We’re excited to welcome homeschool students to the Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site for Homeschool Day on Thursday, April 23 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. All visitors to our site on this day will pay a $3.00 entrance admission fee, which does cover a self-guided tour of the Rayburn House – tours of the Rayburn House occur on the hour, space is limited, and there are no guarantees that you will get a tour spot, so reservations are recommended.

Brynn Hudson placed second in the age 9-12 category with Sound Waves. The Creative Arts Center in Bonham recently hosted an opening reception for their Budding Artists’ Show in April.

On April 15, the Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site is offering a free US History Review for the STAAR Exam to local high school students.

Groups of volunteers will clean and beautify locations throughout Sherman and beyond.

Application deadline for Cattle Raisers Roundup — May 3, 2026

Park Place Acura is recognizing two exceptional educators in Prosper Independent School District, honoring Kim Cortez as the district’s 2026 Elementary Teacher of the Year and Hillary Wortham as Secondary Teacher of the Year.

Four Southeastern Oklahoma State University students, along with recent graduates and current faculty members, presented their research at the annual convention of the Southwestern Psychological Association (SWPA) last week.

Kieu Nguyen ’26 presented “Taxonomically and Ecologically Diverse Marine Vertebrate Assemblage at the End of the Cretaceous in Texas (USA).” Nguyen’s presentation won first place in the Undergraduate Student Poster Competition’s Systemics and Evolutionary Biology section.

The Metrocrest Area Chamber will host the National Civics Bee® Metrocrest Local Finals on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Dallas College Brookhaven Campus Performing Hall.

Blake Cooper, Park Place Lexus Plano New Car Sales Director; Cassidy Dorain, Teacher of the Year from Scott Elementary; Katie Ryan, secondary Teacher of the Year from Heritage High School and Gabriel Delgado, Park Place Lexus Plano New Car Sales Manager

“Jeffrey Rosen reinforces that leadership is not about accumulating power, but about cultivating the conditions in which others can flourish,” said Josie Cernero ’27. Rosen then took the stage, delivering an address comparing the political philosophies of Hamilton and Jefferson and stressing the need for thoughtful, informed civic engagement. “Here's a crucial point of order, even though justices and presidents have sometimes betrayed their principles—at least Hamilton and Jefferson gave them principles to betray,” said Rosen. “It's principles that are the one thing that stands between us and violence.”

Author and civic advocate Pete Davis will speak at this year’s Will Mann Richardson Lecture Series on Thursday, April 9 from 11:00 a.m. – noon in Sherman Hall, Hoxie Thompson Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.

Dr. Arthur Tran of Southeastern Oklahoma State University receives the “Best Paper Award” at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Finance Association in Dallas. (courtesy photo)

Emma Benoit, Motivational Speaker, leads a panel discussion with high school students, at the Peer to Peer Conference hosted by The Grace Loncar Foundation, Grant Halliburton Foundation and The Jordan Elizabeth Harris Foundation. (photo credit: Simon Luna Studios)

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Dr. Mila Zhu’s new book, The StrataPlay Methodology: A Lorekeeper’s Game Design in Postqualitative Inquiry, will be the highlight of a Faculty Feature: Research Edition event.

Carson Joe Veenstra, Cora McKinney, and Rodger Nixon on the House of Representatives floor prior to the Higher Education Day program