Elementary & Intermediate School Esports

Payment Options

Cost

$40 per student, per semester

This includes three meetings during the semester. You can email jpwalker@forneyisd.net before august 31 to enroll in the Spring semester at the same time and receive a discount for a total of $70 for both semesters.

Discounted rates are available:

• FISD families with students on the federal free/reduced lunch program

• FISD employees (must create your profile with your Forney ISD email address)

• Discount is 25% off

• Discount Code: Esports2025

Payment Plans

• Monthly, make three equal payments starting Jan 5

• Must enroll in auto pay during registration

• Personal payment plans can be made on a case by case basis.
  Please email jpwalker@forneyisd.net to get more information on a personalized payment plan.

Information

General Information

Students at each campus will meet three times during the semester and each meeting will include a variety of games, opportunities for all students to get involved, snacks, and information on healthy gaming habits and teamwork. This event is all about exposing kids of all skill levels to a growing industry that is becoming a larger and larger part of everyday life.

This program includes 2 hours of gaming each month(2.5 hours for 3rd grade and above), all the equipment, snacks, drinks, after-school supervision and information on sportsmanship, healthy gaming, other esport opportunities. After school meetings will begin in Late August depending on the campus. Meeting dates will be announced once registration has closed.

Students in the 1st - 6th grade and all skill levels are encouraged and welcome to attend. You MUST register for your students campus EACH semester. Once registered, they are able participate in any esports activity at their campus. Contact information for each elementary school coach will be updated as coaches accept their positions. Meetings will strive to be on the same day each month. However, parents will be notified a week before each meeting and the day before each meeting. Students can sign up at any time, but students cannot attend until their registration is paid in full or they are on a payment plan.

Events

Tournament Eligibility Requirements

• Be currently enrolled with Forney ISD.

• Enroll in the Fall or Spring semester at your home campus in the esports program.

• Parents must register you for the tournament.
• Players that register, and do not attend will be charged the tournament registration fee of $15. If you cannot attend, you must send notice at least 24 hours in advance.

Spring Championship Only

• Must attend at least half of the meetings throughout the school year (3).
• Must qualify as a representative of your campus
  • If you do not qualify as a campus representative, you may still register for the event by paying the tournament registration fee of $15 and you may compete as an independent.

Special Event!!!

This spring the OC is hosting an esports invitational event on April 4th, 2026. We are inviting top teams from the surrounding area to showcase our programs and create a truly spectacular esports event. This event will be viewer friendly and we will be hosting an elementary showcase event at the same time. The showcase event will be open to our local 3rd-6th grade esports players with the top performers playing on the main stage in the OC Theatre. More information about this event will be released in February. There will be a registration cost of $10 per player for this event. This is also a great warm up event for the Spring Championships in May.

Expectations

This program promotes a fun, safe gaming environment. We cover gaming basics with all students and we do not tolerate poor sportsmanship or other toxic gaming behaviors. Students that are exhibiting these behaviors, disrupting the environment for others or damage equipment may not be allowed to return to the program. In addition, students must be picked up on time. If students are consistently picked up after the dismissal window, the student will not be allowed back to the program.

All students are expected to follow the FISD Code of Conduct and any school rules as well. The goal of this program is to allow kids to have a positive interaction with esports, to assist with social and behavioral growth, and to foster a growing passion in esports across this generation.

Gaming Specifics

Students will utilize the Nintendo Switch system and Joy-Con controllers to play a variety of games. Games will be age appropriate based on the ESRB rating system. A description of the current rotation of games is listed below:

Mario Kart: This is a kart-racing game in which players compete with characters from the Mario universe.

Super Smash Bros: This is a fighting game in which players engage in brawls with characters from Nintendo and third-party franchises.

Mario Party: This is a collection of mini-games (party games) in which players compete to earn stars and coins.

Splatoon 3: Coming Soon

Ratings and descriptions are provided by the ESRB. Please keep in mind that ESRB does not rate online game play experiences. Gameplay experiences across any platform should be monitored and discussed with your child before they go online. During esports meetings, all games take place offline in local mode.

Contact Information

District Wide - Jake Walker, jpwalker@forneyisd.net

Blackburn Elementary - Raven Dumas-Allen, rsdumasallen@forneyisd.net

Claybon Elementary - Daniel Wilkerson, dewilkerson@forneyisd.net

Criswell Elementary - Jean Rotering, jmrotering@forneyisd.net

Crosby Elementary - Mollie Garner, mmgarner@forneyisd.net

Dewberry Elementary - Brandon Arnold, jpwalker@forneyisd.net

Griffin Elementary - Alexis Burgan, aaburgan@forneyisd.net

Henderson Elementary - Katie McMahan Bulgherini, kmmcmahan@forneyisd.net

Johnson Elementary - Kelly Schmitz, kaschmitz@forneyisd.net

Lewis Elementary -Taylor Reynolds, tnreynolds@forneyisd.net

Willett Elementary - Amanda Grant, argrant@forneyisd.net

Wilson Elementary - Briana Salinas, bnsalinas@forneyisd.net

Jones Intermediate - Hayley Ingram, hdingram@forneyisd.net

Rhea Intermediate - Kristi Perkins, kjperkins@forneyisd.net

Rhodes Intermediate - Anthony Lee, ahlee@forneyisd.net

Smith Intermediate - Lindsay Koniak, llkoniak@forneyisd.net

Academies @ the OC - Adam York, ajyork@forneyisd.net

Schedule