Ashley McWhorter and Lindsay Bartol, Plano residents and students at Trinity Christian Academy (TCA) were honored by the National Merit Scholarship Program and ranked as a National Merit Semi-Finalist. As semi-finalists, McWhorter and Bartol will be notified by the organization by mid-February whether they will advance as a finalist in the competition. Last year, 1.6 million students entered the 2018 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2016 Preliminary SAT and were judged based on PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test scores. Throughout the competition, about 34,000 commended students throughout the nation are recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Avery Schuster was also recognized from TCA.

This year, three seniors from Trinity Christian Academy (TCA) in Addison were honored by the National Merit Scholarship Program. Ashley McWhorter, Avery Schuster and Lindsay Bartol ranked as a National Merit Semi-Finalist. As semi-finalists, McWhorter, Schuster and Bartol will be notified by the organization by mid-February whether they will advance as a finalist in the competition.

Over 1.6 million students entered the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2017 Preliminary SAT.  The students were judged based on PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test scores. Throughout the competition, about 34,000 commended students throughout the nation are recognized for their exceptional academic promise and about 16,000 semi-finalists are chosen among the highest scoring entrants of each state. 15,000 of the semi-finalists are expected to advance to the finals by completing the National Merit Scholarship Application and meeting several other requirements. National Merit Scholarship awards as well as corporate-sponsored and college-sponsored Merit Scholarship awards will be granted to about 7,500 finalists.

Lauren Warner, a resident of Preston Hollow and a senior at Trinity Christian Academy (TCA), was recognized for her performance in “Little Women” at the Schmidt & Jones Awards Gala hosted at The Majestic Theatre.. Warner was awarded Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Beth March.

Students were judged by a panel of theater professionals and educators. The judges provided nominations and voted for winners in various performance and design categories as the students competed against the productions from high schools in Dallas, Tarrant and Collin counties. Sponsored by Dallas County's only locally produced professional musical theater company, Lyric Stage, the gala honors the students' hard work by providing a Tony Award-like ceremony.

Lauren Head, Plano resident and student at Trinity Christian Academy (TCA), recently was recognized for her extraordinary artwork at The Art of Architecture organized by the Dallas Center for Architecture. Head received Best of Show, Special Judges’ Award and Citation Award.

Middle school and high school students were judged by a jury of professionals with the organization based on their art of designing buildings which requires them to visualize three-dimensional spaces and creatively convey that perception to the viewer. The Art of Architecture encourages students to study these visual aspects of architecture and express their observations creatively.

Sixth-grade teachers dressed up as flight workers and transformed their classrooms with décor representing different continents to take their students on a learning experience

Recently, the sixth-grade teachers at Trinity Christian Academy (TCA), donned flight captain, flight attendant and ground crew outfits to take their students on a trip around the world. Each classroom was decorated to represent a different continent and the students traveled from one “continent” to the next via a hallway-turned-airplane runway as they switched classes throughout the day.

Science teacher, Stephen Megison's classroom portrayed an airplane cabin and he was the captain, dressed in a flight suit, while his colleagues donned flight attendant and ground crew uniforms. The teachers made elaborate decorations and put on costumes to engage each class as students gave presentations on various countries for their history their and literature classes.