Students qualify for state STEM conference
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Several Upper St. Clair High School students recently qualified to compete at the 2025 Pennsylvania Technology Student Association (TSA) State Conference, which is set for April 23-26 at Seven Spring Resort.
To qualify, the Upper St. Clair students were among the top performers at the TSA Region 1 & 6 Conference on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025, at Blackhawk High School in Beaver County. Tracy Smith, science and robotics teacher, serves at the TSA sponsor at Upper St. Clair High School.
The following students qualified to compete at the state conference:
Coding:
- Jeffery Zhang, 5th Place
CAD Engineering
- Komel Nulwala, 1st Place
- Rohan Inampudi, 2nd Place
Dragster Design
- Tahir Disbudak, 2nd Place
- Komel Nulwala, 3rd Place
Extemporaneous Speech
- Ahana Mendhi, 1st Place
- Anand Jani, 2nd Place
Future Tech & Engineering Teacher
- Pari Varshney, 3rd Place
PA Logo Design
- Aanya Agrawal, 3rd Place
- Aadhya Agrawal, 4th Place
Prepared Presentation
- Anand Jani, 3rd Place
- Medha Misra, 6th Place
Promotional Design
- Sofiya Gorban, 4th Place
Structural Design & Engineering
- Ojasi Madhekar & Betsy Zheng, 1st Place
Technology Bowl
- Rohan Inampudi, 2nd Place
- Ahana Mendhi, 4th Place
- Aanya Agrawal, 10th Place
Technology Problem Solving
- Tahir Disbudak & Nikita Polstyanko, 4th Place
- Pari Varshney & Gloria Wu, 5th Place
The Technology Student Association is a non-profit career and technical student organization of middle and high school students engaged in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). More than 300,000 students participate in TSA’s competitions, intracurricular activities, leadership opportunities and community service.
- USCHS