Throughout the past week and weekend, UIL Academic teams participated in the district academic meet at Katy High School. The Tompkins team finished second overall in the district with many students who received medals and many who will be advancing to the regional meet on April 13 and 14 at Cy Woods High School. All of the students and teams competed at an extremely high level and represented Tompkins tremendously. The following students placed in their respective categories.

Calculator Applications (Katherine Maloy’s team)  

Junior Tarini Thiagarajan- fifth place

Freshman Joshua Karim- sixth place

The team placed second overall.

Mathematics (Maloy’s team)

The team placed third overall.

Number Sense (Maloy’s team)

Freshman Joshua Karim- sixth place

The team placed third overall.

Science (Chris Aguayo’s team)

Senior Will Rogers- first place with a top score in chemistry and physics

Senior Ryan Profilet- sixth place

The team placed first overall.

Current Issues and Events (Jason Gigliotti’s team)

Senior Husain Dhoon- fourth place

The team placed third overall.

Social Studies (Gigliotti’s team)

Senior Husain Dhoon- second place

Senior Ping Rui Toong- fifth place

The team placed second overall.

Ready Writing (Macey Godfrey’s team)

Junior Aditya Varma- sixth place

Spelling and Vocabulary (Godfrey’s team)

Junior  Nila Dhinaker- fourth place

The team placed second overall.

Editorial Writing (Ryan Culver’s team)

Senior Celine Low- second place

Senior Drew Van Chau- fifth place

Feature Writing (Culver’s team)

Senior Celine Low- third place

Junior Alejandra Cristancho- sixth place

Headline Writing (Culver’s team)

Senior Celine Low- sixth place

News Writing (Culver’s team)

Senior Celine Low- first place

Computer Science (Bryan Johnson’s team)

Junior Andrew Li- fifth place

The team placed third overall.

Accounting (Kelly Boldt’s team)

Senior Averi Breaux- fourth place

Senior Briana Clase- fifth place

Senior Carter Hobson- sixth place

The team placed third overall.

Informative Speaking (Leslie Hernandez’s team)

Junior Saiesha Sharma- third place

Junior Chumeng Wang- fourth place

Persuasive Speaking (Hernandez’s team)

Junior Byron Xu- second place

Poetry Interpretation (Hernandez’s team)

Junior Krishnendu Sreekumar- second place

Prose Interpretation (Hernandez’s team)

Sophomore Isabella Vineyard- second place