Tioga students take sixth at state

The Tioga ISD theater department made history in February.

Three students—Kenzie Lewter, Bella Lewter and Allie Hammer—competed in the UIL state film festival in Austin with their traditional animated film, “Charles the Shifty Dog.”

“We’ve made the semifinals every year but never broke [through], so this year, we finally made it through, and then when we got there, we ended up placing sixth out of 1A through 3A,” said Haley Hertel, the Tioga High School theater and UIL coordinator.