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2007-2008 Academic Boosters archived
[August 4, 2008] All the news, photos, and donor recognition lists from the 2007-2008 school year have been moved to the archives pages as we prepare this website for a brand new year of excitement and success for our academic teams.
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2008-2009 Academic Boosters News
Public Forum Debate Team at WACFL 2
Public Forum Debate qualified two junior varsity teams and one varsity team for WACFL Metrofinals at the WACFL 2 tournament on Saturday, November 15, 2008, at Walt Whitman HS. At the JV level, the team of Jane Hu and Timothy Yuan placed sixth, with a 3-1 record, and the team of Emma Pierson and Stephen Drodge placed 2nd, with a 4-0 record. At the varsity level, the team of Kittie Helmick and Kevin Sun placed sixth, with a 3-1 record.
Model UN Team Wins Secretary General's Award at Fairfax High Conference
TJHSST Awarded the *Secretary General's Award for Best Large School Delegation at FAIMUN.
Best Delegate Awards went to Rishita Bollam, Bryan Cheong, April Hu, Aaron Koenig, Mica Moore, Arjang Navab, Jennifer Park, Mohima Sanyal, Vish Sridharan, and Cheng Xu.
Outstanding Delegate Awards went to Andrew Barlow, Sid Bhatia, Nate Coddington, Mike Crumplar, Greg Romais, Miller Ke, Jeff Pontell, Anirudh Saraswathula, Sam Speers, and Dennis Wang.
Honorable Delegate Awards to Amar Desai, Brendan Greenley, Akaash Gupta, Aman Kansal, Kamna Kathuria, Neal Milstein, John Pulice, Anurag Shyamala, Shiying Yang, and Andy Yang.
Verbal Commendations for Kevin Casto, Ashu Goel, Lauren Groskaufmanis, Salini Hota, Betty Huang, Ankit Kapoor, Kate Kingsbury, Christine Lee, George Li, Serena Saffarini, Naren Tallapragada ,Swati Teerdhala, Alice Wang, and Sam Zhang.
Congratulations to all the winners!
Policy Debate Team News
Policy Debate had a great WACFL 2.
In varsity, the team of Han Kim and Franklin Zheng placed fifth and the team of Hannah Clark and Andre Kessler placed sixth. Both teams qualified for Metrofinals, as did two other varsity teams: the team of Abigail Xu and Rachel Marzen and the team of Katie Lin and Chris Lee.
In JV, the team of Johnny Kim and Max Wang placed fifth, thereby qualifying for Metrofinals, and the team of Akshay Deverakonda and Sulan Zheng also qualified.
In novice, the team of Billy Nguyen and Christina Lee placed fourth, and the team of John Chae and George Liang placed fifth. Billy Nguyen placed 3rd speaker in Novice.
Lincoln Douglas Debate Team at WACFL 1 & UPenn
The TJ Lincoln-Douglas (LD) Debate team has had a strong season so far. The weekend of October 18-19, the team attended two tournaments: WACFL 1, the local tournament, and the Liberty Bell Classic at the University of Pennsylvania. At WACFL 1, Varun Bansal (Varsity) and Aman Kansal (Junior Varsity) both qualified for the regional Metro Finals tournament in March; Aman placed sixth in JV. At UPenn,Tilani Lowman was fourth place in the preliminary rounds and broke to octafinals. On November 15th, the team attended WACFL 2, the second local tournament of the year, where TJ came away with a solid share of awards. In varsity, both Ani Mohan and Christine O'Donnell qualified to Metro Finals; Christine placed sixth in the tournament. In JV, Elizabeth Denning qualified for Metros with a perfect 4-0 record and a third-place finish. In novice, Kimee Moore and Kevin Boehm both had perfect 4-0 records; they placed second and third, respectively. This combined record constitutes an impressive showing. In the coming weeks, the LD Debate team will be attending the 2008 Princeton Classic. Congratulations to all LD debate team members!
Model UN Delegates win Awards at GMHSMUN
Model UN had a fabulous start at GMHSMUN and won the overall Secretary General's Award. The Best Delegate Awards went to Arvin Ahmadi, Anirudh Mohan, Curtis Mills, Dennis Wang, Kamna Kathuria, Neal Milstein, and Shiying Yang. The Outstanding Delegate Awards went to Andrew Barlow, Avi Sacks, Carolyn Scoggins, Collin Jones, George Li, Greg Romais, Hirsh Sharma, Jennifer Park, Kate Kingsbury, Kelsey Henderson, Kylene Smart, Max Kieff, Mike Crumplar, Nihaar Sinha, & Swetha Pasala. The Honorable Delegate Awards were: Akaash Gupta, Alison Kosmacki, Aman Kansal, April Hu, Brendan Greenley, Carson Hotard, Christine Jacobs, Lyndsey Wheeler, Preetam D'Souza, & Vish Sridharan. And the Verbal Award went to Sid Bhatia & Jayson Marwaha. Congratulations to all the Winners!
Policy Debate Team Wins Awards at WACFL 1
The policy team had a great start at WACFL 1. Debating Novice, Mary Sun received the third place speaker award. Also, Mary Sun and Daniel Chang got third place(3 wins-1 loss). In JV, Max Wang and Johnny Kim received 2nd place (3-1). In Varsity, Han Kim received the 3rd place speaker award, and Franklin Zheng received the 2nd place speaker award. Hannah Clark and Andre Kessler got 6th place (2-2) and Franklin Zheng and Han Kim got 4th (2-2).
It's Academic Wins NBC-TV Match!
On October 11, 2008, the It's Academic Team A of Naren Tallapragada, Josh
Hahm, Kevin Casto, and Harry White (alternate), won the "TV It's Academic"
competition, beating St. Stephen's & St. Agnes High School of Washington,
D.C., and Wooten High School of Rockville, Maryland. The match will be
broadcast on November 1, 2008 on NBC-Channel 4 at 10:30 a.m., so be sure to
watch! In February 2009, the team will advance to the playoff round of the
TV show.
It's Academic Team Off to a Great Start
[September 22, 2008] After a head to head battle against Wilmington Charter High School, the TJ It's Academic Team A, consisiting of Naren Tallapragada, Joshua Hahm, Harry White and Kevin Casto, placed second at the Richard Montgomery High School Fall Tournament. This qualifies Team A for the NAQT National Tournament later this school year. TJ Team B, consisting of Nishanth Parameswaran, Michael Eng, Arjang Navab, Siddharth Hariharan and Graham Lobel, broke even, with 5 wins and 5 losses and won the consolation bracket.
MATE Underwater Robot Competition Results
[September 12, 2008] Congratulations to the team of Chris Atwood, Ryan Brewster, and David DyTang, who represented TJHSST at the 2008 MATE Center's Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle competition in San Diego. The team placed 8th in a field of 27 teams from around the world.
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