Please check the tentative State Meet schedule, posted on the UIL web site (www.uil.utexas.edu). Because of planned repairs taking place in the Thompson Conference Center that weekend, we’ve had to move journalism from TCC 1.110 to TCC 2.102 and speech from TCC 2.102 to TCC 1.110. We’ve also made minor changes in several contest coaches’ conferences and awards assemblies.
Social Studies Contest
The Legislative Council also approved social studies as a full UIL contest beginning in September, 2003. Next year, students competing in the social studies contest will advance from district to region to state. Their points will count toward League championships. On Feb. 22, the UIL will host a meeting of a recently-appointed Social Studies Contest Advisory Committee, which will iron out final details on contest rules, guidelines and content. Details of this meeting will be published in the March Leaguer. The UIL is now in the fourth year of the social studies pilot. The first two years centered on economics, the last two on government and geography. We want this contest to appeal to a wide range of students. We want it to challenge more than short-term memory. Ultimately, we want it to provide all participants a wider and deeper understanding of how the world works and why it works that way.