Notable Students

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