UIL General Information

General Information

Greetings regional competitors and coaches, WTAMU is excited to welcome you to our campus. Here are some tips to help you with your day.

The Academic Portion will be on the WTAMU Campus on Friday, April 25.

The One Act Play Competition will be on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26 at the Randall High School Auditorium.

The information center is in the Jack B. Kelley Student Center (JBK), on the lower level in the West Texas Room (33). Academic verification will occur in the West Texas Room. Speech verification will take place in CC 427. Contests will take place in the lower level of the JBK and the Classroom Center (CC) which is connected to the JBK. Speech events will be headquartered in the Classroom Center (CC) 427. Postings will be on the 4th floor.

The student gathering area will be in Legacy Hall located in the JBK. This location is provided for students congregate/study/wait. There will be some activities available to students there and awards will take place in Legacy Hall.

*Change for 2025 – We will NOT provide computers for Journalism and Ready Writing events this year. These events will take place in the JBK Senate room. There have been some room changes from years past, please note your contest rooms may be different this year.

The hospitality room for coaches and judges will be in the Hazel Kelley Wilson Room on the first floor of the JBK.

Tests may be viewed in West Texas (33) as soon as they have been graded. You may not take pictures of tests or keys.

Coaches will need to help score the objective items. Proctors will make announcements for when and where grading will take place. This will depend on the contest.  

Tests will be mailed due to regional contests still taking place the next day across the state. No need for a self-addressed stamped envelope this year, you will have a school envelope in each contest room. We will combine tests to mail to each school.

All students finishing 1st place in any individual test/speech contest will receive a $1,000.00 scholarship to the University. This will be good for the Fall of 2025 or 2026.

Parking

Bus parking is at the First United Bank Center parking lot. Students and sponsors can ride the shuttle. Suburbans and vans can park in Zones 12 and 5 as parking enforcement will be suspended for our event in those locations only.

Dining while on campus 

There is a Starbucks, convenience store, and food court in the Jack B. Kelly Student Center. The JBK Food Court has a variety of options, but operates cashless. Individuals that do not have debit cards can use cash to load a Gold Card from the Gold Card cash box located in the JBK Food Court area or they can use cash to purchase a pre-loaded $10 Gold Card from the University Bookstore (with the ability to add more to the balance from the machine).  There is also Pizza Hut, Subway, Whataburger and McDonald’s all within walking distance on 23^rd street. 

Announcements

We will use the Remind App to send out announcements (specifically to announce Verification times). The class name is 2A Region 1 UIL. You can join here: https://remind.com/join/2aregion1u Due to restrictions from Remind, we needed to clear out the “class” so you will need to join again this year, even if you have done so in the past.

Academic questions can be sent to:

Lacy Cannon
Email: lcannon@wtamu.edu
Office: (806) 651-4050
Cell: (806) 683-6011