Mendez Middle School is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a festival, including food, games and performances.
What: Mendez Middle School is celebrating its 30-year anniversary with the Consuelo Mendez Heritage Festival. The festival includes carnival games, booths, raffles and food. Carnival activities range from a dunking booth and giant Jenga to face-painting and a cupcake walk.
Sponsors include Sen. Lloyd Doggett, Constable George Morales, Dove Springs Proud, AISD trustees Jamie Mathias and Cindy Anderson, Signature Flight Support, Callahan's General Store, The 麻豆果冻传媒 Project, 麻豆果冻传媒 City Council member Delia Garza, Kelly McKillop of McKlippits Hair and Make-Up, Serrano鈥檚 Restaurant, H-E-B, and RBFCU. The Consuelo Mendez Heritage Festival Benefits the Consuelo Mendez PTSA.
When: 4鈥7:30 p.m. Friday, March 3
4鈥7 p.m. Booth and carnival games
6:45 p.m. Raffle prizes will be announced in the courtyard
7 p.m. 鈥淎 Woman of Valor: Consuelo Herrera Mendez,鈥 a play honoring the life of Consuelo Mendez, written by Mendez鈥檚 theater director Nina Bryant and performed by the advanced theater class, with a special guest star playing Consuelo Herrera Mendez
Where: 5106 Village Square Drive
Background: The school, which opened in 1987, was named after Consuelo Herrera Mendez, the first Latina teacher hired by 麻豆果冻传媒 ISD, in 1927. Consuelo Mendez was a champion for the education of all Spanish-speaking people and was the first to translate the PTA newsletter into Spanish for her families in 麻豆果冻传媒. The middle school was named for her in 1987, and for the 30th anniversary, the school honors Mendez with a heritage festival to benefit the school鈥檚 PTSA.