Edmond tech students vie at state contest
EDMOND — Technology Student Association members attended the state conference in Norman and competed in more than 30 events.
More than 1,000 middle school and high school students from across the state gathered last month for the skill competitions they had been qualifying for all year, according to a news release.
Students qualify to compete at the state level by placing in the top three in at least one of the miniconferences held throughout the state. At the state conference, students were competing to qualify for nationals in Orlando, Florida, June 21-25.
Outstanding chapter awards were presented to Edmond Cheyenne Middle School and Edmond Santa Fe High School. That is the highest award presented at the state level to one high school and one middle school.
Officers
State and regional officers have been elected, and Edmond is represented at the regional and state levels:
•TSA state president, Alyvea Sloan, Edmond Santa Fe High School
•TSA state treasurer, Naveen Thavathiru, Edmond Santa Fe
Western region representatives
•Emma Ferguson, Cheyenne Middle School
•Akash Guruswamy, Edmond Santa Fe
•Ben Kappen, Edmond Santa Fe
•Jake Strother, Cheyenne Middle School
TSA is the national organization for technology education students. There are 243 chapters in Oklahoma. Students develop leadership and personal growth by participating in competitions that cover problem-solving, decision-making and critical thinking skills.
Following are the events for which Edmond TSA members earned trophies:
Edmond Cheyenne Middle School
FIRST PLACE •CAD: Isaac Newberry
•Children’s stories: Grace Ahlgrim, Allie Lewis, Jake Strother and Jacob Thomas
•Community service video: Emma Ferguson, Allie Lewis, Alex Loney, Jake Strother, Jacob Thomas and Austin Vinall
•Technical design: Alex Loney & Isaac Newberry
•Tech Bowl: Derrick Denney, Emma Ferguson and Alex Loney
•Website design: Allie Lewis, Ellie Robertson and Austin Vinall
•ROBOT 11018B: “The B Team,” of Ethan Aldridge, Derrick Denney, Emma Ferguson, Luke Griggs and Alex Loney: VEX IQ Design Award (First place); VEX IQ Skills (First place); VEX IQ Presentation (First place); VEX IQ Excellence Award (Best overall robot) SECOND PLACE •Essays: Grace Ahlgrim
•Geospatial technology: Alex Hurteau, Allie Lewis, Alex Loney and Jacob Thomas
•System control: Josh Meng and Isaac Newberry
THIRD PLACE
•STEM animation: Derrick Denney, Emma Ferguson and Alex Loney
•System Control: Ethan Aldridge, Derrick Denney and Luke Griggs
Edmond Santa Fe High
School
FIRST PLACE
•Ishan Bhanot (on team for Digital Video Production)
•Akash Guruswamy (on team for Biotechnology Design, Digital Video Production, Fashion Design, and Music Production)
•Yadin Joseph (on team for Biotechnology Design, Digital Video Production, and Music Production)
•Ben Kappen (individual event Future Technology Teacher)
•Brittany Shrader (on team for Fashion Design)
•Yumin Song (on team for Biotechnology Design, Digital Video Production, and Fashion Design)
•Catherine Tang (on team for Biotechnology Design, Digital Video Production, Fashion Design, and individual event Photographic Technology)
•Naveen Thavathiru (on team for Biotechnology Design, Digital Video Production and Music Production) SECOND PLACE •Team, debating technological issues: Boris Ganchev
•Music production: Christian
Echols
•Team, video game design:
Caitlin Nichols
•STEM careers: Milena
Semere
•Extemporaneous speech and prepared presentation: Alyvea
Sloan
•Team, debating technological
issues: David Tamirat
•Team, video game design:
Jason Wu
THIRD PLACE •Essays on technology: Siva
Aravindan
•Music production: Christian
Echols
•Photographic technology; team, digital video production:
Boris Ganchev
•Promotional design: Akash
Guruswamy
•Team, digital video production: Milena Semere
TOP TEN
•Architectural design, eighth place: Ishan Bhanot, Akash Guruswamy, Numayr Rahman, Naveen Thavathiru
•Biotechnology design, sixth
place: Breonna Fisher, Emiliano Perez, Milena Semere
•Children’s stories, fifth
place: Sunny Jones, Brittany Shrader
•Children’s stories, seventh
place: Breonna Fisher, Milena Semere
•Coding, seventh place: Caitlin Nichols, Jason Wu
•Music production, fifth
place: Bradlee Harrison, Ben Kappen, Zach Montebon
•Scientific visualization, fourth
place: Ishan Bhanot, Naveen Thavathiru
•STEM Careers, fourth place:
Siva Aravindan
•Technology problem solving, seventh place: Sunny Jones, David Tamirat
Edmond Summit Middle School
FIRST PLACE •Vex IQ teamwork: TJ Rodriguez, Pranay Prat
THIRD PLACE •Career prep: Manuvel Sibichan