High Plains UIL Invitational

2025 — Amarillo, TX/US

HIGH PLAINS UIL INVITATIONAL MEET

Amarillo ISD academic teams invite you to our 2nd annual UIL invitational meet on February 12, 2025 at the Amarillo Area Center for Advanced Learning at 1100 N Forest St Amarillo TX 79106

Events. We will offer all UIL academic events except the Computer Science Programming portion and speech.

Materials. We will use UIL Meet B materials and ASW for spelling

Hospitality. Light snacks will be provided for coaches and bus drivers. We will not have concessions this year. We are conveniently located near several food options that are easy to access or order from. Schools are free to bring their own food or (if time permits) leave campus for lunch and are asked to clean up all trash in the common area and testing rooms.

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ALL ENTRIES ARE DUE BY 5pm Friday, JAN 31, 2025.

$5 per entry per event, with up to 6 entries per school in an event

Please make all drops by 4 p.m. on Monday, February 10, 2025 by email.

If your academic contestants wish to cross-enter in events, please pay careful attention to the schedule to avoid time conflicts. We will not delay the start of academic contests for the sake of missing students!

Teams must bring their own computers and printers or may choose to write by hand.

UIL Rules will apply. Coaches are responsible for checking their own students’ papers after they have been graded to confirm correct score

Awards will be announced and given out as each contest is judged and will be announced in the holding room. Ribbons will be given to the top 6 places. We will not have an overall sweepstakes award or team awards this year.

Payment of Fees: Schools should bring a check payable to Amarillo High School Speech to cover all fees. You may also mail the check ahead of time.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. See you in February!

Mellessa Denny mellessa.denny@amaisd.org

Jackie Carthel jacqueline.carthel@amaisd.org

Ryan Lovell ryan.lovell@amaisd.org

Andy Zeigler andy.zeigler@amaisd.org

SCHEDULE:

8:00-8:45 am Registration

9:00 am Current Events, Ready Writing, Number Sense, Copy Editing

9:30 am Calculator

10:00 am News Writing

10:45 am Mathematics

11:00 am Feature Writing & Social Studies

11:30 am Literary Criticism

12:00 pm Computer Science (written)

12:30 pm Spelling & Vocabulary, Science, Accounting

1:00 pm Editorial Writing

2:00 pm Headline Writing

Tabulation & Grading: Rm 146