LWSD students excel at state technology conference

Lake Washington School District (LWSD) students had another successful showing at this year’s Washington Technology Student Association (TSA) state competition. About 60 students finished in the top three during the April 2-5 event. The categories are judged by technology educators and industry representatives. The top three in each category automatically qualify for the national conference in Nashville, Tennessee, June 27–July 1.

Here is a list of all the competitors who finished in the top three, along with their category and placing:

High School

Lake Washington High School

• Second place: Robotics Challenge - Neev Ansel, Hugo Huang, Reyansh Jajoo, Nicholas Janson, David Lin and Dmitriy Yugay
• Third place: Children’s Stories - Anya Lam and Mia Schwarzkopf

Eastlake High School

• First place: Data Science and Analytics - Ananya Sharma and Medha Singitham
• First place: Extemporaneous Speech - Arin Barde
• First place: Technology Problem Solving - Anika Bhadra and Akshara Guddeti
• First place: Virtual Reality Simulation - Sayuri Kuruppu and Sherry Shi
• Second place: Digital Video Production - Shiven Chawla, Eashan Gadhiraju, Advait Sripada, Sahil Tanpure and Navye Vedant
• Second place: Dragster Design - Ishan Jain
• Second place: Flight Endurance - Sahil Tanpure
• Second place: On Demand Video - Kritish Alli, Arvick Chandnani, Shaan Kalgaonkar, Winston Luo, Arindam Sanyal and Corey Zhang
• Second place: Photographic Technology - Neil Shah
• Third place: Digital Video Production - Sayuri Kuruppu, Daylin Liu, Shravya Maloo, Dominic Rossetti and Yiwen Tang
• Third place: Future Technology Teacher - Anika Prakash
• Third place: Video Game Design - Ishan Jain and Lakshya Wahi       

Juanita High School

• First place: Digital Video Production - Carolina Proctor, Bethany Hu and Ida Smith
• First place: Engineering Design - Akshat Khatnani, Varun Patankar, Taiki Sakakihara, Jonathan Kong and Taras Abakumov
• Second place: Concept Art - Allison Chee
• Second place: Fashion Design and Technology - Elsa Dalquist, Audrey Pogue and Winter Sinclair
• Second place: Virtual Reality Simulation, 2nd: Kai Oje and Eva Tsai
• Third place: Computer-Aided Design, Engineering - Taiga Sakakihara

Redmond High School

• First place: Audio Podcasting - Theo Chen, Aahad Ali, Sutej Mandadi, Joshika Pakalapati, Rashmi Joshi and Namrata Kanakapally
• Second place: Career Prep - Emily Ma
• Second place: Prepared Presentation - Stephanie Chen
• Second place: Webmaster - Ali Macky, Pranith Nagarajan, Austin Xie, Lucas Chen and Aditya Kumar
• Third place: Data Science & Analytics - Parthiv Mothipati and Theo Chen
• Third place: VEX Robotics - Shreshta Aithagoni and Avania Bhattacharya
• Third place: Architectural Design - Eva Zrazhevskaya, Shikha Joshi, Leila Khoury, Mehr Poddar and Joshika Pakalapati

Tesla STEM High School

• Second place: Animatronics - Aarush Kapoor, Arnav Mittal and Naman Mutalik Desai
• Third place: Animatronics - Anoushka Gharat, Sahana Kaliyaperumal and Akanksha Revuru
• First place: Biotechnology Design - Iris Dey, Raghav Kalyana Sundaram, Sanjana Katti and Saranya Voruganti
• 5th place: Board Game Design - Zixuan Shang, Sanskriti Sinha and Pallavi Thiruveedu
• 6th place: Children's Stories - Sia Gupta, Sahana Kaliyaperumal, Shriya Kapila, Tanisha Karthikeyan, Vivian Li and Anisha Upasani
• Second place: Data Science and Analytics - Raghav Kalyana Sundaram and Pranav Kannepalli
• 4th place: Digital Video Production - Arthur Chen, Sethmi Ekanayake, Anoushka Gharat, Mina Liu, Manas Mishra and Anvie Sana 
• Third place: Engineering Design - Inesh Dey, Iris Dey, Shreeyaa Muhunthan, Mehuli Nath, Pallavi Thiruveedu and Saranya Voruganti  
• 4th place: Engineering Design - Cleofus Balaranjith, Anish Bharadwaj, Brian Lee, Shivank Mohanty and Rohan Viswanathan
• 4th place:  Forensic Science - Aadya Bansal and Saranya Voruganti
• First place: Geospatial Technology - Hem Akarapu, Cleofus Balaranjith and Anindita Purkayastha
• 4th place: Geospatial Technology - Aadya Bansal, Zixuan Shang and Pallavi Thiruveedu
• 4th place: Manufacturing Prototype - Wenxin Fang, Shriya Kapila, Vivian Li, Sanskriti Sinha and Darren Suwirya
• Second place:  Music Production - Timothy An, Arthur Chen, Darren Suwirya and Evan Wang
• First place: Promotional Design - Aadhya Patel
• Third place: Promotional Design - Shriya Kapila
• 4th place: Robotics Challenge - Akshath Dommaraju, Vihaan Fadnavis, Alex Merceline, Shivank Mohanty and Rohan Viswanathan
• First place: Software Development - Inesh Dey, Anirudh Narasimhan and Enzo Van Thorre
• First place:  Stem Mass Media - Diaa Bijoy and Sacchin Saravanan
• Third place:  Transportation Modeling - Rhea Singh
• 4th place: Transportation Modeling - Anvie Sana
• 4th place:  Virtual Reality Simulation (VR) - Hem Akarapu, Bhanu Atmakuri, Vivaan Pradhan, Aryaman Rtunjay, Sacchin Saravanan and Kirit Singh
• First place: Webmaster - Yohaan Ardeni, Inesh Dey, Ishaan Kothari, Rishabh Menasinakayi, Anirudh Narasimhan and Sathkrith Segu

Middle School

Kirkland Middle School

• Third place: CAD Foundations - Caitlyn McAllister
• Second place: Career Prep - Stephanie Orr
• Second place: Coding - William Scott and Levi Gamez
• First place: Data Science and Analytics - Kian Heydarian, Yusaf Iqbal and Arthur Xu
• First place: Dragster - Caitlyn McAllister
• Third place: Dragster - Elissa Avila
• First place: Inventions & Innovations - Clara Arguez, Sadie Ellermeier and Jonathan Pietila
• Second place: Leadership Strategies - Clara Arguez, Elissa Avilan and Sophia Lim
• First place: Mass Production - Caitlyn McAllister, Stephanie Orr and Sabine Smidchens
• Second place: Mass Production - Levi Gamez, Kieran McKain and William Scott
• First place: Microcontroller Design - Carter Dewell, Sabina Khan, Serafina Phair and Kira Shen
• Second place: Microcontroller Design - Jonathan Pietila and Hlib Prokhorenko
• Second place: Medical Tech - Kian Heydarian and Kautik Malladi
• Second place: Promotional Marketing - Sadie Ellermeier
• First place: Robotics Challenge - Jonathan Pietila, Hlib Prokhorenko and William Scott
• Second place: STEM Animation - Benjamin Durham, Kat Janson and Lune Paliswiat
• Third place: System Control Technology - Kautik Malladi, Ben Rosenbaum and Arthur Xu
• First place: Tech Bowl - Sadie Ellermeier, Jonathan Pietila and Hlib Prokhorenko
• First place: Trebuchet - Levi Gamez, Autumn Henderson, Lily Rickard and Sabine Smidchens
• Second place: Trebuchet - Maxwell Becker, Ben Durham, Ben Rosenbaum and Thomas Sager
• First place: Video Game Design - Maxwell Becker, Benjamin Durham, Kat Janson and Thomas Sager
• Second place: Video Game Design - Andres Anguiano, Yusaf Iqbal, Kieran McKain, Hlib Prokhorenko and William Scott

Finn Hill Middle School and Environmental Adventure School (Team Finneas)

• Second place: Construction Challenge - Furia Criscuolo, Kay Levitt, Zara Tran
• First place: Digital Photography - Scarlet Smith
• Second place: Dragster - Yiling Liu
• Second place: Essays on Technology - Ritisha Pandey
• First place: Fashion Design - Furia Criscuolo, Marie Mineart and Zara Tran           
• Second place: Fashion Design - Ritisha Pandey, Kathryn Wright and Kyra Yuan          
• Third place: Fashion Design - Holly Hughes, Tran Tran and Tue Tran
• Second place: Music Production - Samantha Jennings, Vanessa Parker and Scarlet Smith  
• Second place: Off the Grid - Yiling Liu, Scarlet Smith and Kyra Yuan    
• Third place: Off the Grid - Holly Hughes, Tran Tran, Tue Tran, Winter Fung and Suravani Mehta
• First place: Promotional Marketing - Scarlet Smith
• Third place: Robotics Challenge - Ruthvik Jakka, Momin Jawad and Arjun Parameshwar
• Third place: Silent Film - Kathryn Wright, Kyra Yuan and Josslyn Miera
• First place: STEM Animation - Laila Eghtedari and Yiling Liu      
• Second place: Technical Design - Furia Criscuolo and Kay Levitt   
• Third place: Technical Design - Marie Mineart and Zara Tran