The fourth place ranking still has a chance of attending depending on ranking 1-3 participation. The Tesla STEM Model United Nations club attended the annual Washington State Model United Nations Conference on March 2nd and 3rd, where they participated in debates on topics ranging from economics, human rights, world health and international justice. Along with the event results below, we had four students run for State Officers for next year and two of them won, Karina Kejriwal and Cindy Chen. And so please congratulate: Samantha Novitski and Saachi Sharma for their second-place finish in the Group Performance Category. On Saturday 25 February, Tesla STEM HS sent three teams to the Regional Science Bowl, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energys Pacific Northwest National Labs. DECA Inc. is pleased to announce this years DECA Idea Challenge global winners! r/teslastem: Welcome to the best (and only) Subreddit for Tesla STEM High School! The top three in each even qualify for the National conference in June. Click to download full list of awards and achievements earned by our students in 2016. Tesla STEM studentKeshav Acharyawon a Silver Medal as part of the 2022 President's Volunteer Service Awards! Our Science Olympiad team was formed last year and, after a couple of very encouraging results, the Washington regional and state events were canceled due to COVID (as were similar events for so many of our other organizations). Sign Up for LWSD Newsletters. Eli Trepte 3rd place, Art: Internship Program at Tesla. AashrayChegu Vijay. The students either wrote individual essays or made group videos about the bioethics concerning emerging brain technologies. ree Tesla STEM students participated in the Washington State National History Day contest in an attempt to qualify for the National competition in June. 9) also had a very strong Senior Individual documentary on Nikola Tesla, but unfortunately did not qualify to move on to the state final competition. All of our scholars brought their best work to their events and made their school proud. Congratulations to the following students: Bhavya Nandikanti, Karina Kejriwal,andDivya Singh: 1st Place, Intro to Business Presentation, Rohit Karthik: 3rd Place, Introduction to Information Technology. The best part, however, was the team introductions before the second round, where the icebreaking question was Who is your favorite scientist? Direct quotes: Im Yuchen Li and my favorite scientist is Alexander Borodin. Abhiram Yakkali. This past Saturday 14 students from Tesla STEM competed in the State level competition for National History Day. Two students scored in the top 10% of all students taking the exam, and qualified for Semifinals which will take place on 3/21: We all congratulate them on making it this far! We're very proud of all the students who attended. Im Sami and my favorite scientist is Wolfgang Pauli. Please congratulateYuchen Li,Aashray,Maxwell Soh, andAtharv Dixit. Team 3 (Eva Jain, Saharsh Bhargava, Cindy Yang, Krishna Senthilkumar & Jas Singh)finished in 8th place, Team 2 (Prerana Kota, Reese Long, Shuhui Yang, Aakarsh Balla, & Anson Chen) finished in 6th place, and. Students worked in teams of 5 or 6 to create their own version of Hunt the Wumpus (one of the earliest computer games). As our nation continues to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the subject matter in this piece is incredibly timely. I want to take a moment and let you know that Adhya Kona, an 11th grader here at STEAM, has been selected to join the Seattle Youth Poet Laureates cohort for the 2022-23 year. The National Ocean Sciences Bowl is held every year (and has been hosted by UW!). These three young women have qualified for the state competition to be held at Central Washington University in early May. ALL of my students wrote compelling, well articulated letters that blew me away. Congratulate (and wish good luck) to: TheAmerican Mathematics Competitions(AMC)is the first of a series of three challenging competitions in high schoolmathematicsthat determine the United States team for theInternational Mathematical Olympiad(IMO). Students overall have been very gracious and understanding about the tele-judging experience and the majority have reported a positive experience. With a significant amount of creativity, teamwork and determination, these teams were able to rise to the top. The next round is the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). They had to navigate trying to finish their project and create their trifold plus prepare for virtual judging and judge questioning all in a matter of weeks. Evan Kim Atharv Dixit. Wehad 3 student projects receive ISEF bidsand place in the top seven best projectsof the whole fair!! Nikola Tesla STEM High School (T-STEM) Frequently and Very Frequently Asked Questions - 2021/22 What are T-STEM's regular hours-of-operation? Science Olympiad Las Vegas Invitational (SOLVI) (19 December 2020): Designer Genes: 5th place, Nikhil Mehta & Rohan Iyer, Disease Detectives: 5th place, Maxwell Soh & Anjali Sreenivas, Dynamic Planet: 4th place, Yuchen Li & Atharv Dixit, Machines: 2nd place, Evan Kim & Aaditya Prasad. Pranav Kannepalli 9th and 10th Grade Division Qualifiers: They won 1st and 2nd place in WA State for the National Personal Finance Challenge on Friday. Student teams were building investment strategies around Hagenbuchs financial objectives in hopes of winning his business as the best strategists and analysts. Thank you for your continued support of HOSA and the students that have achieved so much. Congratulations to every single student who competed and also received ribbons or certificates(totaling 79 scholarships andawards!!!) These teams are performing well across all events, with impressive results. He notably loves the Modified Mercalli scale, often claiming "they modified it and . They had the top score in their division in the written round. Wesley Lu Rishi Kavikondala won 2nd place in Prepared Presentation and 3rd place in STEM Careers, Kush K, Ibi and Pranav Sukumar - Fourth place Coding, Anjali S, Audrey Tseng, Akshita K - 4th place Engineering Design, Ibi, Emma Drapp and Varun V - 6th place Software Development. Twelve teams competed. Impromptu Speaking: 1st Place - Siddharth Shende; Graphic Design: 3rd Place - Mikey Halim and Akshay Murthy; 5th Place - Karina Kejriwal, Divya Singh and Ameya Madhugiri, Word Processing: 3rd Place - Supriya Baskar, Business Calculations: 5th Place - Hrudai Thungathurthi, Business Communication: 2nd Place - Abhinav Diddee. They represented Tesla STEM very well. They are stack-ranked in each event and the team with the lowest sum of rankings in the 23 events wins. Tesla STEM High School DiplomaPhysics 2019 - 2023 Activities and Societies: Physics Club (president), Science Bowl (president), Math Club (co-president), Science Olympiad (board) Honors &. Rithika Madey: 9th Grade We had 75 students from Tesla STEM participate and once again, our students out-shined our greatest expectations. The Internship Recruiting Team is driven by the passion to recognize and develop emerging talent. Pacific Northwest Regional High School Science Bowl, Please congratulate our young scholars who participated in the 62nd Annual Washington Science and Engineering Fair (. ) About 20% of the people who write the exam are selected for the next level, the National Astronomy Competition (NAC). Here are our 2017 Technology Student Association (TSA) results in Yakima March 16-18. This is a schoolwide effort--we have support from our admin, our office staff (Ms. O'Brien and Ms. Ferguson), our health staff (Ms. College Planning Timeline and Activities by Grade Level 9th and 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade ACT/SAT Prep & Registration SAT/ACT Prep Timelines and Registration Overview Sixty-one teams advanced to the National Science Bowl. And wish them luck at the national event. FBLA continued the successful streak started by TSA. When I was your age, I did not know what a Monte Carlo simulation was. Please congratulate the following students when you see them. It is important to note thateven if they did not receive a prize, ALL students who participated put forth a huge amount of timeandeffortand I am so impressed with our students' perseverance, dedication, and passion for their projects. The AMC is one of the largest mathematics competitions in the nation, and we spend most of the year in math club preparing for it. We will post another article about the HOSA accolades, but in regards to CSRSEF, students raked in 29 awards, including 6 of the 1st place awards out of the 9 categories that we competed in anddrum rollthe GRAND PRIZE winner for the whole fair - which includes an all-expense paid trip to Los Angeles this May for the International Science and Engineering Far (ISEF)! Those team members from Tesla STEM were Aayush Sheth, Maxwell Soh, and William Gong! They broke the 4 year winning streak of the previous winners, 1st Place Dharini Sribalaskandarajah, Ila Sharma, Sashwatha Shankar in Engineering Design, 6th place Biotechnology Victoria Alkin, Kushal Kedia, Jadrian Png, Thalia Tsai, Akshay Murthy won 9th place for Promotional Design. 9thplace Claire Yang, Tesla STEM seniors who placed were: One out of every six students at Tesla STEM participated in HOSA this academic year with total student participation adding up to thousands of hours of work. I couldn't have done this without help from the two of you. Team 3 finished in 7th place! Sarah Wen This has been a project that has been years in the making and we are very proud ofYuchen Li, Evan Kim,Sebi Kumar,Sami Badal Khan. Of the 23 events at State, Tesla STEM Green finished 1st in 10 events, but still were tightly grouped with Bothell and Camas. This is a huge accomplishment! (They qualified by winning the ORCA Bowl at the University of Washington.) More than 600 studentsparticipated, havingearned that opportunity by qualifying in 8 regional contests around the state. Keen to engage students with hands on experiments and STEM-based. Outside of Science Bowl, he is an avid science olympian, International Earth Science Olympiad gold medalist, mineral collector (@yl.min4), and clarinetist. Shout out to Karen Schaeffer and Melissa Wrenchy for design advice and help with printing the materials for the Senior Exhibit entry. 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. In what can best be described as a year of uncertainty, the 2020-2021Wharton Global High School Investment Competitionoffered high school students worldwide something they could count on: the 9thstraight year of collaborating with teammates and teachers, building creative investment strategies, analyzing industries and companies, trading stocks in real time, and learning a lot about finance. This was the first time Tesla STEM has participated. The following employees have been designated to handle questions and complaints of alleged discrimination: Civil Rights Coordinator, Director of Human Resources, 425-936-1251,civilrights@lwsd.org; Title IX Coordinator, 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 98052). Yuchen likes rocks, big floating rocks, and fizzy bubbles. There were a total of 283 students that participated in the tele-judging (with only 4 no shows!) Digital Video Production: Only the top 10% of AMC scores in the nation are invited. Alexander Peev The writing prompt was a letter to Gov. The Exhibit, on the subject of the first African Americans hired at Boeing is titled, Forming New Frontiers in Seattle: The Debate for Fair Employment at Boeing from 1935 1949, Senior Group Documentary:William Gong, Teddy Dong, Ethan Yu, Arihant Singh and Ziang Chen, Their Documentary is titled, A Welcome Beacon in the Dark Night: How Debate and Diplomacy in Czechoslovakia Sparked the Passage of the Marshall Plan, Title of his Paper: Lines in the Sand; Failures and Consequences of the Partition of the Ottoman Empire. There were five judges for the startups (one of whom was Melanie Kong!) The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) will be held in Atlanta, GA from May 7-13. Freshman Naman Mutalik Desai has won The Silver Key Award for his memoir entry titled The Best Apology is Changed Behavior. Our own Melissa Wrenchey was a recipient of the Educator Award this year. Amrutha Srikanth finished 1st in the Senior Individual Documentary category,with her piece titled,Behind the Screen: The Rise of Women Animators in Walt Disney's Studios. The conference was held on the University of Washington campus and involved high school students from around the region. He flew kids home from Atlanta then turned around the next day and flew to Baltimore. This means that 4projects from Tesla STEM will be going to ISEF!! Truly remarkable. A Tesla coil is one of the devices that has fascinated people for years. 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. The top 10 teams, representing five different countries, submitted investment reports and answered challenging questions from a panel of online judges to determine the winners. Please join me in congratulating students on the following awards: You can view their art and videos here: https://holocaustcenterseattle.org/programs-events/writing-art-film-contest. Other prizes include: Outstanding Delegate: Spring Cherip (African Union), Honorable Mention: Anna Whiteside (ECOSOC), Rishika Veeramachaneni, (Joint Crisis Committee). The team conducted itself well, workingtogether to solve problems under extreme time pressure, and sharingthe burden of sitting out (since only 4 out of 5 get to play at one time). (They award one national winner, five regional winners, and honorable mentions per age level.). Banking and Financial Systems: Pia Dave and Kaavya Trivedi 5th place, Broadcast Journalism: Omid Farahdel and Ani Seshadri 6th place, Business Management: Diya Karthic, Mehek Sathe, Nihan Tatli 3rd place; Eesha Kunisetty 2nd place, Digital Video Production: Kshitij Rao, Ani Seshardri, Rohan Sing 5th place, E-Business: Annie Adhikary 6th place; Omid Farahdel, Pranav Sayal, Brian Yin 4th place, Electronic Career Portfolio: Cindy Chen 2nd place, Entrepreneurship: Emma Shi, Osheen Tikku 3rd place, Graphic Design: Diya Karthic, Mehek Sathe, Nihan Tatli 6th place; Kshitij Rao, Manovay Sharma, Ayush Singh 5th place, International Business: Divij Aswinkumar, Farzad hasan 5th place, Introduction to Business Presentation: Vasudah Narayanan, Anjana Punniamoorthy 5th place; Prakshi Shukla, Nikki Taleghani 3rd place, Introduction to Public Speaking: Nitya Kakulamarri 6th place; Annie Adhikary 4th place, Anshu Aggarwal 3rd place, Introduction to Social Media Strategy: Abhinav Nadupalli, Alekhya Nidadavolu 6th place; Ahanya John, Megha Ramachandran, Alexa Rorrer 5th place, Marketing: Rishi Dilip, Aahil Irfan, Sourish Singh 6th place; Shivani Godse, Sneha Murali 5th place, Public Service Announcement: Gayathri Pillai, Shivani Sama, Shriya Tiku 2nd place; Sarah Wen 1st place, Public Speaking: Nikki Taleghani 2nd place, Publication Design: Aaryan Bondre, Tanush Contractor, Gyan Dave 4th place, Sales Presentation: Rhea Kuppa, Shreya Pandey 5th place; Karina Kejriwal, Bhavya Nandikanti 4th place; Divij Aswinkumar, Saathvik Somujayabalan, Harini Vijeyanandh 3rd place, Social Media Strategies: Cindy Chen, Karina Kejriwal, Bhavya Nandikanti 3rd place; Gauri Raman, Divya Singh 1st place, Sports and Entertainment Management: Gyan Dave, Aarav Khanna, Isayiah Lim 4th place, Advertising: Hrudai Thungathurthi 5th place; Sneha Murali 4th place, Agribusiness: Katelyn Ye 1st place (from LWHS but part of our chapter), Computer Problem Solving: Keshav Acharya 5th place, Michael Yu 4th place, Rohit Karthik 1st place, Human Resource Management: Felix Hallmann 4th place; Eesha Kunissetty 3rd place, Introduction to Business Communication: Vasudha Narayanan 1st place, Introduction to Financial Math: Divya Ramu 6th place; Johan Karukayil 5th place, Introduction to Information Technology: Johan Karukayil, Network Infrastructures: John Karaca 5th place; Michael Yu 3rd place, Organizational Leadership: Isha Rajpul 5th place. If you read that far and see these students, please congratulate themor congratulate anyone on these teams, because winning a team trophy is more dependent on consistent performance across all events, rather than individual performance. Very exciting! The following students received ISEF bids (which would have been held in Anaheim, CA this year) - they will receive swag bags and the honor of being an ISEF finalist that they can put in their college applications, which holds significant weight with colleges. Kate Allender is a science and psychology teacher at Tesla STEM High School in Redmond. Rohan Iyer and Maxwell Soh are USA Biology Olympiad Semifinalists! This year, there was a creative category and an argumentative writing category. Last day of school remains Friday, June 23, 2022 International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics.