The Troy High Sail team has 15 sailors on the team representing all grade levels including 6 seniors and for the first time the team qualified and competed this past weekend in the Great Oaks Invitational Regatta in New Orleans. This event is a national-level race where the best teams from across the country compete. The Troy High team was represented at the regatta by Rodrigo Flores ('24), Jacob Ritter ('24) and Nicole Torkos ('25). The team fought hard in difficult conditions and showed their true tenacity by placing 3rd in the Silver Fleet and 17th overall in the nation! This is a great accomplishment for the team and a testament to their practice and dedication throughout the season. 

In the Math Madness Tournament, the Math Club beat the 8^th ranked team last week to secure a spot in the Elite 8.  They will compete next week in the 4^th Round of Math Madness.  Check out the brackets in the math hallway.

Check out the updated bracket for Math Madness!  Troy High Math Club is ranked #9 in the nation and made it to the Sweet 16.  We are the only team from Michigan in the tournament and we will compete this week on Friday.

The Math Club is participating in Arete Lab’s Math Madness.  They are ranked #9 in the nation and #3 in our bracket.  We won the first round and will be competing this week to make it to the Sweet 16!  Check out the brackets posted in the math hallway.

Congratulations to Brady Ryan Courtney who has worked for 5 years to be an honored graduate of the Zajaczek Dance Ensemble, a Polish Roman Catholic Union of American Polish dance.

Congratulations to  Adhvaith Rajanish . He been awarded a National Master  title  by The United States Chess Federation.

Please join me in congratulating Brian Nutting, Jacob Greenwood, and the entire Troy Colt Marching Band for delivering an OUTSTANDING performance yesterday evening at the MSBOA District XVI Marching Band Festival, earning a Division 1 rating!

The Global Leadership Summit was a fantastic experience for our students, for the second year in a row,  we had a Troy High student on the winning team!  This year it was Samantha Watson and her team product was called FaBreak. Once again, their design will be in the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm Sweden for one year.  We had three students place in the top 10 out of 100 groups … Lillian Schlafhouser with her product Vertiveg and Chris George with Project Lorax. 

George Perakis was selected as a Detroit News & CATCH scholarship winner. Please see article below.It is an honor to share the stories of these remarkable young people and to consider that Michigan will benefit from their future endeavors, and the endeavors of so many of their friends and classmates.
https://www.detroitnews.com/in-depth/news/education/graduates/2023/05/18/detroit-news-outstanding-graduates-high-school-seniors-2023/70137038007/

The Troy High Quiz Bowl team has had an extremely successfully season! The A team, which includes our four seniors Dennis Yang, Hrudy Peela, Vishesh Verma and Yash Bajji, competed in ten tournaments, all of which they finished in the top 3. Their wins continued, and the A Team took second place at the state championship and first place this past weekend at yet another regional tournament. Please congratulate Dennis, Hrudy, Vishesh and Yash on their countless wins this year and wish them luck as they head to the national tournament in Atlanta.

This year in March, many of our students of French enrolled in le Grand Concours which is the competitive national exam administered to students whose teachers are members of the American Association of Teachers of French. We are extremely proud of all those who participated and would like to share with you the names of students who received a certificate of honorable mention, bronze, silver or gold medal!   Congratulations to all participants! Chapeau!  (Hats off to them!)
Level 1
Bronze
Matthew Li
Julia Miller
Aviti Mohanty
Certificat d’honneur
Elias Hanim
Lauren Hatto
Eunice Zhang
Level 2
Gold
JoAnn Tu
Silver
Praveena Matheswaran
Kristin Prakash
Shreya Rajhans
Bronze
Lana Fargaly
Iniya Kumar
Aayushi Parab
Sanjana Prabhu
Aisha Shaik
Certificat d’honneur
Aditya Awale
Natasha Carnegis
Agastya Chaturvedi
Aneesh Cuddalore
Shlagha Kompelli
Jan Kral
Naeun Kwon
Ellie MacLean
Meera Patel
Kian Schneeweis
William Smith
Antoni Tralo
Andy Wu
Casey Xin
Jiaqi Zhong
Level 3
Silver
Amelia Chong
Clara Le Moal
Bronze
Marlene De La Vega Jaimes
Ryeo-Won Kim
Arjun Manyem
Anais Ndione
Sunaina Reddy
Certificat d’honneur
Ashley Carron
Aditya Chawla
Arnav Chittiprolu
Nicole Gherase
Rishi Girmannagari
Shatakshi Gupta
Emma Pepa
Athrv Siriki
Ana Sofia Hernandez Gomez
Level 4
Gold
Arlind Vasha
Melodi Yilmaz
Silver
Vishnu Nair
Ishanya Saini
Janhavi Tonge
Jayadeep Yedla
Bronze
Nilanjan Roy
Sriyan Madugula
Saachi Mahendrakar
Daniel Xiao
Certificat d’honneur
Vedant Das
Bakir Demirovic
Naina Rodrigues Da Cunha Duarte
Mario Galvan Espinoza
Nikhita Mahajan
Victoria Romanyshyn
Miyabi Shinki
Nika Tananko
Level 5
Silver
Faye Guan
George Magar
Sanjit Vijay
Bronze
Arfa Nazneen
Certificat d’honneur
Sofia Cardoso Afonso
Akul Gunukula
Ashley Sawicke
Sarayu Uppara

Congratulations to junior Vishvaa Ravishankar who broke the school record in the 3200 meter run on Saturday! He ran a time of 9:16.4 at the Farmington Invite to take down the record from 2014. Congrats and good luck the rest of the season!

Last weekend, 149 of our HOSA (Michigan Future Health Professionals) students attended the State Leadership Conference in Traverse City, where they took different assessments, presented in a variety of categories, and competed with over 2,600 other Michigan students. A grand total of 64 students received recognition for their results and the following 27 students won gold, silver, or bronze medals (top 3) in their categories automatically qualifying for the international competition in Dallas in June. Troy High HOSA was recognized as the second largest HOSA chapter in Michigan, making them the recipient of the Michigan 2^nd Place Membership Award. They also were rewarded for their efforts in hosting approximately 1,000 students at the HOSA Region 9 Leadership Conference.

Troy High students performed very well at the Michigan Future Problem Solving State Bowl competition again. Congratulations to the following students from Troy High. They have been invited to the International Conference on June 7th at University of Massachusetts. Two years in a row!!
Global Issue Problem Solving - Team
Senior Division
1st place -(Coach Rhea Hede-Sakhardande)
Rhea Hede-Sakhardande, Nihil Suthy, Sanjini Rajkumar

Congratulations to The Chariot Newspaper! Last week, our team received a number of statewide awards from the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association. If you have any of these students in your classes, please congratulate them on these major accomplishments! 
First Place:

• Anjali Sanil: News Art & Illustration
  • The Pride Month You've Never Heard Of
• Ria Gupta and Anjali Sanil: News Writing - Informative Feature (this is an extremely difficult category, so this is a HUGE win for them!)
  • Wrestling with Weight

Second Place: 

• October Marquez: News Writing - Bylined Opinion Article
  • Family Dinner Survival Guide

Third Place: 

• Anjali Sanil: News Design & Infographics - Front Page
  • December Cover
• Anjali Sanil: News Design & Infographics - Newspage/Spread
  • The Mysterious Blue Bucket
• Ashley Park and Raneen AlRammahi: News Writing - Diversity Coverage
  • It's More Than a Joke

Honorable Mention:

• Raneen AlRammahi: News Art & Illustration - Illustration
  • Fourth of They Lied
• Anjali Sanil: News Design & Infographics - Front Page
  • December Cover
• Sally Kim: News Writing - News Analysis
  • Losing Time
• Grace Haugk: News Writing - News Analysis
  • English: Rewritten
• Ria Gupta: News Writing - Review
  • TTE Stays Radiant
• Laith Hermiz: News Writing - Feature Columist
  • Laith Listens
• Ria Gupta: Digital Media & Multimedia - Breaking News Social Media Coverage
  • Gretchen Whitmer Highlights Political Agenda
• Ashley Park: Digital Media & Multimedia - Feature Social Media Coverage
  • How to Create a Balanced Schedule

Thank you all for your continued support of our Newspaper program! Our next print issue will be released later this month, but if you're interested in keeping up with our work along the way, we also regularly publish to our website!

Our fabulous Troy High Colts forensics team competed at the state tournament this past weekend and made us all proud.
Our team finished in 5^th place in Class A for the entire state. We took 31 students and 27 placed in the top 10 and 14 placed in the top 6 . Please congratulate them for their hard earned  accomplishments.
Varsha Penumalee          FIRST PLACE Oratory
Shriya Kankatala               3rd Place Informative
Iniya Kumar                       4^th Place Impromptu 9/10 
Audrey Konitsney            5^th Place   Extemporaneous
Dyotek Shintre                  5^th Place Impromptu 9/10
Nikhita Mahajan               5^th Place   Oratory
Rhea Hede                          5^th Place  Prose
Manahil Imran                   6^th Place  Broadcasting
Bismaad Kaur                     6^th Place Dramatic Interp
Bella Vitanovich               6^th Place Duo Commentary
Sally Craig                         6^th Place Duo Commentary
Athr Siriki                            6^th Place Extemporaneous
Vandya Nedle                    6^th Place Informative
Saima Ahmed                    6^th Place Prose
Rachel Zhai                         7^th Place Poetry
Natalie Haras                     7^th Place Storytelling
Sanika Atmakur                8^th Place Broadcasting
Sydney Amaya                   8^th  Place Sales
Aayushi Parab                    8^th Pl Storytelling 9/10
Avril Yu                                10^th Place Impromptu
Aisha Shaik                         10^th Pl  Prog.Oral Interp
Emily Kim                            12^th  Place Duo Interp
Harsimran Singh               12^th Place Duo Interp
Aamina Farooqi               12^th Place Pr Oral Interp
Haarshini Gunalan           12^th Place Sales
Pooja Chandreshaekar   13^th Place Duo Interp
Ingrid Huang                      13^th Place Duo Interp

Troy High DECA students received astoundingly impressive results at the International Career Development Conference held in Orlando this past week.
We had a record 42 students qualify to compete at the conference, and we were excited to bring home the coveted DECA Glass 4 times this trip, which again is a huge record for our club! Our students competed with 22,000 DECA students from across the United States, Canada, China, Germany, Spain and Puerto Rico. Our results at the Grand Awards were:
1^st Place: Nishit Palepu for Business Finance Series1^st Place: Aleena Malik for Marketing Communication Series
2^nd Place: Matthew Zhao for Business Services Marketing Series
3^rd Place: George Perakis for Human Resources Management Series
Ingrid Huang, Charlotte Worrel, Justine Perakis, Sanika Atmakur, Irene Oh, Harry Wang, and Muhammed Qureshi all placed in the Top 10 for their events.
Jiong Lei, Jesse Chang, Olivia Xu, and Anshul Singh all placed in the Top 20 for their events.
An extremely awesome stat is that Aleena Malik took 1^st place back-to-back years for 2022 + 2023 for her event Marketing Communication Series.
Within each category, students are competing with around 150-200 students in their respective events.

This past weekend Troy High Yearbook students traveled to San Francisco to attend the JEA/NSPA National High School Journalism Convention. In our down time, we explored Alcatraz Island, Fisherman's Wharf, the Botanical and Japanese Tea Gardens, and the Painted Ladies. We took a ride on a cable car, ate in Chinatown and Union Square, and took LOTS of selfies.
After attending sessions, listening to keynote speakers, and making connections with journalists across the country, Troy High also took home a few awards. 
Two of our amazing students were recognized for their entries to the JEA National Student Media Contests. Zachary Balcoff received 1^st place for Editorial Leadership, 10^th place in Design, and honorable mentions in the Portrait Photo category.
Annelies Conover (a first-year staffer) received honorable mentions in the Feature Photo category.
On the state level, students also received word of their MIPA (Michigan Interscholastic Press Association) Individual Contest standings for the 2022 publication. Our staff received the following recognition in our Division 1 category:
1^st Place
Caption Writing - Aady Shah, Arianna Tzakis, Graceanne Fentress & Jessica Yu
Academics Spread - Sierra Sarsfield, Zachary Balcoff & Jessica Sirhan
School Spirit Photo - Zachary Balcoff
Theme Development - Zachary Balcoff, Jessica Yu & Rebekah Cummings
Cover - Zachary Balcoff, Jessica Yu & Rebekah Cummings
Opening and Closing - Zachary Balcoff & Jessica Yu
Division Pages - Staff
Proud Parent Advertisement - Rebekah Cummings & Jessica Yu
Photo Illustration - Zachary Balcoff & Jessica Yu
2^nd Place
Organization Spread - Arianna Tzakis & Graceanne Fentress
Graphics - Zachary Balcoff
Sports Action Photo - Audrey Konitsney
Feature Presentation - Individual Spread - Zachary Balcoff & Jessica Yu
Business Advertisement - Rebekah Cummings & Jessica Yu
3^rd Place
Personality Profile - Sierra Sarsfield
Headline Writing - Rebekah Cummings, Audrey Konitsney & Sara Smith
Organization, Club, or Performance Photo - Lydia Dardar & Zachary Balcoff
Alternative Story Form Presentation - Zachary Balcoff & Colin Glenn
Endsheet - Zachary Balcoff, Jessica Yu & Rebekah Cummings
Honorable Mentions
Feature Writing: Organizations - Audrey Konitsney
Sports Spread - Anjali Iyer & Shea Maloney
People Spread - Zachary Balcoff & Jessica Yu
Portrait or Personality Photo - Jessica Yu
Mod or Side-bar Coverage - Zachary Balcoff & Sierra Sarsfield

Great job Troy High! In celebration of Earth Day we had a fantastic turn out for our Litter Clean-Up Day. We had 10 participating teachers which included18 different classes and.....a grand total of 6,116 pieces of trash removed from the grounds at Troy High!!!
Our total will put the Great Lakes, Great Responsibility group over the 200,000 mark.

More importantly, your kids contributed to the well-being of our little ecosystem here and also helped the Great Lakes ecosystem at the same time.

Congratulations to the THS Economics Students for winning the Michigan Economics Challenge 2023.
 

This past Thur.-Sat., our Troy HS robotics team (FRC team 226 Hammerheads) competed at Michigan State Championship (MSC) at Saginaw Valley State University, where 160  HS teams competed in 4 separate divisions; and I'm happy to report that we did extremely well won the following four awards:

• Consumers Energy Field Division Champion - our robot was 1 of 40 teams in this division and our alliance of 3 robots (along with schools from Pontiac and Warren) was the division winner. This marked the 1st time that our robot has won a division championship at Michigan State Championship
• Michigan State Championship - Finalist award; the 4 divisional champions played against each other and our alliance came in 2nd overall in the State Championship
• State Championship Impact Award winner -  The FIRST Impact Award (formerly the Chairman's Award) is the most prestigious award at FIRST, it honors the team that best represents a model for other teams to emulate and best embodies the mission of FIRST. It was created to keep the central focus of FIRST Robotics Competition on the ultimate goal of transforming the culture in ways that will inspire greater levels of respect and honor for science and technology, as well as encouraging more of today’s youth to become science and technology leaders. This marks the 4th time in 5 years that our team has won this award at MSC
• Dean's List finalist awarded to Mahima Mahajan. This award recognizes the leadership and dedication of the most outstanding secondary school students in FIRST. Mahima will now advance to Houston World Championship to compete for Dean's List award.
  Below are links 
• Video of one of the championship playoffs where we (226) won 165 to 164
• Our competition results this year so far
• Our final state's ranking (based on district points) - 226 ranks number 9 of 479

Congratulations to our students who participated in the 2023 Great Lakes Chinese Quiz Bowl, sponsored by the Great Lakes Chinese Consortium. 
Level 1   Heritage Group
1^st Place    Sophia Li,  Charlotte Wu 
Level 2   Non-Heritage Group
1^st Place    Yuto Kuwabara,  Lev Smirnov
Level 3   Non-Heritage Group
1^st Place    Ann Ducas,  Jessica Bradke 
Level 3   Heritage Group
1^st Place    Devin Huang, Kevin Lin  
Level 4   Non-Heritage Group
1^st Place    Akshat Patnaik, Surya Alla  
2^nd Place   Soo-Yeon Kim,  Eva Jaku  
3^rd Place    Louis D'Souza,  Nikhil Koka  
Level 4   Heritage Group
1^st Place    Terence Chen,  Selina Li (Athens student)
2^nd Place   Lucy Zhang,  Yushu Cai  

Congratulations to the Troy Entrepreneurship Club member Irene Oh for winning two first place awards in the SESI/Skandalaris Business Plan Competition. Irene won best business plan and best presentation.

Adhvaith Rajanish , and Ryan Wang won the co-champions in the 2023 Michigan state chess Junior Championship.

Troy High DECA had a fantastic weekend downtown Detroit for DECA States.  We had a Troy High record FORTY students qualify for International Competition that will take place in Orlando at the end of April. Overall, our team received 65 role play medals, 24 test medals, 67 finalist medals and 40 International-qualifier glass plaques.
There were so many highlights, but first and foremost, Nishit Palepu ran for DECA State Executive Board and he won PRESIDENT! They are placed on the board in positions by the number of votes they received, so this means he received the highest vote count out of all the candidates.
Second, we had four students “SWEEP” their category, which means they took first place in every area possible – test score and two role plays. Those students are: Matthew Zhao, Jiong Lei, Miyabi Shinki and John Palomino.
Third, we had three students present our school store, Colts Corner, to receive national DECA certification. I’m pleased to announce that the store received Gold Certification (the highest you can receive) for the year. The students who represented the store are 3 of our Colts Corner employees: Jennifer Bricker, Anna McManus + Vienna Thieu.
Last, but certainly not least, the following students all qualified for International Competition in Orlando. If you happen to have them in class, give them a shout out congratulations! They all performed amazingly well this past weekend.

• Muhammad Qureshi
• Fida Rahman
• Matthew Zhao
• Harry Wang
• Anshul Singh
• Sriyan Madagula
• Jesse Chang
• Jiong Lei
• George Perakis
• Olivia Xu
• Aleena Malik
• Arnav Chittiprolu
• Maria Nido
• Ayushi Gupta
• Miyabi Shinki
• Bethanie Joy
• Raghav Sivakumar
• Noelle Kwok
• Linsey Chen
• Erin Jeong
• Bessiana Shaska
• Charlotte Worrel
• Ingrid Huang
• Joe Kleimann
• Nathan Lobo
• Krish Gupta
• John Palomino
• Justine Perakis
• Sungat Shienh
• Sanika Atmakur
• Rishi Girmannagari
• Ashmit Shrivastava
• Irene (Sebin) Oh
• Angela Zhang
• Jack Davenport
• Abhigna Koka
• Jessica Duncan
• Anna McManus
• Vienna Thieu
• Jennifer Bricker

Troy High is officially certified as a Green School! Congratulations to everyone that made this happen.

Congratulations Vaishnavi Paliwa who came in first at the annual Michigan Japanese Speech Contest, hosted by the General Consulate of Japan in Detroit.

Congratulations to our students who placed at the Michigan Japan Quiz Bowl. HS Div. 3:  2^nd place:   Athens & Troy High combo team; Yashvanth Aravinth, Ella Sidorowicz (AHS) & Vaishnavi Paliwal, Zahra Khan (TH)
HS Div. 4: 1^st place:  Troy High, Seongjin (Jay) Shyn & Huyen (Sophia) Nguyen

Congratulations to the Troy High Forensics Team. They placed 2nd in team sweep at the Grand Rapids Christian. Finalists include: Sally Craig, Bella Vitanovich, Iniya Kumar, Aahil Addul Nazeer, Audrey Konitsney, Avril Yu, Shriva Kankatala, Varsha Penumalee, Rhea Hede, Alisha Gautam Athry Sirki, Vandya Nedle, Saima Ahmed, Aniha Jain, Arnav Digrasker, Nikhita Mahaian, Bismaad Kaur, Sparsh Shrivastava, Seojin Lee, Natalie Haras, Dyotak Shintre.

Congratulations are in order for the following Biology Competitions Club members:
Kush Parikh won 1^st place at the MSU Brain Bee Competition and will now go on to compete at the National Brain Bee. This competition involved a written and oral round on topics from neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and patient diagnosis.  
Fiona Samson won 3^rd place and Devarshi Dalal won 4^th place at the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. Fiona's research project through Wayne State University was titled MNRR1 Inhibition, a Potential Therapeutic Avenue for Breast Cancer. Devarshi's research project through Henry Ford Health Systems was titled Artificial intelligence to Obtain Optimal Wrist X-rays. They will both be moving on to the National JSHS competition to present research posters.
Devarshi Dalal, Yamen Fargaly, Atul Ganesh, Jonathan Jung, Jessica Mathew, Vishnu Nair, Kush Parikh, Nihil Suthy, and Sonnet Xu are semifinalists in the USA Biology Olympiad. These nine students scored in the top 10% nationally of the 3,305 participants and will now compete to become the top 10 finalists. 
Also noteworthy, a Troy High graduate and former Biology Competitions Club President, Jason Zhang who was the silver medalist at the International Biology Olympiad in 2019 in Hungary, is continuing to make us proud in Troy where he will be co-hosting a webinar for the USA Biology Olympiad semifinalists later this month. 

Congratulations to Fiona Samson who received 3^rd place in the Michigan Regional JSHS (Junior Science & Humanities Symposium) and has qualified to participate in the national competition.

Troy High "Team Colts" won the 2023 Michigan High School Chess Team Championships for the second year in a row, with outstanding performances from Adhvaith Rajanish, Leyou Jiang, Abhinav Rajanish, and Shamanth Shastry.

Troy High Forensics kids continue to bring home awards and trophies. The team took 2^nd place at Birch Run with 32/ 41 students placing in the top 12 of their categories and 18 placing in the top 6. We also had four students take 1^st place. Congratulations to the following students: Avril Yu, Varsha Penumalee, Aamina Farooqi, Natalie Haras, Bismaad Kaur, Shiriya Kankatala, Vandya Nedle, Sally Craig, Bella Vitanovich, Iniya Kumar, Yuktha Gowda, Ishanya Saini, Sanika Atmakur, Yumena Nagai, Rhea Hede, Jumana Arif, Dyotak Shintre, Aisha Shaik

After a long weekend of events in Indiana, here are the results for the Technology Student Association. Our students worked hard and gained some new knowledge and great experiences along the way!Board Game Design: Achyudt Venkat (2nd Place)
CAD Engineering: Jeffrey Hung (3rd Place), Varsha Rajesh (4th Place)
Coding: Timothy Mathew and Dennis Yang (1st Place), Akash Bolneni and Sri Bendi (4th Place), Ashmit Shrivastava and Akhil Kadari (5th Place)
Promotional Design: Dennis Yang (1st Place), Rishabh Dubey (3rd Place)
Structural Engineering: Bhuvankumar Ashokkumar and Andrew Meng (3rd Place)

Congratulations Katharina Zak for a perfect score on the National German exam, level 2

Last weekend the Troy High School Model UN Delegation competed at Harvard’s Model UN Conference in Boston where they competed against 4,000 delegates from schools from over 40+ countries around the world.  
Of the 21 delegates that attended, 8 of them received awards, two of which received the highest award of “Best Delegate”. These awards came after spending over 23 hours in various committee sessions, debates, resolution writings, and more competing against at times over 400 other delegates. I truly could not be more proud of this group of students.
Best Delegate (1st Place):
Catherine Sivier, 11th grader
George Perakis, 12th  grader
Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place):
Rena Foo, 12th grader
Tianhui (Grace) Zhu,  12th grader
Honorable Mention (3rd Place):
Erin Xia, 12th grader
Daniel Xiao, 11th grader
Diplomatic Commendation (4th Place):
Jacob Azar, 12th grader
Krish Ghosalkar, 12th grader
Spirit of MUN Award Winners:
*Students who truly embody and exemplify what it means to be a part of Model UN, are resilient, positive, and inclusive.
Verbal Commendations - Krish Ghosalkar and Yuktha Gowda
Honorable Mentions - Kaeshav Krishna and Mahima Mahajan
Outstanding Delegates - Daniel Xiao and Katherina Mandia
Best Delegates - Mahee Kavdia (Athens MUN), Sanjay Shyamsundar, and Erin Xia

Congratulations to Shaun Lee, 11th grade! He is the recipient of 2023 Young Artist Rochester Concerto Competition’s $1000 award. He will perform the piano concerto with the Rochester Symphony Orchestra (RSO) on May 12, 2023.

Troy High DECA had a phenomenal day competing at DECA District Competition on Saturday at Lake Orion High School. We had a whopping 93 students qualify to continue on + compete at the State Competition in Detroit in March. 
We also have a large group that deserves an extra special congratulations, as they "swept" their category, meaning they took first place in every area possible in Saturday's competition - Role Play, Test and State Qualifier Medal. 
Those students are: Irene (Sebin) Oh, Abhigna Koka, Charlotte Worrel, Ingrid Huang, Krish Gupta, John Palomino, Jennifer Bricker, George Perakis, Vinati Donthireddy, Olivia Xu, Aleena Malik, Arnav Chittiprolu, Maria Nido, Ayushi Gupta, Cynthia Wang, Miyabi Shinki, Raghav Sivakumar, Rhea Pawar, Muhammad Qureshi, Varun Sukhavasi, Fida Rahman, Sriyan Madagula, Jesse Chang, Adam McManus and Brian Liu.
The following students qualified to compete at States:

1. Michael Hsiao
2. Steven Li
3. Ashish Rajam
4. Justine Perakis
5. Abha Singh
6. Sungat Shienh
7. Akshaya Palanisamy
8. Sreeshanth Bommisetty
9. Sanika Atmakur
10. Nainika Jasti
11. Rishi Girmannagari
12. Eric Kim
13. Ashmit Shrivastava
14. Josh Samuelsen
15. Irene (Sebin) Oh
16. Ani Gatla
17. Angela Zhang
18. Jack Davenport
19. Abhigna Koka
20. Emily Baek
21. Jessica Duncan
22. Isra Khurram
23. Shreya Kulkarni
24. Noelle Kwok
25. Linsey Chen
26. Erin Jeong
27. Bessiana Shaska
28. Mehereen Kaur
29. Ankita Sinha
30. Veda Thandra
31. Govind Beemisetty
32. Charlotte Worrel
33. Ingrid Huang
34. Riley Lennon
35. Caitlin Dawson
36. Joe Kleimann
37. Nathan Lobo
38. Krish Gupta
39. John Palomino
40. Ephraim Simon
41. Jack Wang
42. Abdul Mohammed
43. Prisha Kumar
44. Mina Nam
45. Jennifer Bricker
46. George Perakis
47. Vinati Donthireddy
48. Elaina Rondeau
49. Alice Yang
50. Akhil Kadari
51. Deeksha Hadagali
52. Olivia Xu
53. Aleena Malik
54. Arush Alapati
55. Arnav Chittiprolu
56. Jessica Haerens
57. Maria Nido
58. Dina Ni
59. Ajitesh Venkatesh
60. Jayanth Batti
61. Shraddha Harish
62. Ayushi Gupta
63. Cynthia Wang
64. Miyabi Shinki
65. Bethanie Joy
66. Raghav Sivakumar
67. Miranda Siegan
68. Mark Haerens
69. Rhea Pawar
70. Varun Sukhavasi
71. Muhammad Qureshi
72. Siva Kollengode
73. Avaneesh Cherukuri
74. Sravya Kankatalala
75. Nishit Palepu
76. Fida Rahman
77. Pranav Jayaram
78. Charitha Meda
79. Shreyanna Keeta
80. Matthew Zhao
81. Harry Wang
82. Katie Morris
83. Julia Mowrey
84. Anshul Singh
85. Simrun Sharma
86. Sriyan Madagula
87. Athrv Siriki
88. Jesse Chang
89. Adam McManus
90. Jiong Lei
91. Brian Liu
92. Divya Prasanna
93. Nithilesh Kris

Congratulations to Adhvaith Rajanish for earning the Co-Runnerup award in 2022 CHESS National K-12 Grades Championship!
http://www.uschess.org/results/2022/k12/?page=STANDINGS&xsection=11

As Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, I am delighted to share some wonderful information with you that attests to the strength of your school’s German program. This year, Saakshi Sovani, a former student, was among the few first-year students at U-M who were either permitted to enroll in a fourth-semester language course or completed the LSA foreign language requirement with an exceptionally high AP score. It is a testament to the strength of your German program and to the success of the thorough instruction at Troy High School that your student came to U-M so well prepared.

Great news, the Troy High Sailing team qualified for the Shepard Championship in Chicago this coming weekend! To qualify for this event a team must earn a qualifying spot as one of the top 40 out of 164 teams in MISSA (Midwest Interscholastic Sailing Association). This is a great accomplishment for the Troy High team! 
Clara Le Moal (grade 11)
Monika Torkos (Grade 12)
Nicole Torkos (Grade 10)
Sophia Worden (Grade 12)
Dane Greenwood (Grade 12)
Maya Nagy (Grade 9)
Jacob Ritter (Grade 11)

Congratulations to Nikhil Mudaliar for being selected to participate in the USA Cricket Under 15 National Championship as a member of the Midwest zonal team.

On Monday, we received word that Troy High had received a Walsworth Gallery Of Excellence Award for our 2022 Yearbook. Only 8 other schools in the State of Michigan were recipients of this national honor. The chosen books set the standard for scholastic journalism. Our book will be shared with students and advisers all over the country, featured at workshops, training events, and regional/state national conventions. Our cover will also be posted to the Walsworth website and other educational materials: the Possibilities idea book, Yearbook Suite curriculum and Idea File magazine.
Additionally, our 2022 book received a Gold rating, with a commendation in Unifying Concept, in MIPA's Spartan Yearbook Critique Contest! This rating is a testament to our publication program's ability to meet student media standards.
Creating a yearbook takes a lot of effort and much of the behind-the-scenes creative work can go unnoticed. I am so proud of our staff and their accomplishments, and I want to thank you all for your continued support of our student journalist programs!

The girls from the Troy High School sailing team competed in an all girls regatta on Lake Michigan in Lake Forest, IL. They did a great job and are now advancing to the National Championship in San Diego in a few weeks!

Troy High junior Zachary Balcoff won the 11th grade top prize with his "Beyond the Bank" drawing in the Oakland County Finance Literacy Arts contest.

Congratulations to the Short Story Writing Contest 2022 winners! Our winners are as follows: 
First Place: Faith in Fallacy by Mark Hong
Second Place: The Lottery by Benjamin Sheng
Third Place: Thirty-Six Cents by Arya Shah
Honorable Mention: Carl by Michael Hong
Honorable Mention: The Gambit by Isabell Ku
Check out their writings here!

Congratulations to our THS Economics Team! Fourth place in the Nation for the National Economics Challenge!

I am delighted to share the news with you that in addition to Alexis Gearty and Anurag Komaragiri being nominated for Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role, Mamma Mia just won the following Sutton Foster Technical awards:

• Best Hair & Makeup Design - Olivia Essebaggers
• Best Feature Dancer - Anissa Faison
• Best Direction

Congratulations to Student Awardees at Troy High School for their recognition from the United Nations Association Community National Community Service Awards (https://tinyurl.com/THSNCSA):
Ambassador Awardees: Emily Baek, Arnav Chittiprolu, Charlie Chu, Arkesh Das, Joshua Eapen, Rithvik Girish, Haarshini Gunalan, Nidhi Ikkurthy, Leyou Jiang, Om Khuperkar, Noyonima Masud, Vishnu Nair, Vaishnavi Paliwal, Mohita Panchumarthi, Ruthesh Thavamani, Arunima Vasudev, Cynthia Wang
Honor Awardees: Rupal Athalye, Govind Beemisetty, Grace Booza, Yutong Du, Rishi Girmannagari, Donghwan Kim, Arjun Korrakuti, Yuhan Li, Sriyan Madugula, Nikhita Mahajan, Brenda Mao, Veda Thandra, Adhitya Thirupathi, Lily Wei, Helen Xiao, Aiden Yang, Daniel Yang, Melodi Yilmaz, Alan Zhang, Edison Zhou, Jiaying Zhou
Merit Awardees: Prisha Agnihotri, Naser Anwar, Arpita Bhandari, David Chen, Aksheet Dutta, Tyler Evans, Elizabeth George, Nushaba Hossain, Kenny Huang, Olivia Jackson, Bismaad Kaur, Kaeshav Krishna, Aleena Malik, Anish Malpeddi, Arfa Nazneen, Mananya Patel, Anish Shanbhag, Sanjay Shyamsundar, Sabrina Tallu, Claire Wu, Clara Yalamanchili, Jayadeep Yedla, Tianhui Zhu 
Zero Hero Awardees: Arkesh Das, Rithvik Girish, Nidhi Ikkurthy, Thankith Solomon Janakiraman, Vishnu Nair, Vaishnavi Paliwal, Veda Thandra
Michigan Awardees: Rupal Athalye, Emily Baek, Govind Beemisetty, Arnav Chittiprolu, Charlie Chu, Arkesh Das, Yutong Du, Joshua Eapen, Rithvik Girish, Rishi Girmannagari, Haarshini Gunalan, Nidhi Ikkurthy, Leyou Jiang, Rebecca Johnson, Om Khuperkar, Donghwan Kim, Arjun Korrakuti, Prisha Kumar, Yuhan Li, Sriyan Madugula, Nikhita Mahajan, Brenda Mao, Noyonima Masud, Vishnu Nair, Naveen Natarajan, Vaishnavi Paliwal, Tanisha Panchal, Mohita Panchumarthi, Esha Patel, Sharanya Swaminathan, Veda Thandra, Ruthesh Thavamani, Adhitya Thirupathi, Arunima Vasudev, Cynthia Wang, Lily Wei, Helen Xiao, Melodi Yilmaz, Alan Zhang, Edison Zhou, Jiaying Zhou

This past weekend Troy hosted the state finals for Forensics … 800 competitors from our entire state … I am so pleased with our team who placed 4^th in Class A  and for all of the students with individual awards. We had 23 kids at states and 19 made semis finals (top 12) …. And a  particular shout out to  Aahil Abdul Nazeer who took 1st place in the state in the Broadcasting category.
Other award winners:
2^nd place Oratory  Sharanya Swaminathan
4^th place Impromptu Avril Yu
4^th place Informative  Shriya Kankatala
5^th place Poetry Aamina Farooqi
6^th place Storytelling Natalie Hara
6^th place Sales 9/10 Nishit Palepu
7^th place Broadcasting Deepti Aggarwal
8^th place Oratory Yumena Nagai
9^th place Dramatic Interp 9/10 Bismaad Kaur
9^th place Dramatic Interp Emily Kim
9^th place Informative Vandy Nedle
10^th place Storytelling Isabella Vitanovich
11^th place Duo – Jessica Wu /Ishaan Malhotra
11^th place  Sales Haarshini Gunalan
12^th place Sales Charlotte Guillion

Success at the 2022 Michigan Economics Challenge:
Troy High State Champions in the David Ricardo Division (pre-AP):
Nish Palepu (10)
Yael Ramirez (9)
Vishesh Verma (11)
Matthew Zhao (10)
They advance to a multi-state regional competition after beating a team from IA Central in the finals.

Troy High State Runners-up in the Adam Smith Division (AP and IB):
Deepti Aggarwal (11)
Srihari Ananthalwan (11)
Naveen Natarajam (11)
Nikhil Tatineni (12)

Troy High DECA returned from Atlanta, Georgia yesterday with some DECA Glass + Medals in hand! The students spent the last five days competing at the DECA International Career Development Conference.  Students competed in Role Play events where they receive a combined score from being tested on their knowledge of the marketing industry + performing a role play, where they’re given a case study and they have to develop a solution and present it to a judge.  27 students traveled with me to Atlanta and I’m super excited to share the results below!
1^st Place Internationally: Aleena Malik for Marketing Communication Series
4^th Place Internationally: Ingrid Huang + Charlotte Worrel for Hospitality + Tourism Team Decision Making Event
6^th Place Internationally: Sarayu Bethamcherla + Alexa Michalec for Marketing Communications Team Decision Making Event
10^th Place Internationally: Vandhana Purushothaman for Apparel + Accessories Marketing Series
Top 20 Internationally: Sameer Khed for Hotel + Lodging Management Series, Jennifer Bricker for Hotel + Lodging Management Series, and Sriyan Madugula for Entrepreneurship Series.
Amay Baweja, Sameer Khed, Jennifer Bricker, Vandhana Purushothaman, and Aleena Malik also received Role Play awards on stage, as well as Sarayu Bethamcherla received a test medal.
In other exciting news, Amay Baweja was also awarded with the Central Region Scholarship. Only 2 students are honored with this scholarship and they’re chosen from thousands of applicants from the Central Region in DECA, which encompasses 13 states and 1 Canadian Province. Along with this honor, he had the opportunity to attend a special awardee dinner in the Mercedes Suite at Mercedes Benz Stadium and was honored on stage at the Grand Awards Session.
All in all ,Troy High DECA had a fantastic competitive season for 2021-2022! Combined between Districts, States and ICDC, Troy High students brought home 316 medals and 31 DECA Glass this year!
In addition to the students mentioned above, the following Troy High kids also competed at ICDC: Aditya Shankar, Angela Xu, Anshul Singh, Caitlin Dawson, Cynthia Wang, Erin Jeong, Fida Rahman, Harry Wang, Jesse Chang, Max Falk, Mlahat Mahmood, Neha Sil, Pranav Atyam, Riley Lennon, Sharanya Swaminathan, and Vienna Thieu.

This past weekend the Forensics team competed at the Regional meet …the qualifier for the state tournament. Every school is only allowed to bring 24 competitors for regionals …. 2 per category. I am thrilled to say we brought 21 competitors and all 21 students qualified for the state tournament.
4 students that advanced straight to the state finals based on their outstanding performances throughout the invitational season
Aahil Abdul Nazeer Broadcasting
Avril Yu – Impromptu
Rhea Hede – Prose  
Bella Vitanovich – Storytelling
Regional Competitors that advanced to the state finals
1^st place Broadcasting Deepti Aggarwal
1^st place Dramatic Interp9/10 Aanya Shah
1^st place Duo Jessica Wu/Ishaan Malhotra
1^st place Informative Vandya Nedle
1^st place Oratory Sharanya Swaminathan
1^st place Sales Haarshini Gunalan
1^st place Sales 9/10 Nishit Palepu
1^st place Storytelling Natalie Haras
2^nd place Dramatice Interp 9/10 Bismaud Kaur
2^nd place Dramatic Interp Emily Kim
2^nd place Extemporaneous Ishanya Saini
2^nd place Informative Shriya Kankatala
2^nd place Oratory – Yumena Nagai
2^nd place Poetry_ Hasriman Singh
2^nd place Prose – Saima  Ahmed
2^nd place Sales Charlotte Gullion
2^nd place Sales 9/10 Deeksha Hadagali
3^rd place Extemporaneous Sally Craig
3^rd place Poetry Aamina Farooqi

Congratulations Gayatri Aundhkar  for winning the Troy Garden Club's 2022 Art Competition award of Second Place - High School sponsored by members of the Troy Garden Club.

This past weekend the Troy High Model UN Delegation competed at our final collegiate conference for the year, the University of Michigan’s MUN conference.  We have not attended this conference since 2020, and it was rescheduled from January.  This weekend presented itself with lots of challenges in terms of navigating around campus, committee room changes, and other last minute curveballs but I could not have had a better set of students to get through it.  They definitely embodied that Troy Colt Grit and were so positive and truly had the best time competing at the conference and 8 of the students came home with awards!
Highest Honors - Best Delegate:
Krish Gupta, 11th grader
Jacob Azar, 11th grader
2nd Place - Outstanding Delegate:
George Perakis, 11th grader
Daniel Xiao, 10th grader
Krish Ghosalkar, 11th grader
3rd Place - Honorable Mention:
Mahima Mahajan, 9th grader
4th Place - Verbal Commendation:
Mia Vailotis, 12th grader
Yuktha Gowda, 10th grader
Grace Zhu, 11th grader
Arunima Vasudev, 9th grader

We had 2 adjudicators from the Sutton Foster Awards attend performances of Mamma Mia. In addition to receiving wonderful feedback on our production ("one of the most professional looking high school shows I've had the pleasure to attend" & "one of the best productions I've ever seen produced by a theatre company that isn't professional"), the following students were nominated for awards:

• Outstanding Performer in a Leading Role: Alexis Gearty as Donna
• Outstanding Performer in a Leading Role: Anurag Komaragiri as Sam

Alexis and Anurag have been invited to compete in the Sutton Foster Awards in East Lansing on May 14-15 in the hope of representing our region at the Jimmy Awards in NYC on June 27. Please congratulate them!

Congratulations to the students that participated in the State Solo/Ensemble Festival!
Categorized as "Outstanding Solo Performance." These students are awarded this honored distinction from their State-level adjudicator. They are also invited to compete in the 2022 MSBOA Concerto Competition.
Michael Carbajo, Clarinet
*Dana Garcia, Tenor Sax
Juhee Pack, Flute
*Dennis Yang, Alto Sax
*Dana and Dennis have elected to compete in the concerto competition and will be auditioning this Friday, April 8^th on the campus of Central Michigan University. 
Categorized as "Outstanding Small Ensemble."
Shane Karas, Trevor Swan, Dennis Yang, Tyler Yee, Woodwind Quartet
 

Over the break, many of our Chinese language students participated in the 2022 Chinese Quiz Bowl, sponsored by the Great Lakes Chinese Consortium.  This year, the quiz bowl was offered online on Saturday, March 26.  Troy High students swept all categories and ranked the overall first place in the state.  
First Year Individual Overall Award
1^st Place    Jessica Bradke  
3^rd Place    Yuto Kuwabara  
Second Year Non-Heritage Division Team Award
1^st Place      Natalie Tallu  & Jessica Duncan
3^rd Place      Shayuri Patel & Sarah Naga   
5^th Place      Daniel Lim & Amelia Chong  
Second Year Heritage Division Team Award
1^st Place      Michael Zheng & Nathanael Lu  
Second Year Overall Individual Award
1^st Place      Jessica Duncan  
Third Year Non-Heritage Division Team Award
1^st Place       Jiyoon Ahn & Sebin Oh  
2^nd Place      Lakshmi Jampana & Yeju Kim  
3^rd Place       Louis D'Souza & Nikhil Koka 
4^th Place       Saamiya Shaik & Isabelle Urbina 
5^th Place       Surya Alla & Akshat Patnaik   
Third Year Overall Individual Award
1^st Place       Lakshmi Jampana   
2^nd Place      Sebin Oh  
3^rd Place       Jiyoon Ahn  
Fourth Year Non-Heritage Division Team Award
1^st Place      Shrisha Bollu  & Eva Jaku  
3^rd Place      Lailah Moore & Soo-yeon Kim  
Fourth Year Heritage Division Team Award
1^st Place      Lucy Zhang & Annie Li  
Fourth Year Overall Individual Award
1^st Place      Eva Jaku   
2^nd Place     Annie Li
3^rd Place      Lucy Zhang

This past weekend the Troy High Model UN Delegation competed at Michigan State University's MUN conference, a conference we have not been able to attend since 2019.  Not only did they overall do amazing, but our delegation took home the coveted and prestigious Best Large Delegation Award!  This is an award that we won back in 2019 also, but with our younger delegation this year, we were not sure we could pull it off and these kids proved me wrong.  SO PROUD OF THEM!  It was also amazing as an advisor to see 6 alumni on staff this year, one serving on the Secretariat (executive board).
If you know any of the students below please congratulate them for their hard work and success. 30 delegates from Troy High School competed against 380+ students, 12 received awards:
Asmita Bhandari - Best Delegate (1st Place)
Areez Ahmed - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
Mahima Mahajan - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
Michael Kostinsky - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
Grace Cueny - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
George Perakis - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
Katherina Mandia - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
Hajra Ahmad - Book Award (3rd Place)
Rena Foo - Book Award (3rd Place)
Erin Xia - Book Award (3rd Place)
Arunima Vasudev - Honorable Mention (4th Place)
Vinaya Gunasekar - Verbal Commendation (5th Place)

Congratulations!  A team comprising of three Troy High Juniors (Rhea Hede-Sakhardande, Nihil Suthy, Sanjini Rajkumar, and one Adams High School junior (Saswat Saravanan)  placed first at the  Michigan FPS Senior Division State competition and will be representing Michigan at the Future Problem Solvers International Conference at University of Massachusetts Amherst from June 8-June 12. 

Adhvaith Rajanish took 1st place in the 2022 Michigan State Chess Junior Championship last weekend in  Ann Arbor.  Over forty top chess players from all over Michigan  played in this tournament and Adhvaith received a perfect score 5/5 winning all games. Michigan Chess Association has awarded $500 as Scholarship prize and he will be representing Michigan state to play in the 38TH ANNUAL GM ARNOLD DENKER NATIONAL TOURNAMENT OF HIGH SCHOOL STATE CHAMPIONS tournament  in California.

Congratulations to two of our Troy United Girls Hockey players who were recognized by our league through the voting of coaches with all-state honors.  Senior Heidi Blackwell received Honorable Mention Forward and junior Megan Moceri received All-State 2^nd Team Defense.  They have both been members since the inaugural year of TUGH hockey in 2019-20.  This is Megan's second award as she was also an Honorable Mention Defense winner her freshman year.  There was no voting last year due to COVID.

Congratulations Environmental Activists! Troy High has been designated a Green school by Oakland County’s Michigan Green Schools Program for completing 10-14 green activities. 

Troy High DECA had fantastic results at State Competition this past weekend in Detroit. We had 30 students qualify for International Competition to be held in Atlanta, Georgia at the end of April.
At the Grand Awards Ceremony on Saturday, Troy High received:

• 50 Role Play Medals
• 15 Test Medals
• 61 Finalist Medals
• 30 DECA Glass Plaques (denotes qualifying for Internationals)

Out of the 73 students who competed at States, 60 of them were called up to the stage to receive some form of award. In total, Troy High DECA received 156 medals + plaques for role play + test performance throughout the weekend.

We also had 4 students who “swept”, which means they won every single award possible in their category: Role Play, Test, Finalist + International Qualifier. The students who received this honor: Abby Cremers, Amay Baweja, Sriyan Madagula and Angela Xu.

Please join me in congratulating the following students who qualified for International Competition:

• Abby Cremers
• Erin Jeong
• Vienna Thieu
• Jennifer Bricker
• Aleena Malik
• Cynthia Wang
• Mlahat Mahmood
• Neha Sil
• Sharanya Swaminathan
• Angela Xu
• Elise Hsiao
• Caitlin Dawson
• Riley Lennon
• Ingrid Huang
• Charlotte Worrel
• Sarayu Bethamcherla
• Alexa Michalec
• Vandhana Purushothaman
• Mark Haerens
• Nishit Palepu
• Anshul Singh
• Sameer Khed
• Aditya Shankar
• Amay Baweja
• Max Falk
• Muhammad Qureshi
• Fida Rahman
• Harry Wang
• Sriyan Madagula
• Jesse Chang

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Japanese Speech Contest, which is sponsored by Detroit Consulate General of Japan.  This year's contest was held over Zoom. Contestants wrote their speech and spoke very fluently from memory.  The students all received Amazon gift cards for their award.  Two students from each high school participated.  All of them are seniors.  Below is the lineup of their placements.  

• Consulate General Award, $500 gift card:  Heejin Shyn, Troy High, AP class
• 1^st Place Award, $200 gift card:  Hibah Ahmed, Athens, AP class
• 2^nd Place Award, $100 gift card:  Alex Kizy, Athens, AP class
• 3^rd Place Award, $50 gift card:  Lachlan O'Neill, Level 4

Congratulations to the following recent accomplishments in Biology Competitions Club! 
Sonnet Xu received third place at the SE Michigan Regional Junior Science & Humanities Symposium (JSHS) and will now prepare a poster for the National JSHS in Albuquerque, NM.
Deepti Aggarwal and Riya Dutta are finalists for the Conrad Innovation Challenge and are invited to now compete in the Virtual Finals Showcase or the 2022 Innovation Summit in Houston, TX.
https://www.conradchallenge.org/2022finalists
Donghwan Kim, Kush Parikh, Claire Wu, Sonnet Xu, and Ray Zhang are semifinalists in the USA Biolympiad and will compete on March 31st to become finalists. 

Last Thursday and Friday, 99 of our HOSA (Michigan Future Health Professionals) students attended the State Leadership Conference in Traverse City, where they took different assessments, presented in a variety of categories, and competed with over 2,000 other Michigan students. A grand total of 63 students received recognition for their results and the following 28 students won gold, silver or bronze medals (top 3) in their categories automatically qualifying for the international competition in Nashville in June.
Please help me congratulating them for their hard work and excellence!! 😊

Troy High “Team Colts” Wins 2022 Michigan High
School Chess Team Championships! Four Troy High student formed Team Colts:
Board 1: Adhvaith Rajanish, ranked No.2 for Age 15 in Michigan
Board 2: Ryan Wang, ranked No.1 for Age 14 in Michigan
Board 3: Leyou Jiang, ranked top 10 for Age 15 in Michigan
Board 4: Rishi Shetty, president of Troy High Chess Club

Krish Ghosalkar and Varsha Penumalee were interviewed by Fox 2 this Monday because they were able to raise $116,100 for Angels Of Hope.

Congratulations to our amazing Student Government on running a very successful (and fun) activist week! Together we raised over $32,000 for Oxford High School!

This past weekend the Forensics team was on fire at the Birch Run Invitational.The team took 2^nd place overall out of 50 teams competing and the following students placed as noted:
1^st place Oratory- Varsha Penumalee
1^st place Impromtu- Avril Yu
1^st place tie – Storytelling  Isabella Vitanovich
2^nd place Oratory- Sharanya Swaminathan
2^nd place Poetry Aamina Farooqi 
4^th place Dramatic Duo – Jessica Wu- Ishaan Malhotra
6^th place Prose  Rhea Hede
6^th Place Dramatic Interp Bismaad Kaur

Students that finished in the top 12 in their categories:
Sameer Khed – Impromptu
Aniha Jain Impromptu
Charlotte Guillon _Oratory
Haarshini Gunalan
Yumena Nagai
Nish Pepu – Sales
Aanya Shah- Dramatic Interp
Alisha Gautam- Dramatic Interp
Emily Kim-Poetry
Hasrimran Singh- Poetry
Deepti Agarwal-Broadcasting
Shriya Kankatala – Informative

Troy and Athens High School’s FIRST FRC Team 226 Robotics Team, the Hammerheads, received a $1,000 grant from Troy Community Foundation. See full article here.

Haoran Li, has/have been selected as a 2022 national recipient of the Award for Aspirations in Computing (AiC)!

This past weekend the Troy High School Model UN Delegation competed at Harvard’s Model UN Conference in Boston where they competed against 4,000 delegates from schools from over 60 countries around the world. The students also experienced, for many of them, their first nor’easter east coast blizzard and snowstorm which brought almost 30 inches of snow.  Our delegation attended the HMUN conference virtually last year, but this was our first in person conference since January of 2020!  Of the 18 delegates that attended, 12 of them received awards and I could not be more proud of them!
Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place):
George Magar, 11th grader
Haoran (Sara) Li, 12th  grader
Kaeshav Krishna, 10th grader
Krish Gupta, 12th grader
Mia Valiotis, 12th  grader
Rachel Kozlowski, 12th grader
Sriyan Madugula, 11th grader
Sharanya Swaminathan, 12th grader

3rd Place - Honorable Mention:
Rena Foo, 11th grader

Tianhui (Grace) Zhu,  11th grader

Areez Ahmed, 12th grader

George Perakis, 11th  grader

Congratulations to Jyothika Vijay who participated in the Centralis Scholarship Competition at Central Michigan University earning the prestigious Centralis Gold Award!
Troy High DECA competed this past Saturday at Lake Orion High School for DECA District Competition.  We had 89 students compete from Troy High with 74 students qualifying for state competition, which will be held in March in Detroit. We also had 44 students who received test medals, and 53 students who received role play medals. In total, Troy High received 171 medals on Saturday. 
Troy High State Qualifying Students: (* = swept category)
Meera Manek*
Ananya Ramanan
Elaina Rondeau
Amay Baweja
Ellen Latysh*
Bessiana Shaska
Erin Jeong*
Vienna Thieu*
Sravya Kankatala
Sriyan Madagula*
Varun Sukhavasi
Neha Sil*
Mlahat Mahmood
Siddarth Akalankam
Raghav Sivakumar
Michael Hsiao
Fida Rahman
Sharanya Swaminathan*
Angela Xu*
Jungmin Ahn
Dean Vichitpap
Nishit Palepu*
Athrv Siriki
Mark Haerens
Linsey Chen
Anshul Singh
Riley Lennon
Caitlin Dawson
Ingrid Huang*
Charlotte Worrel*
Divya Prassana
Jennifer Bricker*
Sameer Khed*
Aditya Shankar
Arush Alapati
Sarah Harrison
Dina Ni*
Ayushi Gupta*
Jayanth Batti
Ajitesh Venkatesh*
Pranav Bellad*
Dilan Swami*
Noelle Kwok
Amy Tian
Abby Cremers*
Vandhana Purushathaman*
Bethanie Joy
Muhammad Qureshi
Harry Wang*
George Perakis*
Matthew Zhao*
Shreyanna Keeta
Vinati Donthireddy
Yuktha Puluvarthi*
Jesse Chang*
Joe Kleimann
Sparsh Shrivastava*
Katie Morris
Kaustubh Siriki
Julia Mowrey*
Aleena Malik
Sarayu Bethamcherla*
Alexa Michalec*
Cynthia Wang*
Elise Hsiao*
Pranav Atyam
Aryan Gupta*
Miranda Siegan*
Max Falk
Krish Gupta*
John Palomino*
Olivia Xu*
Charitha Meda
Simrun Sharma

The United States Senate Youth Program(USSYP) announces that high school student Ms. Sarayu Sitha Bethamcherla will join Senator Debbie Stabenow and Senator Gary Peters in representing Michigan during the 60th annual USSYP Washington Week, to be held March 6 — 9, 2022. Sarayu Bethamcherla of Troy was selected from among the state’s top student leaders to be part of the 104 national student delegation who will each also receive a $10,000 college scholarship for undergraduate study.

Congratulations to Harsimran Singh who placed first in this year’s Sikh Youth Symposium, a speech and
discussion competition held across North America.

We have three Coca Cola Scholarship Semi-Finalists! Congratulations to Dilan Swami, Sharanya Swaminathan and Angela Xu.

The Troy High Varsity Sailing team competed in the Shepherd Championship (District Tier 2 Championship Regatta) held at the Columbia Yacht Club in downtown Chicago, IL. The competition was tough with the Midwest Region's top teams from Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin all competing. Troy High  finished in 12th place out of eighteen teams. This was a great accomplishment for this team of sailors many of whom have sailed for less than a year. 

Congratulations to the 2022 National Merit Semifinalists.

Congratulations to Timothy Mathew on a perfect score on the ACT!

Congratulations to Sonnet Xu for having her article "Racial Disparities in Health: A Closer Look at End-Stage Renal Disease" published in PGHR.
PGHR is a Johns Hopkins University student and faculty-led publication and is the first international, peer-reviewed journal that features articles on global health topics written by high school students. Sonnet's article underwent a rigorous review process and was ultimately selected for publication as it met our high standards.
This is an extraordinary accomplishment of authoring a research article in an international peer-reviewed journal as a high school student!
The link to Sonnet's article is: https://www.pghr.org/post/racial-disparities-in-health-a-closer-look-at-end-stage-renal-disease 

Sharanya Swaminathan from Troy selected as the Distinguished Young Woman of Michigan 2022

Congratulations to the winners of the 6th Troy High Writing Contest. 
First Place: Nostalgia by Mark Hong 
Second Place: In My Hand by Seeun Oh 
Third Place: Cycle by Jessica Mathew 
Honorable Mention: Midnight Red by Max Murphy
Honorable Mention: Lighthouse to Infinity by Benjamin Odell 
Please check out the winning student's writings here!

Congratulations Rishi Rallapalli, 2021 runner up for the Detroit News scholarship.

Last week, the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association announced that the Troy High 2020 Gladiator Yearbook won “Silver Medal” recognition for the Spartan Award for last year’s publication. This book was miraculously completed last March when our year stopped short after going into lockdown for the first time.
The Chariot’s publication for 2021 pulled off a sweep of MIPA’s illustration category for individual awards highlighting some true artists amongst the staff.
Students placed in the following individual categories:
NEWSPAPER:
Andy DeGrand - (3rd Place) Online Breaking News Coverage, (3rd Place) Environmental Portrait, (Honorable Mention) Diversity Coverage, (Honorable Mention) Personality Profile
Anjali Sanil - (1st Place) Illustration, (3rd Place) Informative Feature,  (Honorable Mention) Feature Page or Spread
Anjali Sanil and Bridgette Scott - (Honorable Mention) Alternative Story Form
Anjali Sanil, Avril Yu & Varsha Penumalee (2nd Place) - Audio News Feature Story
Lola Pinneo, Emma Mertz & Manny Al-Nsour - (1st Place) Audio Interview
Manny Al-Nsour - (Honorable Mention) Front Page, (Honorable Mention) Sports Action Photo, (Honorable Mention) News or Feature Photo
Varsha Penumalee - (Honorable Mention) News Page or Spread, (Honorable Mention) Feature Page or Spread, (Honorable Mention) - Diversity Coverage
Luanni Ford - (2nd Place) Illustration, (Honorable Mention) Alternative Story Format
Luanni Ford & Maddy Hiser - (2nd Place) News or Feature Photo
Maddy Hiser & Lola Pinneo - (Honorable Mention) Pro-Con Opinion Column
Andy DeGrand & Praneetha Ankisettipalli - (Honorable Mention) Audio News Feature Story
Bridgette Scott & Vanisa Kumar - (3rd Place) Audio Interview
YEARBOOK:
Sophia Tomasello - (1st Place) Yearbook Visual/School Spirit Photo, (Honorable Mention) Yearbook Visual/Portrait or Personality Photo
Sophia Tomasello & Madelyn Holmes - (1st Place) Yearbook Visual & Verbal/Endsheet, (2nd Place) Yearbook Visual & Verbal/Feature Presentation, (3rd Place) Yearbook Visual & Verbal/Cover
Joseph Grieme - (2nd Place) Yearbook Visual/Club or Performance Photo
Lauren Funk - (2nd Place) Yearbook Verbal/Sidebar Coverage
Caroline Bogdanovich & Justin Hall - (3rd Place) Yearbook Visual/Student Life Spread
Sabrina Seldon & Casey Glenn - (Honorable Mention) Yearbook Visual/Organization Spread
Joseph Grieme & Briana Scillion - (Honorable Mention) Yearbook Visual/Academic Spread
Zachary Balcoff - (Honorable Mention) Yearbook Visual/Academic Photo
2020 Seniors
Briana Scillion & Emily Moore - (1st Place) Yearbook Verbal/Personality Profile
Madelyn Holmes - (2nd Place) Yearbook Visual/Photo Illustration
Casey Glenn - (Honorable Mention) Yearbook Visual/Sports Action Photo
Merna Dawoud (Honorable Mention) Yearbook Verbal/Feature Writing - Student Life
Merna Dawoud & Nathan Douglas - (Honorable Mention) Yearbook Verbal/Academic Writing

This Saturday (May 22nd) the THS science bowl students competed in the National Science Bowl Finals (NSB). There were 60 plus teams competing at the national level for top place. Troy High qualified to advance to the Playoffs.

Seventy-two students from Troy High School are being recognized for community service as National Award earners and as inspirations for other students to get involved in their community.

The 4^th Annual National Community Service Awards connect student service activity to the UN Global Goals. This year we have additional recognition for students working toward a world of Zero Hunger and Zero Waste.  This award program has been designed to elevate and expand the awareness of youth leaders contributing time and talent to drive positive progress toward global issues.  THS students have made the choice to include community service as part of the educational experience at Troy High School and have donated over 6,000 hours of their time toward this program.

Congratulations to Student Awardees at Troy High School

Ambassador Awardees: Rupal Athalye, Emily Baek, Charlie Chu, Shraddha Doddaguni Harish, Aksheet Dutta, Elizabeth George, Haarshini Gunalan, Ayushi Gupta, Deeksha Hadagali, Elise Hsiao, Nidhi Ikkurthy, Rebecca Johnson, Shreyana Keeta, Om Khuperkar, Noyonima Masud, Vishnu Nair, Tanisha Panchal, Esha Patel, Aanya Shah, Ivy Shi, Smriti Suresh, Sharanya Swaminathan, Sabrina Tallu, Sarayu Uppara, Cynthia Wang, Lily Wei, Helen Xiao, Dorothy Yin, Jiaying Zhou, Tianhui Zhu

Honor Awardees: Lisa (Seo Hyun) Baek, Arpita Bhandari, Arkesh Das, Yutong Du, Rithvik Girish, Mariska Goswami, Akul Gunukula, Allison Liu, Sriyan Madugula, Kyra McIntyre, Yumena Nagai, Naina Nagar, Anagha Nair, Nishit Palepu, Kush Parikh, Ashley Sawicke, Vidhya Harini Srinivas, Shreya Srugaram, Ruthesh Thavamani, Rachel Yang

Merit Awardees: Prisha Agnihotri, Grace Booza, Shannon Cai, Emily Chen, Hayley Chenfang, Dhruv Dighrasker, Vinati Donthireddy, Tyler Evans, Ananya Gummadi, Aranav Gupta, Nandita Jagan, Lekhana Katuri, Minwoo Kim, Isabelle Lamug, Lauren McIntyre, Minji Nam, Esha Sura, Vienna Thieu, Claire Wu, Erin Xia, Blenda Yan

Zero Hero Awardees: Rupal Athalye, Charlie Chu, Arkesh Das, Miguel Gambalan, Rithvik Girish, Akul Gunukula, Kyra McIntyre, Lauren McIntyre, Sarayu Uppara, Helen Xiao

The announcement of their awards can be viewed here:  https://innerview.org/award/members?schoolyear=2020&school_id=1836

Congratulations to Navneet Ramadurai for winning the annual Detroit News Brightest and Best Scholarship.

Troy High had 2 students place FIRST IN THE NATION, 1 student place THIRD in the nation, 2 students place TOP TEN in the nation, along with 2 more students placing TOP TWENTY in the nation. Plus, we had a few other students receive accolades for their test + role play performance. It was very exciting!! The top 3 spots in each category receive the coveted DECA Glass plaque.
Here are the top student placements:

• George Perakis: First in the nation, DECA Glass, Principles of Business Administration
• Amay Baweja: First in the nation, DECA Glass – Human Resources Management
• Vandhana Purushothaman: Third in the nation, DECA Glass – Principles of Marketing
• Navneet Ramadurai: Top Ten in the nation – Hotel & Lodging Management
• Sriyan Madagula: Top Ten in the nation – Principles of Finance
• Sophia Tomasello: Top Twenty in the nation – Apparel & Accessories Marketing
• Muhammad Qureshi: Top Twenty in the nation – Automotive Services Marketing

Other accolades at International Competition:

• Ayushi Gupta – Role Play Performance Award, Principles of Finance
• Shreyas Athreya – Role Play Performance Award, Entrepreneurship Series
• Jennifer Bricker – Test Award, Hotel & Lodging Management

A few accomplishments to note for students who were involved with DECA all 4 years of their high school career:

• Navneet Ramadurai qualified for International Competition all 4 years, placing in the “Top Ten” for his event every year
• Kenny Gu qualified for International Competition all 4 years
• Lily Renke & Ella Brandenberg qualified for International Competition 3 years in a row
• Sophia Tomasello, Allison Wei, Angela Li, Abby Liang, Sissie Liang & Josephine Billinger qualified for International Competition 2 years of their high school career
• Kyle Jung, Ali Armin, Dorothy Yin & Kayla Moya qualified for International Competition once in their high school career

Over 2,800 students throughout the entire state of Michigan competed in the 2021 HOSA virtual State Leadership Conference in April.  Our school's HOSA chapter had 220 students qualify to compete and of those students, 108 placed in the top 8 for their event! And 65 of those students placed in the TOP 3 for their event and qualified to compete in HOSA’s virtual International Leadership Conference in June.  
These students placed in the top 3 for their events and qualified for the International competition.  

And these students were recognized for placing in the Top 8 for their event. 

Congratulations to the following students for their outstanding performance in the Regional Forensics Competition:
Maggie Huber – 5^{th.  place}  in prose
Sharany Swaminathan – 6^{th place} in Oratory
Deepti Aggarwal -5^th place in Broadcasting
Nikhita Mahajan 2^nd place in 9/10 Oratory
Saima Ahmed 2^nd place in Poetry 9/10
Sameer Khed –  4^th place in Impromptu
Yumena Nagai – 4^th place in 9/10 oratory
Aamina Farooqui – semi finalist in poetry
Isabella Vitanovich – semi finalist in storytelling
Aahil Abdul Nazeer – semi finalist in Broadcasting
Aanya Shah-semi finalist in Dramatic Interp
Avril Yu- semi finalist in Impromptu
Caroline Samuelson – semi finalist in sales
Deeksha Hadagali – semi finalist in Duo
Natalie Haras- semi finalist in storytelling
Rhea Hede – semi finalist in prose 9/10
Shreyan Keeta Semi finalist in duo
Uday Jalf- semi finalist in extemporaneous
Gautam Baja
Haarshini Gunalan
Harsimran Singh

One of our Economics Club teams won the state championship for the Michigan Economics Challenge! Members of the team are Siddharth Paladugu (9), Srivatsav Bendi (10), Sonnet Xu (10), Nihil Suthy (10)

Congratulations Soo-Yeon Kim for winning 1st place in 2021 Online Chinese Bridge Speech Contest, High School Level 2, held by Western Michigan University this past Saturday.  She delivered an excellent 2-minute speeches and answered 2 impromptu questions well.  The judges gave her high remarks and were very impressed with her Chinese speaking ability. 

Congratulations to Shaun Lee, grade 9, for winning  second place for the Michigan State Piano Final - Senior division.

Congratulations to Amol V. Kirtane for being a National Merit Scholarship winner.

Congratulations to Leyou Jiang who just won 1st place in the 25th Annual MID-AMERICA OPEN hosted by The Continental Chess Association.

Congratulations to the following National Merit Finalists: 
Nina Anastasia Aitas, Marcus V. Chung, Sneha Dinda
Prashanti Donthireddy, Alaina R. Favet, Archita Girmannagari, Annie Y. He, Madhavan V. Iyengar, Shruti Jain, Achyuth Kashyap, Arjun N. Kashyap, Raj A. Khuperkar, Minseong Kim, Amol V. Kirtane, Nathan O. Kovacs, Sophia X. Liang, Elliot Y. Liu, Shifa Malik, Sandhya Manivasagam, Parvathi Nagappala, Aarti Phatke, Prajna Polamarasetti, Lauryn  A. Prokup, Sohil Ramachandra, Navneet K. Ramadurai, Swarith Reddy, Surya Sanjay, Sabrina H. Song, Sohan Vittalam, Allison Wei, Josiah Y. Wong, Jasmine Q. Wu, Alexander J. Xu, Sarah J. Xu, Lily X. Yang, Ruicheng Yang, Dorothy Yin, Michael L. Young, Darren Zheng Zeng, Anna Zhao, Katherine A. Zhao, Erik Zhou

Julian Mei was awarded 2^nd place for his Computer Graphics category design in the high school level Japanese Teachers’ Association of Michigan’s Nengajo contest.

Congratulations Leyou Jiang, 9th grade, who won 1st place in  28th Annual Western Class Chess Tournament, Class A section, with a $500 prize. The tournament was hosted by Continental Chess Association in March.

At the State Championships for Michigan High School Figure Skating our B Team came in 2nd. The team is led by Troy High seniors: Rachel Burke and Kristina Chen, and sophomore Victoria Dong, and from Athens, senior Alisa Voyevidko. 

Troy High won the Michigan Science Bowl tournament this Saturday (03-27-2021). They will go on to compete at the national tournament in May. The team was represented by the following students: 
Claire Wu
Jasmine Wu
Madhavan Iyengar
Sneha Dinda
Yash Bajji

On Saturday, a few of our students participated in 2021 virtual China Quiz Bowl contest hosted by Great Lakes Chinese Consortium.
Chinese 2:  Jiyoon Ahn and Soo-Yeon Kim                    2nd place
Chinese 3:  Shrisha Bollu and Eva Jaku                         2nd place
Chinese 4:  Seonghyo Kim and Brandon Nguyen         2nd place 
Eredge Najam won the Honorable Mention for 2021 Chinese Poster Art Contest, also hosted by Great Lakes Chinese Consortium.  

Congratulations to the THS and AHS Model UN Teams.  They have competed in their final two conferences and the below students took home awards from the University of California, Berkley and Oakland University.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKLEY: 
30 delegates from both Troy High and Athens competed against 2,000+ US and international students, 4 THS students received awards and 2 of them were 9th graders in their first year of the club!
Angela Xu, 11th Grader - Outstanding Delegation (2nd Place) and Research Position Paper Award
Haraon Sara Li, 11th Grader - Outstanding Delegation (2nd Place) and Research Position Paper Award
Yuktha Gowda, 9th Grader - Outstanding Delegation (2nd Place)
Hajra Ahmad, 9th Grader - Outstanding Delegation (2nd Place)
OAKLAND UNIVERSITY: 
35 delegates from Troy High School competed against 200 other students from around the state, 8 received awards
Justin Esdale (AHS), 12th Grade - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
Kush Parikh, 9th grade - Best Delegate (1st Place)
Anurag Komaragiri, 10th Grade - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
Yuktha Gowda, 9th grade - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
Miyabi Shinki, 9th grade - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
Arunima Vasudev, 9th Grade - Superior Delegate Award (3rd Place)
Helinna Li, 10th grade - Superior Delegate Award (3rd Place)
Haoran (Sara) Li, 11th grade - Superior Delegate Award (3rd Place)

Troy High’s DECA Team just attended the (virtual) State Conference Awards Ceremony this afternoon and we had a fantastic showing!!  We had 40 students qualify for International Competition (virtually held in April) and we received 184 medals overall for their test and role play performance.  To break it down, Troy High students received 29 test medals, 35 role play performance medals, 80 finalist medals and 40 international-qualifying glass medallions.  The following students “swept” their category, meaning they won every award possible at state competition: Angela Li, Sophie Tomasello, Kenneth Gu, Zachary Yu, Ella Brandenberg, George Perakis, Jennifer Bricker, Allison Wei, Meera Manek, Sharanya Swaminathan, Sriyan Madagula, Pranav Bellad and Dilan Swami.

The following THS students qualified for DECA International Competition in April:
 

• Angela Li
• Sophie Tomasello
• Muhammad Qureshi
• Kenneth Gu
• Zachary Yu
• Shreyas Athreya
• Ella Brandenberg
• Yuktha Pulavarthi
• Grace Cueny
• Jennifer Bricker
• Navneet Ramadurai
• Lily Renke
• Dorothy Yin
• Lauren Golden
• Allison Wei
• Sameer Khed
• Vandhana Purushotham
• Josie Billinger
• Sissie Liang
• Meera Manek
• Ananya Ramanan
• Sharanya Swaminathan
• Angela Xu
• Riley Lennon
• Caitlin Dawson
• Amay Baweja
• Abby Liang
• Kayla Moya
• Elise Hsiao
• Michael Young
• Kyle Jung
• George Perakis
• Julia Mowrey
• Matthew Zhao
• Sriyan Madugula
• Ayushi Gupta
• Sarayu Bethamcherla
• Alexa Michalec
• Pranav Bellad
• Dilan Swami

Congratulations to Biology Competitions Club Members and/or AP Biology Students on the following recent accomplishments: 
At the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium Jasmine Wu (senior) won 2^nd Place and $1,500 for her research presentation titled: Modeling Michigan West Nile Virus Cases Amid Climate Change. Aryan Singh (sophomore) won 4^th Place for his project titled: Hyperglycemic conditions impair lung epithelial innate response to Klebsiella pneumoniae infection.   
Claire Wu (junior), Jasmine Wu (senior), Alex Xu (senior), and Ray Zhang (sophomore) are all Semifinalists for the USA BioOlympiad having scored in the top 10% of the nation against over 9,000 students on this very challenging multiple-choice exam and will compete in April to become finalists.  
At the Science Fair of Metro Detroit, Angela Xu (junior), Ethan Chen (junior), and Jonathan Chen (sophomore) are the Grand Award Winners for their research on Non-contact Continuous Cardiovascular Monitoring System and they won a Yale Science and Engineering Association Award. This team will now compete at the ISEF Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in May.   
Also, at the Science Fair of Metro Detroit, Deepti Aggarwal (sophomore) and Sanya Chawla (junior) won 1^st Place for their research on the Measurement of Reactive Nitrogen Species Using Automated Western Blot System along with an award from the Society for In Vitro Biology. Sonnet Xu (sophomore) won 2^nd Place for her research on A Machine Learning Approach to Mortality Prediction in Maintenance Hemodialysis and an award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Sneha Dinda (senior) won 3^rd Place for her research on Mechanochemical Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Hydrooxyapatite. Gary Xu (junior) won 4^th Place for his research on Properties of Stella Binaries and an award from the American Statistical Association.  
The Wyland National Mural and Art Challenge awarded Annie He (senior) the 12^th Grade Individual Artist Winner which included a $50 gift card for her impressive entry. 

Congratulations to William Pfauth.  William, who is currently a junior at Troy High, has achieved the rank of Eagle Scout!  For his Eagle project, William led a group of Scouts who made educational fish toys for children at the Drayton Plains Nature Center in Waterford.

Congrats to our Boys’ Swim team as they won leagues tonight!  Also, congrats to Kyle Larson for being named OAA Coach of the Year!

Congratulations to Shreyas Athreya and Dylan Chaudhry who won second place for their business plan in the virtual Skandalaris Business Plan Competition, also to Aleena Malik and Vishal Damodaran who won Honorable Mention.

Over the past two months, the Troy High School and Athens High School Model UN Delegations competed in three prestigious and competitive collegiate conferences.  They attended virtual conferences put on by Harvard University, Princeton University, and the University of California, Berkley.  It was at Princeton University's conference that the THS delegation took home the coveted Outstanding Delegation Award, where they competed against schools from around the world.
Each of these conferences was not only new to our delegation but also challenged the students to prepare in different ways as they have unique requirements and procedures the delegates have to adhere to being set entirely virtually. If you have any of the students below please congratulate them for their hard work and success:
HARVARD: 20 delegates from both Troy High and Athens competed against 500+ US and international students, 4 received awards
Sharanya Swaminathan, 11th Grader - Best Delegate (1st Place)
Areez Ahmed, 11th Grader - Best Delegate (1st Place)
Justin Esdale, Athens 12th Grader - Diplomatic Commendation (3rd Place)
Ridaa Khan, 12th Grader - Verbal Commendation (4th Place)
PRINCETON: 20 delegates from Troy High School competed against 200+ US and international students, 12 received awards
*Overall Outstanding Delegation Award for Troy High School (photo attached of the plaque award)
Sharanya Swaminathan, 11th Grader - Best Delegate (1st Place)
Mia Valiotis, 11th Grader - Best Delegate (1st Place)
Allison Liu, 11th Grader - Best Delegate (1st Place)
George Magar, 10th Grader - Outstanding Delegate (2nd Place)
Avani Prasad, 11th Grader - Honorable Mention (3rd Place)
Niheera Aedla, 11th Grader - Honorable Mention (3rd Place)
Krish Ghosalkar, 10th Grader- Verbal Commendation (4th Place)
Sriyan Madugula, 10th Grader- Verbal Commendation (4th Place)
Grace Zhu, 10th Grader - Verbal Commendation (4th Place)
Rena Foo, 10th Grader - Verbal Commendation (4th Place)
Arya Prasad, 10th Grader - Position Paper Award (5th Place)
George Perakis, 10th Grader - Position Paper Award (5th Place)

Congratulations to Chloe Pottenger for receiving the Gold award in the Michigan Japanese Speech Contest.

We are very pleased to notify you that your student Kenneth Gu has been selected as one of only two students to represent your state as a delegate to the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) to be held online this year, March 14 – 17, 2021.  Kenneth will also receive a $10,000 college scholarship to be utilized in accordance with the attached USSYP brochure stating rules of the program.

OSTC-SE’s Dean’s List is comprised of students who earned an A for their first semester grade,  AND had the additional accomplishment of perfect attendance, attending every class with zero absences.  We want to take an opportunity to highlight their feat and recognize the extra effort, flexibility, and focus it took to earn this achievement, especially due to the pandemic. Congratulations to these THS students!!
Sydney Gonzalez - Health Sciences
Madeline Rizk - Health Sciences

Congratulations to Srishti Gowda who was honored as a Daily Point of Light Award Recipient for their work with organ donation. The Daily Point of Light Award is presented by Points of Light each day, celebrating the power of individuals to spark change and improve the world. https://www.pointsoflight.org/awards/inspired-by-teachers-transplant-story-michigan-teen-becomes-an-organ-donation-advocate/

Ray Zhang has recently won the Distinguished Honorable Mention Award in the Poetry category in the 2020 Ocean Awareness Contest, a global arts competition sponsored by Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs that engages youth in creatively raising awareness of environmental issues impacting our blue planet. Ray, who was selected from approximately 5,300 participants from around the world, received a cash award and will be featured in Bow Seat’s international ocean advocacy Gallery and social media channels. View Ray’s award-winning piece here!

The Troy High DECA Chapter participated at (virtual) district competition back in December. This morning DECA conducted the virtual awards ceremony to share accolades from the competition and students who have qualified for the next level of competition, State Finals being held virtually in March. Troy High did an outstanding job!! We had 117 students compete at Districts. This morning, 111 of those students qualified for State Competition. In total, Troy High received 56 test medals, 85 role play medals and 111 state qualifier medals. Troy High also had 42 students who “swept” their flight – which means that they took first place in every aspect of competition (test + role play + state qualifier). Please join me in congratulating the following students and sharing a virtual high-five with them: (the names in italics are those of the students who “swept”)

• Ashley Golden
• Kayla Tompkins
• Sissie Liang
• Josie Billinger
• Meera Manek
• Ananya Ramana
• Ali Armin
• Allison Wei
• Lauren Golden
• Elaina Rondeau
• Amay Baweja
• Dorothy Yin
• Matthew Zhao
• George Perakis
• Vinati Donthireddy
• Ellen Latysh
• Julia Mowrey
• Joey Slaveiro
• Shreyas Athreya
• Ivy Shi
• Soham Salunke
• Aravind Saravanan
• Neha Sil
• Mlahat Mahmood
• Sohan Vittalam
• Fida Rahmann
• Sonia Kore
• Angela Xu
• Sharanya Swaminathan
• Ibrahim Islam
• Eric Qiao
• Sriyan Madugala
• Jesse Chang
• Varun Sukhavasi
• Ahnaf Azim
• Carisa Zhu
• Ayushi Gupta
• Ingrid Huang
• Charlotte Worrel
• Aditya Shankar
• Zach Saad
• Riley Lennon
• Caitlin Dawson
• Maria Nido
• Miyah McCatty
• Jennnifer Bricker
• Lily Renke
• Navneet Ramadurai
• Andrew Howard
• Sarah Harrison
• Divya Prassanna
• Sid Ramaiyer
• Arush Alapati
• Kayla Moya
• Ashley Sheko
• Lisa Jeong
• Lauren Funk
• Caroline Bogdanovich
• Pehar Rampal
• Archita Girmannagiri
• Pranav Bellad
• Dilan Swami
• Yvona Nikitin
• Sameer Khed
• Miranda Siegen
• Ashley Sawicke
• Michael Hsiao
• Nithilesh Kris
• Dina NI
• Sophie Tomasello
• Sawyer Darish
• Angela Li
• Muhammad Qureshi
• Sudhanva Pulvender
• Eashan Shah
• Girish Kotagiri
• Naisha Phadke
• Kenny Gu
• Zachary Yu
• Advait Paliwal
• Rajesh Madhaven
• Nicole Miciuda
• Erika Kleimann
• Leah Guindi
• Celina Hammerschmidt
• Yuktha Pulavarthi
• Ella Brandenberg
• Anna McManus
• Grace Cueny
• Katie Morris
• Abby Liang
• Abby Cremers
• Sarayu Bethamcherla
• Alexa Michalec
• Ammar Faisal
• Tristan Ludeman
• Cynthia Wang
• Elisa Hsiao
• Aryan Gupta
• Pranav Atyam
• Kyle Jung
• Ethan Lang
• Michael Young
• Kiana Yin
• Jennifer Liu
• Trevor Nguyen
• Josh Vijayasegar
• Vandhana Purushothaman
• Humnah Ali
• Theresa Wei
• Meghana Atmukar
• Bethanie Joy

Congratulations to Kush Parikh for having his article "How Technology Helps Protect Global Health and Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic" published in PGHR. PGHR is a Johns Hopkins University student and faculty-led publication and is the first international, peer-reviewed journal that features articles on global health topics written by secondary school students. Kush's article underwent a rigorous review process and ultimately, the article was selected for publication as it met our high standards.
The link to Kush’s article is: https://www.pghr.org/post/how-technology-helps-protect-global-health-and-fight-the-covid-19-pandemic 

Congratulations Om Shah, senior, and Abigail Liang, senior, for being among the 1,609 semifinalists selected from 99,403 applicants for the nationwide Coca Cola scholars foundation.https://www.coca-colascholarsfoundation.org/blog/2021-semifinalists/

Congrats THS on being a top finisher in the Gift of Life HOSA Challenge! We came in second in the state for the "Most New Donors Registered" category.

Two Biology Competitions Club students and graduates of Troy High, Finsam Samson and Yujie Wang, who won the Genes in Space competition in 2019 will have their experiment launched to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew-1 mission this Saturday, November 14! This historic mission teams SpaceX and NASA to send four astronauts to the ISS as part of the first official crew-rotation mission from America in nearly a decade. Discovery Channel and the Science Channel will carry the launch live beginning at 8PM EST on Saturday, November 14. Finsam and Yujie will also be a part of a Virtual Social today, November 13^th, which goes all day and includes several astronauts and NASA administrators, but they will be on ~4:30PM EST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXVhGrJ98DM&feature=youtu.beYou can read more about their experiment here: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spacex-crew-1-science-iss

Congratulations to the sailing team, they competed in the Michigan Double-Handed State Championships and placed 5th overall!

Congratulations to Tanay Bhangale, senior, who earned a perfect 36 on the ACT.

Congratulations to Sneha Dinda, senior, who earned a perfect 36 on the ACT.

Congratulations to Annie He, senior, who earned a perfect composite 36 on the ACT

The Robotics Team has been busy since the Pandemic started. The team is currently working towards innovative ways to keep our students socially-distanced, while staying actively engaged going into the 2020-2021 school year.

This includes the student leaders creating and hosting numerous activities such as CAD Training workshops, Leadership Development workshops, Robotics Town Halls, 3D Printing PPE for Beaumont, and sending resources to our fellow Michiganders affected by the Midland floods, to name a few. 

Big thanks to Dr. Tu for his guidance through this process!

 We are extremely proud to announce that we will be bringing home 3 Blue Banners & 1 Engineering Inspiration Award to the Troy School District, including our second consecutive State Championship Chairman's Blue Banner!

Along with this, two Troy High Students, Harshini Padala (our incoming 2020-2021 Team President) and Nidhi Jaison (Class of 2020) were both interviewed by ESPN at our St Joseph District event.

In addition, Harshini was selected as one of 15 students to represent Michigan at the World Championship as a Dean's List Finalist.

We ended the season ranked in the Top 3 of Michigan's 560 competitive high school teams.

Congratulations to Aleena Malik and Cecelia Fan! Their submission to the Detroit Zoo's Greenprize competition was selected for 2nd place. That means the school will receive $600 to grow their program to reduce food waste.

The Troy High Wrestling Team has been named First Team Academic All-State by the Michigan High School Wrestling Coaches Association for 2020.

Congratulations to sophomores Mariska Goswami and Saakshi Sovani for their perfect 36 ACT scores

On Sunday, 14 Troy High students went to UM-AA to compete at the 27th annual Michigan Japan Quiz Bowl.  We had four teams representing Troy High this year.  Below are the groups of competitors:
Level 2, 1st place
Jong Choi, Max Stromberg, Trevor Ohman, Bennett Korotko
Level 2, 2nd place
Skyla Oh, Lachlan O'Neill, Skanda Vijaykumar
Level 3, 1st place
Rohit Rajala, Sebit Paik, Heejin Shyn
Level 4, 1st place
Rishi Rallapalli, Marcus Chung, Teagan Walter, Chloe Pottenger

Troy High had an OUTSTANDING performance at DECA States this past weekend in Detroit with 35 students qualifying for International Competition in Nashville the end of April.  We had 85 students compete at the state competition with 58 of those students being recognized on stage for their test or role play performance.  Troy High received 23 test medals, 55 role play medals and 46 finalist medals. To receive a role play or test medal, that means a student scored the highest in their respective flight. To receive a finalist medal, that means a student placed in the top 3 of their respective flight.

A few standouts before I list those who qualified for Internationals: Rachel Wu, Kenneth (Kenny) Gu, Ali Armin, Sissie Liang, Ella Brandenberg and Jennifer Liu all SWEPT – which means they were the top student in their whole flight for every event they competed in – test score and two role plays. IMPRESSIVE!!

The following students qualified for International competition and will travel to Nashville on April 29^th:

• Sophie Tomasello
• Kenny Gu
• Mohsin Mahmood
• Ella Brandenberg
• Navneet Ramadurai
• Jennifer Won
• Lily Renke
• Ali Armin
• Meera Manek
• Shaarav Shah
• Cynthia Wang
• Austin Feng
• Jennifer Bricker
• Anna McManus
• Abby Cremers
• Yuktha Pulavarthi
• Collin McManus
• Rachel Wu
• Ethan Alexander
• Sissie Liang
• Josie Bilinger
• Aditi Jain
• Ambika Tripathi
• Marina Sun
• Isabella Smith
• Ingrid Huang
• Charlotte Worrel
• Alexa Michalec
• Sarayu Bethamcherla
• Parvathi Nagappala
• Abby Liang
• Kiana Yin
• Jennifer Liu
• James Terng
• Nandini Lakshminarayanan

So far this year Project LEAD members have logged almost 3500 hours of community service! Way to go Project LEAD!

Congratulations to Biology Competitions Club member Kenneth Gu who earned 2^nd place at the Michigan Brain Bee Competition.

Congratulations to all the members of our orchestra program!  All four orchestras received straight 1's, which is a historic achievement!   The judges were very complimentary for all the groups, and were very moved by the Symphony Orchestra performance, which was especially fine. 

Congratulations to Om Shah and Brenna Feld for receiving the President's Volunteer Service Award!

Troy High's MI Green Schools application has been approved and we are now designated an Evergreen School!

Congratulations to Annie Tang for her perfect 36 ACT score!

Please congratulate the two TH juniors, Rishi Rallapalli and Chloe Pottenger, for their win at the 25^th Japanese Speech Contest.  Rishi took first place, the highest honor from the Consul General of Japan.  Chloe received one of the Gold awards, which is second place. 

For the third year in a row, junior Jonathan Wang has qualified for the 2020 Junior Olympic Fencing National Championships

Congratulations to three Troy Colts who scored a perfect 36 on the ACT, Nikhil Bajwa, Jasmine Wu and Lily Yang!

The Troy High School GIDAS(Genes In Diseases and Symptoms) Club recently got the 'Best New GIDAS Club Award' at the 2020 Genes and Health Contest at the University of Michigan.

Congratulations to Swarith Reddy, junior, who scored a perfect 36 on the ACT!

On Saturday during rainmageddon Troy High DECA competed at District Competition at Lake Orion High School. 105 students represented Troy High in competition with 89 students then qualifying for State Competition in Detroit early March. Troy High had a total of 89 students qualify for state competition with 23 students “sweeping” their category, 42 student test medals (top test score in their category) and 55 student role play medals (top role play score in their category). One of the highlights of the day included the following students who “swept” their category, which means they won every award possible during competition - a test score medal, a role play score medal and a state qualifier medal. Students receiving those accolades were: Ashley Golden, Ivy Shi, Cynthia Wang, Michael Young, Alex Prater, Kolin Jaku, Marina Sun, Isabella Smith, Navneet Ramadurai, Chaitanya Vadlamodi, Lauren Funk, Jennifer Bricker, Sohil Ramachandra, Jordan Troup, Kenneth Gu, Kennedy Singleton, Ella Brandenberg, Shaarav Shah, Sarayu Bethamcherla, Abby Liang, Rachel Wu, James Terng, and Anna McManus.

Congratulations to the following 2020 Coca-Cola Semifinalists! Divya Aggarwal, Matthew Dong, Andy Feng, Julia Genord, Amogh Gowda, Gurish Sharma, Pratham Soni, and Jennifer Won.

Annie Tang, junior, recently won 2nd place at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Michigan Competition for piano in the Senior Division last month (November 2019). Consequently, she was named the alternate representative for our state at the upcoming District Level competitions.

The THS Math Team made it to the Elite 8 of this year’s math tournament.  They entered the championship bracket as a 3 seed and just beat the 2 seed in our region. 

Biology Competitions Club members Jasmine Wu and Madhavan Iyengar are state finalists in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest. Over 2,000 applications were submitted and their team will now compete to become the state title holder for Michigan to show how STEM can be applied to improve Troy High School.

Biology Competitions Club members Victoria Dong, Anuya Gawaskar, and Vidhi Kamat won the Climate Superstars Challenge sponsored by Samsung, Energy Star, and the National Environmental Education Foundation. This was a 10-day after school challenge involving taking an active role in environmental literacy and energy efficiency. These three freshmen will now each be awarded a Samsung Galaxy tablet. Congratulations Climate Superstars!

THS Students benefit Gleaners - On September 22, Troy High students, as part of Key2Finesse (www.key2finesse.org), a student-run non-profit organization, organized a speech, essay, art, and poetry competition benefiting Gleaners Community Food Bank. The entire team consisted of almost 40 students from around southeastern Michigan, including Executive Board Members Krish Ghosalkar, freshman, Dhruv Muralidhar, senior, and Shaarav Shah, junior, along with volunteers Shreyas Athreya, sophomore, Varsha Penumalee, freshman, Aryan Singh, freshman, and Kaustubh Siriki, sophomore. Through more than three months of hard work, Key2Finesse was able to raise a whopping $48,648 which will go the Gleaners’ backpack program that provides underprivileged students with nourishment. Their amazing efforts were covered by FOX 2 News on October 12; see https://youtu.be/eFCpi67sTmQ. This is the highest ever any student-run organization has donated to Gleaners.

Emily Estrada Manzanares, senior, was nominated and participated in the Congress of Future Medical Leaders this past June. Among many other life-changing presentations, delegates at the Congress heard from Nobel laureates and top medical school deans, learned about cutting-edge advances in medicine, and witnessed a live surgery!

Abby Liang, junior, has been accepted into the New York Academy of Sciences Junior Academy. As a member of the Junior Academy, Abby will have the opportunity to collaborate with nearly 3,000 students from 94 countries on virtual challenges sponsored by industry leading companies and hosted on the innovation platform, Launchpad. These challenges are designed by the Academy’s education experts to help students develop 21^st-century skills as they prepare for the jobs of the future.

Congratulations THS students who achieved a perfect 36 on their ACT tests - Sophia Baik, senior; Reagan Choi, sophomore; Odelia Huang, junior; Rishyanth Peelaand, senior, Yusra Mahmood, senior, Arjun Kashyap, junior and Jasmine Wu, junior.

Congratulations to teacher Virginia Riolo for being awarded the Outstanding High School Teacher Award by the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants last evening at their annual banquet in Novi.

Congratulations to the following National Merit Semifinalists: 
Lillian Adams, Anisha Aggarwal, Divya Aggarwal, Arlene Chen, Edisoin Chiu, Atticus Chong, John Dannug, Angela Dong, Matthew Dong, Priya Dutta, Julia Genord, Amogh Gowda, Caitlin Henning, Catherine Hu, Nidhi Jaison, Katherine Jean, Katherine Lee, Christina Li , Claire Li , Richard Li , Shannon Li , Yusra Mahmood, Dhatri Medarametla, Rithvik Mohanarangan, Dhruv Muralidhar, Hareesh Ragav, Gurish Sharma, Adrianna Shaska, Natania Shi, Pratham Soni, Shanan Sun, Shruthi Sunilkumar, Lydia Tan, Kevin Wang, Jennifer Won, Emily Wu, Ailin Xiong, Sophia Yee, Carol Zhang, Caroline Zhang, Aimee Zheng, Kevin Zhou, 

TTE Results of 14th Annual National Youth Arts Awards for the 2018-2019 season
Recent Troy High graduate and Biology Competitions Club past-president, Jason Zhang, placed in the top 4 students nationally for the USA Biology Olympiad, nearly 10,000 students competed! He went on to represent the United States at the International Biology Olympiad in Hungary this past July.

https://www.usabo-trc.org/

Recent grads and Biology Competitions Club members, Finsam Samson and Yujie Wang, won the top prize for the Genes in Space Competition. They will now travel to the Kennedy Space Center to launch their experiment into space!

https://www.genesinspace.org/press/genes-space-winning-high-school-team-perform-experiment-international-space-station/

1. Amol Kirtane
2. Alex Xu
3. Dhruv Muralidhar
4. Claire Yang

• Navneet Ramadurai
• Emily Stabinsky
• Clare McAuliffe
• Griffin Hendren
• Brian Oh
• Raghav Maini
• Marina Sun
• Demitra Loucopolous
• Alanah Soriano
• Kaylee Won
• Quinn Favret
• Jennifer Won
• Nisha Bhargava
• Vedaant Garg
• Michael Song
• Shruti Gomer
• Muyang Wang
• Erin McManus
• Runxuan Jiang
• Kenny Gu
• Catherine Manceor
• Caitlyn Moon

• State Qualifier Medals: 64
• Yellow Ribbon Medals (role play score medals): 59
• Blue Ribbon Medals (test score medals): 48

• Zahra Ahmad
• Robert Banas
• Nisha Bhargava
• Danielle Boyer
• Anna Fairman
• Quinn Favret
• Vedaant Garg
• Shruti Gomer
• Kenny Gu
• Griffin Hendren
• Frank Huang
• Kolin Jaku
• Runxuan Jiang
• Alondra Kannu
• Sema Khraishi
• Angela Li
• Demitra Loucopoulus
• Raghav Maini
• Clare McAuliffe
• Erin McManus
• Collin McManus
• Ishan Mehta
• Caitlyn Moon
• Brian Oh
• Hafsa Qureshi
• Saloni Singhal
• Michael Song
• Alanah Soriano
• Emily Stabinsky
• Marina Sun
• Abhi Thirupathi
• Evan Tondera
• Malavika Vengilatt
• Muyang Wang
• Kaylee Won
• Jennifer Won
• Rachel Wu
• Jayson Your
• Jahow Yu
• Kevin Zhang
• Annette Zhao

• Samay Achar
• Apoorva Akalankam (yellow)
• Akarsh Alapati (yellow)
• Ethan Alexander (yellow)
• Ali Armin (yellow)
• Adam Basa (yellow)
• Ella Brandenberg (yellow)
• Isabella Cueny (yellow)
• Taylor Davis
• Ryan Dong (yellow)
• Dheeraj Kakulavarum (blue)
• Nate Kovacs (blue)
• Min Lee (yellow)
• Catherine Manceor (yellow)
• Lily Renke (yellow)
• Kate Rivers (yellow)
• Gabriela Rowe (yellow)
• Tessy Sheko (yellow)
• Sid Soni (blue)
• Anshula Sundram (yellow)
• Julia Thomson (yellow)
• Miah Tompkins (yellow) 
• Madeline Trumbauer (yellow)

• Robotics Club Chairman's Magazine: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6fW4VWHJaphV29XVDB2UHdYcUU
• Robotics Club Business Plan: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6fW4VWHJaphOE1EMmZpbFlTZkU
• Robotics Club Chairman's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXvt2m0DCzM

• Daniel Zheng
• Sahil Dogra
• Kathleen Gu
• Claire Hao
• Kaitlyn Hao
• Aimee Zheng
• Richard Yang

• 7^th Place in the Essay Area, awarded $100: Quinn Favret – Troy High Sophomore
• 6^th Place in the Essay Area, awarded $100: Chris Hom – Troy High Freshman
• 1^st Place in the Marketing Area, awarded $100: Krystal Qin – Troy High Senior

1. Simrun Jassal (Troy)
2. Caity Zaremba (Avondale)
3. Erin Long (Troy)
4. Madison Darish (Troy)
5. Noelle Kaminski (Troy)

1. Caity Zaremba (Avondale)
2.  Madison Darish (Troy)
3. Noelle Kaminski (Troy)

1. Caity Zaremba (Avondale)
2. Erin Long (Troy)
3. Noelle Kaminski (Troy)
4. Madison Darish (Troy)

1. Caity Zaremba (Troy)
2. Noelle Kaminski (Troy)
3. Madison Darish (Troy)

• Excellent for Yearbook Cover/Endsheet design to Erin Mitchell
• Honorable Mention for Yearbook Student Life Photography to Natalie Guisinger
• Excellent for Yearbook Layout: Theme to Julia Best
• Excellent for Yearbook Layout: Inside Pages to Caroline Schlimgen
• Excellent for Sports Writing to Tiffany Nogoy
• Excellent for Editorial Writing to Leah Graham