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Canadian ISD announced the recipients of its 2020-21 Wildcat Excellence Awards last Monday, May 10, by surprising each recipient on their campuses with a certificate, balloons, and a congratulatory cookie.

After Haeleigh Thompson’s heartfelt nomination, Christy White was announced as the Mrs. Baird’s Teachers on the Rise winner for May 2021. Every month, the Teachers on the Rise Award is given to a teacher, nominated by a student letter, who goes above and beyond.

The CHS Canadian Robotics-1 team was notified this week that it had advanced to the UIL state robotics championship, which will be held June 14-15 in San Antonio. Members of the team are (from the left) Nicolas Benson, Everett Cook, Mason Drager, Andrew Renfro, Callie Vinson, Rylun Clark, Ethan Flowers, and Logan Gatlin. Their instructor is Bruce Bryant, who said, “We are all very excited.” The CHS Robotics program is only in its second year since having been initiated in 2019 in an effort to expand the district’s STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) offerings.

Fifty-seven Canadian High School senior, junior, and sophomore students were inducted into the National Honor Society, in a ceremony held before their families at the CES Cafeteria on Tuesday, May 11.

Canadian FFA students held their annual banquet on Thursday, May 6, which culminated in the presentation of two top honors—the Star Greenhand Award to Karson Thompson, and the Star Chapter Degree to Jessica Stiner.

As the 2020-21 school year winds down, Canadian Middle School honored its top 10 students in each grade last Wednesday at the Texas Crown Performance Hall, and presented awards to outstanding students in each subject.

The State Environmental and Natural Resources Career Development Event was held at Tarleton State University on April 29. Canadian’s FFA team placed sixth out of 25 qualifying teams. The team members were Kyler Altmiller, Peyton Dockray, Victoria Shott, and Saira Moreno. The purpose of the environmental and natural resource career development event is to stimulate student interest, to promote environmental and natural resource instruction in the agriculture food and natural resource curriculum, and to provide recognition for those who have demonstrated skills and competencies as a result of environmental and natural resource instruction.