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South Texas Chapter

Welcome to the South Texas Chapter AATG Web Site Our membership covers the area from Waco in the north to Brownsville in the south on the Border, from Del Rio in the west to Corpus Christi in the east on the Gulf.  This area is about 160,000 square miles. Just a bit larger than Germany. It includes very mountainous areas in the west, the rolling Hill Country, the citrus fruit trees in The Rio Grande Valley, the largest ranch in Texas in Kingsville, and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the new Silicon Valley around Austin.  We would not think of driving it all in one day. Maybe two. We don't meet very often "officially" but our 95+ members are active in their classrooms, in local foreign language fairs, in the TFLA, in the German-Texan Heritage Society,   in university and college programs, in our Sprachfest and State contests for high school and middle school students, as well as numerous GAPPs and other groups going to German-speaking countries. We are multicultural and we represent one of the most varied areas in the country. We are proud to have members who are pioneers in the "Outreach" movement bringing university students into elementary and middle schools in Austin and San Antonio. Our Chapter has produced three Winners of the National AATG Educator of the Year Award, 2004,2005 and 2008 and a student winner of the 2006 AATG Testing Program Trip to Germany. OUR nominee for the 2008 Friend of Education also won. We are an ever changing and growing Chapter, dedicated to building and maintaining German Programs in Texas, by whatever means!! Please continue on our web site and find out more about us. Scroll down to find out what is on our site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

STAATG 2008 NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS

2008 MEETING

FILMFEST

 

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Chapter Activities,2008 Fall 2008 Meeting Information Things going on the world of German!!	JOBS 2008-2009
Officers	Links to Websites  LEE ANN HARTMANN TEXAS EX AWARD
This and That/Meeting dates/places on this website for many links to important groups and meetings connected to German in Texas.	The Constitution
Sprachfest Texas State German Contest	WINNERS, 2008 Gail Cope Stipends GTHS Scholarship winners, 2008
Useful Film Listing Check it out! Film Reviews: Mostly Martha and others	Leipzig Workshop Vienna Workshop
2004 Meeting Pictures 2005 Meeting Information Christmas 2005 Party Pics 2006 Meeting (Sept 16) (Minutes, Pictures)	2006 Student Winners 2007 Meeting with pictures Educator of the Year AWARDS AP GRADER 2006 PARTY PICS WINNERS 2006 South Texas Chapter AATG POSTER CONTEST

Fall South Texas Chapter Meeting, 2008

WHEN: Saturday, November 1, 2008
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

WHERE:St. Edward’s University, Austin
Moody Hall, Rooms 300 and 301

WHAT: Topics for Morning and Afternoon are:

Morning: Technology in the German classroom, led by Jason Reichert, German teacher, Pflugerville High School and Meagan Tripp,
(2 hours)

"Nur in Texas", A digital slide show about the Texas State German Contests, with handouts and question/answer time. Mary El-Beheri, Director, TSGC,INC ,Evelyn Saucier, Westwood HS Sandi Mays, Tafolla) (20 minutes)

South Texas Chapter Business Meeting (30 minutes)

LUNCH

Internet sites for Deutsche Musik (Ewa Siwak and Meagan Tripp)

Time Schedule

Agenda:
8:30 - 9:00: Continental Breakfast, Social Time

9:00 - 11:30: Technology for the German Classroom
(Jason Reichert and Meagan Tripp)

11:30 - 12:00: Business meeting
(announcements and election of officers for the 2008/09 school year)

Proposed slate of officers:
President: Kerstin Somerholter, St. Edward's U.
Vice-President: Pam Schultz, Georgetown HS
Treasurer: Sandi Mays, Tafolla M.S.
Secretary: Ewa Siwak, Bowie H.S.

12:00 - 1:00: Lunch on your own on St. Edward's campus

1:00 - 1:30: Information on Sprachfest and the Texas State German Contest
(Mary El-Beheri, Evelyn Saucier, Sandi Mays)

1:30 - 3:00: Internet sites for Deutsche Musik
(Ewa Siwak and Meagan Tripp)

We hope you will be able to join us

Driving directions to St. Edward's University
From Mopac (1): Take 71 or 290 East. Get off at Congress; go left (north). Make a right turn on Woodward; turn left on Moody Drive.
From IH-35: Take Woodward (west) to Moody Drive (right).

 

 

 

updated, October 25, 2008

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