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I have written these essays for my English essay portfolio. I attend the Science Academy of South Texas (scitech.stisd.net), it is a great school located in southern Texas, and part of the South Texas Independent School District.

Sci-Tech is not a normal high school. We, the students, choose to come here and we acknowledge that we have to give up some extracurricular activities i.e. sports and music. Most of us are willing to sacrifice these enjoyable activities so we can attend Sci-Tech. Students decide to attend Sci-Tech because we want a better academic challenge, which our most of our home schools cant provide. Sci-Tech has the brightest students in the RGV. This school serves three counties; Hidalgo, Willacy, and Cameron. Sci-Tech has three sister magnet schools BETA, Med -High, and Med-Tech, which are as good. I got to attend BETA freshman year, I really enjoyed and made lots of new friends. Each school has a curriculum centered on specific types of careers. Sci-Tech, as you can probably tell from the name, is centered on careers in science and engineering.

We participate in the program Lead the Way, which is a engineering program that enables students to receive college credit for engineering courses we take. Our school has notable partnerships with Rice University, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Texas-Pan American and South Texas College. As I have mentioned out school has no athletics department but many of us participate in academic competitions regularly.

In 2008, The Science Academy finally received its own gym, no longer sharing with our sister and neighboring school Med High.

We have a radio station that is run by students, on school, and is airs in the morning, during lunch, and afterschool. We have a variety and unique clubs, like the bible, astronomy, environmental, KQSA (radio), newspaper, art, and many more!
The engineering classes are very fun and we get a lot of hand on experience, the districts slogan is, “Think outside the book”. All classes are college preparatory (Pre-AP) and AP/ DE courses. This prepares us for college. The school has a very college like atmosphere. The food in the cafeteria is way better and more assorted. Our school has the latest computer programs, updated every year.

I wrote these essays for my English portfolio. English 2 students have to so thirteen essays, each is a different type. There is a process. We write them, turn them in, our English teacher check and circles errors. Then we correct the errors and resubmit, hoping it will be accepted, although usually more errors are found:) When the essay is finally accepted, we submit it to Turnitin.com, which checks for plagiarism. Every essay has to include an essay to a work we have read in the year, so each of the essays will have an allusion. I will post accepted essays here for your enjoyment. Please feel free to leave a comment. Tell me what you think.
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Resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_Academy_of_South_Texas
http://scitech.stisd.net/
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