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Congratulations to our UIL Academic Team on capturing the 32-6A District Championship! Proud of our students and coaches! Go Falcons!!

Elon Musk: “Hold on to your Tesla stock.” Because what’s coming isn’t just another car update—it’s an entirely new paradigm. From Optimus humanoid robots that could one day take care of your kids, walk your dog, and support elderly parents, to CyberCab scaling into mass production, to the Tesla Semi reshaping logistics—this isn’t one product, it’s a full ecosystem. Tesla is simultaneously building AI-powered humanoid labor, autonomous transport at scale, next-gen energy infrastructure through battery, lithium, and cathode production, and expanding global manufacturing across the US and Europe, with five factories ramping major production lines this year alone. And while most companies are focused on the next quarter, Musk is already talking about factories on the moon within 20 years.

TIME’s new cover: SpaceX is racing to build its most powerful rockets yet with the goal of returning humans to the moon. Gwynne Shotwell is leading the charge alongside Elon Musk. Read it here: time.com/article/2026/0…

The woman on this TIME cover running a company heading toward the largest IPO in history chose her career because she liked someone’s shoes. As a teenager in suburban Chicago, Gwynne Shotwell thought engineers were, in her words, “nerds, social outcasts, nose pickers.” Her mom dragged her to a Society of Women Engineers event without telling her where they were going, because she knew Gwynne would refuse. Shotwell sat in the audience, bored and annoyed, until a mechanical engineer walked on stage. The engineering didn’t grab her. The woman’s suit did. Her shoes were, as Shotwell later said, “marvelous.” Her bag matched. Shotwell went up after the panel, talked about the outfit first, then the career, and walked out saying she’d be a mechanical engineer. She applied to one college. Just one. Northwestern. Got in. She was one of three women in a class of 36 engineering students. During college, she landed an internship at a heating and cooling company based purely on her resume. Days before she was supposed to start, her new boss called and heard her voice for the first time. “You’re a girl,” he said. “There’s no way you can do this job. There’s heavy lifting involved.” Shotwell, a varsity basketball player who also played lacrosse, told him she could probably kick the butts of every intern he’d hired. He hung up on her. Two decades of career detours followed. Chrysler, a PhD she dropped after nine months when the $12,000 fellowship couldn’t compete with a real salary, and a decade at an aerospace research center. In 2002, a former colleague named Hans Koenigsmann invited her to visit a small startup called SpaceX. She met the founder, a guy mostly known at the time for helping start PayPal. He wanted to sell reusable rockets at the lowest possible price. Shotwell told Musk he needed someone doing business development full-time, but she had zero intention of taking the job herself. Musk called her later that day. She was in the middle of a divorce, raising two kids, and renovating her house. She took the job anyway, becoming employee number seven. That startup is now valued at $800 billion and preparing for what could be the largest IPO ever, targeting $1.5 trillion. SpaceX has completed 630 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches. Starlink serves over 9 million subscribers across 150+ countries and pulls in roughly $10 billion a year on its own. The seven-person company now employs around 14,000. The woman running all of it picked her career because she liked a stranger’s shoes at an event she tried to skip.

Thank you @elonmusk, @Gwynne_Shotwell, and the entire @SpaceX team for a tour of your incredible facility in @StarbaseTX. Texas is driving U.S. technological dominance in space, & @SecWar, @DeptofWar, @NASA, & others are harnessing SpaceX’s expertise and top-notch workforce to ensure America wins the space race.    @elonmusk, I look forward to continuing our work together on this issue & many others.

@losfresnoshigh Calling Future Medical Professions! The UTRGV Vaqueros MD Early Assurance Program allows selected students to begin their undergrad studies with conditional acceptance to the UTRGV School of Medicine. Deadline March 1, 2026 Apply: utrgv.edu/som/admissions…

Live at @StarbaseTX!

What an amazing farewell from these Falcons!! These five (JC, Juan, Lucky, Robert, and Ricky) competed like they always do…with confidence, determination and Falcon Pride! 17-10 Win for our boys & the rest of the East Squad!

Final game for a coach & his QB1 for four years. Counting today, 48 high school football games together, but this one different as this time the coach played the role of a proud fan! BTW, two opportunities to lead drives = the two East Squad touchdowns…no surprise! @RobertJet2

@LFU_MsGarza Congratulations to the team and especially my niece Lily. ❤️

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A big thank you to all the parents who joined us at tonight’s board meeting at Las Yescas Elementary! 💜 Your support and insights help shape our school’s future. And a huge congrats to our amazing students for their wonderful performance—way to go, Longhorns! 🐂✨

📷 Empowering Futures: Electrical Dual Enrollment at LFCISD CTE! 📷 youtube.com/watch?v=Gl6liP…

Happy Birthday Becky and Chief! 🎂🎉

We celebrated two birthdays today! Happy Birthday Becky and Chief Casares! We are thankful to have you both @LosFresnosCISD 🎂🥳

All eyes on us this Saturday 🤘

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