Welcome to the 13th Annual Joshua High School UIL Invitational

January 18, 2025

Come join the fun at Joshua High School as we invite you to compete in the 13th Annual Joshua High School UIL Invitational to be held on Saturday, January 18, 2025.

Contests will include all UIL academic events, LD Debate, CX Debate, Prose, Poetry, Persuasive and Informative Speaking. Both written and hands on will be offered in Computer Science.

The registration deadline is 11:59 PM on January 14th. We will be using UIL Set "A" Materials. Mathematics, number sense, calculator, and science contests will be divided into 9th/10th and 11th/12th grade divisions for individual awards.

New for 2025 is the ability to pre-order lunches for your students. There is a pizza option and a chicken tender option. Please see the section labeled, "concessions."

To ensure that the tournament runs smoothly, we will limit the total of entries for journalism and ready writing. Once the contest reaches capacity, the event will close, but a waiting list will be available. We are initially limiting entries to 4 students per school in these events. If you have more than 4 students for these events, choose your top 4 and then add the rest to the waiting list. We will do our best to get students off the waitlist on a first come first serve basis. We are doing this to allow more schools to enter students before rooms get filled by a small number of schools with large numbers of entries. We will try to add additional students as space allows.

Note: We run a modified schedule that does not follow the normal conflict pattern to help the tournament to not run late in the day. Please view our schedule before registering: Tournament Schedule

Do not print this schedule. Room numbers will change. If you have unusual conflicts, we can get copies of materials for any test that you miss out on due to these conflicts.

A judge is required for Ready Writing, otherwise a judging fee will be imposed. Entry fees for academic events are $15. We are hiring judges for all journalism events so we charge an extra $3 to help offset a portion of the cost of judges. Speech events are $20, LD is $30, and CX is $50.

Registration begins at 7:00 am. Please park buses in the far south parking area in front of Galbreath Gym. A hospitality room will be provided for coaches, graders, and drivers. Breakfast, lunch, & snacks will be served. A concession stand will be available for students to purchase food throughout the day. We will have pizza and Chicken Express in the concession stand around 11:00. As stated above, there will be a meal deal available for students (please pre-order on the concessions tab if you're able). We hope you have a great experience at the 13th Annual Joshua High School UIL Invitational and thanks for your participation!!

Colin Yeilding

UIL Coordinator

yeildingc@joshuaisd.org

Angela Furtick

Speech/Debate

furticka@joshuaisd.org