Recent News
Congratulations to the Ann Richards School Teacher of the Year Ella Miesner!
Best selling author Sharon Draper visited the Ann Richards School on Tuesday, January 13th to visit with middle school students about her new book Stella by Starlight. She also spoke about life as an author and answered questions about her other books like Out of My Mind, Copper Sun, and Jericho Blues.
On Friday morning, January 9th, the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders was presented with a poster from the Broadway show ANN – the Ann Richards Play from the Emmy Award and Tony Award nominated actress Holland Taylor. The poster was up outside of the Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater for over 150 shows.
Our Stars had a video chat with Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, on Monday December 8th to kick off the #HourOfCode week at Ann Richards. All 764 students will join millions across the world through participating in 60 minutes of coding for the project Hour Of Code. Google and Microsoft are teaming up with the... Read more »
NASA Astronaut Dr. Karen Nyberg visited the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, and presented Life on the ISS (International Space Station); Investing in Our Future to all high school students at the Ann Richards School. Dr. Nyberg spoke about her journey to becoming an astronaut and life as... Read more »
The Ann Richards School was one of a handful of schools selected to present at the Project Lead the Way (PLTW) Summit in Indianapolis on November 3rd. Three of our Project Ventura juniors, PLTW teacher Ms. Josephson, and Assistant Principal Ms. Wiersema presented to 1300 educators from across the country during the summit.
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