(They award one national winner, five regional winners, and honorable mentions per age level.). Our Science Olympiad Invitational Season is winding down. We're so proud of all our students who worked really hard on these projects and came up with some really great games. Questions? Tesla Also took home Gold Prize for theBarbara James Service Award and 1st in the MRC Volunteer Award, with a lot of hard work from Jessica Singh. Please congratulateYuchen Li,Aashray,Maxwell Soh, andAtharv Dixit. The Tesla STEM seniors who placed were: For this national competition, the students write an essay predicting how a current technology will evolve in ten years. Advice from my seat in investing: maintain the discipline of your investment process and be flexible when things dont work out.. 7thplace Karina Kejriwal, Ameya Madhugiri and Arihant Singh, We are extremely proud of all of our students who competed and attended the HOSA State Conference in Spokane, WA this March. Social Media Campaign: 2nd Place - Aditya Gottumukkala, Samarjit Kaushik and Saanav Somani; 6th Place - Anisha Karnik, Alexa Wirth and Prakriti Shukla. Aditi Ekbote and Vidhi JainDrug Combinations with Antibiotics and Curcumin to Combat Antibiotic Drug Resistance, Nina Gupta,Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Home Pregnancy Test to Detect Early Stages of Ovarian Cancer in Postmenopausal Women, 1st place in Biomedical and Health SciencesCategory, Senior Division, Nitisha Gautam and Diya BasuA Novel Machine Learning and Western Blotting Approach to Understand theGenomic Differences Between E-cigarette Vapor and Cigarette Smoke and its Relation to Tumor Development, Akshay Murthy,Greet Sense: A Facial Recognition and Obstacle Detection Device for the Visually- Impaired and Blind, Anusha Srivastava, Assessing the Apoptotic Effect of the Bacteriocin Nisin on Metastatic Breast Cancer Cell Viability, Sebastian Wick and Varshan Muhunuthan, Car Exhaust Carbon Capture and Filtration by Implementing Synechococcus 7942 in a Photobioreactor, 1st place in Environmental Engineeringcategory, Senior Division, Callie Wharton and Mychal Miller, The Effect of Age on the Presence of Implicit Bias, 1st place in Behavioral and Social Sciences, Senior Division, Tarini Srikanth,Modeling Potential Drug to Drug Interactions Targeted Towards Cardiovascular Systems, Tristan Stevens and Maxwell Wang, Development of a Bi-Layer Geosyntheticto Decrease Road Deflection, Rachel Oomen,The Efficacy of Mindfulness Regimen On the Inattentive Behavioral Symptoms Among Emerging Adults, Parbeen Sekhon and Rhea Shinde,Improving AccuracyRate of Bitemark Analysis in Forensic Odontology, Marton Teichner,Investigating the Effects of Education on the Impact of Astroturfing, Sowmaya Pratipati, Creating a More Cost-Effective Hydroponics System to Compete with Conventional Agriculture, 2nd place in Plant Sciencescategory, Senior Division, Anirudh Iyer,Analyzing miRNA Expression Levelsin Glioblastoma Patients to Identify Candidate BioMarkers, Elisabeth Berger,Powering a Solid State Fermenter with Compost Cogeneration To Produce Spores for Use as a Myopesticide, Marko Milovanovic and Denis Chelan,Water Purification Via Hand-Powered Pump, Roshni SrikanthIntegrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Principles Within an App To Help Manage and Improve the Mental Health of Refugees Facing Traumatic Stress, Anika GhelaniA Behavioral and Neurophysiological Analysis of False Memories Implanted Through Imagination Inflation and Misinformation Effect For the Distinction of False Memories, Mirra Chinta,Synergism or Antagonism between Docetaxel and Finasteride in Prostate Cancer Model, 2nd place inBiomedical and Health Sciences category, Senior Division, Kristin Acheson,The Effects of Ascorbic Acid on the Binding BetweenCollagen and Catechin, Madison Messina and Eden Netz,The Correlationof Posting Publicly on Social Media andAnxious Sleep Patterns in Teenagers, Van Monday,Examining the Correlation Between County Demographics and the Effectiveness of Major Environmental Legislation, Manasvini Calmidi,Determining the Most EffectiveSalt Concentration of Irrigation Water for Trichoderma harzianamto Confer Salt Tolerance Through Symbiosis to Oryza sativa Plants, BronzePrize Grand Champion Award, won an all expense paid trip to Phoenix,ISEF Finalist, Mathias Foster,Development of a Perpetual Solar-Powered Blimp to Aid Urban Search and Rescue, Toma Itagaki, Examining the Activation of Default Mode Networks in Non-Visual Blinks, Max Reisman Low CostSolar Desalination System Utilizing Salt-Rejecting and Solar Absorber Technology for Quick and Efficient Desalination, 2nd place in Environmental Engineering category, Senior Division, Sunya MohammedImplementing Eye-Tracking Technology For the Advancement of Driver Training, Isha MuraliExploration into Analyzing the Auditory Cortex in Relation to Attention as Measured by Alpha and BetaWaves, 1st place in Behavioral and Social Sciences category, Senior Division, Annie DentonForecasting the Effects of Climate Change on the Distribution of the Pacific Sideband Snail, 1st place in Animal Sciences category, Senior Division, Hemant Dhokia Involuntary Muscle Contraction to Determine If Someone is Lying or Telling the Truth, Varun Srikhar and Siddarth Shende, The Analysis of Environmental Factors Through the Implementation of a Machine Learning-Backed Aerial Drone For Increased Accuracy in Forest Fire Risk Assessment, 1st place in Environmental Engineering category, Senior Division. The winner is chosen by a panel of members from the local art community. Our students put forth a stellar performance at the HOSA Future Health Professionals State competition this last weekend in Spokane, bringing in 27 awards and representing Tesla STEM with honor and pride. Award recipients are selected based on their aptitude and aspirations in technology and computing; leadership ability; academic history; and plans for post-secondary education. Director of Athletics and Activities, 425-936-1289, titleix@lwsd.org; and 504 Coordinator, Director of Special Services, 425-936-1407, section504@lwsd.org (16250 NE 74th Street, Redmond, WA . If they place in the semi-finals, they advance to the finals in-person in New York City with all travel costs covered by the National Council on Economic Education. They won cash prizes! This is a huge accomplishment! There are 15 members on each team and we have nearly four full teams. We had 75 students from Tesla STEM participate and once again, our students out-shined our greatest expectations. ree Tesla STEM students participated in the Washington State National History Day contest in an attempt to qualify for the National competition in June. There are so many creative, talented young people in our region which always makes the art competition an exciting experience, said DelBene. This team, Eva Jain, Danyuan Wang, Shuhui Yang, Aakarsh Balla, and Johan Karukayil, was the only third team to advance to the round of 7 teams (the quarterfinals). In April, three Tesla STEM students took the USA Earth Sciences Olympiad (USESO) Open Exam. They will have one more test to potentially qualify for the Final, which involves 10 days of instruction and 2 days of testing at a host university and a chance to represent the US at the International Biology Olympiad in Japan. Please also congratulate Vaishnavi Phadnis who helped run the State conference as the HOSA President-elect for WA state and Varsha Veermacheneni who is currently the WA state HOSA Reporter this year. The team consisted of Yuchen Li (captain), Maxwell Soh, Nikhil Mehta, and Atharv Dixit. Nikola Tesla STEM High School (T-STEM) Frequently and Very Frequently Asked Questions - 2021/22 What are T-STEM's regular hours-of-operation? National History Bee and Bowl Competition that strives to promote history education throughout the United States and around the world. 11) finish 1st in the Senior Group Documentary category with their piece on the early stages of the Palestinian conflict. andcongratulationsto two of the five GRAND PRIZE WINNERS who won the extraordinary honor of competing at ISEF.Druhin Bhowal and Arihant Singhfor their project onIt's Flaming Out: Using Artificial Intelligence to Emulate Critical Aspects of Wildfire Growthand Anjali Sreenivasfor her investigation onA Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Blood-Based Biomarkers for Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease. The last stage is the US Physics Team Training camp, where the top-20 scorers on the USAPhO are flown out to the University of Maryland for 10 days of grueling tests, lectures, and labs to determine the final 5. In all, more than 50 students participated and a good time was had by all. Its function ranges from generating a bolt of spectacular lightning to transmitting electric power wirelessly. Our year-round program places the best students in positions where they will grow technically, professionally, and personally through their experience working closely with their Manager, Mentor, and team. Science Olympiad is a set of 23 events including biological, physical, chemical and earth sciences, as well as engineering, for teams of up to 15 students. The contest has students predict the evolution of a technology (for my class, a biomedical tech) into ten years in the future. Students raked in 24awardsincluding 2 grand prize winners who won bids to the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF). We all want to say how proud we are of all of our scholars. More than 50% of the category awards were awarded to Tesla STEM students. Our students will be competing against the top mathematical teen minds in the country. In the wake of that great disappointment, Yuchen Li, Aayush Sheth and the other organizers decided that in 2020-21, Tesla STEM SciOly would go deeper, by competing in more regional- and national-level events, and broader, by accepting anyone who wanted to join (i.e., this is a no cut competitive club) and fielding as many teams as we can at each event. Delivers AI-driven batteries by adapting hardware from manufacturers including Tesla, Samsung, LG Stem's Athena is leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to optimize energy use between sources. The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) will be held in Atlanta, GA from May 7-13. Junior Rui Menghas won The Silver Key Critical Essay Award for his work about technology, war, and the destruction from war. The Youth Poet Laureate, along with their YPL cohort, has numerous opportunities and platforms to share their powerful voices, their leadership, and love of Seattle at regional events throughout the course of the year. Our students clearly set themselves apart with their outstanding leadership and professionalism. Tesla STEMwon all 9 matches they played to capture their second straight Orca Bowl championship and qualify for the National Ocean Sciences Bowl in May! While everyone was well prepared and did an amazing job, some students were chosen by the judges to be highlighted. Huge THANK YOU to Matt Travis, Sarah Newman and Lori Zebrack-Smith who chaperoned the event over the weekend as well. The following students received the following awards: Behavioral and Social Sciences (BEHA) 1st place: Christina Goto and Grace von Scheliha, Plant Assisted Learning: The Effects of Epipremnum Aureum on Student Cognition and Neural Oscillations 2nd place: Michelle Yeh, Davina Lau and Katherine Bo, Familiarity of Music and its Effects on Stress Levels on Students 3rd place: Hanna Karpstein, Investigating the Effectivity of Various Behavioral Addiction Prevention Methods Honorable Mention: Rachel Ray, Amelia Sabin and Brenna Schwartz, The Effect of Personality Types on the Success of Group Work Biomedical and Health Sciences (BMED), Bioengineering (ENBM), Translational Medicine (TMED) 1st place: Priyanka Taneja, Anjali Sribalaskandarajah and Prerana Kulkarni, Utilizing Homovanillic Acid and Monoclonal Antibodies as a Novel Diagnostic Method for Schizophrenia and Parkinson's Diagnosis Honorable Mention: Vidha Sudesh, Using an Eye Exam to Detect Parkinson's at an Early Stage Cellular & Molecular Biology (CELL), Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (CBIO), Microbiology (MCRO) 1st place: Neha Hulkund, The Development of Machine Learning Linear Regression Algorithms for Epileptic Seizure Prediction 2nd place: Vaishnavi Phadnis, Computational Analysis of Neurotrophin Receptor Splice Variant Expression Signatures in Multiple Cancer Types Honorable Mention: Rishi Kavikondala, Rayan Krishnan and Sashwatha Shankar, Computational Analysis of Methanogen Metabolism Processes in Autotrophic Cyanobacteria for Carbon-Neutral Photosynthetic Methane Production Earth and Environmental Sciences (ENEV), Biochemistry (BCHM), Chemistry (Chem) 1st Place: Yogitha Sunkara, Comparative Analysis of Total Mercury Concentration in Salmon Species Using Atomic Fluorescence 2nd Place: Justin Qui, Investigating the Effects of Floating Photovoltaic Systems on the Growth of Freshwater Algae Honorable Mention: Sydney Meade, The Analysis of the Effects of Animal Agricultural Runoff on Water Quality Based on Nitrates, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Total Dissolved Solids and Turbidity Environmental Engineering (ENEV) 2nd place: Silvia Calinov, Water Waves to Light Waves Energy: Chemical (EGCH) and Physical (EGPH) 2nd place: Sandra Militaru and Andrea Dang, Solketal Additive for Aviation Fuel Engineering Mechanics (ENMC) 1st place: Anne Lee and Issac Perrin, Performing Fluid Dynamics Analysis to Develop an Automated Valve to Halt Natural Gas Blowouts Physics and Astronomy (PHYS), Mathematics (Math) 1st place: Rashida Hakim, Particle Simulation of Phase-Dependent Fields Using Geometric Algebra Special Awards: Washington State Science and Engineering (WSSEF) Award: Richard Halbert and Daniel Hoffman, Political Tribalism Inspiring Excellence in Scientific Research and Engineering Awards: Christina Goto and Grace von Scheliha, Plant Assisted Learning: The Effects of Epipremnum Aureum on Student Cognition and Neural Oscillations and Yogitha Sunkara, Comparative Analysis of Total Mercury Concentration in Salmon Species Using Atomic Fluorescence American Psychological Association for Achievement in Research in Psychological Science: Christina Goto and Grace von Scheliha, Plant Assisted Learning: The Effects of Epipremnum Aureum on Student Cognition and Neural Oscillations Association for Women Geoscientists Award, Honorable Mention: Sydney Meade, The Analysis of the Effects of Animal Agricultural Runoff on Water Quality Based on Nitrates, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Total Dissolved Solids and Turbidity People's Choice Award: Katrine Bjorner and Emily Spencer, Mobilizing the TENS Unit Stockholm Junior Water Prize: Sydney Meade, The Analysis of the Effects of Animal Agricultural Runoff on Water Quality Based on Nitrates, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, Total Dissolved Solids and Turbidity Ricoh Americas Corporation Award: Stuart Brown and Eric Fan, Generating Biogas from Waste American Chemical Society (ACS) Prize: Yogitha Sunkara, Comparative Analysis of Total Mercury Concentration in Salmon Species Using Atomic Fluorescence American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics Award: Sandra Militaru and Andrea Dang, Solketal Additive for Aviation Fuel Supernova Awards: Sana Fatima, The Combined Effect of Music and Running on Fluid Intelligence and Olivia Blevins and Audrey Tseng, Designing a Cost-Effective and Customizable 3D Printed Tongue, for the Purpose of Gaining Sufficient Unsupported Synthetic Tongue Muscle Articulation for Use in Speech and Swallowing, Comparable to Organic Tongue Muscle Articulation Grand Prize Winner, Best in Fair : Neha Hulkund, The Development of Machine Learning Linear Regression Algorithms for Epileptic Seizure Prediction. Team 2 finished in 4th place! r/teslastem: Welcome to the best (and only) Subreddit for Tesla STEM High School! Please join us in congratulating our ten outstanding young women who received 2020 NCWIT Awards for Aspirations in Computing: In June, the Tesla STEM Science Bowl team (Saketh Dhulipalla, Rohan Iyer, Evan Kim, Yuchen Li, and Vedantha Venkatapathy) participated in a completely-online National Science Bowl finals. We have threestudents who qualified assemifinalistsfor theUSABOOpen Exam, meaning that they scored in the top 10% of students nationally. Learn more about Tesla STEM High School. Another fabulous showing by our students at the FBLA State Leadership conference this last weekend in Bellevue. A Tesla coil is one of the devices that has fascinated people for years. Sebastian Kumar Neil Parikh This is by far the most students we have had qualify. And Katy Allen-Schmid, thank you for flying the FBLA kids from Seattle to Baltimore so I could fly the kids doing both conferences straight from Atlanta to Baltimore. Andrea Dang and Sandra Militaru, Developing Solketal as an Additive for Jet Fuel: An Effective Approach to Reducing Glycerol Waste. 1st place and qualify for Nationals, also won $100 award for best use of local archives. The Region-at-Large West Writing program is administered by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers in New York City with the support of adjudication partners from around the country. This year's competition had over 11,000 students from all over the world. They finished in 3rd place! And ALL STUDENTS that participated deserve a tremendous amount of applause for persevering through this difficult time. The AMC is one of the largest mathematics competitions in the nation with roughly 160,000 students participating, and we spend most of the year in math club preparing for it. After each startup and research project presented, the judges deliberated extensively and awarded prizes to the following winners. Please join me in congratulating the winners! The top three in each even qualify for the National conference in June. This means that 4projects from Tesla STEM will be going to ISEF!! Brayden Brackett won first place in the Washington State Map Story Contest and will move on to the National Competition. Investigating the Effectivity of Various Behavioral Addiction Prevention Methods, Silvia Calinov. Course Catalog - Tesla STEM High Tesla STEM High School Home > Academics Tesla STEM High School CEEB code 480976 Driving 4301 228th Ave NE, Redmond, WA 98053 Call (425) 936-2770 Jump to School Contact Webmaster Sign Up for LWSD Newsletters When I was your age, I did not know what a Monte Carlo simulation was. This year Tesla STEM had 29 students participate, and 15 students qualified for the next round, the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME) on February 7th. It has 606 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 20 to 1. Qualifications. ESRI willmake a decision later in May or early June. Congratulations toSiddhant Porwal and Druhin Bhowal, who were theWashington State High School Winners for the ArcGIS Online Competition for 2022! Please congratulate Aashray, Saharsh Bhargava, Madeleine Vanderheiden, Sami Badal Khan, Johan Karukayil, and Anson Chen, who will travel to beautiful Longbranch, WA, in May to participate in the State Envirothon. Congratulations to all of the winners listed below, and to our new State Officer At-Large, Brayden Brackett! All of our scholars brought their best work to their events and made their school proud. Please see some examples below of excused absences and unexcused absences. Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in the Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia). 3D Bioprinted Blood Vessels for Surgical Transplant, A Novel Diagnostic Tool for Measuring Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tension, Integrating Nanoparticles into a Transcranial Electromagnetic Cap to Treat Alzheimers Disease, Microbubble Technologys Future in Alzheimers Disease Treatment and Gene Therapy. Congratulations to our winners from this years STEM Expo: Avant-Garde Investments, from Tesla STEM High School, placed 3rd in the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition. It is important that students are at school in order to receive valuable instruction from teachers, collaboration with their peers, and understand important due dates. They have been working hard on their projects since the Fall and its great that they were still able to show off their hard work. Team 1 (Saketh Dhulipalla, Rohan Iyer, Evan Kim, Yuchen Li, and Vedantha Venkatapathy) came in 1st place, showing particularly steely nerves in their final matches against Redmond and Interlake. Only the top 10% of AMC scores in the nation are invited. Digital Video Production: The team gratefully acknowledges the support of Ms. Duenas, Mr. Crowe, Ms. Townsend, Mr. Leslie, and Mr. Chan in providing building access, lab and equipment access, and coaching. Room 217 Congratulations to the following students for their great work at TSA this weekend and a HUGE thank you to Matt S and Meg for their help chaperoning and judging. Our junior Evan Kim has made it through 2 rounds of testing to qualify for the US Physics Olympics Team. The National Ocean Sciences Bowl is held every year (and has been hosted by UW!). Eudoxie Hudry and Nisha Thottam, Improving the Production of the Anti-Cancer Drug Paclitaxel Through Biosynthesis in Bacteria, Ishika Mukherjee and Eesha Murali, Viability of Urinary Polyamine levels as a Preliminary Test for Cancer, Rayan Krishnan, Utilizing Idealized Simulations to Investigate the Impacts of Carbon Emissions on Polar Vortex, Amrita Narasimhan, Applying Machine Learning Techniques for Identification of Discriminative Biomarkers, Neha Hulkund, MRI Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation Using Deep Learning, Lukas Spring, Examining the Potential of Smile Photography and the Importance of the Maxillary Incisors in the Identification of Disaster Victims, Anjali and Akash Srivastava, Building an App to Improve Reading Readiness of Children, Prerna Sheokand, Blue Light Effects on Working Memory of Preschoolers, William Wang, Drones Optimized Through Neural Networks for Reconnaissance and Imaging of Martian Environments, Kyra Bethune, Incorporation of Self-Esteem Enhancement Strategies in Social Media, Sashwatha Shankar, Generating a Machine Learning Model to Determine the Metastatic Potential of Lung Cancer Tumors, Sarah Suhy, Siderocalin and Its Interactions with Adipocytes, Megha Mattikalli, Advancing Diagnosis of Lung Cancer using Visual Biomarkers, Ritika Iyer, The Application of Infrared Thermography to Architecture to Identify Heat-Emitting Building Materials, Pranay Muthineni, Making Desalination Cost Effective and more Efficient for Third World Countries Using Solar Power, Christine Lee, The Efficacy of Counter-Stereotypical Scenario in Reducing Racial Implicit Bias, Jack Tribolet, Generating Haptic Feedback Based Upon Calculated Data and User Information, Aashna Sheth, The Application of Microwave Satellite to the Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS), Sonika Tayade and Hamsa Shankar, Predictions Using National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. Tesla STEM students did a great job at this past weekend's Pacific Model UN Conference, held in Seattle. Before listing all of the accomplishments earned at the competition, I just want to state how incredibly proud I am of the HOSA team. Aditi will compete along withapproximately 1,800 high school students from more than 75 countries, regions, and territories. When we include the two students (Yuchen Li and Julia Liu) who received ISEF bids at CSRSEF, this means that a record breaking6 projects from Tesla STEM will be going to ISEF. 4thplace Henry Liao and George Zhang, Parli Pro: Arjun Mahesh: 11th Grade (Eastlake HS) This competition was held virtuallyit was a long day of Zoom that began at 5:30am local time. To see those concepts being applied in presentations just blows my mind. https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/this-local-teen-wants-elementary-schools-to-have-books-about-the-incarceration-of-japanese-americans/. Boyceville SO Invitational (out of 148 teams): Raisbeck Aviation Invitational (out of 27 teams): Golden Gate Science Olympiad (out of 53 teams): The Tesla STEM Chess Club/Team finished their regular season Mid-February in the KingCo chess league, finishing in 5th place and earning a bid to the State Team Tournament held this last weekend in Stanwood, Washington. These teams are performing well across all events, with impressive results. Aashray earned an invitation to the USESO training camp, which is an event where top scholars learn from distinguished alumni (including Tesla STEM's own Yuchen Li, '22) and leading researchers in earth science. All middle school teams competed using the same online platform that will be used in the Science Olympiad regional and state events, which allowed TSHS to grade, rank, and announce results on the day of competition! More than 250 students from 22 middle school teams across the country participated in this event, including LWSD teams from Redmond, and International Community School, and Evergreen middle schools, as well as teams from California, Michigan, and Alabama. Melissas passion for engaging young women in computing and technology is inspiring. Aayush Sheth: 11th Grade The highlight was winning the Best Large Delegation Award, which goes to the entire team. The highest honor is Outstanding Delegate, achieved by two STEM Seniors and club officers: Neav Topaz (STEMUN President) and Patrick Mao (STEMUN Technology Officer.) Ekaansh Agrawal The top four automatically qualify for the National conference in Baltimore at the end of June. The goal of an invitational is to help students prepare for regional, state, and national competitions. George Zhang 2nd place They had the top score in their division in the written round. Senior Ateeq Ramlan worked with two colleagues from Redmond High School to develop Whale Watchers, an app to help Puget Sound orca populations. Thank you all for your continual support and amazing work you do with these students in all classes. Ankita Menon- who was the bronze medal winner at WSSEF and also one of the grand prize winners at CSRSEF: Survival Analysis of Pediatric Neuroblastoma Patients Using Gene Expression Data: Identification of Survival Related Biomarkers, An Doan: Autonomous Drones for Search and Rescue Operations, Samarjit Kaushik: Investigating the Effect of Fibulin-2 on NF-kB Pathway Activity and Proliferation of Pediatric Gliomas, Taylor Rice: 3D Printing an Intrauterine Device Specifically for Nulliparous Women by Adjusting Size and Exterior Design. By winning the Regional, Team 1 qualified for the National Science Bowl finals in Washington, DC, at the end of April. These 100+ students focused their weekly meetings towards the State Leadership Conference led by Prakriti Shukla and Riya Kulkarni. Water Waves to Light Waves, Apoorv Khandelwal. Digital Video Production: 1st Place - Prakriti Shukla and Charlotte Conze; 2nd Place - Parum Misri, Varun Wescott and Aditya Gottumukkala; 5th Place - Jasarjan Singh and Kion Bidari. Board Games: 4th place- Team of Shubhu Purohit, Aditya Balasubramanian, Rohan Anand, Yash Kulkarni, Aakash Ramachandran, Childrens Stories 4th place: QingHui Xie, Annie Denton, CAD 3D Engineering 3rd place Maxwell Wang, Engineering Design 3rd place-Team of Kevin Yap, Laila Kuhn, Rudy Banjeree, Annie Denton, 2nd place-Team of Dharini Sribalaskandarajah, Sashu Shankar and Ila Sharma, 1st place-Team of Jakob Bjorner, Devesh Sarda, Anirudh Iyer, Sebastian Wick and Mathias Foster, Fashion Design 2nd place-Team of Tichada Tantasirikorn and Annie Denton, Future Technology Teacher 1st place Samarjit Kaushik, Music Production 4th place-Amrutha Srikanth and Rachel Alwin, Robotics Challenge 2nd place Team of Brian Yao and Aakash Ramachandran, Software Development 3rd place Team of Aakash Ramachandran, Surya Gorantla, Varun Venkatesh, Aditi Balasubramanian, Devesh Sarda and Pranav Sukumar, Structural Engineering 3rd place-Team of Lahari Nidadavolu and Jakob Bjorner, Webmaster 4th place-Team of Mathias Foster, Akshay Murthy, Tristan Stevens, Ranveer Thind, Extemporaneous Speech 4th place-Ranveer Thind, Technology Problem Solving 1st place-Team of Tristan Stevens and Maxwell Wang, VEX Robotics 2nd place-Team of Tristan Stevens, Mathias Foster and Maxwell Wang, 1st place-Team of Brian Yao and Aakash Ramachandran. Sixty-one teams advanced to the National Science Bowl. Their workwill be submitted to ESRIto compete against the winners from other states. The following students received Honorable Mention awards for the Toshiba/NSTA ExploraVision contest. In addition to reinventing the item, teams were to create a video pitch of their new product. Digital Video Production:Kshitij Rao & Steven He, 4th place;Siddhant Porwal,Manas Kanakala & Mohit Soni, 5th place, Engineering Design:Gaya Pillai, Rishika Gautam, Shivani Sama & Annie Adhikary, 2nd place, Board Games:Anjana Punniamoorthy & Vasudha N, 2nd place, Children's Stories:Anusha Sharma, 1st place, Data Science & Analysis:Rishika Gautam, 1st place, Geospacial Tech: Druhin Bhowal, Siddhant Porwal & Mohit Soni, 1st place. Our scholars conducted themselves maturely and played their matches very well. This competition is an important part of our curriculum because it gives them a taste of the reality of working as a team to design, develop and test a big coding project.