Plano ISD Student Recognitions November 14, 2017
Plano ISDStudent RecognitionsNovember 14, 2017
ACADEMICRecognitions207 Plano ISD Students Receive Commended Recognition from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano ISD Academy High School• Daniel K. Choi• Heather S. Kurtzman• Sean H. Newman• Samantha N. Stidd
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano East Senior High School• Faiz Ahmad• Yusuf A. Ahsanullah• John W. Allred• Nareen Z. Anwar• Kishan L. Asokan• Nathan D. Black• Jacob D. Bommersbach
• Jacob M. Browning• Mark Z. Cheng• Chesney A. Cherry• Van H. Chung• Anita Dey Barsukova• Jeffrey D. Dickenson• Andrea M. Doan
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano East Senior High School• Yesh S. Doctor• Kathryn G. Emerson• Sean T. Facey• Nicholas A. Ha• Malek I. ltani• Neil G. Jayarajan• Asad A. Jussa
• Safin S. Kasturi• Rakesh Kathiresan• Poorvaja Kolli• Iris Y. Kou• Nandu Krishnan• Mukund Kumar• Warren G. Lao
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano East Senior High School• Wesley G. Lao• Anna B. Le• Minh B. Le• Jonathan H. Lee• Rebecca A. Lee• Harsh Madaik• Akshay Mantri
• Salma P. Montero• Ashley B. Mueller• Guransh S. Nanda• Addison L. Newman• Amanda B. Ngo• Jason P. Pereira• Jackson D. Pierce
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano East Senior High School• Humza Qavi• Vivek R. Raghuram• Anika C. Rajesh• Benjamin A. Randoing• Sruthi M. Rudravajjala• Aubree L. Seibert• Rohan B. Shah• Liam R. Silagan
• Sean G. Silagan• Arun Sitsabeshon• Naasik A. Syed• Courtney E. Thomas• Thomas J. Truong• Caleb M. Warhurst• Nathan D. Wille• Shumpei Yasuda• Christina M. Yuan
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano Senior High School• Aria Bakhtiari• Burzin P. Balsara• Vincent E. Buccini• Morgan E. Castleberry• Austin L. Chambers• Jason P. Champion• Allison L. Chang• William E. Chang
• Melissa Chen• Warren H. Chen• Rhea M. D’Silva• Jacob A. Deutsch• Maria S. Galles• Danielle M. Kallas• Hwanseo Lee• Jennifer E. Lee
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano Senior High School• Corey Li• Tong Li• Jason Lin• Jason T. Luong• Nathaniel E. Mars• Claire H. McKinney• Navnit Mohan• Chetana Murali
• Sojeong Nam• Sachi Nayak• Duyen T. Nguyen• Julia N. Nguyen• Christine S. Park• Sonia M. Patel• Sujoy Purkayastha• Arvind Ravi Kumar
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano Senior High School• Alhan M Saadiq• Tarang A. Sane• Anusha S. Saraf• Vandana N. Seshadri• Pranali C. Shah• Neil Srivastava• Shoaib Syed• Nicholas B. Teachenor
• Leah G. Tomotaki• David J. Trink• Crystal M. Tse• Haoning Wang• Conway W. Xu• Allison S. Yi• Su S. Zheng• Caitlin Z. Zhu
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano West Senior High School• Feriha Ahmad• Anup S. Arvind• Thet Hmu Aye• Arati Bendapudi• Indira V. Bernal• Ira Bhat• Sanjna A. Bhatia• Gerilyn C. Boyle
• Bernardo Burboa Quiroga• Caroline E. Burg• Sristy Chaudhry• Daniel A. Che• Satya Chintapalli• Elsie Chiu• Brian H. Choi• Dominic M. Choo
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano West Senior High School• Agnes Chu• Sang Woo Chung• Zachary S. Desai• Elizabeth A. Deville• Kyle J. Diel• Gabrielle N. Dunn• Anthony J. Gaetjen• Shreyas Ganesh
• Sam M. Garrett• Megan L. Givens• Lauren M. Hale• Cindy Y. Hao• James S. He• Devin Himatsinghani• Nathan L. Huang• Da Hyun Jeong
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano West Senior High School• Esther Y. Jeong• Apoorva Kakkilaya• Shyla Kala• Srinivasavaibhav Kalluri• Mishan A. Kara• Christopher M. Karouta• Michael J. Kasper• Anu Khatri
• Alaa Z. Khurram• Fawaz Khurram• Travis D. Kidd• Pranav S. Konduri• Varsha N. Kumar• Adam N. Kwan• Richard Lee• Sharon S. Lee
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano West Senior High School• Nicholas M. Leung• Wenyao Li• Janelle Liew• Kevin Z. Lin• Edward H. Liu• Samuel J. Loh• Alexander L. Loudon• Jessie Luo
• Merry A. Mathew• Emily M. McCarthy• Collin P. McMahon• Kate J. Moloney• Sarah M. Motakef• Claire M. Nagel• Likhita Nandigam• Sandipan Nath
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano West Senior High School• An Nguyen• Dunia N. Noorzaie• Esha Paruchuri• Raul D. Patel• Rithwik K. Pattikonda• Rohit K. Prasad• Shreya S. Rajhans• Ashan L. Ranmuthu
• Erika J. Ren• Abigail E. Rex• Ali K. Rizvi• Enrique J. Rodriguez Cupello• Nicole S. Roos• Sanjay V. Salem• Manavi Shah• Deepanshi Sharma
2018 National Merit Commended Students
Plano West Senior High School• Megan Shen• Jaskaran Singh• Gauree Srinivasan• Junfeng Sun• Sydney S. Tay• Tanya A. Tejani• Ritu R. Trivedi• Rishab G. Vadvadgi
• Henry H. Weinstein• Brody P. Whalen• Ariana Y. Wu• Catherine Xie• Jason W. Zhang• Jiayi Zhu• Jesse M. Zou• Guangze Zu
ACADEMICRecognitions33 Seniors Named Finalists by the College Board's National Hispanic Recognition Program
College Board National Hispanic Scholars Finalists
Plano East Senior High School• Jeffrey Dickenson• Edgar Ferretiz• Joshua Horlander-Cruz• Leonard LeGrand
• Mariana Llambias• Dylan Reece• Gerardo Rios Trevino• Aubree Seibert
College Board National Hispanic Scholars Finalists
Plano Senior High School• Allison Bireley• Jacob Deutsch• Maria Galles• Cristina Keys• Joanna Martin• Elena Martinez
• Marisa Mendoza• Nadia Nuno• Allison Ogle• Eric Rohmer• Claire Taylor• Leah Tomotaki• Yonathan Zetune
College Board National Hispanic Scholars Finalists
Plano West Senior High School• Rodrigo Bavarian• Indira Bernal• Bernardo Burboa• Brendan Chanpong• Faye Coleman• Gunner Fussell
• Nicholas Garcia• Dante Herrera• Alexandra Marquis• Mauro Robles• Samir Slee• Santiago Vazquez
ATHLETICSRecognitionsUIL 6A State Cross Country
UIL 6A State Cross Country
•Ashlyn HillyardPlano Senior High SchoolThird Place
CTERecognitionsUniversity of Texas at Dallas Battle of the Brains Programming Contest
UTD Battle of the BrainsFirst Place Advanced
• Collin McMahonPlano West Senior High School
• An NguyenPlano West Senior High School
• Elizabeth ZouPlano West Senior High School
UTD Battle of the BrainsThird Place Advanced
• Aditya Arjun, Plano West Senior High School
• Dachey Lin, Plano West Senior High School
• Roy Xiong, Plano West Senior High School
UTD Battle of the BrainsThird Place Novice
• Richard Guo, Plano West Senior High School
• Autumn Tan, Plano West Senior High School
• Brian Wang, Plano West Senior High School
FINE ARTSRecognitionsNational College Board Advanced Placement Art Exhibit
National College Board AP Art Exhibit
•Annette HuiPlano West Senior High School
Yellow BandaidIndia ink pens, watercolor paint and Photoshop
National College Board AP Art Exhibit
•Caitlin Savage Plano East Senior High School
Urban Oasis Micron pens, white chalk pencil, white gel pen
SCIENCERecognitionsTexas Junior Academy of Sciences (TJAS) Competition
TJAS CompetitionGrand Prize Winners
• First Place: Andei Spiride IB World School at Plano East Senior
High School Engineering - General
• Second Place: Annie Zhi Clark High School Engineering - Energy
TJAS CompetitionFirst Place
• Aditya Arjun, Plano West Senior High School Engineering - General
• Meena Hari, IB World School at Plano East Senior High School ESS/Math/Physics
• Jacob Mammen, Plano West Senior High SchoolMedicine & Health
• Kavya Muralidhar, IB World School at Plano East Senior High School Behavior & Social Science
TJAS CompetitionFirst Place
• Rishi Niranjan, Shepton High School Engineering- Energy
• Joseph Williams, IB World School at Plano East Senior High School ESS/Math/Physics
• Andei Spiride, IB World School at Plano East Senior High School Engineering - General
• Annie Zhi, Clark High School Engineering - Energy
TJAS CompetitionSecond Place
• Eric Chen, Plano Senior High School Chemistry
• Niki Djordjevic-Kisacanin, Jasper High School Computer Science
• Sujai Hiremath, Plano East Senior High SchoolMedicine & Health
• Krishna Kalluri, Plano East Senior High School Biochemistry/Microbiology
TJAS CompetitionSecond Place
• Rohan Khera, Plano West Senior High School Engineering - General
• Siddharth Krishnan, Plano West Senior High School Engineering - General
• Rachel Mannon, Vines High SchoolMedicine & Health
• Noah Mathai, Jasper High School Chemistry
TJAS CompetitionSecond Place
• Amanda Moon, Plano East Senior High School Botany- Zoology
• Ethan Moore, Plano Senior High School Engineering - Energy
• Likhita Nandigam, Plano West Senior High SchoolMedicine & Health
• Savannah Pas, Plano East Senior High School Biochemistry/Microbiology
TJAS CompetitionSecond Place
• Abhilash Potluri, Plano Senior High School Chemistry
• Rithvik Ramesh, Plano East Senior High School ESS/Math/Physics
• Khushi Thakkar, Jasper High School Environmental
• Nathan Wille, Plano East Senior High School Environmental
TJAS CompetitionThird Place
• Travis Brooks, Clark High School Engineering - General
• Peyton Browder, Plano ISD Academy High School Chemistry
• Jenna Chen, Clark High SchoolMedicine & Health
• Mark Farid, McMillen High School Computer Science
TJAS CompetitionThird Place
• Rahul Hayaran, Plano East Senior High School Computer Science
• Pratyush Mallick, Williams High SchoolMedicine & Health
• Brianna Phan, Jasper High School Chemistry
• Kushal Shah, Plano Senior High School ESS/Math/Physics
TJAS CompetitionThird Place
• Paritosh Suri, Plano West Senior High School Engineering - General
• Kunj Tapiawala, Williams High School Engineering - General
• Howard Yen, Plano Senior High School Biochemistry/Microbiology
• Shirui Zhong, Plano West Senior High School Environmental
TJAS CompetitionHonorable Mention
• Rahul Anand, Plano West Senior High SchoolMedicine & Health
• Diego Diaz, Vines High School Engineering- Energy
• Alex Lin, IB World School at Plano East Senior High School Computer Science
• Vivek Mathesh, Plano Senior High SchoolMedicine & Health
TJAS CompetitionHonorable Mention
• David McFearin, Clark High School Engineering - Energy
• Pranav Nathan, Jasper High School Engineering - General
• Sujoy Purkayastha, Plano Senior High School Engineering - General
SCIENCERecognitions2017 Siemens Competition Regional Finalists
2017 Siemens CompetitionRegional Finalists
• Brandon Chen, Plano West Senior High School
• Yesh Doctor, Plano East Senior High School
• Michael Ma, Plano West Senior High School
• Kshitij Sachan, Plano East Senior High School
SCIENCERecognitions2017 Siemens Competition Semifinalists
2017 Siemens CompetitionSemifinalists
• Burzin Balsara, Plano Senior High School
• Brandon Chen, Plano West Senior High School
• Yesh Doctor, Plano East Senior High School
• Zhiyuan Fan, Plano Senior High School
• Abhinav Godavarthi, Plano West Senior High School
2017 Siemens CompetitionSemifinalists
• Rahul Hayaran, Plano East Senior High School
• Vincent Huang, Plano West Senior High School
• Michael Ma, Plano West Senior High School
• Likhita Nandigam, Plano West Senior High School
• Kshitij Sachan, Plano East Senior High School
• Malav Shah, Plano Senior High School