Students from middle and high schools explored ways to use technology in categories that ranged from children’s stories to biotechnology, fashion design to robotics, video-game design and more during the Washington Technology Student Association (TSA) State Conference from March 31-April 2 at the DoubleTree in SeaTac. Industry professionals and advisers judged student performances and offered feedback that students can use as they explore career pathways. The following LWSD students received awards:
Biotechnology Challenge – Middle School
3rd place: Alexandra Hodges and Jessica Singh, Inglewood Middle School
Career Preparation – High School Individual
1st place: Pranav Sukumar, Tesla STEM High School
Children’s Stories – High School Team
1st place: Maral Kebritchi and Elizabeth Mckinnie, Juanita High School
2nd place: Kamaniya Sathish, International Community School
3rd place: Anna Avellaneda and Quincy Wagner, Eastlake High School
Debating Technology Issues – High School Team
4th place: Olivia Williams and Maxine Beeman, Juanita High School
5th place: Jessica Ostfeld and Diego Alvarez, Juanita High School
Desktop Publishing – High School Individual
2nd place: Pranav Sukumar, Tesla STEM High School
4th place: Olivia Williams, Juanita High School
Engineering Design – High School Team
2nd place: Megha Murali, Daniela Shuman and Dharini Sribalakandarajah, Tesla STEM High School
3rd place: Eric Yin, Betty Park and William Wang, Tesla STEM High School
4th place: Adarsh Karnati, Aaron Zhang, Anuraag Polisetty, Jacob Davis and Priya Nakkiran, Redmond High School
5th place: Bryce Coble, Logan Van Wyk and Sidharth Simhadri, Juanita High School
Essays on Technology – High School Individual
1st place: Anjali Sribalaskandarajah, Tesla STEM High School
5th place: Olivia Williams, Juanita High School
Extemporaneous Speech – High School Individual
3rd place: Hemil Gajjar, Tesla STEM High School
5th place: David Weatherford, Juanita High School
Fashion Design – High School Team
2nd place: Natalie Alvis and Mary Mccaughey, Eastlake High School
Flight – Middle School Individual
1st place: Makenna Allyn, Inglewood Middle School
2nd place: Matthew Villalba-mutis, Finn Hill Middle School
Inventions and Innovations – Middle School Team
5th place: Gavin Haynes, Finn Hill Middle School
Leadership Strategies
2nd place: Jaida Hale, Brady Guzik and Gavin Haynes, Finn Hill Middle School
Mass Production – Middle School Team
5th place: Liam Schill and Gabriel Lawrence, Finn Hill Middle School
Music Production – High School Team
2nd place: Diego Alvarez, Juanita High School
3rd place: Naveen Sahi and Surya Cidambi, Tesla STEM High School
4th place: Rahul Sista, Nithish Narasimman and Diego Alvarez, Juanita High School
On Demand Video – High School Team
2nd place: Ethan Yee, Elizabeth Mckinnie, Diego Alvarez, Andrew Hu, Maral Kebritchi, Jessica Ostfeld, Juanita High School
4th place: Kajal Sapkota, Tristin Donyes, Patrick Mao and Sam Hatfield, Tesla STEM High School
Photographic Technology – High School Individual
1st place: Mary Mccaughey, Eastlake High School
2nd place: Rishi Kavikondala, Tesla STEM High School
4th place: Elizabeth Mckinnie, Juanita High School
Prepared Presentation – High School Individual
1st place: Rishi Kavikondala, Tesla STEM High School
4th place: Olivia Williams, Juanita High School
Prepared Speech – Middle School Individual
1st place: Jaida Hale, Finn Hill Middle School
Promotional Graphics – High School Individual
1st place: Quincy Wagner, Eastlake High School
SCIVIS – High School Team
5th place: Shubhkarman Singh, Eastlake High School
Software Development – High School Team
2nd place: Kush Khanolkar, Abhinav Singh, Kon Aoki, and Karan Narula, Tesla STEM High School
3rd place: Sanjana Sridhar, Eastlake High School
STEM Animation
3rd place: Elizabeth Buchholz, Christian Wise, Mavin Weinrod, and Isaac Hoyt, Finn Hill Middle School
Tech Bowl Team – Middle School Team
2nd place: Brady Guzik, Liam Schill, Alex Klimecky, Finn Hill Middle School
4th place: Makenna Allyn, Alexandra Hodges and Jasarjan Singh, Inglewood Middle School
Tech Bowl Written – Middle School Individual
3rd place: Liam Schill, Finn Hill Middle School
Technology Bowl Team – High School Team
3rd place: Olivia Williams, Maxine Beeman and Diego Alvarez, Juanita High School
Technology Bowl Written – High School Individual
1st place: Olivia Williams, Juanita High School
2nd place: Hemil Gajjar, Tesla STEM High School
4th place: Abhinav Singh, Tesla STEM High School
TSA / VEX Robotics Competition – High School Team
1st place: Adarsh Karnati, Aaron Zhang, Anuraag Polisetty, Jacob Davis, and Priya Nakkiran, Redmond High School
3rd place: Tenghis Ulzii, Arvind Saripalli, Dalai Chadraa and Tejas Bharadwaj, Redmond High School
Video Game Design – High School Team
1st place: Kush Khanolkar, Abhinav Singh, Kon Aoki, and Karan Narula, Tesla STEM High School
3rd place: Colin Santos, Eastlake High School
4th place: Stuart Kol, Eastlake High School
5th place: James Kusardi, Patrick Mao, Aditya Kumar, Maheck Jerez, and Jake Newfeld, Tesla STEM High School
Video Game Design – Middle School Team
2nd place: Anaya Pandit, Finn Hill Middle School
Webmaster – High School Team
1st place: Maxine Beeman, Jessica Ostfeld, Maral Kebritchi, and Elizabeth Mckinnie, Juanita High School
2nd place: Andrew Cepollina, Brian Dallaire and Larry Shan, Eastlake High School
3rd place: Patrick Mao and Aditya Kumar, Tesla STEM High School
5th place: Kush Khanolkar, Kon Aoki and Karan Narula, Tesla STEM High School
Woodworking Challenge – Middle School Individual
2nd place: Lucy Maier, Inglewood Middle School
3rd place: Jasarjan Singh, Inglewood Middle School
4th place: Diya Rekhi, Inglewood Middle School
Woodworking Design – High School Individual
3rd place: Alma Rodriguez-ley, Eastlake High School
