Four individuals and seven teams from four different LWSD schools took home first place prizes in the 2015 State Technology Student Association (TSA) conference March 26-28 at the Bellevue Hilton and Red Lion Bellevue. In total, six LWSD schools participated in the event, bringing home a total of 42 prizes. This was the largest state competition in the history of the organization with 800 participants. The following schools participated: Eastlake High School (EHS), Finn Hill Middle School (FHMS), Inglewood Middle School (IMS), Juanita High School (JHS), Redmond High School (RHS), and Tesla STEM High School (Tesla STEM). Below is the list of winners:
First place:
Engineering Design: Saakshi Dulani (senior), Meena Mayyappan (senior), and Udit Ranasaria (junior) – Tesla STEM
Fashion Design: Natalie Alvis (sophomore) and Mary McCaughey (sophomore) – EHS
Flight (Middle School): Curtis Anderson (eighth grade) – FHMS
Music Production: Surya Cidambi (junior), Aditya Ramani (junior), and Naveen Sahi (junior) – Tesla STEM
Photographic Technology: Elizabeth McKinnie (junior) – JHS
Prepared Presentation: Olivia Williams (junior) – JHS
SCIVIS: Mrigank Bhardwaj (senior), Kanaad Deodhar (senior), Aaron Johnston (senior), Devansh Kukreja (senior), Madison Minsk (senior), and Pranav Vasudha (senior) – Tesla STEM
Technology Bowl Team: David Brostek (sophomore), Clark Ellis (senior), and Olivia Williams (junior) – JHS
Technology Bowl Written: Naveen Sahi (junior) – Tesla STEM
TSA / VEX Robotics Competition: TJ Hori (junior), Alex Ilias (junior), Schawnery Lin (junior), Daniel Mar (junior), Sriram Natarajan (junior), and Udit Ranasaria (junior) – Tesla STEM
Webmaster: Kanaad Deodhar (senior), Aaron Johnston (senior), Patrick Mao (sophomore), Madison Minsk (senior), and Alka Pai (senior) –Tesla STEM
Second place:
Essays on Technology: Olivia Williams (junior) – JHS
Extemporaneous Speech: Fedor Pogulsky (junior) – JHS
Medical Technology Issues (Middle School): Isabela Hines (eighth grade) – FHMS
Music Production: Diego Alvarez (junior) – JHS
On Demand Video: Jeremy Brewer (freshman), Stacie Keck (freshman), Ben Lathwell (freshman), Cameron Lerner (senior), Ryan Page (freshman), and Robert Russo (freshman) – EHS
Problem Solving (Middle School): Brady Guzik (seventh grade) and Mikael Sundstrom (eighth grade) – FHMS
STEM Animation (Middle School): Hannah Stern (eighth grade), Mikael Sundstrom (eighth grade), and Ethan Yee (eighth grade) – FHMS
Structural Model (Middle School): Brady Guzik (seventh grade) and Arvin Thyagarajan (eighth grade) – FHMS
TSA / VEX Robotics Competition: Adarsh Karnati (junior), Priya Nakkiran (junior), Anuraag Polisetty (junior), and Aaron Zhang (junior) – RHS
Video Game Design: Marlon Fussell (junior) – EHS
Third place:
Leadership Strategies (Middle School): Isabela Hines (eighth grade), Hannah Stern (eighth grade), and Mikael Sundstrom (eighth grade) – FHMS
Prepared Presentation: Meena Meyyappan (senior) – Tesla STEM
Promotional Design (Middle School): David Weatherford (eighth grade) – FHMS
Tech Bowl Team (Middle School): Alex Klimecky (seventh grade), Hannah Stern (eighth grade), and Axel Sundstrom (eighth grade) – FHMS
Video Game Design: Aditya Kumar (sophomore), James Kusardi (sophomore), Patrick Mao (sophomore), Jake Newfeld (sophomore), and Abhinav Singh (sophomore) – Tesla STEM
Video Game Design (Middle School): Yuanxiang Huang (eighth grade), Axel Sundstrom (eighth grade), Arvin Thyagarajan (eighth grade), Ethan Yee (eighth grade) – FHMS
