Creekview High School’s Safe Driving Campaign Earns Top 10 Spot for 2012-2013

Check Presentation at Halftime of Varsity Boys Home Basketball Game on Nov. 27

Carrollton,TX, Nov.26, 2012 – Students at Creekview High School in Carrollton are working to reduce risky driving behaviors that lead to motor vehicle crashes, the number one killer of teens. Creekview High was selected through a competitive process as one of this year’s Top 10 Project Ignition campaigns from across the United States and Canada. Project Ignition is a service-learning program sponsored by State Farm® and coordinated by the National Youth Leadership Council®.
Creekview’s Project Ignition team will receive $5,000 to support their participation in the National Service-Learning Conference® in the spring of 2013 in Denver, CO. In addition, they will receive a $2,500 grant to implement their yearlong project during the school year. Earlier this year, Creekview was awarded a $2,000 Project Ignition grant to implement their “Good Habits + Careful Driving= Arriving Alive” campaign.
Creekview High School will also be awarded a $2,500 grant for their participation in State Farm’s inaugural Celebrate My Drive® program, which has been billed as the largest one day gathering of new teen drivers ever. The Celebrate My Drive event was on Sept 15 and involved schools in 400 cities across the US and Canada. The local event was at the Stone Briar Mall in Frisco.
To celebrate Creekview’s achievements and dedication to teen driver safety, State Farm will present a check in the school’s gym at halftime of Creekview’s varsity boys home basketball game,  Nov. 27. Tipoff is at 7:30pm as the Mustangs take on R.L.Turner. Media is invited to attend.
“Congratulations to Creekview High for this wonderful accomplishment,” said Mark Cockerham, State Farm’s Vice President of Agency for the DFW area. “We are grateful for students like these who, through Project Ignition and Celebrate My Drive, join us in promoting teen driver safety.”

Superintendent Dr. Burns Visits Creekview

I would like to thank C-FB ISD Superintendent Dr. Burns who visited Creekview today and attended our after school faculty meeting. It is great to work in a district where the superintendent knows so many faculty memebers by name and comes out to visit with our awesome staff! I appreciate it and I know the staff does as well. Thank you Dr. Burns!

Mock Trial & Hurricane Sandy

What an honor it was last week to be able to travel to Brooklyn, New York with the Mock Trial Team as they competed in the Empire City 6th Annual Mock Trial Invitational. The students from our Mock Trial team are a remarkable group of young men and women who have demonstrated an extraordinary amount of dedication and initiative as they prepared, planned and saved money for this academic competition! Mr Myers our Mock Trial Teacher as well as Amy Toy, Creekview's Law Academy Director have given many hours to get our students prepared for the Invitational!
The competition traveled to New York from schools in Ireland, South Korea, United Kingdom, Canada, California, Washington, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, California, Arkansas, South Carolina, Alabama, Pennsylvania, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Connecticut! Yes, this is big time and the second year in a row that the Creekview team was invited! Thirty six schools from around the world were prepared to do battle in the case of Happy Land Toy Company!
The good news is that we all arrived safely and were able to participate for part of the tournament. The bad news was that Hurricane Sandy had some bad intentions that caused us to change our flight plans and Escape from New York two days early! What a great decision that was- the hurricane was heading our way and we held a meeting with the Mock Trials captains to determine the best course of action.....and yes, they delivered. The plan to leave early was not an easy decision to make...well for some it was....I must say it was not easy to leave New York but knowing the the so called FrankenStorm was bearing down on us made it a bit easier.....In spite of our early departure, it was a trip worth remembering and worth attending in the future if the opportunity arises. It was also great to see the Creekview students practicing, preparing, and delivering on the case. I could not be more proud of a group of students and I look forward to our state competition in early 2013!