Join the graduation ceremonies Friday, June 2, 2017 at Prestonwood Baptist Church (6801 W. Park Blvd., Plano, TX 75093). Times are as follows: McKinney High School at 10 a.m.; McKinney North High School at 2:30 p.m.; McKinney Boyd High School at 7 p.m.
Live streaming video of the graduations will be available at www.mckinneyisd.net/graduation/. The live streaming video will begin 10 minutes prior to the graduation start times.
Kenneth Ussery and incumbent Curtis Rippee won their bids for McKinney ISD Board of Trustees Places 2 and 7, respectively, on Saturday. Fellow incumbents Maria McKinzie (Place 1) and Kathi Livezey (Place 3), who both ran unopposed, retained their positions on the Board as well. Ussery received 70.57 percent of the vote in his race against Clayton Myhre, and Rippee earned 55.48 percent of the vote over his opponent Curtis Rath.
The Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) has awarded McKinney ISD the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for 2016. This award is the highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and financial reporting that is granted by GFOA and comes in response to the district’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) that was submitted to the Texas Education Agency and to GFOA last year.
When McKinney ISD Superintendent Dr. Rick McDaniel approached the podium at Eldorado Country Club on the evening of Thursday, May 4, for the 2017 Distinguished Student Awards Dinner, he addressed an assemblage of 45 of the district’s finest students from McKinney Boyd High School, McKinney High School and McKinney North High School. “Tonight’s Distinguished Student Awards ceremony is a celebration of everything that is good about McKinney ISD,” McDaniel told the audience. “We honor you students who have earned the highest level of recognition at the end of your elementary and secondary school years, and we honor the parents, teachers and administrators who have helped influence you along the way. “The McKinney ISD Distinguished Student Award is the highest honor bestowed upon a student in our school district. This is a special night, indeed.”
From “Law & Order” to “12 Angry Men” to “A Few Good Men,” just about everybody loves a good courtroom drama. For the 8th graders involved in the Collin County Bar Association (CCBA) Mock Trial contest, the courtroom drama may have been simulated, but the competition was very real. Each team member had a role to play; some served as witnesses and some as attorneys, but all of them were…well, judged…by actual attorneys and judges—and the goal, as in any courtroom, was to win. That’s exactly what three McKinney ISD middle school teams did in the competition held April 28-29 at the Collin County Courthouse. Teams from Evans Middle School, Cockrill Middle School and Dowell Middle School took 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, respectively, from among a field of 28 teams.
In April, a rocketry team from McKinney High School competed in the NASA Student Launch Initiative held near the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. They competed among university teams from across the country with an 8-ft. rocket that they designed and built to fly up to a mile high, deploy an automated drone and return a fragile cargo safely back to earth. This is the story of their journey.
Innovative 3rd graders apply their profit and cost analysis skills to an entrepreneurship challenge.