THE WordFALL 2009 - Incarnate Word Academy

ACADEMICS
Fieldtrip to NASA
On April 20, 2009, the physics students visited NASA for the day.
The day started with a one-hour panel discussion with six NASA
women, including a flight surgeon, systems instructor, deputy
director, bone scientist, deputy division chief, and manager. Each
discussed their academic history, what led them to NASA and their
job responsibilities. Later the girls toured the Saturn V rocket and
the Johnson Space Center.
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TAPPS 2009
Every year IWA prepares for the TAPPS District and State
Competitions. Along with schools such as St. Agnes Academy,
Duchesne, St. Pius X, St. Thomas, Christian and Beaumont
Kelly, our girls compete in categories that cover every
discipline — academic and artistic — and always make us
proud in their effort and placing. Those who placed moved
on to the State competition, held at Concordia University in
Austin. In 2009, IWA girls placed in several categories and
had a team of over 18 students eligible to go on to the State
competition. At State we won ribbons and medals from First
place to Sixth place and numerous Honorable Mentions. The
IWA ladies also competed in the Music TAPPS held at a different
time and location, and placed at both the District and
State meets.
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« Fieldtrip to the
Federal Reserve
Last spring, a group of seniors from the Math Models and Economics
classes took a tour of the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Houston. The
students were told about the history and role of the Federal Reserve and
toured the board room, security facilities and money vaults. The Houston
branch of the Federal Reserve Bank is unique, given its post-9/11 architectural
accommodations. At the end of the tour, each student was able to
take home some of the bills that are destroyed daily as the bank replaces
America’s money supply.
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Fall 2009