Monday, March 15, 2021 - 3:25 pm
Glacier Creek seventh-grader Leela Benson's short play, Wait for Me, was selected to be performed at the Children's Theater of Madison's Spring Playwrights Festival.
Benson's play looks at a friendship interrupted by the pandemic and personifies/creates characters for the emotions Anger, Hopelessness and Patience. Her play will also be CTM's chosen submission to the National Young Playwrights for Change Project.
* Kromrey's Sahana Saravana Kumar (5th grade), Shilpasri Pooruli Balaji (7th), and Shreya Ramesh (8th) and Glacier Creek's Radhika Gupta (7th) and Sai Suhas Pulivarthi (8th) qualified for the State Bee along with 51 other students from Wisconsin. The top three students from the online state event will qualify for the National Bee.
* Middle school students Harry Jin, Owen Weisenberger and Micah Friedman have qualified for the State MathCounts Competition to be held Thursday, March 25. They were among the top top finalists at a regional event and a chapter invitational to qualify for state. Special thanks to MathCounts coaches Ben Saltzman, Abigail Ochberg and Oh Hoon Kwon for their efforts.
* A record 26 teams and 104 students participated in the Wisconsin Educational Media and Technology Association's Battle of the Books at Glacier Creek and Kromrey. his program encourages students to read a variety of award-winning books that reflect many different genres and cultural experiences.
The top teams at each level were:
Middle Division Glacier Creek 1st place: Kavya Kashyap, Radhika Gupta, Izzy Woods and Asha Chakravartula 2nd place: Leo Mastronardi, Jonah Kokott, Mason Wisinski and Tristan Rademacher 3rd place (tie): Abby Pralat, Zack Pralat, Miri Spahn and Parker Hunn; Iniyaan Karthikeyan, Siva Rajarajacholan, Tanush Sai and Robert Hung Kromrey 1st place: Saanvi, Kondoju, Shivani Ganesan, Diya Dhawal and Nithya Allu 2nd place (tie): Nethan Kaluarachchi, Siddharth Chandra and Cora Wieneke. Samantha Thomas, Anya Schoolmeesters, Kristi Kim and Matilda Putney. Ziva Gibson, Brooke Lister, Lily Tressler, and Briana Carson 3rd place (tie): JaeMin Yu, Mark Kim, Nathaniel Straight and Leonardo Wang. Tessa Engbloom, Madeleine Hayward, Isa Killian and Emma Barnum
Senior Division Middleton-Cross Plains 1st place: Himangi Nepal, Sophia Lee, Lucian Rogers and Beatrix Putney
The first-place teams at each level then participated in the State Battle of the Books online competition. Special thanks to advisers Nanci Marshall, Melanie Cochems, Stacie Saph and Jen Breezee.
* More than 130 middle school and high school participated in Future Problem Solvers (FPS) this year. Students studied a variety of topics and worked to solve problems related to those topics in the future. They worked in February to complete the qualifying problem this year on the topic of Human Environmental Impact. These students have qualified to attend the virtual FPS State Bowl events to be held between April 14 25:
Kromrey: Nithya Allu, Cuvin Bhagavath, Will Battaglia, Ethan Bo, Anton Cermak, Siddharth Chandra, Shriyan Chiti, Diya Dhawal, Jai Dhawal, Ray Feinberg, Shivani Ganesan, Rayna Garn, Ziva Gibson, Blake Gibson, Annabel Goldberger, Parin Gouraram, Drushti Halami, Lily Hanson, Nora Helton, Shaila Holland, Cameron Hosfield, Hamsini Indukuri, Katie Jiang, Harry Jin, Nethan Kaluarachchi, Isa Killian, Rishika Kommuri, Saanvi Kondoju, Tanvi Kulkarni, Colin Ludwig, Braedon Lukey, Taetem Martin, Ian McGinley, Varsha Muthukumaraswamy, Shachi Naswa, Sofia Ortiz-Lunyova, Lydia Paulsen, Shreya Ramesh, Sam Raysbrook, Zoe Ress, Conner Roth, Leah Saleh, Sahana Sarvana Kumar, Liev Schiffman, Raghvi Sethi, Ben Shaw, Ryan Slattery, Samantha Thomas, Anna Wagner, Leonardo Wang, Gavin Wiese, Fatima Zeeshan, Ryan Zhu.
Glacier Creek: Mariam Afifi, Annabel Ben, Ben Blackmore, Asha Charavartula, Diya Chilukuri, Ananya Cintham, Rohan Dileep, Mazvita Dossa, Chris Dsouza, Addy Foltz, Radhika Gupta, Parker Hunn, Rianna Jain, Sharmili Karthik, Kavya Kashyap, Audrey Kim, Jeremiah Kim, Jonah Kokott, Norah Kwon, Max Malyk, Punitha Manne, Leo Mastronardi, Kriti Mitra, Megan Niesen, Lucy Paler, Jason Pan, Charvi Patel, Sachin Pentela, Chahna Potnuru, Reyna Rathnam, Prarthna Sampath, Ethan Sanders, Madeline Schecher, Jonathan Schecher, Mirielle Spahn, Keegan Stockbridge, Charlie Thusius, Emerson Turner, Muhammad Vanalli, Shreyas Vangala, Sanju Vanukuri, Jackson Wierschem, Izzy Woods.
MHS: Gus Balasubramanium, McKenzie Barrett, Caroline Blust, Ian Bohachek, Ifra Buhari, Ivan Cermak, Sneha Chandrashekar, Trevor Chau, Jahnvi Datta, Abby Evans, Courtland Flanigan, Shradha Godishala, Varsha Gouraram, Jonah Guse, Sarah Ann Huber, Yale Hung, Aarush Jain, Kali Johannsen, Srija Katukam, Jonathan Kim, Kaitlyn Ko, Rohan Kommuri, Anoushka Kuckreja, Nathan Kwon, Ian Lam, Lauren Lamson, Joseph Lee, Nancy Liu, Eric Ma, Claire McLellan, Zinnia Nie, Akshita Pattnaik, Poojha Prabaharasundar, Dhruv Prakash, Ben Pralat, Carolyn Shepard, Warren Shepard, Zaki Siraj, John Steinmetz, Kevin Wu, Shelley Yang Nikki Yu.
The topic for the State Bowl is Personalized Medicine. District FPS coaches include Jaclyn Fallin, Ruth Frawley and Stacey Bohachek.