up the next student.
Archived results:
2021: Spreadsheet
Slide Show
Video
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
We do not have
complete results before 2008, when I (Rustin Buck) became director. However,
when I retired from my job as German teacher at Clements High School in June
2021, I found hard copies of the results from some of the earlier years as I was
cleaning out my filing cabinet (going back to my first year as a German
teacher). I have scanned them for inclusion here. Please excuse the highlighting
of Clements winners (and others in our school district) and the X'ed out names
(those students did indeed win but then opted not to attend State), as these
hard copies were for my use as the Clements teacher as we planned our trips to
State. Still, they're better than nothing! If anyone comes across copies of the
results from 2004 to 2007 or pre-1996, send them to me and I'll post them.
2003
2001
2000
1999
1998
1997
1996
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When is the next Houstonfest?
Saturday,
February 4, 2023 Where
is Houstonfest?
Heights High School in Houston
Link to Texas State German Contest
Texas
State German Contest on Facebook
Texas
State German Contest 40th Anniversary Facebook Group |