Education

The Wills Point Junior High Tigerettes were Sweepstakes winners and recipients of the Gussie Nell Davis Award of Excellence for their performance at the Rockwall Heath American Dance/Drill Team Competition held Feb. 4. JH Tigerette team members include Abby Barker, Alyssa Lee, Ava Ewins, Brooklyn Tanner, Cheyenne Bocook, Daley Smith, Emily Hernandez, Gracie Cross, Hailey Brannon, Haleigh Jones, Jackie Ryder, Jamesiah Cobb, Katie Ryder, Kenzie Samples, Lucy Lusk, Madie King, Miena Cervantes, Ryann Goldberg, Sierra Wilson, Victoria Young and Violet Ibarra.

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Wills Point Junior High students are enjoying great evenings with their blind dates! During this season of love and valentines, students can choose a gift bag with clues about a book, but they do not know what the book is until they open it at home. With this fun experience, they end up spending time with a genre or author they might not have otherwise enjoyed. Students then rate their “date,” letting others know if their date was “love at first sight,” amazing, or disastrous. 

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Baylor University
More than 3, 900 Baylor University students were named to the Dean's Academic Honor Roll for the 2016 fall semester. To be named to the dean's list, a student must be an undergraduate with a minimum grade-point average of 3.7, while enrolled in a minimum of 12 semester hours. .
Andrew M. Hardman of Wills Point was named to the Dean’s Academic Honor Roll for the 2016 fall semester. He is enrolled in the Hankamer School of Business

LeTourneau University 

Students on the A Honor Roll at Wills Point Middle School are  Fifth Grade – Jersi Adams, Marc Battle, Chloe Cockerham, Kole Collins, Kathryn Davis, Kelcie Doering, Kyle Etheridge, Yuri Frykholm, Payton Fugate, Gerald Goode, Jose Hernandez, Michael Jenkins, Ethan Kornegay, McKenzie Littrell, Carson Maddox, Gaybrie Malone, Scottie Manning, Elisa McVeigh, Julia Meade, Tennyson Pritchett, Alyssa Ramsey, Reagan Rounsavall, Charleston Sanders, Presley Self, Emily Sewell, Molly Sewell, Hunter Stokes, Landon Strong, Makale Strutton, Seth Sturgill, Cody Tate, Kiera Tate, Nathan Thomas, Adrian Turner and Emma Wallas.

Brandon Taylor, a junior at Rockwall High, was awarded the Gold Presidential Service Award for his volunteering efforts in and around Rockwall. The President’s Volunteer Service Award is a volunteer award program that encourages citizens to live a life of service.
While Brandon participated in several programs for volunteering, the majority of his time was spent spreading STEM. Brandon earned his hours by being a robotics mentor to elementary and middle school students around Rockwall, participating in robotics summer camps through both the YMCA and ROCK as well as judging at local robotics competitions.
Brandon, the grandson of Danny and Joyce Harris of Wills Point, is a proud member of FRC Team 1296 - Full Metal Jackets (the RHS Robotics team).

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Andrew Hardman, salutatorian of the Wills Point High School Class of 2016, recently completed his first semester at Baylor University in Waco. Hardman finished the semester with a perfect 4.0 grade point average to earn a spot on the Dean's Academic Honor List.

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The 2016 local Patriotic Art winner was Ka'lah Eaton, a junior from Martins Mill. Her art was exceptional in creativity and was sent to the state level for judging.  It did not place in state competition, but was enjoyed by all who saw it. She is the daughter of Sheila and Ryan Hanson of Van.
Each year the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary Post 9171 of Canton offers the contest to local high school students, grades 9-12 to compete for $21,000 in national scholarships.
Students begin by submitting original artwork on paper or canvas. Forms are distributed to the students with all rules listed. It is then judged and the first-place art is sent to the State for judging.

Chasity Mixon’s third grade class at the Wills Point Intermediate School campus put together Christmas tree projects prior to the end of 2016.

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WP Primary Students of the Month for November  Pre-K-Ariana Dias (not pictured), Salem Stevens-Schooner, Kiara Leila, Brandon Hernandez, Isaiah Taylor and Riley Berry (not pictured); Kindergarten-Guadalupe Zuniga, Georgia Loss, Brianna Davis, Isabella Puente, Tristin Wiggin ton, Colt Lindsey, Priscilla Kelley, Victor Gundis, Jude Butler (not present for picture); and First Grade-Norvell Booker, Braden Brown, Judith Hernandez, Valerie Gonzalez, Kambria Cardoso, Brady Cranfill, Landry Simmons, Grace Anguiano, Kelso Brown (not present for picture).

First graders at two local elementary schools were recently given free prevent tooth decay kits through the Fantastic Teeth Fan Club by members of Wills Point Masonic Lodge, led by Gary Huggins. The Masons assembled and delivered more than 200 dental hygiene kits to first graders at Edgewood Primary School and Wills Point Primary School.

The Fantastic Teeth Fan Club, sponsored by Masonic Home and School of Texas (MHS), strives to prevent suffering from toothaches, reduce missed school days due to dental problems, and cut costs for dental treatment.