By Melissa Brisco
Staff Writer
Last Thursday and Friday, six CHS students earned berths in the regional competition by placing at the UIL Academics District 6-5A Meet at Flower Mound High School.

The Class 5A Region I Meet is April 23-24 at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Students who placed in the top three people in their category advance to regionals. The students advancing are senior Zach Zoda and Judy Hong for Poetry Interpretation and Tori Galea, Henry Trahan, Quinn Zhang and Peter Chang for Science.

In addition, the CHS Science team received first place for the second straight year. Members in the Science category compete individually, but the school with the most points in a certain category is named the first place team.

“Science did great [at UIL],” Science coach and CHS Science teacher Laronna Doggett said. “We got first team, top biology score and top physics score. They did great, I was so proud. [Getting first place team] means that CHS has great teachers and great and talented students. We got first place team last year so hopefully next year it will be three in a row. Hopefully we can start a tradition.”

Students placing in the top six in their category are:

Hans Xia -6^th  Calculator Applications,

Hans Xia – 6^th in Calculator Applications

Betsy Dean – 6^th Informative Speaking

Margret Tumbokon – 6^th Literary Criticism

 Danny Park – 6^th Mathematics

 Rebecca Neumann – 6^th News Writing

 Stephanie Emerson – 5^th Persuasive Speaking

Ellen Cameron – 6^th Ready Writing

Maria Zuniga – 4^th Prose Intrpretation

Baneen Noorali – 5^th Spelling and Vocabulary

Helena You -6^th Spelling and Vocabulary