PTHS students competed in District 16 5A Academic contests March 29-30.  Those students marked with * will advance to the Regional UIL Meet on April 12-13 at Prosper High School. The following teachers will attend with their students:  Deborah Wait, Jennifer Cartwright, Blake Sansom, and Ryan Stokes. 

Congratulations to all of our winners and their teachers.

Texas Bank and Trust is pleased to announce the selection of seven seniors from Pine Tree High School to serve on its 2019-2020 Student Board of Directors.

      The TB&T Student Board is a prestigious program recognizing outstanding high school seniors in the community.

       Seniors Ainsley Daugbjerg, Ashly James, Mary Mitchell, Isabella Nix, Grace Roberts, Sophia Szczepanek, and Taylor Toliver will join with 60 other seniors from Christian Heritage Classical, Trinity School of Texas, Longview, Spring Hill, and St. Mary’s High Schools to make up the 42nd senior class to participate in the TB&T program in Longview.

       The 2019-2020 Student Board members will be introduced to the TB&T bank staff in an Orientation Reception, to be held at 7 pm, Monday, August 19, in the Main Bank lobby in downtown Longview. Parents and school administrators are invited to attend.

       The Student Board program will be designed to introduce students to banking and money management at a critical point in their lives, and provide them with the essential economic building blocks to earning, spending, saving, and investing money. The students will be challenged this year in an Olympic-inspired competition, entitled THE 411 FINANCIAL CHALLENGE.  This innovative TBT program will take the students through a series of head-to-head, high-spirited games to test their knowledge of budgeting, savings, investing, and professional development. Students will also serve as advisors to the bank on youth financial literacy programming throughout the year.

     Established in 1978, Student Board remains the bank’s first and most enduring financial literacy program. 

     Students were selected based on their grade point average, extra-curricular activities, and afterschool work activities. Students must submit an essay with their application as well as two letters of recommendation from either a faculty member or administrator to be considered for the program. Students accepted into the 2019 Student Board program were notified in late May. 

       Since its inception, the Student Board has introduced more than 2,400 high school seniors to banking and money management.

       For information on how to participate in the 2020-2021 Student Board program, students in their junior year of high school may contact Tammy Gage, Texas Bank and Trust Community Relations Officer, at (903) 237-1827.