The Science and Engineering Magnet
Welcome to the Parent Teacher Student Association Site for Townview SEM
Student Accomplishments, Accolades, and News. Please send news you want posted here to communications@semagnet.org
Thank you and congrats to our award winners!
GOLD
Azlie Cano
Angela Lu
Hudson Shields
Evan Branson
Tarun Mohan
Arjun Vikram
Ephraim Sun
Richard Sun
Alexandra D. Madrigales
SILVER
Shawn Halimman
Grace Liao
Valentina Pham
BRONZE
Augie Pettit
Lucie Pettit
Matthew Nguyen
Congratulations to Townview Choir’s Jason Funes-Metpally for earning a spot in the Texas All State Choir. This is the most prestigious and elite All State Choir in the country. Thousands of students audition and only a small number make it in. Jason is the first student in our school’s history to be selected for the choir.
Good morning,
We had 38 members make the Dallas All City Band. Please congratulate them when you see them in class:
Flute: Brooke Liu
Bassoon: Lohith Dudhyala, Yasmeen Shabazz
Clarinet: Jesus Roa-Jimenez, Ayush Kumar, Kyla Sashington, Kassandra Torres, Sydney Bryant, Henry Holt
Bass Clarinet: Mario Moreno
Alto Sax: David Zaha, Dhruv Nanda, Alyssa Frederick
Bari Sax: Bethle MeKonnen
Trumpet: Samantha Cardenas, Austin Emmanuel, Jaden Pierre, Ivan Duran, Kaleb Wilkes, Peter Schelenker,
French Horn: Matthew Haile, Daniel Munoz, Aditi Devarakonda, Jovany Valenzuela, Lydia Herriage
Trombone: Richard Gao, Rhiti Bhatnager, Miles Brown
Bass Trombone: Christopher White
Euphonium: Enzo Calderon
Tuba: Aneesh Singh, Isiah Pierre
Percussion: Erin Renfro, Oscar Cruz, Edward Valladares, Dezilyn Cosby, Anthony Loredo, Victoria Lopez
We invite you to come out and hear these students as well as the rest of the band at our Holiday Concert, December 10, 2019.
Upcoming Performances/Competitions:
November 22 & 23: All Region Jazz Clinic & Concert at Waxahachie HS
December 6 & 7: All Region Tryouts at Duncanville HS
December 7: Desoto Christmas Parade (Tentative)
December 10: Holiday Winter Concert at Townview
December 11/12: All City Percussion
December 13 & 14: All City Clinic & Concert at Conrad HS
Fifteen Dallas ISD students have been named among the 16,000 National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, with a chance to become one of the 7,600 finalists who will take home scholarships worth a combined $31 million.
More than 90 percent of the semifinalists are expected to reach the finals, with about half of the finalists earning a National Merit Scholarship.
The Dallas ISD National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists are:
See the full article at The Hub.
DISD Science Fair Results
Sneha Chandak, 9th Grade, Animal Science, First Place!
Thu Le, 9th grade, Energy; Physical, First Place!
Aayesha Syed Ibrahim, 9th Grade, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, First Place!
Rohan Cherukuru, 10th Grade, Biomedical Engineering, First Place!
Janavi Chadha and Jacob Acosta, 12th and 11th Grade, Environmental Engineering, First Place. Also awarded the STARS award!
All of these students advanced to the Dallas Regional Science Fair. Best of luck!
Congratulations are in order!
The following students competed in the District Science Fair this past weekend and are moving on to the Dallas Regional Science & Engineering Fair on February 23rd.
Townview: Science & Engineering
Rohan Cherukuru
Sneha Chandak
Thu Le
Janavi Chadha
Jacob Acosta
Aayesha Syed Ibrahim
Juniors, (left to right) Oziel De La Fuente, Meagin Montes, Laura Thompson, and Jonathan Snow are participating in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest. The Contest focuses on how STEM can be applied to help improve your community. They were selected as a State Winner in the 2018-2019 Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest and won the school $20,000 in technology and classroom supplies. These students are now competing to become National Finalists in the next phase of the competition by working on a Silent Alarm System for school shootings.
Learn more about the competition at: https://www.samsung.com/us/solvefortomorrow/
Congratulations to our SEM Band Students!
Congratulations to Callahan Stuart (senior) and Ian Brandt (freshman) who scored big points for their home high school team, Bryan Adams, at the All City Championships on December 18, 2018. Our SEM swimmers were familiar faces on the podium, here is how they did:
Ian Brandt, SEM Freshman
2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze
200 Medley Relay – 1st
200 IM – 3rd
100 Backstroke – 2nd
400 Free Relay – 1st
Callahan Stuart, SEM Senior
2 bronze
100 Fly – 4th
200 Free Relay – 3rd
100 Backstroke – 3rd
With the high scores from Callahan and Ian, Bryan Adams boys won 1st place out of the 11 other DISD teams to win the title at All City! Next up, our SEM swimmers will compete at the District Championships on Friday, January 18, 2019. Let’s wish our boys GOOD LUCK at Districts!
Raul Antonio Trevino (SEM junior), member of Modern Band and student in Music Theory, was the subject of an article in yesterday’s Dallas Observer. The article showcased three students in Raul’s artist development group and and named them as rising stars in the Dallas music scene.
You can read the article here, which includes a video from Raul’s YouTube channel