SAISD SPOTLIGHT: Burbank High School students ready to compete in the Super Bowl of Agriculture Science
While the Super Bowl will crown an NFL champion this weekend, high school students across the greater San Antonio area get set to compete in their version of the big game: the San Antonio Junior Livestock Show and Rodeo. Burbank High School Agriculture Science students are ready for their moment on the big San Antonio stage, which is one of the biggest livestock shows in the state of Texas. Burbank students will be showing their animal projects, including hogs, sheep, goats and chickens. Bulldog students also participate in other events such as nursery landscaping, floriculture, agricultural engineering and agriculture mechanics.
*Call to set up a time to talk with SAISD Agriculture Science Director Shelby Parker and students either at the Burbank Farm on campus or at the livestock show grounds
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Feb. 10 (Tues) – Lanier High School students get free VIA Bus semester passes
8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., Madla Transit Center, 1584 Cantrell, 78221
Lanier High School students will be among the first San Antonio teenagers to take advantage of a new city initiative in partnership with VIA Metropolitan Transit. Thirty-seven Lanier students will each be given a VIA Semester Pass to ride city buses free of charge this spring. The goal is help improve attendance rates at schools across San Antonio.
Feb. 10 (Tues) – SAISD State of the District
11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Red Berry Estate, 856 Gembler Road, 78219
The SAISD Foundation is ready for the 2026 SAISD State of the District, where district leadership and members of the Superintendent’s Student Advisory Council will present SAISD’s latest achievements, priorities, and vision for its schools and community. The SAISD Foundation partners with the San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Greater San Antonio Chamber to host the event.
Feb. 11 (Wed) – Amazon/SAISD Foundation STEM Buses + Book Buddies activations
11 a.m. to Noon, Sam Houston High School, 4635 E. Houston St., 78220
Amazon volunteers and out-of-town leadership are volunteering with the SAISD Foundation as part of a $40,000 gift to support the STEM buses and the Book Buddies program. Travis Early College High School students in the Associate of Arts in Teaching program at San Antonio College will teach the volunteers how to run the STEM bus activations, including eSports gaming stations, 3D pens, 3D designs, drones, VR goggles and flight simulators. Amazon volunteers will run the activations with students from Davis Middle School and Sam Houston High School.