2015 2016 Board of Education Youth Recognition 1

2015 -2016 Board of Education Youth Recognition 1

All-State Band (MSBOA) Baker Middle School John Dannug – 1 st in State (Advisor: Dr. Spiros Xydas) Boulan Park Middle School 1 st in State: Michelle Baek Kevin Wang Jessy Hsu Richard Yang Richard Li Carol Zhang Gina Moy (Advisor: Joe Havrilla) Larson Middle School Collin Lucas – 1 st in State (Advisor: Scott Crecelius) 2

All-State Honors Band (MSBOA) Smith Middle School 1 st in State: Stefan Lemke Jessica You (Advisor: Mr. Torres) 3

All-State Orchestra (MSBOA) Boulan Park Middle School 1 st in State: Emily Pytell (Advisor: Rhiannon Mitchell) 4

American Mathematics League Competition Boulan Park Middle School 2 nd in Nation: Reagan Choi Pratham Soni Alex Xu (Advisors: Stephanie Beswick and Jennifer Taylor) 5

American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear Art and Multimedia Contest Troy High School Richard Yang - Nationwide Facebook Choice Award (Advisor: Rebecca Brewer) 6

American Scholastic Achievement Boulan Park Middle School Arlene Chen (1 st in Nation) Matthew Dong (1 st in Nation) Rishi Konduru (1 st in State) Pratham Soni (1 st in Nation) Sohan Vittalam (1 st in Nation) (Advisor: Tammy Gilbert) 7

Brain Bee Competition Athens High School 1 st in State (National Qualifier): Varun Sathyan (Advisor: Jennifer Sprague) 8

Chinese Bridge Speech Contest Troy High School Ho Chul Jung (2 nd Place Nationally) (Advisor: Sue Lin) 9

Chinese Zodiac Art Contest Baker Middle School 1 st in State: Amanda Kovacs Anshula Nallapati (Advisor: Ping Bai) 10

College for Creative Studies Art Competition Troy High School Gold Key Award; Best of Show: Catherine Noonan (Advisor: Judi Tuma) 11

CSPAN Student Cam Competition Athens High School 1 st in State: Michael Frazier Griffin Olis Mustafa Rasheed Zehn Wani (Advisor: Adam Burns) 12

DECA Competition Troy High School 1 st in State: Vaidehi Ambardekar (International-3 rd Place) Anurag Bolneni Joey Bugaj (International-Top 10) Sathvik Byreddy (International-Top 20) Eric Cheng (International-Top 10) Afriti Chinoy (International-High Role Play) Maggie Crowell (International-High Role Play) Emily Endres (International-High Test Score) Jahnavi Gudi (International-Top 20) Tabitha Hendren (International-Top 10) Clare Keating Clare Mc. Auliffe 13

DECA Competition (cont. ) Troy High School 1 st in State: James Mc. Auliffe Leo Mc. Manus (International-High Test Score) Mariana Renke (International-3 rd Place ) Jack Schroeder Esther Simon Sahiba Singh Nick Sirhan Ashwin Umamaheswaran Babu Uppalapati Muyang Wang Ricky Young (International-Top 10) (Advisor: Heide Rosenberg) 14

Destination Imagination Bemis Elementary School (1 st in State) Wattles Elementary School (1 st in State) Rohan Gajula-Ghosh Manushree Ganta Medhasri Jasti Nainika Jasti Michelle Leon (Advisor: Veena Kulkarni) Rithwik Paladugu Shriya Kankatala Nagamitesh Nagamuralee Parnika Ramini Ruthesh Thavamani Kavya Varadarajan (Advisor: Kiran Jasti) Abhinav Hari Akshitha Sahu (Advisor: Veena Kulkarni) 15

Destination Imagination (cont. ) International Academy East Global Qualifier: Madalasa Chaudhari (Advisor: Mr. Brinks) 16

Destination Imagination – European Invitational Competition Larson Middle School (International-1 st place-Top 10 score across all challenges and all levels across 250 teams) Veronica Ballios Carter Buser Justin Clippard Uros Colovic Madison Kort Nidhi Paragi Manav Patel (Advisors: Daniele Buser and Danielle Clippard) 17

First Lego League Larson Middle School (1 st in State) Ojas Alate Shlok Bhattad Raaga Dandavolu Vishal Datthatrey Maria Garcia Varun Jayaram Macray O’Brien Arnav Shah (Advisor: Ami Shah and Tim Shoales) 18

FIRST Robotics Championship International Academy East (World Qualifier) Sandip Akunuri Vasanth Anbukumar Sreechandana Anumolu Abhilash Balanethiram Shyam Bhogineni Tejas Bolar Justin Chao Yong Ho Cho Jaideep Chunduri Hargobind Dhingra Kevin George Vijay Gopalakrishnan Joshua Kemp Meghana Kowsika Viraj Mishra Ravi Mody Murali Mohan Priyanka Nandyala Sanket Nayak Jafet Pinto Sareen Podhuturi Nikhil Shankar Samarth Somani Vidyuth Suresh 19

FIRST Robotics Championship (cont. ) Thejas Suvarna Thomas Vengachuvattil Abhijit Vyas Maya Watts Forrest Yang Austin Ye Jason Ye Eashan Yedulla Himanesh Yerrakalva Eric Zhong (Advisor: Mr. Shaik) 20

Future Problem Solving International Academy East (Competing at International Conference) Zayan Khan Swathi Komarivelli Matthew Lau (Advisor: Beth Jorgensen) Athens High School (Competing at International Conference) Ryan Cindric Tanvi Deshmukh (1 st in State) Shriya Shah Mitchell Wochoski (Advisor: Kendall Wochoski) 21

Future Problem Solving (cont. ) Troy High School 1 st in State-Middle Division-National Qualifier: Vrushali Ambardekar Priyal Bajaj Tiffany Guo Renuka Murthi (1 st in State-Individual) Lillian Xiao (Advisor: Lyndsay Noble) 22

Go Green Youth Challenge Boulan Park Middle School (1 st in State) Britta Pingree Troy High School (1 st Place Nationally) Claire Hao Evan Jiang (Advisor: Rebecca Brewer) 23

Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) Competition International Academy East (National Qualifier) Nabila Ahmed Fatinah Albeez Sreechandana Anumolu (Gold in States) Ajay Balaji Rahul Gopinath Mithil Gudi (Gold in States) Lakshmi Meyyappan Taha Muhammad-Ali Andrew Nguyen Basirat Owe Sukhnayak Sohi Pranav Yadati Jane Zhou (Advisor: Ms. Selweski) 24

Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) Competition (cont. ) Troy High School National Qualifier: Priyal Bajaj Rohit Goru Claire Hao Sara Huang Sweta Kafle Neha Kuchulakanti Pranathi Locula Kathy Lu Renuka Murthi Peter Nam Christina Xu Claire Yang Jason Zhang (Advisor: Theresa Martin) 25

Jackie Robinson Art, Essay and Poetry Contest Boulan Park Middle School 1 st in State Mlahat Mahmood 26

Japanese Quiz Bowl Athens High School Level 1/Team 1/1 st Place: Dylan Nguyen (8 th grader/Larson) Ben Nolan Benedikt Weber Level 4/Team 1/1 st Place: Level 5/1 st Place: Kristine Bassett Jonathan Li (Advisor: Mina Mori) Brian Gill Gloria Kang Sasha La. Ponsa Sammy Nandwani 27

Junior Science and Humanities Symposia (JSHS) Competition Troy High School Richard Yang (2 nd Place; National Qualifier; $1500 Scholarship) (Advisor: Rebecca Brewer) 28

Marriott Hotels Filmmaker of the Year Athens High School Griffin Olis (Advisor: Adam Burns) 29

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Inspire Writing Competition International Academy East (National Finalist) Angelamarie Malkoun (Advisor: Mr. Brinks) 30

MATHCOUNTS Boulan Park Middle School (1 st in State) Reagan Choi (10 th in Nation) Matthew Dong Pratham Soni (10 th in Nation) Alex Xu (10 th in Nation) (Advisor: Mark Martin) 31

Math Kangaroo Olympiad Wattles Elementary School 1 st in State/11 th in Nation Tejaaswin Raja (Advisors: Rajagopalan and Sindhuri Kesava Durairajan) 32

Math Olympiad International Academy East (International Qualifier) Ankan Bhattacharya (Advisor: Mr. Brinks) 33

Michigan Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Athens High School 1 st in State - 3 student Emmy Awards Griffin Olis (Advisor: Adam Burns) 34

Michigan China Quiz Bowl Art Contest Troy High School Semi Park (1 st in State) (Advisor: Sue Lin) 35

Michigan China Quiz Bowl Boulan Park Middle School 1 st in State-Level 2: Shruthi Sunilkumar Nathaniel Worrel (Advisor: Mrs. Song) Smith Middle School 1 st in State – Level 2: Luis Bello-Nava Maria Miyoung Lee (Advisor: Mrs. Song) 36

Michigan China Quiz Bowl (cont. ) Troy High School 1 st Place High School Division 4 Ho Chul Jung Eojin Kim Madeline Lewton (Advisor: Sue Lin) 37

Michigan Council of Women in Technology Foundation Website Design Competition International Academy East (Finalist) Varmitha Hullathy Summer Nguyen (Advisor: Mr. Brinks) 38

Michigan Elementary/Primary Team Chess K-3 Championship Barnard Elementary School 1 st in State Nurayada Albeez Vishnav Ramesh Tanush Nanaware Nikhil Srinivasan (Advisor: Gayathri Manickam) 39

Michigan Green Schools Awards Athens High School (achieved Evergreen status) Hannah Ahluwalia Arsha Ali Jeremy Clemente (Advisor: Rachel Peterson) 40

Michigan Interscholastic Forensics Association (MIFA) Competition Boulan Park Middle School - 1 st in State Sonia Ahmed Hannah Cheshire Skylar Farah Anna Klingler Danielle Kurkowski Jack Matthews Jagan Nallani Tatum Pafford Zachary St. Pierre Katie Tenniswood (Advisor: Melissa Dodge) 41

Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA) Competition Athens High School 1 st in State: Sydney Bommarito Nicole Chow Elliot Gorski Maya Jurayj Morgan Kapuscinski Hope Ma Danielle Stanichuk (Advisors: Adam Burns and Rachel Webb) 42

Michigan Interscholastic Press Association (MIPA) Competition (cont. ) Troy High School – 1 st in State Alexandra Balcoff Amanda Battle Julia Best Jenny Boudon Jessica Butler Prakhya Chilukuri Kyle Christie Charles Douglas Tara Giddey Leah Graham Natalie Guisinger Emily Houde Fizza Hussain Erin Mitchell (All-State Journalist) Artea Muharremi Tiffany Nogoy Dakota Peel Ananya Ravi Caroline Schlimgen Kevin Seto Logan Smith Melissa Smith Bhavya Sukhavasi 43 (Advisor: Jayna Salk)

Michigan Mathematics League Competition Boulan Park Middle School (1 st in State) Niheera Aedla Reagan Choi Nicholas Hung Rishi Konduru Varun Rajesh Varun Rallabandi Alankar Shende Sohan Vitallam Alex Xu Gary Xu Advisors: Stephanie Beswick Paula Mather Jennifer Taylor 44

Michigan Music Competition Athens High School 1 st in State: Kayla Tralka (Advisor: Heather Paxton) 45

Michigan Music Conference Young Composers Contest International Academy East State Finalist: Kathryn Jorgensen (Advisor: Mr. Shankles) 46

Michigan Student Film Festival Athens High School (John Prusak Vision Award / Best in Show) Griffin Olis (Advisor: Adam Burns) 47

Model UN Conference and Competition Troy High School Highest Honor: Jason Fan Anshita Khare Michael Lin Anna Nichols Jacob Overberg KM Rahman Vikas Sharma (Advisor: Meghan Riddock) 48

National Biology Competition Athens High School (International Biology Scholar) Varun Sathyan (Advisor: Jennifer Sprague) 49

National Chemistry Olympiad International Academy East (National Qualifier) Sukhnayak Sohi (Advisor: Mr. Brinks) Athens High School (Top 50 in the Nation) Jonathan Li Alexander Simon (Top 10 in Southeast Michigan) (Advisor: Jane Moss) 50

National CLASS Essay Contest (Chinese Language Association of Secondary/Elementary) Troy High School Golden Apple Award Nationally: Ho Chul Jung (Advisor: Sue Lin) 51

National French Exam Boulan Park Middle School (Level 1) Chloe Cafferty (9 th Nationally) Angela Dong (12 th Nationally) Matthew Dong (7 th Nationally) Anna Efstate (3 rd Nationally) Shriya Karmarkar (13 th Nationally) Shannon Li (11 th Nationally) Ankita Mahajan (10 th Nationally) Neha Pavuluru (14 th Nationally) Aimee Zheng (12 th Nationally) Kevin Zhou (12 th Nationally) (Advisor: Ashley Conrad) 52

National French Exam (cont. ) Larson Middle School Kira Crumpley (15 th Nationally) - French 1 Angela Kattula (10 th Nationally) - French 2 Camellia Mashal (14 th Nationally) - French 1 Esha Munagala (9 th Nationally) - French 1 (Advisor: Ashley Conrad) 53

National French Exam (cont. ) Troy High School Haya Beydoun (10 th Nationally) – French 3 Alicia Fu (6 th Nationally) – French 2 Iman Manzoor (7 th Nationally) – French 1 Julia Meng (10 th Nationally) – French 5 Kiran Menon (6 th Nationally) – French 2 (Advisor: Sue Fortuna) 54

National German Exam Troy High School Gold Medal Nathan Aman (German 3) Gabriele Rabajoli (German 1) Brandon Amann (German 2) (1 st in State level) Jacob Berch (German 2) Palkin Rampal (German 4) Aniket Dagar (German 1) Dikshant Sharma (German 2) Zain Hameed (German 2) Andrew Vetter (German 2) Stephen Kurapati (German 2) Anya Welborn (German 2) Eva Lisowski (German 2) Peyton Young (German 2) Kevin Qing (German 3) (Advisor: Brigitte Catlin) 55

National Language Arts League Boulan Park Middle School (1 st in the Nation) Arlene Chen Abby Dangremond Angela Dong Neha Pavuluru Maxwell Tu Apurva Vaddamani (Perfect Score) Matthew Dong Carol Zhang Kaitlyn Hao (Perfect Score) Allan Zhao Shannon Li Aimee Zheng (Advisors: Allyson Kline and Audrey Wright) 56

National “Who Wants to be a Mathematician” Competition International Academy East 1 st in State: Ankan Bhattacharya (Advisor: Mr. Watson) 57

National Youth Arts Awards Troy High School Outstanding Supporting Actors and Ensemble in South Pacific : Raagini Chandra Eric Cheng (Advisor: Rick Bodick) 58

Orchard Lake Film Festival Athens High School (1 st in State) Sydney Bommarito Morgan Kapuscinski Danielle Stanichuk (Advisor: Adam Burns) 59

Purple Comet Math Contest Boulan Park Middle School (1 st in International) Reagan Choi Matthew Dong Varun Rajesh Pratham Soni Alex Xu Kevin Zhou (Advisor: Stephanie Beswick) 60

Quiz Bowl Smith Middle School 1 st in State; 21 st Nationally: Amogh Angadi Mitchell Chang Daniel Liu (placed 23 rd Individual-Nationally) Rithvik Mohanarangan Surya Sanjay Demetrio Timban (Advisors: Mrs. D’Ambrosi and Mr. Reimann) 61

Quiz Bowl (cont. ) Troy High School National Qualifier: Sujai Arakali Benjamin Balas Tuhin Chakraborty Matt Kunjummen (Advisor: Erin Fischer) 62

Quiz Bowl/America Answers Boulan Park Middle School (1 st in State/4 th in Nation) Anisha Aggarwal Adhithi Keerthana Athikumar Ethan Carpenter Arlene Chen Matthew Dong Priya Dutta Andy Feng Sameep Gawaskar Casey Glenn Sonja Gronstad Kaitlyn Hao Vidhiyaa Harish Dharaneeshwar Jayavelu Katherine Jean Caleb Jiang Srikar Kante Vallabh Korivi Nandini Lakshminarayanan 63

Quiz Bowl/America Answers (cont. ) Jieun Lee Richard Li Shannon Li Felix Liang Vaishnavi Aishwarya Madhavapeddi Dhatri Medarametla Jagangopal Nallani Siddharth Prasant Avya Ramprasad Pratham Soni Shruthi Sunilkumar Noah Tanguay Thejas Thota Niraj Trivedi Neelie Tu Chaitanya Vadlamudi Raghav Varshney Anish Vuyyuru Kevin Wang Jennifer Won Emily Wu 64

Quiz Bowl/America Answers (cont. ) Sophia Yee Carol Zhang Allan Zhao Kevin Zhou (Advisor: Tammy Gilbert) 65

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Competition Boulan Park Middle School Angela Chao (Gold Key) Carly Kubiak (Gold Key) Divya Shankar (Gold Key) Tiffany Xu (National Silver Key & Gold Key) (Advisor: Mary Typinski) Smith Middle School Lydia Tan (Gold Key Award & Medal) (Advisor: Mrs. Krozek) 66

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Competition (cont. ) International Academy East Samia Ullah (Gold Key) (Advisor: Tiffany Mack) Athens High School Joyce Chen (Gold Key) Yuki Obayashi (Gold Key) Griffin Olis (3 Gold Keys) Adam Rayes (Gold Key) Nadia Slawick (Gold Key) Anita Vellaichamy (Gold Key) (Advisors: Adam Burns and Melissa Velk) Troy High School Jenny Zhi (National Award Winner) (Advisor: Judi Tuma) 67

Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit Athens High School Varun Sathyan (Grand Award Winner/ International Qualifier) (Advisor: Rachel Peterson) Troy High School Amy Li (Grand Award Winner; International Qualifier) Asavari Rajpurkar (1 st in State) David Wu (1 st in State) (Advisor: Rebecca Brewer) 68

Science Olympiad Baker Middle School 1 st in State: Madhav Ramesh Om Shah (Advisor: Janet Herberholz) 69

Science Olympiad (cont. ) Troy High School National Qualifier: Jerry Gao Claire Hao Shivani Konduru Alex Liu Skanda Palani Chittesh Thavamani Justin Zhang Winston Zhang (Advisor: William Hevel) 70

Scripps National Spelling Bee (Oakland County Spelling Bee Winner) Smith Middle School Divya Aggarwal (11 th in Nation) (Advisor: Ms. Gibson) 71

Siemens Math, Science and Technology Competition Troy High School National Semifinalists: Sujai Arakali (Team) Allen Diao (Team) James Ge (Team) Lyndsey Gu (Team) Amy Li (Individual) Alexander Liu (Team) David Wu (Individual) Jennie Yang (Team) Richard Yang (Team) 72

Stock Market Game Boulan Park Middle School (1 st in State) Aryan Gupta (Advisor: Mark Martin) 73

Toshiba Explora. Vision Troy High School Honorable Mention – Team Award Justin Fernando Swetha Kafle Sribharat Koripella Vasanth Palanisamy Varun Purushothaman Richard Yang (Advisor: Rebecca Brewer) 74

Troy Entrepreneurship Club (“Make It Better” Competition) Troy High School 1 st in State; $100 Award Krystal Qin (Advisor: Elena Wollborg) 75

U. S. Chess Federation National Elementary K-3 Under 800 Championship Barnard Elementary School – (2 nd in Nationals) Nurayada Albeez Tanush Nanaware Akhil Mishra Vishnav Ramesh Nikhil Srinivasan (Advisor: Gayathri Manickam) 76

USA Biology Olympiad Troy High School Top 10% Nationally: Ajith Dupati Kathleen Gu Yiyang Shen Varun Sridhar David Wu (Top 20 student-Nationally) (Advisor: Rebecca Brewer) 77

Verizon Innovative App Challenge Troy High School Best in State: Jeff Guan Evan Jiang Howard Li David Nie Maple Xu (Advisor: Rebecca Brewer) 78

Word. Masters Challenge Boulan Park Middle School 1 st in Nation: Angela Chao Arlene Chen Francis Fajardo Kaitlyn Hao Matthew Hearens Omar Ibrahim Vatsal Joshi Siddharth Lakhani Jennifer Liu Parvathi Nagappala Pratham Soni Jemima Thomas Kayla Tompkins Raghav Varshney Sohan Vittalam Kevin Wang Alex Xu Bright Xu Lily Yang 2 nd in Nation: Anisha Aggarwal Alexandra Armin Layanga Athalage Kevin Chang Arlene Chen Reagan Choi Marcus Chung Anushka Dalvi Abby Dangremond Navya Datla Clarice Deliallisi Angela Dong Matthew Dong Anna Efstate 79

2 nd in Nation: Andy Feng Kaitlyn Hao Abinivesh Hemakumar Jemi Isaac Kolin Jaku Vicki Jan Katie Jean Nour Kanaan Hee Won Kim Hyun Kim Amol Kirtane Rishi Konduru Girish Kotagiri Richard Li Shannon Li Felix Liang Aileen Liu Jennifer Liu Ria Ma Matt Mikhaiel Apoorva Mirji Jake Mortimore Peter Pawlowski Britta Pingree Katie Qu Sohil Ramachandra Navneet Ramaduri Zara Rasool Alankar Shende Pratham Soni Gianna Sorge Saakshi Sovani Smriti Suresh Akshaya Suvarna Rishik Tatavarthi Nikhil Tatineni Katherine Tenniswood Kayla Tompkins Maxwell Tu Armita Umamaheswaran Dominika Urbaniak Sohan Vittalam Andrew Wang Roger Wang 80

2 nd in Nation: Allison Wei Jennifer Won Claire Wu Emily Wu Jasmine Wu David Xiong Alex Xu Lily Yang Nancy Yao Christine Zeng Darren Zeng Allan Zhao Katherine Zhao Aimee Zheng 6 th in Nation: Angela Chao Arlene Chen Angela Dong Matthew Dong Kaitlyn Hao Caleb Jiang Richard Li Daniel Schroeder Pratham Soni Niraj Trivedi Aimee Zheng Kevin Zhou 7 th in Nation: Jemi Isaac Brendan Kennedy Rachel Lim Naisha Phadke Yuktha Pulavarthi Katie Qu Saakshi Sovani Armita Umamaheswaran Smriti Suresh Andrew Wang Sharanya Swaminathan David Xiong Sofia Urbana Carol Zhang Gary Xu 81

Perfect Score of 20: Alexandra Armin Navya Datla Angela Dong Matthew Dong Kaitlyn Hao Matthew Hearens Vicki Jan Amol Kirtane Britta Pingree Gianna Sorge Saakshi Sovani Akshaya Suvarna Jemima Thomas Bright Xu Lily Yang Katherine Zhao (Advisors): Melissa Dodge Sue Domin Allyson Kline Cheryl Megahan Jacqueline Morris April Reem Kendall Rock Audrey Wright Smith Middle School: (Perfect Score) Divya Aggarwal James Terng (Advisor): Ms. Gibson 82

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