LASA Students Shine During the 2025-2026 Reflections Program, Going National!

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LASA Students Shine During the 2025-2026 Reflections Program!
Texas PTA proudly celebrates the incredible creativity of students across the state! This year, more than 870 student entries advanced for state-level judging, showcasing remarkable talent, imagination, and artistic expression inspired by this year’s theme. We are thrilled to recognize over 600 student artists with state-level awards. Five LASA Students have been recognized by the LASA PTSA, the Austin Council PTA, the Texas PTA this year with one student making it to the National PTA Competition (results will be announced the first of May, 2026).

These incredible student artists are:
Ananth Pakanati for Literature
Grant Ratcliffgardy for Music Composition
Piper Meley for Photography
Sadie Sarrat for Dance Choreography
Zixuan (Camille) Mei for Visual Arts

Camille has achieved the “Overall Award of Excellence,” which elevates her to the National PTA Reflections competition level. Congratulations, Camille!!!!!!!

PFLASA General Meeting

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Please join us for our next PFLASA meeting, we’d love to see you!
Date: Friday, Mar. 13
Time: 8:15a
Location: Portable by the tennis courts

We’ll share what’s going on with PFLASA, lots of volunteer opportunities, committee updates and as always, coffee and tea.

We look forward to seeing you this Friday.

LASA PTSA Scholarship Application

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LASA PTSA is offering a $1,000 scholarship this year. Application and rubric can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zroc984DV4XrI4dKknWyidxVv8-Zqc4L/view?usp=sharing

Applications are due March 31st. For questions, please email Heather Roell vpmembership@lasaptsa.org.

If you are NOT a Senior Parent and would like to sit on the Scholarship Committee, please email vpmembership@lasaptsa.org. We need a few more people.

Supplemental Essays: A Crucial Component to College Applications

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Thursday, March 26, 2026
7-8pm

In this interactive workshop, participants will learn why supplemental essays matter to college admissions committees, how to successfully approach different types of supplemental essays, and start brainstorming about their own supplemental essays.

After growing up in the Midwest and attending college in the West and graduate school on the East Coast, Kelly moved to Austin, Texas to get a Ph.D. at UT. She wound up staying to raise her two children (one of her daughters is a LASA and Johns Hopkins grad!) and to teach writing at a local liberal arts college. In 2020, Kelly launched her own college consulting business to help students navigate the college admissions process and to share their best selves in their college essays.

Tickets available at https://pflasa.org/product-category/masterclasses/
Only one purchase per household necessary.

Join us to honor the life of Savitha Shan

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A vigil has been organized by The University of Texas tomorrow, Wednesday, March 4, from 7:00–8:00 p.m. on the Main Mall to honor Savitha’s life.

She was not just a headline — she was a LASA classmate and a member of the Class of 2022. This will be a time to stand together, remember her, and support her family during an unimaginable loss.

If you are able to attend, please come. If not, please continue to keep her family, friends, and classmates in your thoughts.

Let’s honor her by showing up for one another with care.