Thomas Jefferson High School for

Science and Technology

ACADEMIC BOOSTERS AWARDS

RECEPTION

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

6:00 ~ 8:00 p.m.

Thomas Jefferson High School

Academic Boosters, Inc. TJ Academic Boosters actively supports our outstanding academic teams in their various

pursuits. Some 20 academic teams compete in local, state, national, and sometimes even

international events. Because financial resources are not available from Fairfax County

Public Schools, Academic Boosters asks families to join the organization by contributing

tax-deductible donations at various levels. This allows Academic Boosters to cover

teacher travel expenses and help with student registration fees when possible. Even with

this support, academic team members pay for their own travel, room, meals, and other

related expenses.

TJ Academic Teams include: Biology Olympiad, Botball (Robotics team), Certamen,

Chemistry Team, Chess Team, Computer Team, Forensics, Future Problem Solvers,

Japan Bowl, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Math Team, Model United Nations, Physics Team,

Policy Debate, Public Forum Debate, Quiz Bowl (“It’s Academic”), Rocketry Club,

Rubik’s Cube Team, Science Bowl, Science Olympiad, and Student Congress, among

others. Information about most of the teams is provided on the Academic Boosters

website: http://academics.tjhsst.edu/aboosters.

Academic Boosters gathers information about team accomplishments for the

TECHCETERA newsletter, recognizes family memberships, promotes Academic Teams

at orientations and open houses, and organizes a year-end Team Recognition Ceremony.

Our TJ Academic Teams’ achievements have always been a source of pride for the

entire TJHSST community and are a cornerstone of our national reputation for academic

excellence. Everyone is welcome (and encouraged!) to join TJ Academic Boosters

by making a donation, either by check or online through Paypal. Funding comes

primarily from family memberships; it is supplemented with food and merchandise sales.

100% of the money raised is used to support TJ’s academic teams. Recommended

donation levels start at $50 per year. THANK YOU to all of our wonderful Teacher

Sponsors, for without them, we would not have Academic Teams. THANK YOU to all

who have supported TJ Academic Boosters this school year!

** We look forward to seeing you all again next year **

REMEMBER it's never too early to join TJ Academic Boosters for the upcoming school

year!

Visit: http://academics.tjhsst.edu/aboosters

Biology Olympiad Co-captains: Tiger Zhang, Jeffrey Liu Teaching Coordinators: Neeraj Prasad, Tarun Kamath Webmaster: Prathik Naidu Treasurer: Ashwin Srinivasan

USA Biology Olympiad (USABO) Competition, sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE):

Ninety-two students competed in the USABO Open Exam in February. Among them, the following students qualified as semifinalists: Neeraj Prasad, Ashwin Srinivasan, Kevin Le, Katie Tam, Tiger Zhang, Kavya Kopparapu, Richard Pan, Chelsea Li, Stella Yang, Tina Tarashi, Sneha Ravi, William Li, James Ma, Jainam Modh, Anish Karpurapu, Akhil Goel, Paarth Jain, and Anthony Kang.

Neeraj Prasad and Ashwin Srinivasan qualified for the 2016 USABO National Finals. Ashwin will attend as one of the 20 Finalists competing at Marymount University, from May 29 to June 10. Neeraj has instead accepted an invitation to attend the Research Science Institute (RSI) program at MIT. The four top students at the Nationals will then advance to compete in the International Biology Olympiad in Vietnam this summer.

Neeraj and Ashwin, along with Tiger Zhang, achieved the CEE “Recognition of Academic Excellence” for scoring in the top 50 on the 2016 USABO Semifinal.

University of Toronto National Biology Competition:

TJHSST placed first among international schools for the third consecutive year in the University of Toronto National Biology Competition.

There were 67 participating schools (and 1100 eligible contestants) this year from outside of Canada. TJ had 61 students participate.

Placing in the top 1% (again) were Neeraj Prasad, Ashwin Srinivasan, Tiger Zhang (for a fourth time), and Aadith Vittala. These four, together with Aditya Sarkar (20th place) are the members considered to constitute our school’s “team” this year by the University’s competition committee.

Also ranked within the top 54 were Akshay Balaji, Jeffrey Liu, James Ma, Cecelia Chu, Katie Tam, Anish Karpurapu, Kavya Kopparapu, and Vandana Subramanian. These students are considered to be International Biology Scholars by the test committee.

Botball

Two TJ Botball Robotics Teams competed in the Greater

DC/Virginia Botball Tournament (www.botball.org) on Saturday,

April 23.

Both TJ teams finished 1-2 in the Double Elimination round. The Senior Team won 1st

Place in the Alliance Round. The Freshman-Sophomore Team won a Judge’s Choice

award for “Best Use of Sensors.”

Senior Team: Risheek Rajolu (team leader), Nikhil Daga, Chris Jiang, Thomas Lai,

Jaden Lee, Nipun Mallipeddi, Mark Putman, Josh Rutzick, Suhas Sastry, Arvind

Srinivasan, Abhilaash Velamati

Freshman-Sophomore Team: Arya Saravanan (team leader), Jun Chong, Vasil

Iakimovitch, Rushil Joshi, Justin Lasker, Sarkis Ter Martirosian, Sohail Mohanty,

Vinay Mummareddy, Lance Nguyen, Yash Shekar, Yuki Oyama, Rohan Valluri.

Each team has two robots equipped with a CPU and motors, cameras, and sensors. The

game board is different each year. This year, the robots scored points by collecting,

moving, and sorting colored poms which were placed on the surface of the board and on

a raised platform. Winning robots were able to navigate precisely and consistently in tight

spaces. Final scores are determined by points awarded from all four parts of the

competition:

- project documentation - an oral presentation about the teams’ robots and strategy - average score in the seeding rounds - final position in the double elimination tournament

Certamen (Latin) This year, TJ Latin attended the 62nd Annual National Junior

Classical League (NJCL) Convention, hosted by Trinity University in

San Antonio, Texas. TJ's performance was exceptional on all counts

and competitions, academic tests, creative and graphic arts alike.

The Virginia Junior Classical League (VJCL) Convention, hosted in Richmond, saw

similarly exceptional results in all fields. The TJ delegation as a whole reclaimed 1st place

for Spirit and once again won 1st place for Scrapbooking. TJ attendees' scores were also

scattered thoroughly across the top ten placings for many academic tests, and many

awards were earned in creative and graphic arts.

The VJCL offered an Academic Decathlon in addition to other academic tests. Senior

Ryan Golant scored first place on the rigorous exam, earning $1000 and a stupendous

victory!! Freshman Alyssa Nash earned the coveted Hugh Himwich Grammar Award for

achieving the highest overall score on the grammar test. The future looks bright for TJ

Latin!

This year's Certamen season was successful for TJ teams of all levels. TJ Latin's

performance was impressive, attending the VJCL Kickoff, the Classical Cottage, the

Riverbend, the Flint Hill, and the State Final Certamina. After a two-year hiatus due to

construction, TJ was able to host the renowned Thomas Jefferson Certamen, where teams

from all over the Virginia-DC area came to compete. The event was largely successful

owing to the combined effort of the entire TJ Latin club.

Here are highlights from our Certamen season:

• The Latin I team, consisting of Freshmen Matvey Yutin, Christopher Bi, Alyssa Nash, and James Kuang, proved their stunning ability by placing 2nd in the Riverbend Certamen early in the year, and the team consisting of Matvey Yutin, Thomas Porter, Alyssa Nash, and James Kuang further augmented their success by placing 2nd in the difficult Flint Hill Certamen; their impressive performance will be a firm foundation for future teams.

• The Latin II A team, made up of Minyoung Hwang, Gwen Jacobson, Alan Zheng and John Kim, also finished 2nd at the Flint Hill Certamen, while the Latin II B team, Shreya Vinjamuri, Maddie Old, and Colleen Choi, placed in the top 6.

• The Latin III team, Kevin Le, John Erskine, Natalie Chin, Claire Cofield, and LeeYung Chang put on a spectacular performance at Flint Hill, earning 1st place in one of the most difficult Certamina of the year.

• Lastly, the Upper Level A Team posted strong results throughout the year, earning 2nd place at the Kickoff Certamen with a team comprised of Arjun Guidroz, Junyoung Hwang, Milana Wolff, and Ryan Golant. A team of Junyoung Hwang, Bill Tang, Ryan Golant, and Kristen Meyers later asserted themselves

once again by earning 2nd place at the Flint Hill Certamen.

The wheel of time goes around and around and has come full circle back to the summer.

This July, TJ Latin will attend the 63rd annual NJCL Convention at Indiana University in

Bloomington, Indiana. Twenty-two students will be in attendance with Ms. Conklin

leading our flock! TJ Certamen players are trying out for the Virginia state team, and we

hope for all the TJ students to once again show their skill and bring glory to the Virginia

Delegation.

Finally, the team gives the greatest thanks to Ms. Conklin and Ms. Lister, our

teachers and sponsors. Without their support, effort, and infinite patience, TJ Latin

would be far less than what it is today. Our Certamen Coordinators too merit recognition

– Ryan Golant, Arjun Guidroz, and Junyoung Hwang – for their devotion to the

cause and guidance. Last and far from least, thanks is given to all of TJ Latin's parents,

without whose cooperation, we could not have achieved all that has been accomplished.

Chemistry Olympiad Nineteen students competed at the Chemistry Olympiad local exam in March. Vittala, Aadith Singh, Aaditya Tian, Joyce Wang, Lawrence Gupta, Amit Deng, Eric Chu, Cece Gunter-Rahman, Fatima Liu, Ethan Patel, Mihir Lee, Joshua Kulkarni, Adarsh Schefer, John Zhang, Andrew Srinivasan, Arvind Cheng, Katherine Pioso, Ben Welman, Millan Xu, Kevin Peng, Alex Among them, Aadith Vitala and Joyce Tian, the top two scorers, competed at the National Chemistry Olympiad Exam on April 22, 2016 at the Germantown Campus of Montgomery College. Congratulations to Joyce Tian, who qualified to participate in the US National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) Study Camp from May 31 to June 15 at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA!

Chess Team Chess Team Chess Captains: Perry Feng and Joie Wang

The TJ Chess Team competed in the Virginia State Chess Championship and

the Virginia State Blitz Chess Championship held at Rock Ridge High School

in Ashburn, VA from March 4th to the 6th. Congratulations also to our team

sponsor, Dr. Peter Gabor, who received the 2016 Virginia Coach of the Year Award,

and special thanks to Chess parents Yuyan Zhou and Wei Feng who helped

tremendously with all of the large amounts of planning for our various trips.

The TJ Blitz Team placed second with a score of 26, 1 point away from first. Camden

Wiseman showed his immense skill by placing seventh overall out of a 50 person field!

The Blitz team, in addition to Camden, included Isuru Attanagoda, Akhil Goel,

Benjamin Lyons, Pranav Karthik, Perry Feng, Jesse Cai, Rachel Naidich, Nikhil

Ramachandran, Rahil Shah, Andrew Jiao, and Robin Park.

The Main Event lasted two days with four long matches on Saturday and two on Sunday.

Players competed in games of chess that could last up to 3.5 hours. As usual, TJ sent well

more than the number of players from any other school. Thirty-one TJ students played in

the main event: Isuru Attanagoda, Camden Wiseman, Benjamin Lyons, Aaryan Balu,

Perry Feng, Joie Wang, Akshaj Kadaveru, Akhil Goel, Andrew Jiao, Meredith Lee,

Jnanadeep Dandu, Andrew Song, Maxwell Lee, Pranav Karthik, James Kuang,

Ajith Kemisetti, Rachel Naidich, Evan Lin, Minwu Kim, Rahil Shah, Adityasai

Koneru, Emerson Berlik, Robin Park, Jeffrey Wang, Christina Scheible, Edward

Sun, Daniel Yang, Jerry Huang, Akshith Peyyala, Charles Huang, and Amit Joshi.

The tournament ended with the powerhouse TJ team taking home its 18th consecutive

state championship! The team’s top scorer was Isuru Attanagoda, who tied for second

place with 5/6!

Lastly, the team went to the 2016 High School National Chess Championships, held from

April 1st to the 3rd in Atlanta, Georgia. The team received fourth place in the blitz event

(speed chess, where each player has five minutes to play the entire game), thirteenth

place in the championship section, and eighteenth in the U1600 section. Main event

games can last up to about four hours. Individually, Minwu Kim placed second in the

Unrated section of the main event. The team consisted of the following players: Isuru

Attanagoda, Camden Wiseman, Benjamin Lyons, Aaryan Balu, Perry Feng, Joie

Wang, Pranav Karthik, Rachel Naidich, Eric Gan, Christina Sheible, and Minwu

Kim.

Computer Team The TJHSST computer teams participated in the University of Pennsylvania PClassic, the Virginia Commonwealth University High School Programming Contest, the Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT) Contest, the University of Maryland High School Programming Contest, the American Computer Science League, and the USA Computing Olympiad. TJ teams won both the IDT and the UMD competitions. On Saturday, 12 March 2016, at the IDT High School Programming Contest, the Intermediate Computer Team of Charles Zhao, Eric Wang, and Larry Wang won first place for their final-round presentation. On Saturday, 23 April 2016, at the annual UVA ACM High School Computer Programming Competition, of the 44 teams participating, the Senior Computer Team of Nathan Foss, Kevin Geng, Shwetark Patel, and Haoyuan Sun solved eight problems to place first. The Intermediate Computer Team of Yashasvi Bolisetty, Srinidhi Krishnamurthy, Larry Wang, and Charles Zhao solved five problems to tie for second to fourth on tiebreaks. The Frosh ‘Puter Team of Shesta Bangaru, Neal Bayya, Caroline Jin, and Natasha Rao also solved five problems to tie for second to fifth on tiebreaks. On Saturday, 28 May 2016, at the American Computer Science League All-Star

competition, the TJHSST Frosh ‘Puter Team tied for first place in the Junior Five

Division with XV GIMNAZIJA, Croatia. TJ’s Frosh Team All-Star competitors were:

Neal Bayya (Captain), Shreya Bangaru, Caroline Jin, George Tang, and Daniel

Wisdom. The All-Stars was held at Nashua High School South, Nashua, NH. The All-

Stars is an invitational contest with the best teams from the year-long set of contests. In

addition to teams from all over the United States, there were teams from Canada, Croatia,

Romania, Egypt, and Korea.

Special thanks to team sponsors, Mr. Thomas Rudwick, Ms. Nicole Kim, and Mr. Stephen Rose.

Forensics and Congressional Debate Teams Forensics Speech Captain: Matthew Sun, Non-Interp Events Captain: Virginia Sun, Interp events Recruitment Officer: Tara Prakash Treasurer: Julie Lee Communications Officer: Namita Dongre Congressional Debate Co-Captain: Victoria Bevard & Virginia Sun Training Coordinators: Nash Hemrajani, Sharon Liu, Rini Sarkel Communications/Recruitment Officer: Kaleb Marioghae Treasurer/Fundraising Coordinator: Leela Ramineni This season’s Washington-Arlington Catholic Forensics League tournaments ran monthly from October to February, with students receiving: Victoria Bevard, 1st place in Extemporaneous Speaking (Extemp), 1st in Impromptu Speaking (Impromptu), Louise Hicks, 1st in Declamation, Sachin Jain, 6th in Impromptu, Minna Kuriakose, 3rd in Declamation, Sai Mada, 4th in Extemp, Thomas Mecherikunnel, 3rd in Extemp, Matthew Sun, 3rd in Original Oratory, Virginia Sun, 2nd in Original Oratory, Victoria Bevard, 1st in Student Congress, and Virginia Sun, 2nd in Student Congress. TJ qualified 15 entries to the WACFL Metrofinals. The TJ metrofinal students qualifying to the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Sacramento are: Louise Hicks placing 2nd in Declamation, Minna Kuriakose placing 7th in Declamation, Thomas Mecherikunnel placing 3rd in Extemp, and Victoria Bevard placing 4th in Extemp and 1st in Student Congress. Victoria Bevard also placed 1st in the combined Arlington/Washington Impromptu competition. The Forensics Speech Team at VHSL: TJ took 10 competitors to the VHSL forensics conference tournament, advanced all 10 to the regional tournament, and 3 to the State Tournament. At the State VHSL Tournament, Thomas Mecherikunnel, placed 4th in Extemp. TJ also hosted the VHSL Conference 13 Tournament this year. The Congressional Debate Team at VHSL: TJ took 5 competitors to the VHSL regional tournament and all 5 advanced to the State Tournament, with Kaleb Marioghae placing 2nd at States. TJ’s TJ hosted the VHSL Conference 13 Debate Tournament this year. Congressional Debate was thrilled to be part of the TJ Debate Teams that brought home the State Trophy this year.

Competitions at Invitational Tournaments: TJ jumped into the season at the Wake Forest Invitational in September. Congratulations to Matthew Sun, who advanced to Semi-finals in Original Oratory and Victoria Bevard, who placed 7th in Congressional Debate. TJ took competitors to the George Mason University Patriot Games Invitational in December 2015, Congratulations to Minna Kuriakose who advanced to Quarterfinals in Declamation and Victoria Bevard who advanced to Semifinals in Congress. Competitors also went to the Broad Run Invitational Tournament in January, 2016. Congratulations to Thomas Mecherikunnel who placed 2nd in Extemp and Kaleb Marioghae who placed 5th in Congress. We also congratulate Victoria Bevard, who placed 3rd at Harvard and at 4th at the Tournament of Champions. National Speech & Debate Association: Victoria Bevard competed for TJ at the NSDA District Tournament, placing 1st in Extemp and 1st in the Congressional Senate. She was selected to compete at the NSDA National Tournament in Salt Lake City. Sharon Liu placed 3rd in the Congressional House. We also recognize our student members of the National Speech & Debate Association who reached the following degrees of distinction: Degree of Merit: Colleen Choi, Louise Hicks, Dylan Kalten, Ishan Lamba, and Dany Matar; Degree of Honor: Milan Bharadwaj, Arvind Govinday, Sai Mada, Tara Prakash, Leela Ramineni, and Nikhil Shirolkar; Degree of Excellence: Laura Chu and Kaleb Marioghae; Degree of Distinction: Nash Hemrajani and Sharon Liu; Degree of Special Distinction: Matthew Sun and Virginia Sun; Degree of Premier Distinction: Victoria Bevard. The NSDA Academic All-American Award was presented to Victoria Bevard.

Other News

May saw our 5th annual SpeechFest, and it was a wonderful success. Our team members demonstrating their speaking skills and helping other students learn more about the Forensics Speech Team and Congressional Debate Team.

Academic Letters for 2015/16 Season were awarded to students for their outstanding performance at competitions and significant contributions. Forensics: Victoria Bevard, Namita Dongre, Siddartha Edara, Sachin Jain, Vikash Kumar, Julie Lee, Sai Mada, Thomas Mecherikunnel, Tara Prakash, Matthew Sun, and Virginia Sun. Congressional Debate: Victoria Bevard, Nash Hemrajani, Sharon Liu, Kaleb Marioghae, Dany Matar, Leela Ramineni, Nikhil Shirolkar, and Virginia Sun. The forensics team elected officers for the 2016/2017 year. Congratulations to our Co-Captains, Thomas Mecherikunnel and Sai Mada, our Recruitment Officer, Sachin Jain, our Communications Officer, Louise Hicks, and our Treasurer, Siddartha Edara. The congressional debate team elected officers for the 2016/2017 year. Congratulations to our Captain, Victoria Bevard, Vice Captain, Sharon Liu, Team Development Director, Dany Matar, Mentorship Directors Nash Hemrajani and Kaleb Marioghae, Public Relations & Recruitment, Ishan Lamba, Treasurer, Leela Ramineni, Fundraising Coordinator, Arvind Govinday, and Congress Secretary, Nikhil Shirolkar. We are looking forward to a terrific 2016/17 season! Special thanks to our team coach/sponsor, Mrs. Marie Bakke!

Future Problem Solvers

Thanks to the continued support of Academic Boosters, TJ FPS had a great time at the Virginia Future Problem Solving (VAFPS) State Bowl, held April 15 and 16 at Powhatan High School near Richmond, VA. TJ FPSers had the honor of winning awards in many events, including Senior Division Community Problem Solving, Global Issues Problem Solving, Action Plan Presentation, and Scenario Writing. The first AND second place winners will compete in the FPS

International Bowl in June at Michigan State University. This is new for the 2016 year, allowing for twelve students to attend the International event! Congratulations to the following students for their achievements in the 2016 VAFPS State Bowl: Global Issues Team Competition

1st place (Senior division): Sophie Koh, Linda Lin, Grace Yang, and Dean Zhang

2nd place (Senior division): Sania Ali, Rayan Matin, Raquel Sequeira, and Jessica Wang

3rd place (Senior division): Andrew Li, Melina Seng, Tina Tarashi, and Jenny Zhu

Honorable mention (Senior division): Tony Asiamah, Brandon Kim, Yuki Oyama, and Arvind Srinivasan

1st place (Middle division): Timothy Duong, Shehjar Kachru, Anna Xu, and Aaraj Vij

Honorable mention (Middle division): Yukta Chidanandad, Reena Medavarapu, Pari Parajuli, and Esha Saini Honorable mention (Middle division): Ruben Ascoli, Farris Ahmad, Dylan Bui, and Sai Embar

Scenario Writing Competition (Senior division) 1st place: Ryan Bolton 2nd place: Sharon Liu

Action Plan Presentation Honorable Mention (Senior Division): Anusha Samant, Sharmila Roy, Hannah Wang, and Lydia You Honorable Mention (Middle Division): Edward Chen, Eric Gan, Palak Jariwala, and Wan Li

This year, FPS underwent a big change; our long-time sponsor, Mrs. Carpenter, the previous librarian at TJ, moved to a new school. It was into this big void that Mrs. Glover stepped to become our new sponsor. She has done a phenomenal job; under her guidance, the club has not only been run smoothly, but has grown to the point that we’ve needed to move out of the library and into the Einstein commons to accommodate everyone. Thank you again to all of the officers who contributed their time, effort, and enthusiasm this year!

President: Jenny Zhu Vice President: Isaac Iyengar Secretary: Minjoo Kang Treasurer: Saroj Chintakrindi Co-Publicists: Mihir Patel and Frank Tian Competition Chair: Nathan Chen Novice Coordinator: Dean Zhang

Mrs. Glover would also like to extend a warm thank-you to Tony Asiamah for his tireless support in helping to organize for Mrs. Glover’s first FPS road trip.

Thank you, Academic Boosters, for your support!

Japan Bowl

Thomas Jefferson’s Japan Bowl team competed at the annual National Japan Bowl in

Chevy Chase, Maryland in April 2016. The Japan Bowl is a national competition in

which teams of three answer quiz bowl-style questions involving Japanese language,

culture, and history.

This year the level 2 team consisted of Joey Kown, Shay Le, and Kathy Kang;

the level 3 team of Woohyeong Cho, Hayun Chong, and Joshua O’Cain; and the level

4 team of Tanvi Haldankar, Austin Riopelle, and Ashwin Srinivasan.

In 2015 competition, the level 4 team placed 6th, the level 3 team 9th, and the level

2 team 3rd out of approximately 30 teams from around the nation. Congratulations to the

level 2 team, which was awarded the 11-day trip to Japan hosted by the government

program called the Kakehashi Project.

Special thanks to the team sponsor, Mr. Koji Otani.

Math Team

Varsity Math Team (VMT) participated in both the Duke Math Meet and the Princeton University Math Competition in November. At Duke, our A Team finished 3rd, our B Team finished 4th, and our C team finished 6th. At Princeton, our A Team finished 1st place in the proof-based Power Round and 3rd place overall in Division A.

At the Harvard-MIT meet in February, our A Team finished 2nd place overall, our best placement in the competition since 2009.

We also sent two teams to the Johns Hopkins Math Tournament, where one of our teams won the team competition.

In April, three teams participated in Purple Comet, an online international team competition. Two 6-person TJ teams tied for 1st place in the high school division and a five-person TJ team earned an honorable mention.

VMT also competed in the American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) Local, a national competition, in which one of our teams placed 3rd in the country.

We also competed in the first annual Carnegie Mellon Informatics and Mathematics Competition, a unique competition which combines math and computer science. One of our teams placed 3rd overall.

Finally, we’re celebrating a strong performance this year in the AMC series. Eighteen TJ students earned the privilege of taking the proof-based USA (Junior) Mathematical Olympiad [USA(J)MO] exam. No other school in the country had more qualifiers.

USAMO qualifiers were Adam Ardeishar, Allen Cheng, Samuel Hsiang, Akshaj Kadaveru, Rajat Khanna, Joshua Lee, Doyle Lee, Robin Park, Aaditya Singh, Haoyuan Sun, Franklyn Wang, and Hitesh Yalamanchili.

USAJMO qualifiers were Matthew Cox, William Li, Lilian Wang, Michael Yang, Jeffery Yu, and Fred Zhang.

Franklyn did particularly well on the USAMO, receiving an honorable mention. Franklyn, Akshaj, and Adam also all qualified for the prestigious Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program.

VMT’s last competition of the year is the ARML, which will take place in early June at Penn State. Students look forward to this event not only because it is a time to have fun,

but get to meet friends from all over the East Coast and compete with the top teams throughout the country.

Special thanks to our sponsors this year: Dr. Amy Lampazzi, Mr. David Hill, Mrs. Hana Rhee, Ms. Pat Gabriel, and Mrs. Margaret Coffey.

Model United Nations Faculty Advisors

Sra. Alexandra Pou

Mr. Jay Wickliff

2015-2016 Student Officers

Secretary-General: Will Frank

Undersecretary-Generals: Cheryl Mensah, Abhi Chadha

Senator: Will Ryu

Arbitrator: Laura Chu

Activities Coordinators: Alex Lewis, Jake González, Varun Saraswathula

Crisis Czars: Rushi Shah, Spencer Weiss

Fundraising Coordinators: Abhi Mogili, Giancarlo Valdetaro, Neil Parikh

General Meetings Coordinator: Richa Gupta

Historians: Amritha Justin, Subul Malik

Secretary: Shreya Bhatia

Treasurer: Chitra Kokkirala

Webmaster: Niharika Vattikonda This year, TJ’s Model United Nations Club attended (3) national conferences, (5) local conferences, and (1) international conference. The awards our student delegates received are described below, along with brief information for each conference.

The TJMUN international conference trip was to China, invited by the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, in Beijing. The students that participated in the interscholastic conference in Beijing were: Will Frank, Will Ryu, Holly Frank, Neil

Parikh, Roma Chitko, Giancarlo Valdetaro, Richa Gupta, and Nora Thompson.

Note: The highest award in Model UN is a Gavel (‘Best Delegate’), followed by

‘Outstanding Delegate’, ‘Honorable Mention’, and a ‘Verbal Commendation’. When two

students’ names are listed together, it indicates that they were part of a two-person

delegation. McMUNC 2015 AWARDS:

[McLean Model United Nations Conference, October 2015]

• School Award: TJMUN, Best Large Delegation

• Gavel: Laura Chu, Rushi Shah, Richa Gupta, Neil Parikh

• Outstanding: Varun Saraswathula & Rishitha Anumola, Roma Chitko, Abhi Chadha

• Honorable: Giancarlo Valdetaro & Shivam Kollur, Gautam Ramanathan & Timothy Liu, Hannah Belayachi & Kshamata Neupane, Niharika Vattikonda, Suzie Bae

• Verbal: Rachel Alexander & Divya Shan, Sachin Jain & Akhil Rekulapelli, Deepshika Dhanasekar, Dan Qi

WMHSMUN 2015 AWARDS:

[William & Mary High School Model United Nations Conference, November 2015]

• School Award: TJMUN, Coon Award for Representation and Diplomacy

• Gavel: Shreya Wadehra & Rounak Das, Arnav Simha & Sahaj Sharda, Rushi Shah, Neil Parikh, Sam Desmarais

• Outstanding: Liana Keesing & Kavya Parekh, Cheryl Mensah & Jake Gonzalez, Arnav Gupta & Justin Lee, Suzie Bae, Abhi Chadha, Laura Chu, Alex Lewis

• Honorable: MiJin Cho & Andrew Kim, Nash Hemrajani & Nikhil Shirolkar, Geetika Mahajan & Shreya Mandava, Chitra Kokkirala, Shohini Gupta, Roma Chitko

• Verbal: Kathryn Yang & Jun Chong, Kiran Ganeshan & Saagar Sheth, Vishnu Murthy & Shivam Gandhi, Nira Harikrishnan & Mithra Dhinakaran, Otilia Danalache & Ethan Phillips, Audrey Huang & Jessica Wang, Akhil Rekulapelli & Timothy Liu, Varun Saraswathula, Bailey Knight, Ria Chakrabarti, Shruti Anant, Jeewoo Kim, Niharika Vattikonda, Will Ryu

CHMUN 2016 AWARDS:

[Chantilly Model United Nations Conference, January 2016]

• School Award: TJMUN, Secretary General’s Award for Outstanding Large Delegation

• Gavel: Abhi Chadha & Shreya Bhatia, Will Frank

• Outstanding: Atharv Gupta & Otilia Danalache, Rounak Das & Shreya Wadehera, Laura Chu, Abhi Mogili, Richa Gupta, Shohini Gupta, Sam Desmarais

• Honorable: Varun Saraswathula & Rishitha Anumola, Jeremy Krill & Naman Rai, Ethan Phillips & Pari Parajuli, Chitra Kokkirala & Fionntan Thinnes, Suzie Bae & Shruti Anant, Artemis Veizi & Mara Casebeer, Timothy Liu, Meghana Boojala, Will Ryu, Neil Parikh, Alex Lewis, Swetha Prabhakaran, Aidan San, Roma Chitko

• Verbal: Chris Hoang & Jake Cui, Yash Shekar & Stuthi Iyer, Robert Greene & Mithra Dhinakaran, Dylan Klapper & Sachit Gupta, David Yan & Rohan Repala, Sam Libberton, Hannah Belayachi, Anshu Sharma, Sachin Jain

GFMUNC 2016 AWARDS:

[GarField Model United Nations Conference, January 2016]

• Gavel: Will Ryu

• Outstanding: Annie Wang & Chrissy Blake, Laura Chu

• Honorable: Nikita Sivakumar & Supriya Savaram, Lance Nguyen & Zane Givans, Anurika Kumar & Bindu Srinivasa, Justin Cai & Aneesh Kotana, Shiraz Chokshi, Deepshika Dhanasekar, Gautam Ramanathan, Divya Shan

• Verbal: Shivani Mullapudi & Shriie Ganesh, Andrew Nam & Brenna Courtney, Etaasha Jain & Meghana Malyala, Shreyas Angara & Yash Bolisetty

ILMUNC 2016 AWARDS:

[Ivy League Model United Nations Conference, January 2016]

• School Award: TJMUN, Secretary General’s Award for Outstanding Large Delegation

• Gavel: Ethan Phillips & Pari Parajulli, Mara Casebeer & Rishitha Anumola, Cheryl Mensah & Jake Gonzalez, Atharv Gupta & Otilia Danalache, Aidan San, Sam Desmarais, Shohini Gupta, Andrew Howard, Will Frank

• Outstanding: Sam Libberton & Ian Moritz, Saagar Sheth & Kiran Ganeshan, Fionntan Thinnes & Patrick Ryan, Alex Lewis & Sachin Jain, Giancarlo Valdetaro, Abhi Chadha, Will Ryu, Rushi Shah, Spencer Weiss

• Honorable: Stuthi Iyer & Yash Shekar, Artemis Veizi & Meghana Boojala, Arnav Simha & Sahaj Sharda, Andrew Kim & MiJin Cho, Chitra Kokkirala, Jeewoo Kim & Shirley Zhan

• Verbal: Ishaan Dey & Rounak Das, Ramya Susarla & Mehran Sajjad, Jake Cui & Chris Hoang, Bailey Knight

NAIMUN 2016 AWARDS:

[North American Invitational Model United Nations Conference, February 2016]

• Gavel: Andrew Howard, Niharika Vattikonda, Rushi Shah

• Outstanding: MiJin Cho & Naman Rai, Neil Parikh, Will Frank, Shohini Gupta

• Honorable: Pari Parajuli, Roma Chitko, Chitra Kokkirala, Sam Desmarais, Spencer Weiss

• Verbal: Subul Malik & Shruti Anant, Atharv Gupta, Suzie Bae

SFSMUNC 2016 AWARDS:

[Sidwell Friends School Model United Nations Conference, February 2016]

• School Award: TJMUN, Secretary General’s Award for Best Large Delegation

• Gavel: Mara Casebeer & Niharika Vattikonda, Richa Gupta, Giancarlo Valdetaro

• Outstanding: Abhishek Mullapudi & Ishaan Dey, Alex Lewis, Divya Shan, Bailey Knight

• Honorable: Adithi Ramakrishnan & Nikita Sivakumar, Aidan San, Kshamata Neupane

• Verbal: Anvitha Chimata & Mehran Sajjad, Sreya Maram & Pranusha Amancherla, Rishitha Anumola & Varun Saraswathula, Ally Nakamura & Debbie Dong, Annie Wang & Chrissy Blake, Rohan Arora & Anurika Kumar, Sachin Jain

VIMUNC 2016 AWARDS:

[Virginia Invitational Model United Nations Conference, March 2016]

• School Award: TJMUN, Secretary General’s Award for Best Large Delegation

• Gavel: Amritha Justin, Shivam Kollur, Alex Lewis, Richa Gupta, Abhi Chadha

• Outstanding: Ally Nakamura & Kiran Ganeshan, Artemis Veizi & Otilia Danalache, Cheryl Mensah, Gautam Ramanathan, Chitra Kokkirala, Aidan San, Rounak Das

• Honorable: Raghav Saravanan & MiJin Cho, Jennifer Hernandez & Vikrant Magadi, Robert Greene & Mahesh Menon, Stuthi Iyer & Naman Rai, Shreya Kurdukar & Shreya Vinjamuri, Atharv Gupta & Pari Parajuli, Annie Wang & Shivam Gandhi, Michelle Liang & Lance Nguyen, Shreya Wadehra

• Verbal: Kathryn Yang & Saagar Sheth, Audrey Huang & Jessica Wang, Mithra Dhinakaran & Nira Harikrishnan, Akhil Rekulapelli & Shreyas Angara, Dan Qi, David Yan, Ishaan Dey

• TechMUN 2016: TJMUN hosted its annual conference on April 15th and 16th. It was a resounding success with several hundred delegates attending, and more than 100 TJ students staffing the conference.

Policy Debate Team This year’s Policy Debate season was amazing. The debaters showed incredible perseverance and growth throughout the season thanks to our phenomenal varsity members and new enthusiasts.

The 2015–2016 officers were:

Co-Captains: Jay Pan and Aneesh Susarla

Teaching Coordinators: Alison Li and Christine Li

Treasurer: Elizabeth Hu

Publicist: Niharika Vattikonda

TJ Policy Debate had a tremendous season this year, gathering achievement after

achievement. The team of Aneesh Susarla and SungJoon Won came in 1st place at the

Virginia High School League Regional and State Policy Debate Tournaments. They will

be competing in the National Catholic Forensic League National Policy Debate

tournament in Sacramento, California on May 29th this year. To top it all off, TJ Policy

Debate were also the winners of the Washington Arlington Catholic Forensic League

(WACFL) Sweepstakes.

Throughout the season, TJ Policy Debate also participated in some prestigious national-

and regional-level tournaments.

To start off the national-level competitions for TJ Policy Debate, the team of Gulnaz

Sayed and Zulekha Tasneem went to the biggest national-level tournament in the first

semester at Glenbrooks in Chicago. Although this was their first national-level

tournament together, they did amazingly with a 3-3 record in the JV division.

The Broad Run Spartan Invitational was a national non-travel tournament. The team of

Gulnaz Sayed and Zulekha Tasneem won 1st place in Varsity and swept the 2nd and 1st

place speakers, respectively. The team of SJ Kachru and Aaraj Vij won 1st place in the

JV division while Sam Dasari and Katie Zhang won 2nd and 3rd place speakers,

respectively, in the JV division. TJ Debate teams swept the entire tournament, placing 1st

in Policy, Public Forum, and Lincoln Douglas Debate.

The Pennsbury Falcon Invitational was the first travel tournament for some of our first-

year debaters. The team of Ankit Agrawal and Sean Ji made it to the Semifinals, and SJ

Kachru and Aaraj Vij, made it to the Octafinals. Aaraj Vij was also the 8th place

speaker. This was a major accomplishment for both teams because the members were all

first-year debaters.

At the 42nd Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament, all three teams that

participated advanced to the Elimination rounds. Elizabeth Hu and Jessie Shen made it

to the Octafinals, while Gulnaz Sayed and Zulekha Tasneem, and first-year debaters,

Ankit Agrawal and Sean Ji, made it to the Double-Octafinals. Sean Ji also placed 7th

out of 128 competitors in the JV division.

These tournaments signify that TJ Policy Debate has three teams—sophomores Gulnaz

Sayed and Zulekha Tasneem, Ankit Agrawal and Sean Ji, and freshmen SJ Kachru

and Aaraj Vij—ready to take national and regional-level tournaments by storm in the

next few years.

To start off a great year at WACFL 1, in the Varsity division, Aneesh Susarla and Jay

Pan won 1st place as a team, and won 2nd and 1st place speaker awards, respectively,

while the team of Gulnaz Sayed and Niharika Vattikonda came in 6th place.

WACFL 2 was where many of the first-year debaters met their calling. In the Varsity

division, Stella Yang and Sungjoon Won came in 2nd place as a team and Elizabeth Hu

and Jessie Shen placed 5th as a team and won 1st and 3rd place speaker awards,

respectively. In their first tournament, the team of Ankit Agrawal and Sean Ji won 5th

place in the JV division. In the Novice division, Kevin Cho and Timothy Han won 5th

place, and Timothy also won the 3rd place speaker award.

Many of our debaters qualified for the Metro-finals at WACFL 3 this year. In Varsity, the

team of Gulnaz Sayed and Zulekha Tasneem came in 1st place. In the JV division, the

team of Kevin Cho and Timothy Han won 2nd place, and Sean Ji won the 2nd place

speaker award. In the Novice division, the teams of Reena Medavarapu and Alice

Nolan placed 1st, Shreyas Angara and Abhishek Mullapudi placed 3rd in their first ever

debate tournament, and SJ Kachru and Aaraj Vij placed 6th. Abhishek Mullapudi also

won the 1st place speaker award, while Akshith Peyyala won 3rd place.

The last tournament to qualify for the Metro-Finals was WACFL 5. There, the team of

Victoria Yang and Danny Wang came in 3rd, while the team of Vishnu Nair and Min

Kang came in 6th place. Furthermore, Danny Wang won the 1st place speaker award and

SJ Kachru placed 3rd. This season saw 10 and 8 individuals qualify for the Varsity and

JV divisions, respectively, of the Metro-finals.

The WACFL Metro-finals signified the end for most of our debaters’ spectacular seasons.

In the Varsity division, Aneesh Susarla and SungJoon Won placed 5th and Zulekha

Tasneem and Gulnaz Sayed placed 8th, and Kevin Cho and Timothy Han placed 6th

overall, in the JV Division.

None of this would have been possible without the hard work put in by our dedicated seniors and officers, and by our Coach/Sponsor, Dr. Lennon. We are immensely proud of our debaters. Thank you so much for a wonderful year!

Quizbowl

Captains: Ryan Golant and Michael Yue

Tournament Directors: Joanna Gerr and Wendy Yin

Treasurer: Ruyan Zhang

Secretary: Aditya Sarkar

Public Relations Officer: Rohan Hegde

TJ Quizbowl had another successful year, thanks to the generous support of Academic Boosters and our two coaches, Mr. Laffey and Mr. Loo.

TJ’s teams were very successful at state and regional tournaments this year. The team of Ryan Golant, Michael Yue, Saurav Pattanayak, Ruyan Zhang, Rohan Hegde, and Fred Zhang were Region 5A State Champions at the Virginia High School League Scholastic Bowl finals in February! Ryan Golant was also individually honored as a member of the All-State Team. In order to make it to the State Championship, TJ teams first played in the District and the Regional competitions, at which they were undefeated. TJ sent two teams to Wilmington, Delaware, to participate in BMAD, where they competed in the toughest field of any tournament this year before the Nationals. TJ’s A team, comprising of Ryan Golant, Michael Yue, Rohan Hegde, Grant Li, and Alex Howe returned as 1st place champions, defeating the best team in the country in several matches! Then, in March, TJ participated in the National Academic Quiz Tournaments (NAQT) Virginia State Championships at UVA, where the A team consisting of Ryan Golant, Michael Yue, Saurav Pattanayak, and Alex Howe also won 1st place. TJ’s B team, consisting of Ruyan Zhang, Aditya Sarkar, Andrew Wang, and Fred Zhang came in 2nd, resulting in the first time a school won both first and second places in the history of the Virginia state championships!

Our “It’s Academic” TV show team also had success this year. The team of Ryan Golant, Michael Yue, and Rohan Hegde defeated teams from across the region to progress to the playoff round. The first round was broadcast on NBC4 on January 24th, and the playoff round was broadcast on May 14th.

In addition to these achievements, we had great success in our regular season tournaments, competing at Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, University of Maryland, Centennial High School, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Wilmington Charter School. Members Ryan Golant, Michael Yue, Aditya Sarkar, Rohan Hedge, Alex Howe, Grant Li, Andrew Wang, Wendy Yin, Ruyan Zhang, Saurav Pattanayak, Fred Zhang, Kevin Wang, Benjamin Xu, James Kuang, Liam Rathke, Nishanth Anand, Akhil Rekulapelli, Adam Ardeishar, William Park, Aaditya Singh, Julia Zhou, Ratan Kaliani, Mahesh Menon, Alex Peng, Sammy

Tavassoli, Naman Rai, Amit Joshi, Shreya Kurdakar, Christopher Bi, and Rayaan Malhotra represented the TJ teams at these tournaments. We were thrilled to have such a great turnout this year!

On December 13th, we successfully hosted TJMST, our first middle school tournament, in which 12 teams from Northern Virginia participated. We also hosted our annual high school tournament, TJIAT, on April 2nd. The tournament, which was attended by 19 teams, was gold-certified by the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE). Many club members volunteered to help staff these tournaments, which were run by Tournament Directors Joanna Gerr and Wendy Yin as well as coaches Mr. Laffey and Mr. Loo.

Owing to these successes this year, three teams each from TJ Quizbowl qualified for two

national tournaments. The High School National Championship Tournament (HSCNT),

which is run by NAQT, will be held in Dallas, TX, from May 27th to the 29th. Members

Rohan Hedge, Alex Howe, Aditya Sarkar, Andrew Wang, Ruyan Zhang, Michael

Yue, Saurav Pattanayak, Ryan Golant, Grant Li, Wendy Yin, Benjamin Xu, Kevin

Wang, James, Kuang, and Fred Zhang will represent TJ at this tournament. The

National Scholastic Championship (NSC), which is run by PACE, will be held in

Chicago, IL, on June 4th and 5th.

Rubik’s Cube

Every year, the TJ’s Rubik’s Cube Club sends eight

members to participate in the You Can Do the Rubik’s Cube

team competition. Teams compete to solve 25 Rubik’s

Cubes as fast as possible.

This year, the TJ team came in 1st place IN THE WORLD

WITH A TIME OF 1:02.710!

Results over the years:

● 2011: 1st place

● 2012: 1st place

● 2013: 1st place

● 2014: 2nd place ● 2015: 2nd place

● 2016: 1st place

2016 TJ Team Senior Coaches

● Devin Kim (Senior) ● David Zhao (Senior)

2016 TJ Team Members:

● Eli Lifland (Senior) ● David Chao (Sophomore) ● Landon Chu (Junior) ● Shreya Wadehra (Sophomore) ● Frank Ding (Sophomore) ● Erick Tian (Freshman) ● Andrew Nam (Freshman) ● Justin Gou (Freshman)

Members of the TJ team first meet through tryouts, which are often hosted in late January.

Candidates are selected on the basis of a combination of speed, which is gauged through

solve times, and teamwork, which is noted through club participation. After the tryout

period, team members spend the next two months practicing together three times a week

before attending the competition!

Additionally, all individual members of the club are encouraged to participate in

competitions hosted by the World Cubing Association. These are official competitions

where people meet other Rubik’s Cube solvers and break records!

The team would like to thank the club sponsor Ms. Christine Conklin for an incredible

amount of work towards keeping the club together, the parent volunteers who graciously

offered to help with transportation, and the club officers Eli Lifland, David Zhao, and

Devin Kim and Catherine Im!

We are incredibly sad that our four-year Senior Members are leaving for college. Their

enthusiasm for TJ Cubing and dedication to teaching new members were outstanding!

Science Bowl

Congratulations to the TJ Science Bowl Team of Ross Dempsey (captain), Ryan Golant, Neeraj Prasad, Franklyn Wang, and Tiger Zhang for their outstanding performances in both the Virginia Regional and the National Science Bowls. The TJ team, coached by Mrs. Sharon Webb, competed in the Virginia Regional Science Bowl in February. The team was undefeated in the Regional matches and secured the Virginia championship. In additional to medals and a cash award, they won an all-expense trip to the National competition in Chevy Chase, MD! The National Science Bowl, sponsored by the US Department of Energy, brought 69 regional champion teams from across the country to the Washington, DC event. The weekend of April 28 through May 2, 2016 was filled with intense competition, outstanding presentations from leading scientists, and DC visits. TJ went undefeated in the round-robin portion of the competition, and won the next two rounds before succumbing to National champion Montgomery Blair. TJ finished tied for 5th place nationally and brought home an additional $1000 cash award for the school. A special thanks and congratulations to our seniors Tiger, Ryan, and captain and 4-year team member Ross!

Science Olympiad

Captain: Ryan Gottwald

Vice Captain: Sashank Thupukari

Secretaries: Pranab Krishnan

Treasurer: Akshay Balaji

Webmaster: Jerry Wu

Science Olympiad is a team competition where students compete in a variety of events

ranging over different scientific disciplines. TJ Science Olympiad (TJSO) returned for its

eighth year after finishing in 1st and 2nd places at the Virginia State competition in the

past two years.

TJ won 2nd place at the Fairfax Invitational tournament held in early January. At the

Regional tournament held in Marshall, TJ teams finished in 1st, 2nd, and 4th places. TJSO

finished in 2nd place at the States competition held at UVA in April.

Science Olympiad is a heavily team-dependent competition, so we’d like to recognize all

of the team members for the successful 2015–2016 year!

Seniors: Abha Agrawal, Ryan Gottwald, Chantal Iosso, Chelsea Li, Jessica Nguyen,

Tarun Punnoose, Mira Sridharan, Sashank Thupukari, Michael You, Tiger Zhang

Juniors: Katie Ahn, Akshay Balaji, Vishal Bhasin, Nakul Dar, Stephanie Do,

Hannah Kim, Pranab Krishnan, Eric Liu, Neeraj Prasad, Keerthi Puvvada, Jiying

Qi, Jayant Subramanian, Aadith Vittala, Gerald Wu, Diana Zavela, James Ma,

Stephanie Chen

Sophomores: Nitya Agrawal, Nina Chung, Katherine Du, Kavya Kopparapu, John

Krause-Steinrauf, William Musk, Vishnu Nair

Freshmen: Julia Martinez, Vikram Arunachalam, William Chen, Alexander Downey,

Rachel Eom, Rithvik Gundlapalli, Shehjar Kachru, Elise Ong, Rohan Puvvada,

Aaditya Singh, Christopher Yuan

TJSO continues to hold the Virginia record for the best placing at the National

tournament of 23rd place despite being one of the youngest Division C teams in the state.

The 2015–2016 season showcased one of TJ’s strongest teams in school history. The

team is full of talented juniors, sophomores, and freshmen, promising a bright future. We

hope to improve next year and become a strong team on the National level.

Thanks so much to our wonderful team coach and dedicated sponsor, Mrs. Holman!

Academic Boosters Donors, 2015–2016

Diamond ($1000 and above)

Platinum ($500 – $999)

Scott Becker (2018)

Arthur Browne (2018)

Rohan Hedge (2018)

Maya (2017) and Wassim (2018) Omais

Gold ($250 – $499)

Nathan Chen (2018)

Allen (2016) and Katherine Cheng (2018)

Claire Cofield (2019)

Joanna Gerr (2016)

Samuel Hsiang (2016)

Akshaj Kadaveru (2018)

Hyo Won Kim (2016)

Isha Kunnath (2019)

Benjamin Lyons (2017)

James Pan (2016)

Alex Peng (2018)

Michael Rodriguez (2016)

Sofie Subiaur (2019)

Athilesh Thanigai (2019)

Arthur Tisseront (2016)

Franklyn Wang (2018)

James Xiao (2018)

Silver ($100 – $249)

Kai Amelung (2018)

Katie (2017) and Alex Ahn (2019)

Nishanth Anand (2019)

Owen Barnett (2018)

Susanna Bradbury (2017)

Kelley Cho (2018)

Colleen Choi (2019)

Shiraz Chokshi (2017)

Joseph Chong (2017)

Laura Chu (2017)

Sean Clancy (2018)

Deboshree Das (2016)

Adelia Du (2018)

John Erskine (2018)

Jordan Ganley (2016)

Kyle Gatesman (2018)

Kevin (2017) and Larry Geng (2017)

Anthara Gnanakumar (2016)

Rachel (2013) and Rebecca Merriman-

Goldring (2015)

Maxwell Graves (2019)

Fatima Gunter-Rahman (2017)

Grace Huang (2016)

Gwendolyn Jacobson (2019)

Shehjar Kachru (2019)

Anish Karpurapu (2018)

Danny Kim (2019)

Hannah Kim (2017)

Thomas Lai (2017)

Meredith (2016) Maxwell Lee (2019)

Andrew Li (2016)

Grant Li (2018)

Jeffrey (2016) and Ethan Liu (2018)

Richard Lun (2019)

Rachel Ma (2018)

Reena Medavarapu (2019)

Abhishek Mishra (2017)

Christopher Morris (2016)

Jacob (2017) and Alyssa Nash (2019)

Suhoon Oh (2017)

Madeline Old (2019)

Elise Ong (2019)

Joshua Pan (2019)

Saurav Pattanayak (2016)

Ethan Phillips (2019)

Keerthi (2017) and Rohan Puvvada (2019)

Jiying Qi (2017)

Austin (2016) and Nathan Riopelle (2016)

Alessandra Scholle (2016)

Mykyta Semichev (2017) and Vlada

Semicheva (2017)

Arvind Srinivasan (2018)

Jayant Subramanian (2017)

William Sun (2018)

Alexander Wang (2017)

Kevin Wang (2019)

Camden Wiseman (2019)

Devon (2017) and Ethan Wood-Thomas

(2017)

Gerald (2017) and Ethan Wu (2018)

William Xu (2017)

Stella Yang (2016)

Wendy Ying (2018)

Jeffery Yu (2018)

Diana Zavela (2017)

Alec (2016) and Katie Zhang (2018)

Tiger (2016) and Anna Zhang (2018)

Fred Zhang (2019)

Alan Zheng (2019)

Bronze ($50 – $99)

Bharath Alladi (2018)

Naman Baraya (2018)

Lynne Bai (2018)

Anisha Bhatia (2019)

Samuel Bove (2018)

Karthik Budharaju (2018)

Durga Mounika Chilukuri (2018)

Joseph Chen (2017)

Cecelia Chu (2017)

Nina Chung (2018)

Linda Diaz (2018)

Eric Fan (2019)

Perry Feng (2016)

Mariko Gardiner (2019)

Kiran Girish (2016)

Ryan Golant (2016)

Arvind Govinday (2018)

Han Gu (2016)

Pranav Gulati (2016)

Harry Han (2017)

Alexander Howe (2018)

Charles Huang (2018)

Rushil Joshi (2019)

Minwu Kim (2019)

Shivam Kollur (2017)

Srikar Kosuri (2016)

Pranab Krishnan (2017)

John Krause-Steinrauf (2018)

Aditya Kumar (2018)

Jung Ahn Lee (2018)

Kevin Li (2018)

Eli Lifland (2016)

Supriya Maddineni (2018)

Rayan Matin (2017)

Rachel Naidich (2019)

Rithvik Nalamalapu (2018)

Derek Ni (2019)

Daniel Oh (2016)

Yuki Oyama (2018)

Mahima Pannala (2019)

Srijith Poduval (2016)

Mark Putman (2019)

Sahana Ramani (2016)

Rishit Roy (2018)

Joshua Rutzick (2017)

Esha Saini (2019)

Aditya Sarkar (2018)

Kunal Shroff (2016)

Aakash Shukla (2017)

Vandana Subramanian (2018)

Erick Tian (2019)

Frank Tian (2018)

Edward Tong (2019)

Kaushik Venkatesh (2016)

Carolyn Wang (2017)

Hannah Wang (2018)

Lily Wang (2018)

Jeffrey Wang (2018)

Nick Wilson (2020)

Jeffrey Xia (2016)

Nathan Xue (2019)

Michael Yang (2018)

Rithik Yelisetty (2018)

Michael You (2016)

H. Charles (2017) and H. Margaret Zhao

(2017)

Faculty & Staff

Nurture the MIND–TJHSST Academic Boosters

MEMBERSHIP FORM: 2016-2017

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website and in Academic Booster annual booklets for the school year in which the donation is received. (For example, Gold: Family of Mary

Smith, 2016.) Teachers, non-parents, and corporate donors will be recognized using their own names. All contributions over $250 will be

acknowledged with a letter, as required by the IRS.

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Academic Boosters Board

2015–2016 Officers

President Astrid Tisseront

Vice President

Vice President

Shalini Bahtia

Danielle Zhu

Secretary Rama Murthy

Treasurer June Wang

Treasurer Ella Xiao

Webmaster Danielle Zhu

Techcetera Editor

Chairs

Tatsuya Oyama

Membership Ge Wang

Merchandise Lavanya Adusumalli

Shanti Tummala

Hospitality

Events

Fundraising

Venu Chalamgari

Vacant

Vacant

Faculty Liaison Christine Conklin

Alumni Reps Natalie Goldring

Angela Wilkes

Louise Epstein,

Lynne Hamrick

Christine Hood

Beth Liebmann

Susan Snyder

Linda Loffredo

At Large Raji Bala

Missy Le