Congratulations to the varsity boys water polo team on being named one of the 29 CIF State Academic Team Champions for the 2016-17 school year. The team GPA of 3.87 was the highest among all boys water polo team in the state. The boys also won the award last year, with a 3.77 GPA, and will receive a banner recognizing this accomplishment again this year. Check out the entire list of State Academic Champions here:
In April, rising sophomores Catherine Zhao, Ronit Gagneja, Jeffrey Yang and Michelle Kwan took second place at the Cupertino Hackathon, held at the city’s Quinlan Community Center. During the event, they created an app that helps students organize bike rides, carpools and meetups. Their work was presented to the Cupertino City Council, with the top five teams receiving awards from Cupertino mayor Savita Vaidhyanathan.
About 20 teams competed at the Cupertino Hackathon, during which they spent 13 hours creating projects intended to improve public safety and promote community togetherness. The event also offered many learning opportunities, including workshops on women’s contributions to computer science and leveraging software used by several large tech companies.
Spring season All-League teams and CCS Scholastic Championship Teams were recently announced, and Harker was well represented!
The state finalist boys golf team once again produced the WBAL MVP, this year with Daulet Tuleubayev, grade 11. Seniors Avi Khemani and Ryan Vaughan earned first team honors, while Shaan Gagneja, Jin Kim, Victor Shin, all grade 11, and Sandip Nirmel, grade 12, earned second team awards.
The lacrosse team had an impressive season and it showed with their postseason accolades. In the classroom, the team was a Top 5 Scholastic Champion with a team GPA of 3.6358. On the field, Elise Mayer, grade 10, and Alayna Richmond, grade 12, were named to the first team, while Mahlet Demissachew and Aditi Maheshwari, both grade 12, were named to the second team. Jordan Thompson, grade 12, earned an honorable mention.
The softball team narrowly missed the playoffs this season, but many Eagles were honored for their notable individual years. Kristin LeBlanc, grade 11, and Anika Rajamani, grade 10, each earned first team honors, with Marti Sutton, grade 12, and Cameron Zell, grade 10, being named to the second team, and Grace Park, grade 12, getting an honorable mention.
The Harker swim team swept the MVP category as Ethan Hu, grade 9, and Vivian Wang, grade 11, (co-MVPs) each took home top honors. Michael Auld, grade 12, was named to the first team, with Justin Culpepper, grade 12, Alex Yu, grade 10, Angela Li, grade 10, all being named to the second team, and Yannick Bohbot-Dridi, grade 11, earning an honorable mention. Also, both the boys and girls swim teams were Top 5 Scholastic Champions, with the boys finishing with a 3.6977 GPA and the girls finishing with a 3.8286 GPA.
The boys tennis team set a Harker record for wins in a season this year, and that was thanks to many impressive individual seasons, including Edward Tischler, grade 12, and David Wen, grade 11, each taking home first team honors, with Rishi Dange, grade 9, Mihir Sharma, grade 9, and Randy Zhao, grade 11, earning second team, and Ramanand Vegesna, grade 9, receiving an honorable mention. In addition, the Eagles were also a Top 5 Scholastic Champion with a 3.7536 GPA.
On girls track and field, Niki Iyer, grade 12, was named to the WBAL first team, and Grace Koonmen, grade 11, earning an honorable mention. For the boys track and field team, Davis Dunaway, grade 12, was named to the first team, Davis Howard, grade 12, Anthony Contreras, grade 11, and the members of the boys 4×100 relay team – Dunaway, Contreras, Mitchell Granados, grade 10, and Angel Cervantes, grade 11 – received honorable mentions. The boys track and field team was also a Top 5 Scholastic Champion with a GPA of 3.6598.
The boys volleyball team was a Top 5 Scholastic Champion with a team GPA of 3.5172. In addition, SCVAL De Anza Division All-League honors went to Jonathan Schwartz, grade 12, who was named to the second team, and Jeffrey Kwan who was named co-Freshman of the Year.
Finally, the Eagle baseball team earned Peninsula Lake All-League honors with Varun Haltore, grade 12, and Tanay Kamat, grade 11, each being named to the first team, Matthew Kennedy and Dominic Cea, both grade 11, being named to the second team, and Max Lee, grade 9, earning an honorable mention. The boys also performed well in the classroom with a team GPA of 3.5275, earning it recognition as a Top 5 Scholastic Championship.
Awards Banquet
The Upper School Athletic Awards Ceremony for the 2016-17 season was held last week with many Eagles receiving recognition for amazing seasons and careers.
The Super Eagle Award is given to the athletes who have participated in three competitive sports at Harker during one school year. Earning the award were Lily Wancewicz, Alycia Cary, Lilia Gonzales, Marcus Tymous, Cameron Zell, all grade 10, and Haley Arena, grade 9. Earning the Drew Goldstein Commitment Award for playing three sports per year for all four years of high school was Davis Howard, grade 12.
The Eagle Award is given to an athlete in each sport who displays enthusiasm at all times, supports the team and individuals throughout the season, hustles in every task, shows positive role modeling and has a selfless giving approach to the program. This award is voted on by the team members of each sport. Receiving this award were Stephanie Xiao, grade 10, in cheerleading; Peter Connors, grade 11, in boys cross country; Gloria Guo, grade 11, in girls cross country; Will Park, grade 12, in football; Vienna Wang, grade 12, in girls golf; Connie Miao, grade 12, in girls tennis; Lindsey Trinh, grade 12, in girls volleyball; Arnav Tandon, grade 12, in boys water polo; Sarah de Vegvar, grade 12, in girls water polo; Justin Jia, grade 12, in boys basketball; Satchi Thockchom, grade 11, in girls basketball; Joseph Krackeler, grade 12, in boys soccer; Maile Chung, grade 12, in girls soccer; Shikhar Solanki, grade 11, in wrestling; Varun Haltore, grade 12, in baseball; Avi Khemani, grade 12 in boys golf; Alayna Richmond, grade 12, in lacrosse; Kristin LeBlanc, grade 11, in softball; Jack Farnham, grade 12, in boys swimming; Clarissa Wang, grade 10, in girls swimming; Ed Tischler, grade 12, in boys tennis; Angel Cervantes, grade 11, in boys track and field; Grace Koonmen, grade 11, in girls track and field; and Jonathan Schwartz, grade 12, in boys volleyball
The Iron Eagle Award is awarded to the male and female athletes who demonstrate the highest level of commitment to their school, teammates and their sport(s) throughout the entire year, including off-season, preseason, and in-season. Winners were Jordan Thompson and Will Park, both grade 12.
The Athletic Commitment Award is given to seniors who have played four years of at least one sport at Harker and exhibited characteristics such as commitment, positive leadership, good sportsmanship and a strong work ethic. Earning this award were Chelsie Alexander, Steven Cao, Anthony Crook, Justin Culpepper, Sarah de Vegvar, Mahlet Demissachew, Alexis Gauba, Jordan Goheen, Sarah Gonzalez, Kedar Gupta, Taylor Iantosca, Justin Jia, Joseph Krackeler, Nina Levy, Aditi Maheshwari, Connie Miao, Anuva Mittal, Rishabh Nijhawan, Grace Park, Parth Pendurkar, Andrew Rule, Marti Sutton, Priyanka Taneja, Lindsey Trinh, Michael Tseitlin, Abhay Varmaraja and Melinda Wisdom.
The League Achievement Award is given to seniors who played four years of athletics at Harker, achieved first team All-League honors, and exhibited characteristics such as commitment, positive leadership, good sportsmanship and a strong work ethic. This year’s winners were Michael Auld, Maile Chung, Kailee Gifford, Saketh Gurram, Varun Haltore, Avi Khemani, Lyndsey Mitchell, Sandip Nirmel, Jonathan Schwartz, Will Park, Daniel Reidenbach and Davis Howard.
The Director’s Award is given to seniors who played four years of Harker athletics and achieved at least one of the following: was awarded first team All-League, was recognized at the state or section level, or achieved league MVP honors. Recipients also much have exhibited characteristics such as commitment, positive leadership, good sportsmanship and a strong work ethic. This year the award was given to Ryan Vaughan, Joelle Anderson, Rachel Cheng, Davis Dunaway, Jack Farnham, Arben Gutierrez-Bujari, Misha Ivkov, Niki Iyer, Alayna Richmond, Arnav Tandon, Jordan Thompson and Edward Tischler.
Congratulations to all the amazing Harker athletes!
The Senior Showcase on May 12 featured the 2017 graduates of the Harker Conservatory’s certificate program performing in various disciplines, including dance, musical theater, and vocal and instrumental music. The 34 students who presented that evening had spent the previous four years in intensive study of one of the seven disciplines offered by the conservatory. At the conclusion of the performances, the students received their certificates to signify their completion of the program, and showed their appreciation for the teachers who provided crucial guidance over the previous four years.
This Harker Conservatory graduates honored this year were:
Dance: Tamlyn Doll, Hazal Gurcan, Surabhi Rao, David Zhu
Instrumental Music: Cuebeom Choi, Maile Chung, Jack Farnham, May Gao, Alexa Gross, Aashish Jain, Soham Khan, Lauren Liu, Edward Oh, Judy Pan, Shekar Ramaswamy, Andrew Rule, Vedaad Shakib, Melinda Wisdom, Alex Youn
Rising senior Jacqueline He and rising junior Prameela Kottapalli were recently recognized in the third annual Young Authors Writing Competition, held by the Bay Area Book Festival. He’s short story “House of God” was deemed the winner in the combined 11th/12th grade division, while Kottapali’s “Never Been Better” earned her third place in the 10th grade division. SFGate has the full story. Congratulations!
Congratulations to the boys golf team for reaching the CIF State Championship for the second year in a row. More than 1,500 California schools compete every year in boys golf, and Harker ended the season fifth in the state. The top scorer for Harker was Daulet Tuleubayev, grade 11, shooting a 2-under-par 69 at Poppy Hills Golf Course. Congratulations on another great year!
Spring League and CCS Awards
Spring season All-League teams and CCS Scholastic Championship Teams were recently announced, and Harker was well represented!
The state finalist boys golf team once again produced the WBAL MVP, this year with Daulet Tuleubayev, grade 11. Seniors Avi Khemani and Ryan Vaughan earned first team honors, while Shaan Gagneja, Jin Kim, Victor Shin, all grade 11, and Sandip Nirmel, grade 12, earned second team awards.
The lacrosse team had an impressive season and it showed with their postseason accolades. In the classroom, the team was a Top 5 Scholastic Champion with a team GPA of 3.6358. On the field, Elise Mayer, grade 10, and Alayna Richmond, grade 12, were named to the first team, while Mahlet Demissachew and Aditi Maheshwari, both grade 12, were named to the second team. Jordan Thompson, grade 12, earned an honorable mention.
The softball team narrowly missed the playoffs this season, but many Eagles were honored for their notable individual years. Kristin LeBlanc, grade 11, and Anika Rajamani, grade 10, each earned first team honors, with Marti Sutton, grade 12, and Cameron Zell, grade 10, being named to the second team, and Grace Park, grade 12, getting an honorable mention.
The Harker swim team swept the MVP category as Ethan Hu, grade 9, and Vivian Wang, grade 11, (co-MVPs) each took home top honors. Michael Auld, grade 12, was named to the first team, with Justin Culpepper, grade 12, Alex Yu, grade 10, Angela Li, grade 10, all being named to the second team, and Yannick Bohbot-Dridi, grade 11, earning an honorable mention. Also, both the boys and girls swim teams were Top 5 Scholastic Champions, with the boys finishing with a 3.6977 GPA and the girls finishing with a 3.8286 GPA.
The boys tennis team set a Harker record for wins in a season this year, and that was thanks to many impressive individual seasons, including Edward Tischler, grade 12, and David Wen, grade 11, each taking home first team honors, with Rishi Dange, grade 9, Mihir Sharma, grade 9, and Randy Zhao, grade 11, earning second team, and Ramanand Vegesna, grade 9, receiving an honorable mention. In addition, the Eagles were also a Top 5 Scholastic Champion with a 3.7536 GPA.
On girls track and field, Niki Iyer, grade 12, was named to the WBAL first team, and Grace Koonmen, grade 11, earning an honorable mention. For the boys track and field team, Davis Dunaway, grade 12, was named to the first team, Davis Howard, grade 12, Anthony Contreras, grade 11, and the members of the boys 4×100 relay team – Dunaway, Contreras, Mitchell Granados, grade 10, and Angel Cervantes, grade 11 – received honorable mentions. The boys track and field team was also a Top 5 Scholastic Champion with a GPA of 3.6598.
The boys volleyball team was a Top 5 Scholastic Champion with a team GPA of 3.5172. In addition, SCVAL De Anza Division All-League honors went to Jonathan Schwartz, grade 12, who was named to the second team, and Jeffrey Kwan who was named co-Freshman of the Year.
Finally, the Eagle baseball team earned Peninsula Lake All-League honors with Varun Haltore, grade 12, and Tanay Kamat, grade 11, each being named to the first team, Matthew Kennedy and Dominic Cea, both grade 11, being named to the second team, and Max Lee, grade 9, earning an honorable mention. The boys also performed well in the classroom with a team GPA of 3.5275, earning it recognition as a Top 5 Scholastic Championship.
Awards Banquet
The Upper School Athletic Awards Ceremony for the 2016-17 season was held last week with many Eagles receiving recognition for amazing seasons and careers.
The Super Eagle Award is given to the athletes who have participated in three competitive sports at Harker during one school year. Earning the award were Lily Wancewicz, Alycia Cary, Lilia Gonzales, Marcus Tymous, Cameron Zell, all grade 10, and Haley Arena, grade 9. Earning the Drew Goldstein Commitment Award for playing three sports per year for all four years of high school was Davis Howard, grade 12.
The Eagle Award is given to an athlete in each sport who displays enthusiasm at all times, supports the team and individuals throughout the season, hustles in every task, shows positive role modeling and has a selfless giving approach to the program. This award is voted on by the team members of each sport. Receiving this award were Stephanie Xiao, grade 10, in cheerleading; Peter Connors, grade 11, in boys cross country; Gloria Guo, grade 11, in girls cross country; Will Park, grade 12, in football; Vienna Wang, grade 12, in girls golf; Connie Miao, grade 12, in girls tennis; Lindsey Trinh, grade 12, in girls volleyball; Arnav Tandon, grade 12, in boys water polo; Sarah de Vegvar, grade 12, in girls water polo; Justin Jia, grade 12, in boys basketball; Satchi Thockchom, grade 11, in girls basketball; Joseph Krackeler, grade 12, in boys soccer; Maile Chung, grade 12, in girls soccer; Shikhar Solanki, grade 11, in wrestling; Varun Haltore, grade 12, in baseball; Avi Khemani, grade 12 in boys golf; Alayna Richmond, grade 12, in lacrosse; Kristin LeBlanc, grade 11, in softball; Jack Farnham, grade 12, in boys swimming; Clarissa Wang, grade 10, in girls swimming; Ed Tischler, grade 12, in boys tennis; Angel Cervantes, grade 11, in boys track and field; Grace Koonmen, grade 11, in girls track and field; and Jonathan Schwartz, grade 12, in boys volleyball
The Iron Eagle Award is awarded to the male and female athletes who demonstrate the highest level of commitment to their school, teammates and their sport(s) throughout the entire year, including off-season, preseason, and in-season. Winners were Jordan Thompson and Will Park, both grade 12.
The Athletic Commitment Award is given to seniors who have played four years of at least one sport at Harker and exhibited characteristics such as commitment, positive leadership, good sportsmanship and a strong work ethic. Earning this award were Chelsie Alexander, Steven Cao, Anthony Crook, Justin Culpepper, Sarah de Vegvar, Mahlet Demissachew, Alexis Gauba, Jordan Goheen, Sarah Gonzalez, Kedar Gupta, Taylor Iantosca, Justin Jia, Joseph Krackeler, Nina Levy, Aditi Maheshwari, Connie Miao, Anuva Mittal, Rishabh Nijhawan, Grace Park, Parth Pendurkar, Andrew Rule, Marti Sutton, Priyanka Taneja, Lindsey Trinh, Michael Tseitlin, Abhay Varmaraja and Melinda Wisdom.
The League Achievement Award is given to seniors who played four years of athletics at Harker, achieved first team All-League honors, and exhibited characteristics such as commitment, positive leadership, good sportsmanship and a strong work ethic. This year’s winners were Michael Auld, Maile Chung, Kailee Gifford, Saketh Gurram, Varun Haltore, Avi Khemani, Lyndsey Mitchell, Sandip Nirmel, Jonathan Schwartz, Will Park, Daniel Reidenbach and Davis Howard.
The Director’s Award is given to seniors who played four years of Harker athletics and achieved at least one of the following: was awarded first team All-League, was recognized at the state or section level, or achieved league MVP honors. Recipients also much have exhibited characteristics such as commitment, positive leadership, good sportsmanship and a strong work ethic. This year the award was given to Ryan Vaughan, Joelle Anderson, Rachel Cheng, Davis Dunaway, Jack Farnham, Arben Gutierrez-Bujari, Misha Ivkov, Niki Iyer, Alayna Richmond, Arnav Tandon, Jordan Thompson and Edward Tischler.
Congratulations to all the amazing Harker athletes!
Alumni
Check out this article on Izzy Connell ’13, who is still working hard on the track and in the classroom:
May 17 was a busy day for the 190 members of the Class of 2017, who attended the Alumni Induction Lunch at Nichols Hall, where they officially became Harker alumni and presented this year’s senior gift: a $2,000 donation to Harker’s advancement department. History teacher Damon Halback spoke at the event, wishing the departing seniors well in the coming years.
Several graduating seniors had their names inscribed on bricks that were later placed into the Senior Walk at Graduates’ Grove during this year’s Brick Ceremony, where math teacher Troy Thiele offered some kind and inspiring parting words to the soon-to-be graduates.
That afternoon, the seniors gathered with the juniors at the upper school campus quad for the baccalaureate ceremony, held each year to wish the seniors well in their future endeavors and welcome the juniors into their new roles as seniors. Economics teacher Sam Lepler was chosen by the students to be this year’s faculty baccalaureate speaker and senior Aditya Dhar also shared some parting words of wisdom with his classmates and the seniors-to-be. As a special surprise, former Harker teacher Ben Spencer-Cooke appeared to offer congratulations to the graduates.
The seniors who entered Harker as kindergartners then headed to the lower school campus to celebrate their time as Harker students at a very special Lifers Dinner, fittingly held at the campus where their Harker careers began.
The Class of 2017 arrived at the Mountain Winery on May 18 for an afternoon of celebration and bittersweet farewells. Valedictorian Kai Ang used his time at the podium to remind his classmates that “we are indebted to all who stood behind us, seen and unseen.” Keynote speaker Chris Malachowsky, co-founder of graphics technology company Nvidia, offered students advice based on three points: investment in oneself, confidence and responsibility. Finally, departing Head of School Chris Nikoloff gave his final graduation speech before exiting to serve as headmaster of The American School in Switzerland. Invoking Voltaire’s observation that “life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats,” Nikoloff advised the audience to “find joy no matter where you are, to pay attention to those in the lifeboat next to you, to see that your circumstances do not necessarily dictate your attitude about those circumstances.”
Earlier this month, eighth grader Jacqueline Au and junior Matthew Lee received accolades in the 2017 Growing Up Asian in America Awards, organized by the Asian Pacific Fund. Au was named Best in Class among students in grades 6-8 in the art category for her piece, titled “Together, We Lead.” Lee received an honorable mention in the essay category for grades 9-12.
More than 600 Bay Area students in grades K-12 entered this year’s contest, which offers more than $20,000 in prizes for artwork, essays and video projects. The theme of this year’s contest was “Letter to the Senator,” in which students were encouraged to send messages to U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, who made history in the 2016 general election as the first Indian-American and second African-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Last month, recent graduates Manan Shah ’17 and Michael Tseitlin ’17, accompanied by computer science chair Eric Nelson, attended the Critical Issues Forum in Nagasaki, Japan, an annual event for high school students around the world interested in nuclear disarmament.
The conference, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, was co-sponsored by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, Kwassui High School in Nagasaki and the Nagasaki Council for Nuclear Weapons Abolition.
During the three-day event, students from the United States, Russia and Japan gave presentations on this year’s assigned topic, “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and its Role for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons.” Shah and Tseitlin’s presentation examined ways that current nuclear weapons ban agreements could be improved. “Our research highlighted the major concerns in numerous high-risk nuclear regions of interest and proposed a unique test-ban solution focusing on broad global precedents and specific regional implementations to prevent the development and proliferation of nuclear weapons,” Shah said.
Attendees also heard from leading nonproliferation experts, including Lassina Zerbo, executive secretary at the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, who gave a talk “about the accomplishments and hurdles surrounding the implementation of the treaty,” Shah recalled. Shah also was asked to be one of two students from the United States to appear on a panel, where he discussed how he became a researcher and activist for nuclear nonproliferation.
Outside of the conference, students had the opportunity to explore Hiroshima and its many exhibits related to the bombing that eventually led to the end of World War II. “I was truly inspired by visiting the site of the atomic bomb explosion on Aug. 6, 1945 and obtaining a firsthand understanding of the damage that was inflicted by the bomb on Japanese citizens,” Shah reported. “I’m also incredibly grateful for the opportunity to live with a host family who helped me understand and appreciate Japanese culture.”
Harker students had another stellar year at the Synopsys Science & Technology Championship, which took place in late March. Two students – junior Amy Jin and recent graduate Manan Shah ’17 – were grand prize winners, earning them trips to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. The Synopsys Championship website includes the full list of middle and upper school winners, which also can be found below.
Middle School
Arohee Bhoja, grade 8: $250 to the winning student or team in middle school bioscience, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize; middle school finalist certificate and Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize; honorable mention, biological science and engineering category.
Sidra Xu, grade 8: Middle school finalist certificate and Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize; second award, biological science and engineering category.
Russell Yang, grade 8: Middle school finalist certificate and Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize; second award, biological science and engineering category.
Alexandra Baeckler, grade 8: Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS – 8th Grade; first award, biological science and engineering category; certificate of achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award.
Ankita Kundu, grade 8: Middle school finalist certificate and Amazon.com gift certificate; Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize; honorable mention, biological science and engineering category.
Akshay Manglik, grade 8: Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS – 8th Grade; first award, physical science and engineering category.
Elizabeth Szeto, grade 8: Middle school finalist certificate and Amazon.com gift certificate; Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize; honorable mention, biological science and engineering category.
Upper School
Akhil Arun, grade 11: Second award, biological science and engineering category; ASEI Silicon Valley emerging technology certificate of achievement and membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award.
Cynthia Chen, grade 9: Second award, physical science and engineering category; $100 first place, certificate of achievement and letter, Inez M. Lechner Award.
Karena Kong, grade 11: Honorable mention student award, $50 and certificate of achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter; first award, physical science and engineering category.
Eileen Li, grade 9: BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education.
Millie Lin, grade 11: Certificate and nomination to enter 2018 Sustainability Soutions Festival in Arizona, Arizona State University Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives; certificate of achievement, American Psychological Association; honorable mention, certificate of achievement and goody bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter.
Emily Liu, grade 9: BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education.
Maya Shukla, grade 9: First award, biological science and engineering category.
Sahana Srinivasan, grade 11: Second award, biological science and engineering category; ASEI Silicon Valley emerging technology certificate of achievement and membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award.
Krish Kapadia, grade 10, and Anjay Saklecha, grade 10: $500 to the winning student or team in high school bioscience, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize; high school finalist certificate and Amazon.com gift certificate; Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize; first award, RRI biological science and engineering category.
Katherine Tian, grade 10: First award, biological science and engineering category.
Kevin Xu, grade 10, and Raymond Xu ’17: Certificate of achievement, American Psychological Association.
Katherine Zhang, grade 10: First award, biological science and engineering category.
Kaushik Shivakumar, grade 10: Honorable mention, biological science and engineering category; certificate and nomination to enter 2018 Sustainability Soutions Festival in Arizona, Arizona State University Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives.
Shreyas Chandrashekaran, grade 11: Honorable mention, biological science and engineering category; certificate of achievement, United States Public Health Service.
Shaya Zarkesh, grade 11: Honorable mention student award: $50 and certificate of achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter; honorable mention, physical science and engineering category.
Jerry Chen, grade 11: High school – one packet with letter, certificate of achievement, ONR Medallion and form for $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps.
Amy Dunphy, grade 11: IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
Amy Jin, grade 11: Grand prize – best of championship, physical sciences, trip to Intel ISEF and plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Association board of directors awards, high school; first award, RRI physical science and engineering category; $100 and a certificate of achievement, IBM award.
Cameron Jones, grade 10: Second award, biological science and engineering category.
Arnav Joshi, grade 9: High school finalist certificate and Amazon.com gift certificate; Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize; second award, biological science and engineering category.
Rishab Gargeya ’17: $100 first prize, Morgan Lewis; second award, RRI physical science and engineering category.
Anastasiya Grebin, grade 11: First award, biological science and engineering category.
Jimmy Lin, grade 11: First award, RRI biological science and engineering category.
Sandip Nirmel ’17: Second award, RRI physical science and engineering category; certificate of achievement, American Meteorological Society.
Evani Radiya-Dixit ’17: Second award, RRI biological science and engineering category; ASEI Silicon Valley emerging technology certificate of achievement award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award.
Manan Shah ’17: Grand prize, best of championship, biological sciences, trip to Intel ISEF and plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Association, board of directors awards, high school; first award, RRI biological science and engineering category; $100 and a certificate of achievement, IBM Award; ASEI Silicon Valley emerging technology certificate of achievement award and membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award.
Arjun Subramaniam ’17: Grand prize alternate, biological sciences, trip to state science fair and plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Association, board of directors awards, high school; second award, RRI biological science and engineering category; ASEI Silicon Valley emerging technology certificate of achievement award and membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award.
Maddie Huynh, grade 9: First place award, $150 cash and certificate of achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Jose branch.
Michelle Kwan, grade 9: First place award, $150 cash and certificate of achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Jose branch.
Carolyn Lu, grade 9: First place award, $150 cash and certificate of achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Jose branch.