Addison Trail Theatre wins state-level award

From Jan. 8 to 10, Addison Trail students competed in the 2015 Illinois High School Theatre Festival.

And Addison Trail won 1st place in the Tech Olympics competition, which involves students competing in several events such as knot tying, focusing a light, setting up a sound system, building a theatre flat and more. Students who competed are junior Michael Kroll, junior Jesus Thomas Bonilla, junior Courtney Cechini, junior Jacob Bartkiewicz, sophomore Rebeca Robles, junior Michael Grojec, senior Dakota Noel and senior Emma Schmitt.

Produced by the Illinois Theatre Association, the Illinois High School Theatre Festival is the largest and oldest non-competitive high school theatre festival in the world, according to www.illinoistheatrefest.org. More than 4,000 students, teachers, university representatives, exhibitors and volunteers come together to put on more than 25 different high school productions and about 150 workshops. This year’s event took place at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.