Dr. Abraham P. Cano Freshman Academy

Hi guys. My name

is Alexis Aguilad and

I am your KANO

Freshman class president. Hi,

my name is Joaquin

Canales and I'm your

student council president.

Welcome to KANO Freshman

Academy. And this is

Champions Check In. Before

we start our tour,

our campus was built

in 2013 to resemble

a college campus in

both indoor and outdoor

facilities. So first we're

going to start off

upstairs in Mr. Alcassad's

class. I'm Mr. Alcastar.

I teach business information

management and principles of

it. I'm also the

sponsor for esports and

robotics which we're gearing

up for a tournament

coming up. So now

we're going to go

back downstairs to a

reading teacher. Her name

is Ms. Le Grice.

She also is the

sponsor of student council.

I teach pre AP

English and I'm also

the student council sponsor.

We have so many

great opportunities for our

freshmen with teaching the

pre AP content, getting

them used to already

being able to take

the AP exams which

they get college credit

for. But then also

like we have Joaquin

and we have Alexis

here, they have the

opportunity to be presidents

of student organizations that

as freshmen in normal

high schools aren't able

to do. Coming from

middle school to this

ninth grade campus, it

helps us better prepare

for high school, college

and life on from

there. It's a fun

and safe learning environment

accessible to all students.

So this is our

band hall which houses

choir, orchestra and dance.

So to my right

side we have our

Harlingen south and to

my left we have

Harlingen High. So I'm

here with Coach Martinez

and he's going to

explain how the Navy

and Gold work. Good

morning. My name is

Coach Martinez. I am

a Navy coach for

football and basketball. So

what does it mean,

Navy and Gold? Navy

is 100% feeder to

Harlington High. Gold is

100% feeder to South.

So how does that

work? How do we

make the facility work?

How do those things

work? Well, we share

everything in the morning

for basketball, South Pole

practice, Harlingen High has

it afterwards. For football

we have separate fields.

We don't have the

same locker room. We

split it. It's split

in the middle, there's

a divider in the

middle, et cetera. So

we share the facility,

but we get prepared

to go to our

feeder schools after that

for our sophomore and

up to our senior

year. So that's a

wrap. Thank you for

joining us on this.

Champions. Check in if

you are interested in

registering. All the

information is on the

HISD website. And as

always, have another good

day at cfa.