If a student has a double asterisk next to their name, they advanced to the second round of judging and almost made it to the final round of judging as contenders for being an ISEF finalist. 4thplace Henry Liao and George Zhang, Parli Pro: We had a record 18 students participate in the Biology Olympiad Open Exam this year. 7thplace Mihika Vankamamidi, Job Interview: 1st Place - Prakriti Shukla; Entrepreneurship: 1st Place - Siddharth Shende; 5th Place - Pinakin Kanade and Aran Punniamoorthy; Publication Design: 5th Place - Team of Deveshi Thakur, Emily Zhao and Neerja Natu. Banking and Financial Systems: Team of Divij Aswinkumar and Farzad Hasan 6th place, Broadcast Journalism: Team of Monisha Krothapalli and Shreya Pandey 1st place, Business Communiction: Siddhant Porwal 7th place, Business Ethics: Team of Laura Anker and Uma Paul, 7th place; Team of Cindy Chen and Kavya Srikumar 3rd place, Business Financial Plan: Prakriti Shukla and Prakshi Shukla 5th place, Computer Problem Solving: Nidhi Munikote 2nd place, Digital Video Production: Team of Radhika Sikaria and Rohan Singh 4th; Team of Vani Daryani, Ateeq Ramlan and Leo Ribeiro di Brito 7th place, E-business: Leo Ribeiro de Brito 5th place, Entrepreneurship: Team of Shivank Dutt and Aatish Parson 2nd place; Team of Ryan Chan, Mohammad Mendahawi and Cameron Yetzer 1st place, Graphic Design: Mikey Halim 3rd place; Edward Zhou 2nd place, Hospitality Management: Navaneet Girikumar 4th place; Team of Vani Daryani and Ananya Krishnan 6th place; Team of Emma Shi and Osheen Tikku 5th place, Impromptu Speaking: Mikey Halim 3rd place, International Business: Team of Ryan Chan, Mohammad Mendahawi and Cameron Yetzer 1st place; Team of Uma Paul and Emma Shi 2nd place, Introduction to Business Communication: Sneha Murali 2nd place, Ananya Unnikrishnan 1st place, Introduction to Business Presentation: Team of Aymaan Hussain and Isayiah Lim 9th place; team of Karina Kejriwal, Bhavya Nandikanti and Divya Singh 4th place, Introduction to Business Procedures: Sneha Murali 2nd place, Introduction to FBLA: Isayiah Lim 2nd place, Introduction to Financial Math: Keshav Acharya 3rd place; Sneha Murali 4th place, Introduction to Information Technology: Rohit Karthik 4th place, Introduction to Public Speaking: Cindy Chen 1st place, Harini Vijeyanandh 6th place, Introduction to Social Media Strategy: Team of Ansh Aggarwal, Varsha Mantravadi and Prakshi Shukla 4th place, Job Interview: Eesha Kunisetty 4th place; Nitya Kakulamarri 3rd place, Management Decision Making: Team of Eesha Kunisetty and Uma Paul 4th place, Mobile Application Development: Team of Aheli Dutta, Aatish Parson and Barath Saravanan 1st place, Parliamentary Procedure: Team of Siddhant Porwal, Gauri Raman, Arihant Singh and Pranav Teegavarapu 3rd place, Personal Finance: Deepesh Singh 4th place, Publication Design: Team of Siddhant Porwal and Harini Vijeyanandh 10th place; Team of Karina Kejriwal and Divya Singh 8th place, Sales Presentation: Team of Karina Kejriwal and Rhea Kuppa 4th place, Securities and Investments: John Karaca 3rd place, Social Media Strategies: Team of Aheli Dutta and Barath Saravanan 2nd place, Supply Chain Management: Mohit Soni 5th place. School Schedules overview - Tesla STEM High And of course, no judging experience is flawless, and there were some exceptional student projects which did not receive their due accolades, in my opinion. Explore our favorite experiments, engineering challenges and demonstrations with these fun hands-on STEM activities! Particular thanks to Mr. Arny Leslie who helped the students study for the exam and gave them new ways of looking at earth systems interactions. Congratulations to all of the winners listed below, and to our new State Officer At-Large, Brayden Brackett! This year, the centerreceived almost 600 entries representing 46 schools! University of Chicago Science Olympiad (UCSO) (16 January 2021): Codebusters: 8th place, Aayush Sheth & Phillip Araujo, Designer Genes: 6th place, Rohan Iyer & Nikhil Mehta, Experimental Design: 2nd place, Aaditya Prasad & Aayush Sheth, Forensics: 7th place, Saketh Dhulipalla & Sahith Gorty, Fossils: 10th place, Yuchen Li & Atharv Dixit, Geologic Mapping: 6th place, Yuchen Li & Atharv Dixit, Machines: 9th place, Divij Aswinkumar & Saathvik Somujayabalan; 2nd place, Evan Kim & Aaditya Prasad, Protein Modelling: 8th place, Rohan Iyer & Saketh Dhulipalla, Sounds of Music: 6th place, Evan Kim & Phillip Araujo. Website Design: 3rd Place - Samarjit Kaushik, Aran Punniamoorthy and Shrey Srivastava; 5th Place - Sophia Ling and Kinner Parikh. Tesla STEM High School entered two teams. Tesla Announces $1.5 Million in Education Grants for STEM Students Please congratulate all of these students! Business Law: 1st Place - Deepayan Sanyal; Computer Problem Solving: 2nd Place - Michael Yu; Healthcare Administration: 2nd Place - Rohit Gupta. They will have one more test to potentially qualify for the Final, which involves 10 days of instruction and 2 days of testing at a host university and a chance to represent the US at the International Biology Olympiad in Japan. Wehad 3 student projects receive ISEF bidsand place in the top seven best projectsof the whole fair!! Title: Halting Natural Gas Disasters with the Development of an Automated Safety Valve Through Fluid Dynamic Analysis, Team Members: Sashu Shankar, Rishi Kavikondala, Rayan Krishnan, Anne Lee, Isaac Perrin, Challenge Topic 1: The Itron Food, Energy, and Water Challenge Behavior Approach 1stPlace, Team Members: Bryn Allesina-McGrory, Indra Toepke, Yogitha Sunkara, Adriana Rush, Challenge Topic 2: The Boeing Aerospace Challenge Design Approach 2nd Place and Best Teamwork Award, Title: Developing Solketal: Reducing Glycerol Waste Through Jet Fuel Additive, Team Members: Andrea Dang, Rashida Hakim, George Cheruvathur, Sandra Militaru, Challenge Topic 3: The Biofuels Challenge Technology Approach 1st Place, Title: The Application of the Triazabicyclodecene Catalyst to the Transesterification Process in Biofuels Production, Team Members: Lawrence Atienza, Neha Nagvekar, Fred Qin, Larry Wang, Challenge Topic 3: The Biofuels Challenge Design Approach 2nd Place, Title: Application of Optical Fiber Cables Within Algal Photobioreactors for Augmented Productivity and Scalability, Team Members: Abhijith Balijepalli, Tyler Volta, Rusdan Crook, Ryan Koshy.