Students Win Awards at TSA State Leadership Conference

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  • Published April 11, 2023

    Students from Page High, Ravenwood High and Legacy Middle returned from the Tennessee Technology Student Association (TSA) State Leadership Conference with several awards and titles.

    From Ravenwood High, Adwit Satyawadi, Swayam Batra, Sashank Dara, Jo Jamullamudi, Srikar Kusumanchi and Aneek Polepalli placed first in the VEX Robotics competition. Their classmates, Malvika Rao, Aditi Jindal and Prisha Shethia, won the Audio Podcasting category, and Seshadithya Saravanan won the Future Technology and Engineering Teacher category. Teams that placed high enough are eligible to compete in the National TSA Conference this summer. In addition to those awards, RHS sophomore Yug Patel was elected Tennessee TSA President for the 2023-24 school year.

    "Our Ravenwood TSA students dedicated many hours preparing for the conference," said RHS TSA adviser Jeremy Paisley. "We are fortunate to have many of our members place in several events, especially since this is only our second year of establishment."

    Paisley was also selected as the TSA High School Adviser of the Year.

    "It was an honor for me to be nominated and selected," he said. "As a school organization, we are excited about more students participating in this program and developing post-secondary and work-readiness skills."

    Page High students placed second in four categories in the competition, which also makes those students eligible for the National TSA Conference. The Page High TSA adviser is Jay Emmons.

    Legacy Middle had numerous first-place winners, including Krishna Deepak in Career Preparation; Abby Everett and Malenda White in Challenging Technology Issues; Charlie Burke, Cade McReynolds, Tucker Mize, Logan Rivers and Maverick Rupert in Inventions and Innovations; Matthew Clements, Krishna Deepak, Dash McLeod and Lleyton Taylor in the Junior Solar Sprint; Daniel Baugh, Dash McLeod and Kai Schwab in Mass Production; Emily Chambless in Promotional Marketing; and Logan Rivers and Kai Schwab in Technical Design. These students, as well as several of their classmates, are eligible for the National TSA Conference. Their advisers are Robert Baltz and Amber Whiting.

    Congratulations to the students listed below, who placed within the top three in their category.

  • Page High

    Debating Technological Issues

    • Second: Aditi Bindra and Aparna Bindra

    Digital Video Production

    • Second: Mykayla Conlee, Shruthi Mogan, Shruthika Kakumani, Janvi Vashishta, Shamyukta Dintakurthy and Aparna Bindra

    Prepared Presentation

    • Second: Erica Bowman

    Promotional Design

    • Second: Bailey Murray

    Ravenwood High

    Audio Podcasting

    • First: Malvika Rao, Aditi Jindal and Prishna Shethia
    • Third: Ritisha Pradeep, Alyssa Patel, Anshika Prasad, Jinny Kim and Harshita Nallaka

    Forensic Science

    • Second: Varsha Dara and Onella Sharma

    Future Technology and Engineering Teacher

    • First: Seshadithya Saravanan
    • Second: Koushik Sanjay Saravana Kumar

    Geospatial Technology

    • Second: Rijul Tandon and Pranav Vijayand

    Video Game Design

    • Third: Adwit Satyawadi, Jack Mitchell, William Parodi and Pranav Vijayand

    VEX Robotics

    • First: Adwit Satyawadi, Swayam Batra, Sashank Dara, Jo Jamullamudi, Srikar Kusumanchi and Aneek Polepalli

  • Legacy Middle

    Biotechnology

    • Third: Abby Everett, Jarrah Grosser and Caroline Scogins

    Career Preparation

    • First: Krishna Deepak
    • Second: Nikhil Mistry

    Challenging Technology Issues

    • First: Abby Everett and Malenda White
    • Second: Ritika Bharathan and Nikhil Mistry

    Chapter Team

    • Second: Emily Chambless, Edie Chapman, Krishna Deepak, Nikhil Mistry, Mikayla Pouncey and Chris Wright

    Children's Stories

    • Third: Jarrah Grosser, Savannah Mangrum and Mikayla Pouncey

    Data Science and Analytics

    • Second: Ritika Bharathan, Ben Crim and Varenya Nemmani

    Digital Photography

    • First: Malenda White

    Essays on Technology

    • Third: Emily Chambless

    Flight

    • Second: Henry Slusser
    • Third: Levi Weckman

    Forensic Technology

    • Second: Varenya Nemmani and Malenda White

    Inventions and Innovations

    • First: Charlie Burke, Cade McReynolds, Tucker Mize, Logan Rivers and Maverick Rupert
    • Third: Daniel Baugh, John Breen, Dash McLeod, Joel Parker, Kai Schwab and Lleyton Taylor

    Junior Solar Sprint

    • First: Matthew Clements, Krishna Deepak, Dash McLeod and Lleyton Taylor
    • Third: Ritika Bharathan, Abby Everett, Varenya Nemmani and Malenda White

    Leadership Strategies

    • Second: Daniel Baugh, Matthew Clements and Rohan Gunasekar
    • Third: Ben Crim, Mary Hanahan and Nikhil Mistry

    Mass Production

    • First: Daniel Baugh, Dash McLeod and Kai Schwab

    Mechanical Engineering

    • Second: Emily Chambless, Edie Chapman and Krishna Deepak

    Medical Technology

    • Third: Ben Crim, Mary Hanahan, Savannah Mangrum and Mikayla Pouncey

    Off the Grid

    • Second: Ritika Bharathan, Edie Chapman, Krishna Deepak, Abby Everett, Mary Hanahan and Varenya Nemmani
    • Third: Tucker Mize, Logan Rivers, Kai Schwab and Levi Weckman

    Prepared Speech

    • Second: Savannah Mangrum

    Problem-Solving

    • Third: Cade McReynolds and Tucker Mize

    Promotional Marketing

    • First: Emily Chambless
    • Second: Nikhil Mistry

    STEM Animation

    • Second: Ben Crim, Rohan Gunasekar and Malenda White

    Structural Design

    • Third: Jarrah Grosser and Caroline Scogins

    Technology Bowl

    • Third: John Breen, Liam Evitts and Levi Weckman

    Technical Design

    • First: Logan Rivers and Kai Schwab

    Video Game Design

    • Second: Daniel Baugh, Matthew Clements, Dash McLeod, Kai Schwab and Lleyton Taylor