11) finished 1st in the Senior Individual Documentary category with her work on female animators at Walt Disney Studios, and Anusha Srivastava and Esther Wang (gr. The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) will be held in Atlanta, GA from May 7-13. 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. The competition was deliberately difficult and featured 40 of the best teams in the country. They are: First Place: M&R Investments, Marvin Ridge High School, North Carolina, U.S. (Team Leader: Esha S., Team Advisor: Sree Singaraju), Second Place: Wells Street Capital, Walter Payton College Prep High School, Illinois, U.S. (Leader: Leo K., Advisor: Kathryn Person), Third Place: Avant-Garde Investments, Tesla STEM High School, Washington, U.S. (Leader: Dhruv S., Advisor: Matthew Travis), Honorable Mention: TSRSM Capital, Shri Ram School, Moulsari, India (Leader: Vansh J., Advisor: Vandana Sharma). On June 3, 2019, Mr. Christensen and I escorted our APCS A students to Microsoft to compete in the Hunt the Wumpus competition. Students at ISEFare awarded the opportunity to showcase their independent research and compete for on average$4 million in prizes. Inslee to advocate for mandatory Holocaust education in Washington state. We have threestudents who qualified assemifinalistsfor theUSABOOpen Exam, meaning that they scored in the top 10% of students nationally. 3rdplace Adi Gottumukkala, Samarjit Kaushik and Saanav Somani, Public Service Announcement: The events are all online, but club leaders are working to create a friendly, supportive culture like those we have seen in the other major teams in Washington (Bothell, Camas, Raisbeck). It gives them a chance to apply the coding skills they spent all year developing while also learning teamwork, communication, and industry development practices. There are 13 elementary and secondary choice schools and / or programs in Lake Washington School District. Just participating in the competition was a big accomplishment, but we had 3 students qualify for the next round of testing, the USAMO, from which students will be selected for the national Mathematical Olympiad Program! The top 3 in each event automatically qualified for the National Conference in Atlanta in June. Please congratulate the following students who won awards and competed at WSSEF on April 1st. The projects, students, and link to their projects are below. 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. 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. Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in the Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia). While ISEF bids are incredibly note-worthy, so are ALL research projects that students completed across the board during their junior year while engaging in remote learning. I keep waiting, Druhin Bhowal, Individual Documentary Sowing the Seeds of Progress: The Green Revolution and its Unintended Consequences, Arihant Singh, Ethan Yu, Teddy Dong, Ziang Chen, William Gong, Group Documentary From Atrocities to Accountability: The Nuremberg Trials as a Frontier in International Justice, Cindy Yang, Individual Exhibit Crossing the Western Frontier: Chinese Labor on the Transcontinental Railroad, Nakul Rajpal,Individual Exhibit The Frontier of Redlining in Seattle, Brooke North,Prakshi Shukla,Group ExhibitWords Were Her Weapon: Ida B Wells and the Fight Against Lynching, Saachi Sharma,Samantha Novitski,Group Performance In the Wasatch Valley: A Historical Fight for Women's Rights, John Bannon,Research PaperThe Seattle Jazz Frontier: The Success of the African American Communityin Shaping the American Identity, Anson Chen,Research PaperTaking on the Titan: the Progressive Era Pioneers whoBrought Down Rockefellers Standard Oil. Placing in the top 10 in the NAC will earn you a spot to represent the US in the IOAA. Rohan Iyer and Maxwell Soh are USA Biology Olympiad Semifinalists! Im Saketh Dhulipalla and my favorite scientist is Nigel Crowe. Once details are worked out, she and a parent will be flown to Washington, DC, to attend a winner's reception. Please congratulate ALL students who competed atWSSEF- everyone worked so hard and deserves to be commended. National History Bee and Bowl Competition that strives to promote history education throughout the United States and around the world. Arihant Singh - Founder of Tesla STEM Neuropsychology - LinkedIn This team, Prerana Kota, Cheguvijay Aashray, Reese Long, Tejas Pakalapati, and Arihant Singh, was the highest-finishing second team. 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. Both efforts are succeeding, so far. His wisdom and wit were much appreciated. Here are our 2017 Technology Student Association (TSA) results in Yakima March 16-18. This year's theme was "Breaking Barriers in History". Student teams were building investment strategies around Hagenbuchs financial objectives in hopes of winning his business as the best strategists and analysts. Leonardo Ribeiro de Brito (gr. Welcome and Ms. Johnson), and a bunch of teachers that indulge our teams' requests for equipment use, materials, and opportunities to practice. Congratulations to our awesome students for their fabulous work at TSA National conference amongst 8000 competitors, Top 10 winners: Victoria Alkin in Extemporaneous Speech, Ranveer Thind in STEM Careers, 2nd Place in STEM Careers Sashwatha Shankar, 1st place Lahari Nidadavolu and Jakob Bjorner in Structural Design and Engineering. Congratulations to Sophia Xu Ling, who won the Congressional Art Competition for Washington's first congressional district. FBLA continued the successful streak started by TSA. 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. 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). A total of 60 teams competed in the National Tournament and Tesla STEM placed 24th. Of the 23 events at Regionals, Tesla STEM teams won medals in 20 events for finishing in the Top 8, as follows: Anatomy & Physiology: Rohan Iyer & Anjali Sreenivas, 7th (Green), Astronomy: Harish Krishnakumar & Evan Kim, 1st (Green), Cell Biology: Rohan Iyer & Maxwell Soh, 1st (Green); Shuhui Yang & Sahaana Sridhar, 7th (Blue), Chemistry Lab: Sebi Kumar & Sami Badal Khan, 1st (Green), Code Analysis: Evan Kim & Aayush Sheth, 3rd (Green); Matthew Lam & Farzad Hasan, 6th (Magenta), Codebusters: Annanya Unnikrishnan, Ananya Soni & Matthew Lam, 8th (Magenta), Detector Building: Divij Aswinkumar & Farzad Hasan, 2nd (Magenta), Disease Detectives: Anjali Sreenivas & Maxwell Soh, 2nd (Green), Eva Jain & Krish Katre, 8th (Magenta), Dynamic Planet: Yuchen Li & Aashray, 1st (Green); Ashwin Kaliyaperumal, 6th (Blue); Matthew Lam & Ethan Liao, 8th (Magenta), Environmental Chemistry: Yuchen Li & Sebi Kumar, 1st (Green); Prerana Kota & Siddhant Porwal, 7th (Magenta), Experimental Design: Anjali Sreenivas, Aayush Sheth & Harish Krishnakumar, 3rd (Green), Forensics: Rithani Saravanakumar & Anjali Sreenivas, 1st (Green); Prerana Kota & Ananya Soni, 6th (Magenta), Green Generation: Divij Aswinkumar & Prerana Kota, 1st (Magenta); Rohan Iyer & Maxwell Soh, 2nd (Green), Its About Time: Sami Badal Khan & Evan Kim, 5th (Green), Ornithology: Katya Rukhlinskaya & Shuhui Yang, 5th (Blue), Vidit Khandelia & Matthew Lam, 8th (Magenta), Remote Sensing: Yuchen Li & Aashray, 2nd (Green), Rocks & Minerals: Yuchen Li & Aashray, 1st (Green), Trajectory: Siddhant Porwal & Abhiram Yakkali, 2nd (Magenta); Katie Chan & Shivank Dutt, 6th (Green), WiFi Lab: Sami Badal Khan & Evan Kim, 2nd (Green); Eva Jain & Vidit Khandelia, 6th (Magenta), Wright Stuff: Marcin Anforowicz & Abhiram Yakkali, 3rd (Magenta). I'm a senior at Tesla STEM High School in Redmond, Washington interested in biomedical research and computer science. The USA Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (USAAAO) test is the first test in a series of tests leading to representing the United States in the International Olympiad in Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA). The next round is the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). Yuchen Li, Melissas passion for engaging young women in computing and technology is inspiring. 1stplace: Cindy Chen, Facial and Emotional Recognition Among Caucasian and East Asian Adolescents, 2nd place: Aastha Shah,Evaluating the Relationship Between Stress and Impulsivity in a Mathematical Context, 3rdplace: Vijaya Sripada, Using Various Inputs of Smell to Reduce Depression Score in Alzheimer Patients, 4thplace:Praharsha Manda,Development of the Education Implicit Association Test (IAT), 1stplace:Rhea Kuppa, 3D Printing Bio-Inspired Heart Valves to Increase Efficiency of Perioperative Care, 2nd place:Aubrey Grove,Assessment of Yoga Therapy of Mindfulness-Based Therapy Interventions of Symptom Severity and Quality of life in a Cohort of Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 3rd place: David Gershony,Combatting Anxiety in Dental Offices Using Virtual Reality, 2ndplace: Edward Zhou,Dampening Phantom Shockware Jams in Mixed-Autonomy Traffic Via Deep-RL Control of Autonomous Vehicles, 1st place:Anjali Sreenivas,A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Blood-Based Biomarkers for Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, 3rd place:Anya Vaish,Bioinformatic Analysis to Find a Universal Sequence from SARS-CoV-2 Genomes for the Potential Development of a Pancoronovirus Vaccine, 3rd place:Danyuan Wang,Using Machine Learning Methods to Estimate the Distribution of Harmful Invasive Phytoplankton, Chemistry, Earth, Environmental Sciences and Technology, 1stplace:Arihant Singh and Druhin Bhowal, It's Flaming Out: Using Artificial Intelligence to Emulate Critical Aspects of Wildfire Growth, 2nd place: Evan Kim,Utilizing a Generative Adversarial Network to Predict Hypothetical Superconductors, Biomedical, Molecular and Cellular Biology, 3rd place:Tanvi Sapar and Shivani Godse,Creating a Structural Model of SaSrtA-Inhibitor Complex to Predict Efficiency of Class A Sortase Enzyme Inhibitor Molecules, 1st place: Harish Krishnakumar,Analysis of Ring Galaxies Detected Using Deep Learning with Real and Simulated Data, 3rdplace: Anisha Vaish, Automated Pill-Dispenser to Improve Medication Compliance Efficiency and Accuracy, Regeneron Biomedical Sciences Award ($500):Anjali Sreenivas,A Machine Learning Approach to Identifying Blood-Based Biomarkers for Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease, American Psychological Association (APA) Award:Karina Kejriwal, The Impact of Credibility When Hitting "Purchase Now", Materials Science special categoryAward:Evan Kim,Utilizing a Generative Adversarial Network to Predict Hypothetical Superconductors, American Meteorological Society Award:Suyash Mothukuri, Diagnosing Precipitation from IR Satellite Images, Stockholm Junior Water Prize:Siddhant Porwal,Predicting Waterfall Forms Through Feature Engineering and Model-Selection Machine Learning, Monisha Krothapalli, Engineering a Surface Flow Constructed Wetland to Evaluate Efficiency for Combatting Water Scarcity.