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The hidden accomplishments of RHS Life Skills class
Rice CISD life skills class has had some major accomplishments this year, including Special Olympics gold medal athletes and Best of Show Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo artists.
The Special Olympics started in July of 1968, and it has given thousands of people with special needs a chance to showcase their different skills and talents.
Rice Junior High seventh grader Angel Miranda brought home a gold medal in Special Olympics bowling and basketball.
He put in a lot of work to accomplish that, with his teacher Eunice McBeth stating he practiced several times a week. Rice had several Special Olympic athletes compete. “They get so excited to win,” McBeth said.
Miranda traveled to Alvin in March to compete in basketball. His bowling competition was in Webster in December. Paraprofessional Tiara Flores describes Miranda as a happy young man.
“He’s so smart and always has a smile on his face,” Flores said.
When asked how he reacted to the win, Flores said Miranda was very excited, and his mom and brothers were there to celebrate the victory with him.
Hernandez highlighted at HLSR
Rice High School junior Adlee Hernandez won Best of Show on her rodeo art at this year’s Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
This isn’t her first rodeo; she also won Best of Show her freshman year.
It took her a few months to finish her project, and Rice High School Art teacher Savanah Konvicka said, “The kids started their HLSR artwork in early September and worked on it until the end of the fall semester. Adlee worked on hers every single day, she was completely committed to it.”
Hernandez used Prisma color pencils to complete her project, a vibrant and color- ful portrait of a horse.
She said her Special Olympics coach gave her the inspiration for this year’s art project.
“My Olympics coach, Mrs. Seay, took a picture of her horse in her barn and asked me to draw it,” Hernandez said.
“Adlee went square inch by square inch on her artwork,” Konvicka said of Adlee’s work ethic.
“She was laser-focused, so much so that she noticed details that I didn’t even notice in the photograph she worked from,” Konvicka said.
Hernandez received her HLSR Best of Show trophy at Rice last week. She was happy to win, but, confident in her work, said she wasn’t surprised to win.
“I expected it. I’m proud of myself and I feel very accomplished,” Hernandez said.
