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1 Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology ACADEMIC BOOSTERS AWARDS RECEPTION Thursday, June 4, :00 ~ 7:00 p.m.

2 Thomas Jefferson High School Academic Boosters, Inc. TJ Academic Boosters actively supports our outstanding academic teams in their various pursuits. Some 20 academic teams compete in local, state, national, and sometimes even international events. Since financial resources are not available from FCPS, Academic Boosters asks families to join the organization at various financial levels, which is tax-deductible. This enables Academic Boosters to pay teacher travel expenses and help with student registration fees when possible. Even with Academic Boosters support, academic team members pay for their own travel, room, meals, and other related expenses. TJ Academic Teams include: Biology Olympiad, Botball (Robotics team), Certamen, Chemistry Team, Chess Team, Computer Team, Forensics, Future Problem Solvers, Japan Bowl, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Math Team, Model United Nations, Physics Team, Policy Debate, Public Forum Debate, Quiz Bowl ( It s Academic ), Rocketry Club, Rubik s Cube Team, Science Bowl, Science Olympiad and Student Congress, among others. Information about most of the teams is provided on the Academic Boosters website: Academic Boosters gathers information about team accomplishments for the TECHCETERA newsletter, recognizes family memberships, promotes Academic Teams at orientations and open houses, and organizes a year-end Team Recognition Ceremony. Our TJ Academic Teams achievements have always been a source of pride for the entire TJHSST community and are a cornerstone of our national reputation for academic excellence. Everyone is welcome (and encouraged!) to join TJ Academic Boosters by making a donation, either by check or online through Paypal. Funding comes primarily from family memberships; it is supplemented with food and merchandise sales. 100% of the money raised is used to support TJ s academic teams. Recommended donation levels start at $50 per year. THANK YOU to all of our wonderful Teacher Sponsors, for without them, we would not have Academic Teams. THANK YOU to all who have supported TJ Academic Boosters this school year! ** We look forward to seeing you all again next year ** REMEMBER it's never too early to join TJ Academic Boosters for the upcoming school year! Visit:

3 Biology Olympiad Please congratulate Neeraj Prasad for qualifying as one of the 20 finalists in the United States Biology Olympiad competition. Neeraj will be attending National Finals beginning on May 31. We wish you well, Neeraj! Biology Olympiad has been having an exciting year. Ninety-five of our students took the USABO Open Exam in February. Twenty-six of those students scored within the top 10% nationwide and qualified as semifinalists: Shomik Ghose, Aaron Gu, Fatima Gunter-Rahman, Elizabeth Hu, Andrew Huang*, Tarun Kamath, Anish Karpurapu, Peter Kim, Kavya Kopparapu, Chelsea Li, Jeffrey Liu, Kevin Livingstone, Prathik Naidu, Jessica Nguyen, Matthew Park, Ranjani Parthasarathy, Neeraj Prasad*, Raghav Ramraj, Nikhil Sardana, Ashwin Srinivasan*, Katie Tam, Aadith Vittala*, Lawrence Wang, Ethan Wu, William Xu, and Tiger Zhang. (*On the semifinal, this student scored greater than one standard deviation above the national average.) Congratulations to our Biology Olympiad members on their great success in the 2015 University of Toronto National Biology Competition! In all, 4,122 eligible contestants from 289 schools competed: 3,399 contestants from 243 schools within Canada and 723 international contestants from 46 schools outside of Canada. TJHSST placed first among all International Schools! This result was due to an outstanding showing by our 45 participants, and particularly, those who placed within the top 1% of all competitors: Aadith Vittala tied for first place out of all 4,122 eligible contestants. In addition, Aaron Gu and Tiger Zhang tied for third place. (Tiger Zhang has placed within the top 1% for the past three years.) Tied for 6 th place were Daniel Chae, Neeraj Prasad, Ashwin Srinivasan, and Lawrence Wang. Students placing within the top 5% and recognized as International Biology Scholars include: Cecelia Chu, Anish Karpurapu, Jeffrey Liu, Jessica Nguyen, and William Xu.

4 Botball Three TJ Botball Robotics Teams competed in the Greater DC/Virginia Botball Tournament ( on Saturday, April 18. Team A came in 17 th place in Seeding Round and was 0-2 in the Double Elimination round. Team B finished with 2-2 record and a Judge s Choice award for Overall Design of the Sorting System. The Freshman Team finished with a 1-2 record and won an award for their 2 nd Place finish in the Alliance Challenge Rounds. Team A: Harshal Jariwala (captain), Steven Wang, Diana Chang, Ben Trans, Akash Kalimili, Sathvik Kadaveru, Katherine Yang, Hriday Kamshatti, Risheek Rajolu, Abhilaash Velamati, Rahul Sundararaman Team B: Suhas Sastry (captain), Nipun Mallipeddi, Daniel Kweon, Thomas Lai, Adam Kim, Nikhil Daga, Hanshin Lee, Josh Rutzick, Daniel Medas, James Ma, Numan Khan, James Quek Freshman Team: Andreea Foarce (captain), Sarkis Ter Martirosyan, Angel Peprah, Nikilesh Subramaniam, Arya Saravanan, Nithin Dass, Ethan Liu, Sricharan Bachu, Arvind Srinivasan, Justin Lasker, Jaden Lee, Yuki Oyama Each team's pair of robots are equipped with cameras, touch sensors, and light sensors. The game board is different each year. This year, the robots scored points by collecting, moving, and sorting colored poms, blocks, and small frisbees, which were placed on the surface of the board, on raised platforms, and on the tops of poles. Winning teams made good use of the robot's cameras for locating the objects and sorting them. Final scores are determined by points awarded from all four parts of the competition: - project documentation - an oral presentation about the teams robots and strategy - average score in the seeding rounds - final position in the double elimination tournament

5 Certamen (Latin) This year, TJ Latin attended the 61 st Annual National Junior Classical League Convention, hosted by Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. TJ's performance was exceptional on all counts and competitions, academic tests, creative and graphic arts alike. Outstanding achievements, however, were wrought by: Anthony Carrington, who earned 1 st place and a record-breaking score on the Mythology V exam; Arjun Guidroz, who was a member for Virginia's Novice-level Certamen team, placing 3 rd in the nation; and Owen Hoffman, who placed 1 st in an impressive number of academic tests. TJ Latin's performance at Virginia Junior Classical League's Convention, hosted in Richmond, saw similarly exceptional results in all fields. The TJ delegation as a whole also took 2 nd place for Spirit and 1 st place for Scrapbooking. TJ attendees' scores were also scattered thoroughly across the top ten placings for many academic tests, and many awards were earned in creative and graphic arts. Sweepstakes placings, given to those students whose overall performance in all categories (academics and the arts) was formidable, were in abundant supply amongst TJ attendees: 9 th Grade: Meenakshi Balan, John Kim, Kevin Le, Minyoung Hwang 10 th Grade: Stephanie Do, Akshay Balaji, Katie Tam, Rebecca Mays, Eric Liu 11 th Grade: Daniel Chae, Ryan Golant, Michael Rodriguez, Matthew Sun 12 th Grade: June Ge This year's Certamen season was unfortunately sparse, with weather and scheduling complications canceling many Certamina. However, despite the bad harvest and limited number of competitions, TJ Latin's performance remained impressive, attending the the SCL Kickoff, the Flint Hill, the Wakefield, and the State Final Certamina. While there was no Certamen hosted at TJ for the second year, due to construction work, its members contributed efforts to support other Certamina, volunteering for setup, scorekeeping, and moderating. The final results of the State Finals Certamen, listed below, provide a glimpse into the extensive dedication of the veterans and newcomers alike: The Latin I team, consisting of Freshmen Kevin Le, Minyoung Hwang, John Kim, and Henna Nam, proved their stunning ability by placing 2 nd in State Finals; their impressive performance will be a firm foundation for future teams. The Latin II A team, made up of John Erskine, Jonathan Ko, and Joseph Park, finished 4 th overall in the finals, while the Latin II B team, Leeyung Chang, Milana Wolff, and Stephan Seo placed in the top 8.

6 The Latin III team, Arjun Guidroz, Anshu Sharma, Akshay Balaji, and Sanji Bhavsar, put on a spectacular performance, making it to the finals with a surfeit of points, ultimately taking home the 3 rd place trophy. TJ Certamen can rest assured that Upper Level will be in capable hands next year. Lastly, Upper Level A Team, comprised of June Ge, Junyoung Hwang, Minjae Kwon, and Ryan Golant, fought its way to finals and ultimately placed 3 rd. The B team, made up of Bill Tang, Andrew Huang, and Hyungju Moon, placed 5 th. State Finals had an Academic Decathlon in addition, prior to the Certamen. Awards went to June Ge, who scored highest of all seniors in attendance, and Ryan Golant, who scored second place in the OVERALL competition!! Wow! The wheel of time goes around and around and has come full circle back to the summer. This July, TJ Latin will attend the 62 nd annual NJCL Convention at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. 22 students will be in attendance with Ms. Conklin leading our flock! TJ Certamen players are trying out for the Virginia state team, and we hope for all the TJ students to once again show their skill and bring glory to the Virginia Delegation. Finally, the team gives the greatest thanks to Ms. Conklin and Ms. Lister, our teachers and sponsors. Without their support, effort, and infinite patience, TJ Latin would be far less than what it is today. Our Certamen Coordinators too merit recognition Bill Tang, Minjae Kwon, and Junyoung Hwang for their devotion to the cause and guidance. Last and far from least, thanks is given to all of TJ Latin's parents, without whose cooperation, we could not have accomplished what has been accomplished.

7 Chemistry Olympiad Fifteen students competed at the Chemistry Olympiad local exam in March. They all received honors or high honors. Ong, Janice Tian, Joyce Zhang, Tiger Zhang, William Shankar, Nirman Ou, Winston Yue, Michael Wang, Lawrence Gunter-Rahman, Fatima Ho, Aaron Murali, Kaushik Xu, Kevin Naidu, Prathik You, Michael Yalamanchili, Hitesh Of these, Janice Ong, Joyce Tian, and Lawrence Wang competed at the National Exam in April scoring the three highest scores in our 17 local school districts. They all placed in the list of top 142 students in the nation. Janice Ong was selected as one of the top 20 in the nation to attend the boot camp at Colorado Springs in June.

8 Chess Team Chess Team Chess Captains: Jeevan Karamsetty and Brian Li The TJ Chess Team competed in the Virginia State Chess Championship and the Virginia State Blitz Chess Championship held at Monticello High school in Charlottesville, VA from March Congratulations also to our team sponsor, Dr. Peter Gabor, who received the 2015 Virginia Coach of the Year Award, and special thanks to Chess parents Yuyan Zhou and Wei Feng who helped tremendously with all of the large amounts of planning for our various trips. The TJ Blitz Team once again became the Virginia State Champions with a score far larger than their competitors. Aditya Pounukmati showed his immense skill by placing second overall out of a 46 person field! The Blitz team, in addition to Aditya, included Isuru Attanagoda, Benjamin Lyons, Brian Li, Perry Feng, Aaryan Balu, Joseph Chen, Gavin Moore, Arun Kannan, Kalyan Madanapalli, and Saroja Erabelli. The Main Event lasted two days with four long matches on Saturday and two on Sunday. Players competed in games of chess that could last up to 3.5 hours. As usual, TJ sent well more than the number of players from any other school. Twenty-five TJ students played in the main event: Benjamin Lyons, Brian Li, Jeevan Karamsetty, Isuru Attanagoda, Perry Feng, Akhil Goel, Grant Li, Saroja Erabelli, Joseph Chen, Aaryan Balu, Jonathan Cao, Aditya Ponukumati, Arun Kannan, Meredith Lee, Sadhana Suri, Evan Lin, Sarah Slate, Kalyan Madanapalli, Gavin Moore, Aneesh Kotnana, Christina Scheible, Akhil Ramaswamy, Puneeth Uttla. The tournament ended with the powerhouse TJ team taking home its 17 th consecutive state championship! The team s top scorer was Benjamin Lyons, who tied for first place with 5.5/6! Also having an excellent performance was Brian Li, who finished in fifth place after scoring 5/6. Lastly, the team went to the 2015 High School National Chess Championships, held from April 9-12 in Columbus, Ohio. The team received second place in both the blitz event (speed chess, where each player has five minutes to play the entire game), and also 2 nd in the main event where each game lasts up to about four hours; this is debatably TJ s best ever performance at Nationals! Individually, Jeevan Karamsetty tied for second in the main event and tied fourth in the speed chess event. The team consisted of the following players: Jeevan Karamsetty, Isuru Attanagoda, Aaryan Balu, Jonathan Cao, Saroja Erabelli, Perry Feng, Shantanu Gore, Nihar Guidseva, Arun Kannan, Brian Li, Benjamin Lyons, Kalyan Madanapalli, Aditya Ponukumati, Nandan Srinivasa, Joie Wang, Schicheng Zhao, Joseph Chen.

9 Computer Team At the University of Pennsylvania PClassic, the team of Samuel Kim, Rajat Khanna, Haoyuan Sun, and Lalit Varada, placed first, and the team of Corwin de Boor, Danial Hussain, Hyo Won Kim, and Matthew Savage, placed second. At the Virginia Commonwealth University High School Programming Contest, the Senior Puter Team of Corwin de Boor, Rajat Khanna, Matthew Savage, and Lalit Varada placed first; and the Intermediate Computer Team of Sahith Malyala, Christopher Morris, Mykyta Semichev, and Ashwin Srinivasan, placed third. At the University of Virginia High School Programming Contest the Senior Computer Team of Kevin Geng, Ashley Kim, Samuel Kim, and Hariank Muthakana placed 3rd; and the Frosh Puter Team of Katherine Cheng, Srinidhi Krishnamurthy, Sujay Ratna, and Justin Zhang placed 5 th, out of 52 competing teams. The Senior Computer Team of Samuel Hsiang, Christopher Morris, Allen Cheng,and Haoyuan Sun earned first place in the University of Maryland High School Programming Contest. They finished all eight problems in just over two hours, out of the allowed three. They were actually the only team that finished all eight! Out of 87 teams in five Divisons, TJ s Intermediate Puter Team of Cecelia Chu, Shrey Gupta, Ashwin Srinivasan, Lawrence Wang, and Devon A. Wood-Thomas placed third in the Senior-5 Division and the Frosh Puter Team of Saket Bikmal, Katherine Cheng, Kavya Kopparapu, Srinidhi Krishnamurthy, and Justin Zhang placed third in the Junior-5 Division at the American Computer Science League All-Star Competition held at Timber Creek High School in Orlando, FL. Corwin de Boor and Shwetark Patel have been selected for the USA Computing Olympiad invitational camp! A four-person team will be selected from the twenty-four individuals selected for the invitational camp. That team will represent the United States in international competition. Special thanks to team sponsors, Mr. Thomas Rudwick, Ms. Nicole Kim, and Mr. Stephen Rose.

10 Forensics Team Captains: Matthew Sun, Non-Interp events Captains: Aria Kim & Virginia Sun, Interp events Recruitment Officer: Laura Chu Treasurer: Julie Lee Communications Officer: Namita Dongre This season s Washington-Arlington Catholic Forensics League tournaments ran monthly from October to February, with students receiving: Victoria Bevard, 1 st place in Extemporaneous Speaking, 6 th place in Original Oratory, 1 st in Impromptu Speaking, Milan Bharadwaj, 3 rd in Impromptu, Laura Chu, 3 rd in Declamation, and Matthew Sun, 1 st in Original Oratory. TJ qualified 16 entries to the WACFL Metrofinal Tournament. The metrofinal students qualifying to the NCFL Grand National Tournament for the Arlington Diocese of WACFL are: Matthew Sun, placing 1 st in Original Oratory, Virginia Sun placing 8 th in Original Oratory, and Victoria Bevard placing 5 th in Extemporaneous Speaking. Victoria Bevard also placed 2 nd in the combined Arlington/Washington Impromptu competition. The Forensics Speech Team at VHSL: TJ took 11 students to the VHSL conference tournament, advanced 7 to the regional tournament, and 3 to the state tournament. At the State VHSL Tournament, Matthew Sun, placed 1 st in Original Oratory and Victoria Bevard placed 1 st in Extemporaneous Speaking. TJ also hosted the VHSL District Tournament and VHSL Regional Tournament this year. The Forensics Speech Team competed at Invitational Tournaments: TJ took competitors to the George Mason University Patriot Games Invitational in December 2014, and to the Broad Run Invitational Tournament in January, 2015: Congratulations to Matthew Sun who placed 1 st in Original Oratory. National Speech & Debate Association: Matthew Sun competed for TJ at the NSDA District Tournament and was selected to compete at the NSDA National Tournament in Dallas. We also recognize our student members of the National Speech & Debate Association who reached the following degrees of distinction: Degree of Merit: Aria Kim; Degree of Honor: Milan Bharadwaj and Tara Prakash; Degree of Excellence: Laura Chu; Degree of Distinction: Virginia Sun; Degree of Special Distinction: Matthew Sun; Degree of Superior Distinction: Victoria Bevard.

11 Other News April saw our 4th annual SpeechFest, and it was a wonderful success our team members demonstrating their speaking skills and helping other students learn more about the Forensics Speech Team. Academic Letters for 2014/15 Season were awarded to students for their outstanding performance at competitions and significant contributions to the Forensics Speech Team: Victoria Bevard, Laura Chu, Namita Dongre, Aria Kim, Julie Lee, Matthew Sun, Virginia Sun. The team elected officers for the 2015/2016 year. Congratulations to our captains, Matthew Sun and Virginia Sun, our Recruitment officer, Tara Prakash, our Communications officer, Namita Dongre, and our Treasurer, Julie Lee. We also appointed a Training Coordinator for Extemp/Impromptu: Victoria Bevard. We are looking forward to a terrific 2015/16 season! Special thanks to our team coach/sponsor, Mrs. Marie Bakke

12 Future Problem Solvers Thanks to the continued support of Academic Boosters, TJ FPS had a great time at the Virginia Future Problem Solving State Bowl, held April in Norforlk, VA. TJ FPSers had the honor of winning awards in many events, including Senior Division Community Problem Solving, Global Issues Problem Solving, Action Plan Presentation, and Scenario Writing. The first place winners will compete in the FPS International Bowl in June, held in Ames, Iowa. Congratulations to the following students for their achievements in the 2015 VAFPS State Bowl: Global issues problem solving 1 st place (Senior division): Joyce Duan, Christopher Hoang, Minjoo Kang, and Olivia Zhang 2 nd place (Senior division): Sania Ali, Rayana Matin, Raquel Sequeira, and Jessica Wang Honorable mention (Senior division): Pegah Moradi, Christina Zhao, Ramya Ra dhakrishnan and Melanie Piller Honorable mention (Middle division): Nathan Chen, Robert Lee, Justin Zhou and Jennifer Li Honorable mention (Middle division): Simra Ali, Maddie Min, Shriie Ganesh and Bharath Alladi Honorable mention (Middle division): Mounika Chilukuri, Ashley Lin, Leila Mabudian and Supriyah Maddineni Community problem solving 1 st place: Michael Tang and James Ma with TeChonnect Scenario writing competition 1 st place: Melanie Piller 2 nd place: Sharon Liu 3 rd place: Ramya Ravi

13 Presentation of action plans 1 st place (Senior Division): Pegah Moradi, Melanie Piller, Ramya Radhakrishnan and Christina Zhao Honorable Mention (Senior Division): Saroj Chintakrindi, Isaac Iyengar, Julian Vallyeason, and Jay Warrior. Honorable Mention (Middle Division): Linda Diaz, Grace Yang, Elizabeth Li and Dean Zhang. Many thanks to Jenny Zhu for all of her help during our travel weekend. She nominated Melissa Wu (our FPS VP) for the Wythe Award (given to team members who make significant contributions to the team and to FPS). Her nomination essay reflected Melissa s work mentoring Kilmer and her years serving in multiple officer roles, and won Melissa the award -- against 80 other essays! And we ALL congratulate Pegah Moradi, our fearless president, for winning the FPS $1000 scholarship! Congratulations, Pegah, for 4 years of FPS skills in problem-solving, MEMORABLE presentation plan acting, and for your four years of building our club, supporting your coach, and helping extend FPS to Kilmer! The club recently held officer elections for the school year. Congratulations to our newly elected officers: President: Jenny Zhu Vice President: Isaac Iyengar Secretary: Minjoo Kang Treasurer: Saroj Chintakrindi Co-Publicists: Mihir Patel and Frank Tian Competition Chair: Nathan Chen Novice Coordinator: Dean Zhang The positions of Competition Chair and Novice Coordinator are new positions this year. Students are also applying for appointed officer positions, such as Webmaster and Scenario Writing Coordinator (also new positions). We ll publish the full list of officers in the September Techcetera. In addition, with J-Day coming up, FPS is busy preparing its J-Day booth. J-Day is an annual field-day event at TJ for students to spend time with friends and relax, and clubs will usually sell goods or host games as well. TJ FPS J-Day booths have enjoyed great success in past years. Last year, TJ FPS Chinese food booth sold out in approximately 10 minutes! FPS club members and officers are busy preparing to make this year s J-Day another great success.

14 Japan Bowl Thomas Jefferson s Japan Bowl team competed at the annual National Japan Bowl in Chevy Chase, Maryland in April The Japan Bowl is a national competition in which teams of three answer quiz bowl-style questions involving Japanese language, culture, and history. This year the level 2 team consisted of Woohyeong Cho, Hayun Chong, and Raef Khan; the level 3 team consisted of Tanvi Haldankar, Austin Riopelle, and Ashwin Srinivasan, and the level 4 team consisted of Zeal An, John Serger, and Katie Shen. In 2015, the level 4 team placed 4 th and the level 3 team placed 6 th out of approximately 30 teams from around the nation. Previously, in 2014, the level 4 team placed 4 th, the level 3 team placed 5 th, and the level 2 team placed 2 nd, earning all three teams invitations to participate in the Japanese government-sponsored Kakehashi program, a ten-day study and exchange trip to Japan. Special thanks to the team sponsor, Mr. Koji Otani.

15 Math Team Varsity Math Team participated in both the Duke Math Meet and the Princeton University Math Competition in November. At Duke, our A Team finished second and our B Team finished fourth. Two weeks later, our A Team finished first place in the Team Round, first place in the Power Round, and captured first place overall in Division A. At the Harvard-MIT meet, our A Team finished 7 th in the nerve-wracking Guts Round, and freshman Akshaj Kadaveru placed second in Combinatorics. Varsity Math Team has enjoyed several successes recently. Two teams participated in Purple Comet, an online, international, team competition. A six-person team of Sam Hsiang, Sam Kim, Alec Zhang, Allen Cheng, Saroja Erabelli, and Kevin Lin captured first place in the high school (enrollment of ) division. A two-man team of Sushruth Reddy and Robin Park earned an honorable mention. VMT also competed in ARML Local, a national competition on April 25. The competition included team, individual and relay rounds. TJ A placed second (losing the first place tie-breaker to Star League A-Star Air from Santa Clara, CA.). Freshman Franklyn Wang had a perfect score on the individual round and went on to win the tiebreaker with a blistering time of 88 seconds. His nearest competitor required 266 seconds for the same question. Finally, we re celebrating the culmination of the AMC-AIME-USA(J)MO competitions. TJ had another great year, qualifying 118 students to take the AIME exam. Eighteen TJ students earned the privilege of taking the two-day, nine-hour proof-based exam. No other school in the country had more qualifiers. USAMO qualifiers were: Allen Cheng, Saroja Erabelli, Kyle Gatesman, Sam Hsiang, Akshaj Kadaveru, Ildoo Kim, Sam Kim, Kevin Lin, Winston Ou, Robin Park, Sushrutha Reddy, Emilio Sison, and Franklyn Wang. USAJMO qualifiers were: Katherine Cheng, Danny Guo, William Sun, Lilian Wang, and Jeffery Yu. While none of our students was a USAMO or USAJMO winner, four of our students did well enough to be invited to attend the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program. Sam Hsiang, Akshaj Kadaveru, Katherine Cheng, and Lilian Wang will attend this intense, three-week training program.

16 VMT s last competition of the year took place in late May at Penn State. Students look forward to ARML. Not only is it great fun, but students get to meet math friends from all over the East Coast. Special thanks to our sponsors this year: Dr. Amy Lampazzi, Mr. Isaac Carey, Mrs. Hana Rhee, Ms. Pat Gabriel, and Mrs. Margaret Coffey.

17 Model United Nations Faculty Advisor: Sra. Alexandra Pou Student Officers Secretary-General: Sreya Atluri Undersecretaries-General: Aidan Hennessey-Niland, Becca Merriman-Goldring Senator: Cheryl Mensah Arbitrator: Shohini Gupta Activities Coordinators: Patrick Ryan, Nora Thompson, Giancarlo Valdetaro Crisis Czars: Will Frank, Vikram Sardana Fundraising Coordinators: Abhi Mogili, Shreya Bhatia, Kritika Singh General Meetings Coordinator: Abhimanyu Chadha Historians: William Ryu, Claire Scoggins Secretary: Laura Chu Treasurers: Noah Shin Webmasters: Sudhamsh Tippireddy This year, TJ s Model United Nations Club attended three national conferences, William & Mary High School Model United Nations (WMHSMUN) the Ivy League Model United Nations Conference (ILMUNC), hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, and the Washington Area Model United Nations Conference (WAMUNC). Students also attended two local conferences, Chantilly High School Model United Nations (CHMUN), Sidwell Friends School Model United Nations Conference (SFSMUNC). Note: The highest award for an individual is a gavel, followed by outstanding, honorable, and verbal awards. Verbal awards are not provided here, but you can find them in the monthly Techcetera publication. When two students names are listed together, it indicates that they were part of a two-person delegation. WMHSMUN 2014 AWARDS: TJ students performed well at WMHSMUN, a prestigious conference with extremely competitive committees, earning TJ the Undersecretary-General Award for Best Large Delegation. Gavel: Solomon Shewit, Spencer Weiss, Swetha Prabhakaran, Abhi Chadha, Shohini Gupta, Andrew Howard

18 Outstanding: William Ryu, Ishaan Dey & Ian Moritz, Jessica Wang & Audrey Huang, Geetika Mahajan & Arnav Gupta, Chris Cao & Puneeth Uttla, Richa Gupta & Subul Malik, Laura Chu & Suzie Bae, Stav Nachum, Noah Shin Honorable: Leela Ramineni & Neil Parikh, Arya Sivadhanam & Saaketh Anjutgi, Cheryl Mensah & Sophia Martinese, Chitra Kokkirala, Sahana Epari & Dan Qi, Frank Sammartino, Sreya Atluri CHMUN 2015 AWARDS: Gavel: Chitra Kokkirala & Rushi Shah, Will Frank Outstanding: Aidan Hennessey-Niland & Sudhamsh Tippireddy, Laura Chu & Prathik Naidu, Shohini Gupta, Claire Scoggins Honorable: Cheryl Mensah & Jake Gonzalez, Julia Casazza, Gavin Moore, Shreya Mandava, Sam Desmarais ILMUNC 2015 AWARDS: TJ's Model UN club attended the 29th annual Ivy League Model United Nations Conference (ILMUNC) at the University of Pennsylvania from January 24 to January 27. All TJMUN members performed well at this prestigious conference, with extremely competitive committees. TJ School Award: Secretary General s Award for Best Large Delegation Gavel: Sage Teasley & David Hu, Chitra Kokkirala & Rushi Shah, Abhi Chadha, Will Frank, Becca Merriman-Goldring, Spencer Weiss, Shohini Gupta, Aidan Hennessey-Niland, Andrew Howard Outstanding: William Ryu & Kritika Singh, Suzie Bae & Mara Casebeer, Shreya Mandava & Geetika Mahajan, Cheryl Mensah & Jake Gonzalez, Swetha Prabakaran, Vikram Sardana, Sreya Atluri, Patrick Ryan Honorable: Sahana Ramani & Shreya Bhatia, Nora Thompson, Ishaan Dey, Ian Moritz, Stav Nachum, Noah Shin TechMUN 2015: TJMUN hosted its annual conference on April 10th 11th. It was a resounding success with several hundred delegates attending, and more than 100 TJ students staffing the conference. SFSMUNC 2015 AWARDS: School Award: Secretary-General s Award for Best Large Delegation Gavel: Mara Casebeer & Rishitha Anumola, Sreya Atluri & Shreya Bhatia, Richa Gupta, Prathik Naidu, Sam Desmarais Outstanding: William Ryu, Varun Saraswathula & Alex Lewis, Chitra Kokkirala Honorable: Giancarlo Valdetaro

19 WAMUNC 2015 AWARDS: Gavel: Mara Casebeer & Arya Sivadhanam, Chitra Kokkirala, Nora Thompson, Will Frank, Rushi Shah Outstanding: Alex Lewis & Neil Parikh, Virginia Sun, Sam Desmarais, Spencer Weiss Honorable: William Ryu, Sahaj Sharda & Arnav Simha, Ishaan Dey & Ian Moritz, Arthur Browne & Sahana Epari, Puneeth Uttla, Becca Merriman- Goldring

20 Physics Team This year many Jefferson students participated in two physics competitions - the United States Physics Olympiad (USAPHO) and PhysicsBowl. Both competitions were sponsored by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). Many students were nationally and internationally recognized for their performance on these two exams. Here is a summary of the awards won: USAPHO: Shankar Balasubramanian, Allen Cheng, and Charles Wang were invited to camp. Shankar Balasubramanian, Ross Dempsey, Allen Cheng, and Charles Wang received gold medals on the USAPHO exam. Samuel Hsiang received a silver medal on the USAPHO exam. Amit Gupta received a bronze medal on the USAPHO exam. PhysicsBowl: Samuel Hsiang placed 1st for Division 1 in the region Shankar Balasubramanian and Charles Wang placed in the top 100 internationally in Division 2

21 Policy Debate Team This year s Policy Debate season went incredibly well and showed unprecedented growth, thanks to our dedicated varsity members and new teammates. The officers were: Co-Captains: Lucas Lin and Jessica Covan Teaching Coordinators: Aneesh Susarla and Grant Guan Treasurer: Rishab Negi Publicist/Webmaster: Alison Li Policy Debate had a wide range of achievements in many of the tournaments it attended this year. The team of Rishab Negi and Jay Pan reached second place in the Virginia High School League State Policy Debate 5A; Rishab Negi was third-best individual speaker overall, and Jay Pan was the top speaker. TJ Policy Debate also were the Sweepstakes Champions. In local tournaments, each WACFL TJ attended had very strong showings. In WACFL 1 at the beginning of the year, the varsity team of Christine Li and Alison Li achieved 3 rd place; the younger team of Niharika Vattikonda and Gulnaz Sayed was 1 st place in the combined JV-novice division in their first-ever high school debate. Rishab Negi was the third-best speaker and Alison Li was second. WACFL 2 in November saw more teams qualify for Metrofinals at the end of the year with more placings. In Novice division, Lucy Li and Katie Zhang placed 6 th at their first-ever debate tournament. In JV, Jessie Shen and Elizabeth Hu placed 3 rd ; Stella Yang and Jessica Nguyen placed 1st with an undefeated record; and Stella Yang was top speaker. In Varsity, once again Christine Li and Alison Li placed, this time in 6 th. WACFL 3 in December was our best showing for our novices, especially those who had never debated previously. In the Novice division, Ramia Rahman and Zulekha Tasneem were undefeated and 1 st place, and Rounak Das and Peter Hwang were also undefeated and 2 nd place, behind by one point. In JV, Sung Joon Won and Jeffrey Liu were 7 th, and in Varsity, Alison Li and Aneesh Susarla were 4 th, Rishab Negi and Jay Pan were 5 th, and Christine Li and Stella Yang were 7 th. Finally, in WACFL 5, Rounak Das and Peter Hwang were 2nd place in the JV division, while Aneesh Susarla and SungJoon Won were 6th place and Elizabeth Hu & Jessie Shen were 5th place in Varsity. Aneesh Susarla was also the second varsity speaker. Metrofinals, the final tournament in the series of local WACFLs, was strong as well for TJPD. The team as a whole was the Sweepstakes Champions for the first time in years,

22 while Jeffrey Liu and Stella Yang were 2nd place in JV. Meanwhile, Policy Debate also attended several prestigious national tournaments. At Walt Whitman Capitol Classic Invitational, Jay Pan and Rishab Negi were partial quarterfinalists. In the GMU Invitational, Aneesh Susarla and Alison Li were quarterfinalists, while Jay Pan and Rishab Negi were semifinalists. Finally, Jay Pan and Rishab Negi were quarterfinalists in the Pennsbury Falcon Invitational. The team was especially strong this year with many varsity members achieving new awards as well as a strong novice and JV showing. We are looking forward to more growth next season, and couldn t have done it all without strong team support and our sponsor and coach, Dr. Lennon.

23 Quizbowl Captains: Justin Yum and Ryan Golant Tournament Directors: Bobbie Sheng and Joanna Gerr Treasurer: Chris Yeung Webmaster: Paul Dumitrescu Secretary: Michael Yue Public Relations Officer: Ranjani Parthasarathy TJ Quizbowl has had a successful year, thanks to the generous support of Academic Boosters and our two coaches, Mr. Laffey and Mr. Loo. The TJ team of senior Justin Yum, juniors Ryan Golant and Michael Yue and sophomore Ruyan Zhang placed 2 nd at the Virginia High School League Scholastic Bowl finals this February. In order to make it to the state championship tournament, TJ team first played in the District and the Regional competitions at which they were undefeated. Our It s Academic TV show team has also had success this year. A team of Justin Yum, Ryan Golant and Ruyan Zhang defeated teams from Stonewall Jackson and La Plata in the first round and advanced to the playoff rounds where the TJ team played against St. Anselm and Osbourne Park. The first round was broadcast on NBC4 at 10:30 AM on March 21, and the playoff round was broadcast at 10:30 AM on May 23. In addition to these achievements, we have had great success in our regular season tournaments playing at University of Delaware Novice Tournament on November 1, 2014, at Centennial Invitational Tournament on November 9, 2014, at Cavalier Classic at UVA on November 15, 2014, at VCU Winter Tournament on December 6, 2014, at GSAC XXII on December 13, 2014, at HERMES at Richard Montgomery High School on March 28, 2015 and at VA NAQT States at UVA on May 2, Members Rohan Hedge, Alex Howe, Grant Li, Varun Mosur, Aditya Sarkar, Andrew Wang, Wendy Yin, Nikul Dar, Colin Murphy, Ruyan Zhang, Michael Yue, Saurav Pattanayak, Ryan Golant, Joanna Gerr, Paul Dumitrescu, Justin Yum, Bobbie Sheng and Ranjani Parthasarathy represented the TJ teams at these tournaments. The novice tournament is an annual event and a wonderful opportunity for freshmen to get involved in Quizbowl. We were thrilled to have such a great turnout this year! On April 18, we hosted the annual Thomas Jefferson Invitational Academic Tournament, or TJIAT which is the only Quizbowl Tournament for high school students in the Northern Virginia area. 16 teams were in attendance, and the tournament was certified platinum by the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE), meaning it

24 was very well-run and the question set used was of exceptional quality. Many club members volunteered to help staff the tournament, which was run by Tournament Directors, Bobbie Sheng and Joanna Gerr, and coaches, Mr. Laffy and Mr. Loo. Due to these successes this year, TJ Quizbowl qualified two teams for each of two different national tournaments. The High School National Championship Tournament (HSCNT), which is run by National Academic Quiz Tournaments, held in Chicago, IL on May Members Rohan Hedge, Alex Howe, Aditya Sarkar, Andrew Wang, Ruyan Zhang, Michael Yue, Saurav Pattanayak, Ryan Golant and Paul Dumitrescu will represent TJ at the tournament. The National Scholastic Championship (NSC), which is run by the Partnership for Academic Competition Excellence (PACE) will be held in Reston Virginia on June 6-7.

25 Rubik s Cube Every year, the TJ s Rubik s Cube Club sends eight members to participate in the You Can Do the Rubik s Cube team competition. Teams compete to solve 25 Rubik s Cubes as fast as possible. This year, the TJ team came in 2 nd place IN THE WORLD WITH A TIME OF 1:10.03! Results over the years: 2011: 1 st place 2012: 1 st place 2013: 1 st place 2014: 2 nd place 2015: 2 nd place 2015 TJ team members: Peter Gunnarson (Senior) Devin Kim (Junior) Eli Lifland (Junior) David Zhao (Junior) Landon Chu (Sophomore) David Chao (Freshman) Frank Ding (Freshman) Shreyan Jaiswal (Freshman) Adam Yee (Freshman) Members of the TJ team first meet through tryouts, which are often hosted in late January. Candidates are selected based upon a combination of speed, which is gauged through solve times, and teamwork, which is noted through club participation. After the tryout period, team members spend the next two months practicing together three times a week before competing in the competition! Additionally, all individual members of the club are encouraged to participate in competitions hosted by the World Cubing Association. These are official competitions where people meet other Rubik s Cube solvers and break records!

26 The team would like to thank the club sponsor Ms. Christine Conklin for an incredible amount of work towards keeping the club together, the parent volunteers who graciously offered to help with transportation, and the club officers Albert Chuang, Alex Wendt, Peter Gunnarson, Eli Lifland, and Catherine Im! We are incredibly sad that our four-year Senior Members are leaving us for college. Their enthusiasm for TJ Cubing and dedication to teaching new members have been superior!

27 Science Bowl Congratulations to the TJ Science Bowl Team of Janice Ong, Ross Dempsey, Franklyn Wang, Tiger Zhang and Matthew Barbano, who competed in the U.S. Department of Energy National Science Bowl in Washington D.C. from April 30 through May 4, Lead by their coach, Ms. Mary Ann Donohue, the team played against the top students from 68 schools across the nation and won 2 nd place, bringing home $ and a trophy for the school, as well as individual medals. The team also enjoyed adventure tours of Yellowstone National Park.

28 Science Olympiad Captain: John Park Vice Captain: Jake Cui Secretaries: Neeraj Prasad and Sashank Thupukari Treasurer: Tarun Punnoose Science Olympiad is a team competition where students compete in a variety of events ranging over different scientific disciplines. TJ Science Olympiad (TJSO) returned for its seventh year after finishing in 1 st place at the Virginia state competition in both of the two previous years. The White and Red teams placed 2 nd and 4 th in the Fairfax Invitational tournament held in early January against thirty-seven other competing teams! The Blue team placed 3 rd at the Tiger Invitational tournament held all the way up in Pennsylvania against more than thirty teams from several other states. At Regionals, TJ Blue, Red, and White teams finished in the top three spots, placing 1 st, 2 nd, and 3 rd, respectively. TJ s three teams won the most medals and took 1 st place in seventeen of the eighteen events. TJSO finished in 2 nd place at the States competition in April, barely missing the 1 st place spot by two points. Science Olympiad is a heavily team-dependent competition, so we d like to recognize all of team members for the successful year! Seniors: Maya Chung, Billie Males, Richard Oh, Janice Ong, Winston Ou, John Park Juniors: Abha Agrawal, Philip Carr, Jake Cui, Ryan Gottwald, Matthew Guo, Chelsea Li, Jessica Nguyen, Sayan Paul, Tarun Punnoose, Mira Sridharan, Sashank Thupukari, Ming Ray Xu, Michael You, Tiger Zhang Sophomores: Katie Ahn, Akshay Balaji, Vishal Bhasin, Nakul Dar, Stephanie Do, Hannah Kim, Pranab Krishnan, Eric Liu, Neeraj Prasad, Keerthi Puvvada, Jiying Qi, Jayant Subramanian, Aadith Vittala, Sung Joon Won, Gerald Wu, Diana Zavela, Charles Zhao

29 Freshmen: Nitya Agrawal, Nina Chung, Katherine Du, Emily He, Paarth Jain, Kavya Kopparapu, Aditya Sarkar, John Krause-Steinrauf, Shreya Ramesh, Ethan Wu, Adam Yee, Justin Zhou TJSO continues to hold the Virginia record for the best placing at the National tournament of 23 rd place despite being one of the youngest Division C teams in the state. The season showcased one of TJ s strongest teams in school history and displayed a promising future for the team. We hope to improve next year and become a strong team on the National level. Thanks so much to our wonderful team coach and dedicated sponsor, Mrs. Holman!

30 Student Congress Team Co-Captains: Victoria Bevard and Virginia Sun The Student Congress Team began its first full year of competition in 2014/15. The team rapidly grew and now enjoys a roster of 14 students. We are quickly becoming one of the largest student congress teams in northern Virginia, with students learning and practicing Congressional debate skills including parliamentary procedures. Students write and debate legislation on current events including domestic, international, and economic topics. This season s Washington-Arlington Catholic Forensics League tournaments ran monthly from October to March, with students receiving: Victoria Bevard, 1 st place (twice), 2 nd place, and a Best Speaker Award. Nash Hemrajani placed 3 rd, and Virginia Sun placed 3rd. TJ qualified 3 entries to the WACFL Metrofinal Tournament. Victoria Bevard also qualified to the NCFL National Tournament in Ft. Lauderdale. The Student Congress Team at VHSL: TJ took five students to VHSL regional tournament, with Victoria Bevard placing 2 nd, Nash Hemranjani 4 th, Leela Ramineni 6 th, Sharon Liu 8 th, and Kaleb Marioghae 9 th. All 5 students qualified to the state tournament. At the State VHSL Tournament, four of our five competitors advanced to the Supersession round. Congratulations to Victoria Bevard, placing 4 th in the VHSL State Tournament. The Student Congress Team competed at Invitational Tournaments: TJ took two competitors to the Wake Forest Invitational Tournament with Victoria Bevard placing 10 th. We also took four competitors to the George Mason University Patriot Games Invitational in December 2014 with Victoria Bevard advancing to Semifinals; In January we had three students compete at the Broad Run Invitational Tournament with Victoria Bevard placing 1 st, Nash Hemrajani 3 rd, and Virginia Sun 5 th. We also congratulate Victoria Bevard for breaking to the semifinals at the prestigious Harvard Invitational Tournament. National Speech & Debate Association: Virginia Sun and Victoria Bevard competed for TJ at the NSDA District Tournament and both were selected to compete at the NSDA National Tournament in Dallas. We also recognize our student members of the National Speech & Debate Association who reached the following degrees of distinction: Degree of Merit: Sharon Liu; Degree of Excellence: Nash Hemrajani; Degree of Distinction: Virginia Sun; Degree of Superior Distinction: Victoria Bevard.

31 Other News Academic Letters for 2014/15 Season were awarded to students for their outstanding performance at competitions and significant contributions to the Student Congress Team: Victoria Bevard, Nash Hemrajani, Sharon Liu, Kaleb Marioghae, Leela Ramineni, and Virginia Sun. The team elected officers for the 2015/2016 year. Congratulations to our captains, Victoria Bevard and Virginia Sun, our Training Coordinators: Nash Hemrajani, Sharon Liu, and Rini Sarkel; Communications/Recruitment officer, Kaleb Marioghae, and our Treasurer/Fundraising Coordinator: Leela Ramineni. We are looking forward to a terrific 2015/16 season! Special thanks to our team coach/sponsor, Mrs. Marie Bakke

32 Academic Boosters Donors, Diamond ($1000 and above) Ranjani Parthasarathy (2015) Platinum ($500 - $999) Benjamin Lyons (2017) Wassim Omais (2018) Gold ($250 - $499) Saroja Erabelli (2015) Joanna Gerr (2016) Aidan Hennessey-Niland (2015) Samuel Hsiang (2016) Akshaj Kadaveru (2018) Hyo Won Kim (2016) Rebecca Merriman-Goldring (2015) Colin Murphy (2017) Ningyuan Pan (2016) Arthur Tisseront (2016) Franklyn Wang (2018) James Xiao (2018) Stella (2016) and Claire Yang (2016) Silver ($100 - $249) Chloe Andresol (2018) Susanna Bradbury (2017) Jonathan Buchinsky (2017) Ian Carr (2017) Philip Cho (2018) Shiraz Chokshi (2017) Laura Chu (2017) Hannah Collins (2017) Katherine Du (2018) Kyle Gatesman (2018) Aaron Gu (2017) Peter Gunnarson (2015) Grace Huang (2016) Arun Kannan (2015) Nolan Kataoka (2015) Hannah Kim (2017) Amitesh Kotwal (2018) John Krause-Steinrauf (2018) Thomas Lai (2017) Andrew Li (2016) Jeffrey (2016) and Ethan Liu (2018) Ethan Lowman (2015) Hyung Ju Moon (2016) Christopher Morris (2016) Suhoon Oh (2017) Saurav Pattanayak (2016) Keerthi Puvvada (2017) Jiying Qi (2017) Vishal Reddy (2018) Vlada Semicheva (2017) Bobbie Sheng (2015) William Sun (2018) Virginia Sun (2016) Aneesh Susarla (2016) Lawrence Wang (2017) Gerald (2017) and Ethan Wu (2018)

33 Michael (2016) and Lydia You (2018) Diana Zavela (2017) Alec (2016) and Katie Zhang (2018) Tiger Zhang (2016) Jenny Zhu (2016) Bronze ($50 - $99) Bharath Alladi (2018) Rijul Amin (2018) Spencer Atkin (2018) Pallavi Avasarala (2018) Sricharan Bachu (2018) Vishal Bhasin (2017) Lucinda Blasco Dorian Bloy (2018) Justin Cai (2018) Jonah (2016) and Mara Casebeer (2018) Daniel Chen (2017) Joseph Chen (2017) Nathan Chen (2018) Allen (2016) and Katherine Cheng (2018) Melody Chiang (2017) Durga Mounika Chilukuri (2018) Shinbe Choi (2018) Joyce Duan (2016) Jana El-Sayed (2017) Perry Feng (2016) Claire Fuller (2017) Peter Gabor () Jordan Ganley (2016) Emma Glass (2017) Ryan Golant (2016) Joseph Gonzales (2015) Arvind Govinday (2018) Nihar Gudiseva (2015) Kevin Guo (2018) Savana Hadjipanteli (2017) Xiaoran Han (2017) Ryan Helmlinger (2017) Louise Hicks (2018) Christopher Hoang (2016) Isaac Iyengar (2016) Rishub Jain (2015) Deborah Kang (2016) Jean Kim (2018) Robert Kim (2018) Shivam Kollur (2017) Pranab Krishnan (2017) Meredith Lee (2016) Brian Li (2015) Gabrielle Li (2018) Grant Li (2018) Eli Lifland (2016) Ashley Lin (2018) Evan Lin (2018) Kevin (2016) and Megan Lin (2018) Eldon Luk (2017) Leila Mabudian (2018) Kalyan Madanapalli (2015) Billie Males (2015) Rayan Matin (2017) Pegah Moradi (2015) Natasha Narayanan (2018) Jiaxuan Qin (2018) Ramya Radhakrishnan (2015) Ramia Rahman (2018) Rahul Rajan (2018)

34 Sujay Ratna (2018) Charles Ruiter (2016) Andrew Seliskar (2015) Melina Seng (2018) Ruhee Shah (2015) Avni Singh (2018) Ria Sonawane (2017) Arvind Srinivasan (2018) Swati Srivastava (2017) Michael Stepniczka (2018) Matthew Sun (2016) Frank Tian (2018) Emily Wang (2018) Jessica Wang (2017) Jessica (2017) and Charles Wang (2018) Joie Wang (2016) Lilian Wang (2018) Alexander Wendt (2015) Devon Wood-Thomas (2017) Melissa Wu (2015) Katherine Yang (2018) Grace Young (2018) Justin Yum (2015) Olivia Zhang (2016) Christina Zhao (2015) Justin Zhou (2018) Faculty & Staff Stephen Rose Peter Gabor Dennis Loo

35 Nurture the MIND TJHSST Academic Boosters MEMBERSHIP FORM: Membership category Donation TJ students of donors will be recognized on the Academic Booster Bronze $50 website and in Academic Booster annual booklets for the school year in which the donation is received. (For example, Gold: Family of Mary Silver $100 Smith, 2016.) Teachers, non-parents, and corporate donors will be recognized using their own names. All contributions over $250 will be Gold $250 acknowledged with a letter, as required by the IRS. Platinum $500 Diamond $1000 & up Your entire donation may be TAX DEDUCTIBLE. Student Name(s) Grade(s) Student Academic Team(s) Father/Guardian Address Phone Mother/Guardian Address Phone (Please indicate day, evening, and/or cell phone number) Payment Check MC Visa AmEx Name on Card Card No Expiration Date 3-digit Security Code If your company has a matching gifts program, please ask your employer for the appropriate forms and guidelines. Make your contribution to TJHSST Academic Boosters go twice as far and be recognized accordingly. Academic Boosters depends on parents to help in our fund raising efforts and other activities. Please let us know if you can help with any of the following: I am interested in learning more about Board Membership (requires about two hours per month). I am willing to provide refreshments for an Academic Boosters event. Please contact me when help is needed. Academic Boosters Board

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